Julia Noe - Associate Head Coach - Staff Directory

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Julia Noe

Title:
Associate Head Coach
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731-881-3332

Julia Noe is in her 15th season as an indoor volleyball coach at the University of Tennessee at Martin and ninth with the Skyhawk beach program during the 2025-26 academic year. She was promoted to associate head coach for both programs in January 2022.

In indoor, Noe helped the Skyhawks break through in 2022 as the program earned its first Ohio Valley Conference regular season championship in two decades. UT Martin equaled a school record with 15 conference victories (against just three losses) and notched its first-ever postseason victory, taking part in the National Invitational Volleyball Championship.

The Skyhawks' indoor success was sandwiched between a pair of record-setting seasons in the sand. UT Martin became the first school to sweep the OVC regular season and tournament championships, accomplishing that feat in both 2022 and 2023 before tacking on another regular season title in 2024. Both programs also found success in the classroom during the 2022-23 academic year as the indoor volleyball team (3.33 Grade Point Average) and beach volleyball squad (3.44 GPA) each nabbed AVCA Team Academic Awards.

Noe has coached the only seven indoor Skyhawks to ever compile a triple-double in a match (Jenna Miller, Amanda Crask, Madison Bergren, Karen Scanlon, Addy Vaughn, Haeleigh Paulino, Dylan Sulcer). Miller accomplished the feat during her senior season in 2011 while Crask compiled three triple-doubles in 2012-13 and Bergren accomplished the feat in 2014. Scanlon's triple-double - the only one of the four to not include assists - occurred in 2021. Vaughn and Paulino recorded their triple-doubles in 2023 while Sulcer accomplished that feat in 2024.

A standout collegiate setter, Noe has also coached five of the seven players in school history who have racked up at least 1,000 assists in a single season (Miller, Crask, Ellie Cain, Kelly Lean, Kenzie Hinshaw). Noe's pupils have combined to win four Ohio Valley Conference Setter of the Week accolades as Hinshaw won the honor in October 2019, Cain earned the award in November 2015, Crask brought home the honor in each of the first two weeks of the 2013 season and also earned an All-OVC Newcomer honor in 2012.

Last season, Noe coached Kylie Surratt, who became the first Skyhawk freshman to earn All-OVC first or second team accolades in school history. The outside hitter nabbed a spot on the league's second team after becoming just the third freshman in the school's NCAA Division I Era to lead UT Martin in kills. Her 292 kills were the most for a Skyhawk freshman since 1993 as she rolled to a school-record three OVC Freshman of the Week accolades.

Noe coached Olivia Saunders in 2023 as she became just the second player in school history to receive All-OVC second team status twice in a career.

In 2022, UT Martin reeled off 23 victories and brought renewed buzz to the program, setting a school record for highest average home attendance (437 per match) and leading the OVC in total attendance (6,555).

During the 2021 campaign, UT Martin generated its highest winning percentage (.611) in league play since 2002 - earning a trip to the OVC Championship tournament for the third time in the last four seasons. The Skyhawks claimed the No. 4 seed in the event - then their highest finish since 2011 - and wrapped up the fall with 15 victories (their most in a decade at the time).

UT Martin got off to a 5-1 start in OVC play for the first time in nearly two decades during the abbreviated 2020-21 campaign, accomplishing that feat for the first time since 2002. Logan Wallick captured Preseason All-OVC accolades and shattered a school record for most single-match kills (17) without an error in the Feb. 7 season-opening victory at Eastern Kentucky. Off the court, the Skyhawks combined for a 3.59 Grade Point Average for the 2020-21 academic year, receiving a United States Marine Corps/AVCA Team Academic Award.

UT Martin posted a 9-7 OVC record in 2019 - which was the program's first winning season in league play since 2011. The Skyhawks dialed up eight wins over their last 11 conference matches, finishing in the top-five of the OVC standings for only the second time in the last 16 years.

In 2018, Noe helped guide the Skyhawks back to the OVC Championship tournament for the first time since 2012. UT Martin concluded the season with a 7-9 mark in conference play and a 14-17 overall record, which were the program's most victories since the 2011 campaign.

Noe's presence was immediately felt in her first season at UT Martin in 2011. The Skyhawks posted their first winning season since 2006 and made it to the OVC Tournament championship match for the first time since 2002. UT Martin's 19 overall wins and 12 OVC victories were also the most since 2002.

Also in 2011, Noe oversaw a squad that ranked second in program history with 1,561 assists. She coached Miller, who graduated with the third-most career assists (3,140) in Skyhawk history.

Noe has also had a huge impact on UT Martin's beach volleyball program, which launched during the 2016-17 school year. The Skyhawks hosted their first-ever home beach volleyball match on March 13, 2019 - a double dual against Southern Miss held at the new state-of-the-art facility on campus.

The Skyhawks have gone 94-52 over the last five beach volleyball seasons with a 38-10 mark in OVC play. UT Martin played in four of the five OVC Championship tournament finals from 2021-25, winning in 2022 and 2023 to become the first OVC representative to partake in the NCAA Tournament. Noe has been part of the OVC's Coaching Staff of the Year award twice in the last four seasons (2021, 2023).

