Brooke Barnes is in her fifth year as an assistant coach with the NWU volleyball program.

A native of Clifton, Kan., Barnes, then Brooke Lervold, played collegiate volleyball at Barton County Community College and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. At Barton County, Barnes helped the team to a pair of Final Four appearances at the Junior College National Volleyball Tournament, including a third-place finish in 1997 when she earned second team All-Conference honors from her right side hitter position. Barnes also played right side at UMKC from 1998-99.

Her previous coaching experience also includes three different junior club volleyball teams in Kansas and a variety of camps and clinics. Since her last appearance as a coach for NWU, Barnes has been involved with the Lincoln Southeast High School volleyball team as an assistant coach, and she earned her bachelor’s degree in accounting from Doane College in May of 2005.

Barnes currently works full-time as the billing supervisor at Experian in Lincoln, where she and her husband, Cory, reside. They have a son and a daughter, Eastyn and Kooper.