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Coach Melanie Hughes enters her first year as an NCAA Head Coach at Lake Forest College. A Riverside, California native, she was the head assistant at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps for the previous three seasons and has six years of club coaching experience at Forza 1 North Volleyball Club in Ontario, CA. During her time at C-M-S, Hughes helped the team earn three consecutive conference titles and trips to the DIII NCAA tournament in just as many years. In 2022, she was awarded AVCA DIII National Assistant Coach of the Year for her coaching efforts. Hughes will also...

Coach Melanie Hughes enters her first year as an NCAA Head Coach at Lake Forest College. A Riverside, California native, she was the head assistant at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps for the previous three seasons and has six years of club coaching experience at Forza 1 North Volleyball Club in Ontario, CA. During her time at C-M-S, Hughes helped the team earn three consecutive conference titles and trips to the DIII NCAA tournament in just as many years. In 2022, she was awarded AVCA DIII National Assistant Coach of the Year for her coaching efforts. Hughes will also coach at MOD Volleyball Club in the spring.