Aerielle Edwards
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Aerielle Edwards was named an assistant coach of Titans Volleyball in March 2025.
Edwards joins the Titan family after coaching alongside Cannon at UC Riverside for three seasons, while spending an additional season there prior to Cannon’s arrival in 2022. Together, Cannon, Edwards and Ma led the Highlanders to 20 wins, 10 of which came in 2024 as the most wins recorded by the program since 2017.
Before her time at UC Riverside, Edwards coached high school volleyball at Texas Image Volleyball Club for two years in Grand Prairie, Texas. In 2018, Edwards served as an assistant coach at Navarro College under Ronda Shirley in Corsicana, Texas, where she helped Navarro earn the first NJCAA national tournament appearance in program history.
Edwards was a two-time All-Lone Star Conference honoree at the Division II Midwestern State in Wichita Falls, Texas, earning postseason All-Tournament Team honors and honor roll in 2016.
Her college stint began at Missouri State-West Plains with an NJCAA All-Region 16 honor before an impressive sophomore season named her NJCAA Region XIV Newcomer of the Year with Tyler Junior College in 2014. At Tyler JC, Edwards recorded six double-doubles, 26 matches with double-digit kills and at least 20 kills in seven matches. She hit a career high 27 kills against Palona College, averaging 3.68 kills per set with a .277 hitting percentage.
Edwards currently resides in Riverside with her son, Jeremiah.