In 2025, the Skyhawks dialed up their second-most victories in a single season, going 24-10 overall with a 7-3 mark in OVC play. UT Martin advanced to the OVC Championship finals as seven different Skyhawks combined for 11 OVC regular season or postseason accolades, including OVC Freshman of the Year Lauren Mariscal. UT Martin also tacked on four more OVC Pair of the Week awards while the Skyhawks collected a school-record three AVCA Top Flight pairs (Kayla Bryant/Olivia O'Keefe, Lauren Mariscal/Jenna Vallée and Sydney Eckhardt/Reagan McGee) in 2025.

In the spring of 2024, the Skyhawks produced nine OVC postseason honorees as four players made All-OVC first team, four received All-OVC second team accolades and one player was an OVC All-Freshman. Additionally, UT Martin's Kayla Carrell and McGee were spotlighted as an AVCA Top Flight pair.

The Skyhawks completed the first 10-0 season in OVC play in league history while establishing a new OVC record with 27 victories in 2023. UT Martin defeated its first two ranked opponents in school history and earned votes in the AVCA top-20 poll for the first time ever. The Skyhawks landed three pairs on the five-pair All-OVC first team (including 2023 OVC Championship Most Valuable Pair Kambree Lucas and O'Keefe) and accounted for another pair on the All-OVC second team. Additionally, Haeleigh Paulino and Vallée were recognized as a Top Flight pair by the AVCA.

In 2022, the Skyhawk beach volleyball squad reeled off 17 victories - the same amount of wins the program had in their first four years combined. UT Martin swept both OVC championships, sharing the league’s regular season title with Austin Peay before going 3-0 in the OVC Championship tournament as the No. 1 seed. The Skyhawks won four OVC Pair of the Week accolades in the span of five weeks while nine different representatives combined for 11 All-OVC postseason awards, including the program’s first ever OVC Freshman of the Year in Dylan Mott. In addition, UT Martin landed four players on the OVC All-Tournament team, including Most Valuable Pair Kayla Carrell/Addison Conley. The team of Carrell/Conley also earned the prestigious AVCA Top Flight Award.

UT Martin posted a 10-7 overall record and advancing to the first-ever OVC Championship finals in 2021. Despite the shortened season, the program's 10 victories were three more than the previous three years combined. The Skyhawks swept both OVC Pair of the Week mentions during the two-week regular season as eight different UT Martin representatives combined to register 10 overall OVC postseason accolades. Noe and head coach Jaclynn Wilson were voted as 2021 OVC Coaching Staff of the Year by their peers.

Before coming to UT Martin, Noe was a volunteer assistant at Western Kentucky and an assistant coach of the prestigious Kentucky Indiana Volleyball Academy (KIVA) 18 Red club team based out of Louisville, Ky. She helped the Lady Toppers to a 25-9 record in 2009, while also previously serving as a varsity assistant coach at her high school alma mater (Sacred Heart Academy) and co-head coach of the Bravo 18-1 club squad in 2010.

As a player, Noe was an integral piece of the Western Kentucky University volleyball team from 2005-08 and established herself as one of the greatest setters to ever don the Lady Topper uniform. In her four seasons (2005-08), the Lady Toppers compiled a 110-32 record, including a 52-11 Sun Belt Conference slate. Western Kentucky made three NCAA Tournament appearances while winning a pair of SBC East championships and SBC tournament titles in Noe's tenure as a player.

Noe's storied playing career included three all-conference selections (2006-08), a spot on the 2008 All-SBC Tournament team and a first-team AVCA All-South Region mention in 2008. That same year, she was also named as an AVCA All-American honorable mention.

A Louisville, Ky. native, Noe received national attention as a junior. She received the Collegiate Volleyball Update (CVU.com) National Player of the Week on Oct. 2, 2007, becoming the first Western Kentucky player to earn a national player of the week accolade since 2003. In her record-setting week, she averaged 13.78 assists, 2.56 kills and 2.67 digs per game while hitting .413 in a pair of SBC victories.

During her senior campaign, Noe's steadiness helped the Lady Toppers consistently rank in the top five in the nation in hitting percentage. Noe's name is found dotted all across the Western Kentucky record book. She is the program's all-time leader in triple-doubles, amassing six of the program's 16 such performances. She also ranks in the top-5 of three career categories: assists (4,369, third); assists per game (9.92, fourth); and hitting percentage (.317, fifth). Her single-game hitting percentage of .800 (12 kills, no errors, 15 attempts) against Indiana on Aug. 26, 2007 ranks as the second-best performance in Lady Topper history. She is listed six times in the program's top-10 single-season records in assists, assists per game, service aces and service aces per game.

In addition, Noe accumulated 954 digs, 632 kills, 164 blocks and 127 service aces in her collegiate career.

At Sacred Heart Academy, Noe was a four-year starter who led the Valkyries to the KHSAA state championship in 2003. She racked up all-state, all-district, all-tournament and academic all-state awards while at SHA and was also a three-time All-American for KIVA, winning two national championships for the AAU squad.

Noe received her bachelor of science in interior design from Western Kentucky in 2010.