Alli Rust joined the Northwest Nazarene volleyball staff as an assistant coach in the summer of 2025.
Rust joins the Nighthawks after serving as the head coach of the Centennial High School varsity program in Boise for two seasons. She is also a coach with the Idaho ONE Volleyball Club, and led the Idaho ONE 17 Elite team to win the club's first national championship in 2024.
Alli began her collegiate volleyball career at Pepperdine University, where she played from 2017 to 2020, earning spots on the WCC All-Freshman Team and WCC All-Academic teams, with two NCAA Tournament appearances. In 2021, Alli transferred to Boise State University as a graduate student, joining the Broncos' women's volleyball team. She played a key role in leading BSU to its first-ever Mountain West Tournament Championship, earning a berth into the NCAA Tournament.
Alli was born and raised in Boise, and graduated from Centennial High School in 2017. During her high school years, she was a four-year varsity middle blocker and earned multiple All-Southern Idaho Conference honors. She played for a number of volleyball clubs in the valley, helping her teams secure a Boise Bid Championship and a 19th-place finish at the 2016 USAV Junior Olympics.
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