Kelsey Rhoades Larsen

Kelsey is bringing decades of experience, passion, and leadership to the court and to Idaho LUV. Her love for volleyball started early,  growing up in a competitive sports family where her older and younger sisters played and her father coached. From tagging along to practices as a little girl to leading programs as a head coach and club director, volleyball has been a lifelong constant - a source of challenge, growth, and community.

Kelsey played for Highland High School on the varsity team from 2001-2004, where her teams went on to compete at the State tournament each season. Kelsey also played competitive club volleyball all throughout her youth which helped her earn a full-ride athletic scholarship to CEU (now known as USU Eastern). Her background as a student-athlete shaped her work ethic and fueled her desire to mentor others through sport.

Over the years, Kelsey has coached every level of club volleyball, from beginners just discovering the game to advanced travel teams competing at regional and national levels, with one team even competing at the AAU National Championship Tournament in Orlando, FL. She has also coached all levels of high school volleyball, most recently serving as the Head Coach of Highland High School from 2018 to 2023. During her time at Highland, she helped rebuild and elevate the program while fostering a strong team culture rooted in discipline, unity, and belief.

In 2018, alongside fellow coaches, Kelsey co-founded Club Rams, a program initially created to support Highland athletes during the offseason. As her vision for inclusivity and growth expanded, she helped transition Club Rams into a partnership with EIVC, uniting players from across multiple local schools. In 2025, that evolution culminated in the rebranding of the program to Idaho Level Up Volleyball (Idaho LUV) - a name that reflects the club's mission to develop not just athletes, but leaders, teammates, and confident young women ready to level up in all areas of life.

But volleyball is only one chapter in Kelsey's story. She is also a working mom of four teenage daughters, one of which recently played collegiate volleyball for CSI, a devoted wife, and a potential law student pursuing her dream of becoming a lawyer. 

Outside of work and coaching, Kelsey enjoys horseback riding, camping with her family, traveling the world, and has recently been picking up a new hobby - golf, which she's learning to love for its challenge and peaceful pace.

Through every role she takes on - coach, mom, student, mentor - Kelsey leads with hustle, resilience, heart, and a genuine love of the game. She believes deeply in the power of sport to change lives and is committed to helping every Idaho LUV athlete rise to their potential.