Lauren Freed '20 returned to the College of Charleston in July 2023 as a volleyball assistant coach.
Freed returns to the College after spending two years as the head coach of SC Elite Volleyball Club, working specifically with the U14 Team.
Prior to her time with SC Elite, Freed served as an Indoor and Beach Varsity coach for Lucy Beckham High School in Charleston winning the 2021 State Championship. Freed also has coaching experience with the Elite Volleyball Training Center (ages 10-17), Holy City Volleyball (ages 13-17) as well as coaching indoor and volleyball players ages 8-17 during her time as a student-athlete at The College.
Freed also served as a Special Education Teacher at Springfield Elementary and James B. Edwards Elementary in Charleston as well as College Park Elementary in Ladson.
During her time as a student-athlete with Charleston, Freed was named a CAA Offensive Player of the Week twice and CAA Rookie of the Week. Freed also ended her career among the top-20 in multiple statistical categories including attack attempts (12th – 3,235), kills (17th – 1,062), digs (19th – 1,111) and points (19th – 1202.5).
Freed also helped lead the Cougars to the 2017 CAA Regular Season title and first CAA at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, as well as the 2018 NIVC national semifinals.
