Cornell University Volleyball

In her first season on East Hill, Chanel Davis was a member of the staff that was named Ivy League Coaching Staff of the Year in 2024. That season the Big Red finished with an overall 14-10 record and 8-6 Ivy record, the best season since 2019, earning their first trip to the Ivy League Tournament since the Ivy League introduced a four-team single elimination tournament in 2022. Davis joined Winston-Salem State's athletics staff in the fall of 2019. In her first season with the Rams, she led the team to a 17-10 overall record, a 13-4 record in Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) play, and a fourth-place finish in the CIAA Southern Division. The team led the CIAA in total blocks (172) with freshman Niyonna McIntyre leading the conference with 77 total blocks (22 solo). In her four seasons of action, Davis developed seven all-conference players including first-team honors with Ytae Cobb in 2019 and Raven Gray in 2023. Davis served as the head coach at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia before joining Winston-Salem. She began her coaching career at West Virginia Wesleyan College where she spent time both as an assistant coach and as an interim head coach. She also served as the head coach of the Cape Fear Volleyball Club and the head coach of the Tsunami Volleyball Club in Atlanta, Ga. She is a graduate of the University of West Alabama where she played for two seasons and had a great career. During her junior season, she broke the school record for attack percen

Coaching Experience • Assistant Coach, Cornell University (2024-present) • Assistant Coach and Recruiting Coordinator, University of New Orleans (2022-23) • Volunteer

Coaching Experience • Assistant Coach, Cornell University (2024-present) • Volunteer Assistant Coach, University of Southern Alabama (2018) Honors and Accomplishments •

Trudy Vande Berg was named to the Big Red coaching staff before the 2012 season and elevated to the position of the Wendy Schaenen '79 Head Coach of Volleyball in March 2015. In her 10 seasons at the helm, Vande Berg has shaped the Big Red into a team that perennially finishes in the top tier of the Ivy League, including finishing third in the conference in three consecutive seasons from 2017-19 and again in 2024. Cornell's three straight third-place Ivy League finishes marked the best seasons for the Big Red since the team won three conference titles followed by a second-place finish from 2003-06. Cornell had a breakout season in 2019, culminating with its best overall record (17-6, 8-4 Ivy) since 2006. In 2024, the Big Red finished the season with an overall 14-10 record and 8-6 Ivy record, the best season since 2019 and earned their first trip to the Ivy League Tournament since the Ivy League introduced a four-team single elimination tournament in 2022. Vande Berg led the Big Red to a 12-11 (8-6) record in 2017 and helped the team improve to 13-10 (9-5) in 2018. The accomplishments of the 2017 season, which included Vande Berg being named the Ivy League Coach of the Year, came on the heels of a 2016 campaign in which the Big Red finished the year at 12-12 overall, marking the best single-season turnaround since the 2003 team. Since taking over in 2015, Cornell has garnered multiple All-Ivy honors and Academic All-District selections. Prior to Cornell, Vande Berg worked at