Chymaine Guinyard

Chymaine Guinyard is the Head Volleyball Coach at Claflin University.

Chymaine Guinyard is in her fourth season as the head coach at Claflin University. Guinyard, who served as the interim head coach in 2019, has been a member of the coaching staff for four seasons, including serving the 2017 and 2018 seasons as the assistant coach.

A native of Orangeburg, S.C., Guinyard played four years for the Lady Panthers. She was a member of the 2014 team that captured the school’s first-ever Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) championship and the school’s first-ever automatic berth into the NCAA Division II Volleyball Championship.

Prior to joining the Lady Panthers coaching staff, Guinyard was the head volleyball coach at Calhoun County High School in St. Matthews, SC. In her only season at Calhoun County, Guinyard guided her team to the Class 2A playoffs. In addition, she had a player featured as the WLTX Player of the Week while another was named to the Class 2A All-Region Team.

Guinyard has spent the past seven years coaching club volleyball in South Carolina. In 2012 and 2013, she coached the Branchville Juniors Club Volleyball Team in Branchville, S.C. In addition to her duties at Claflin, she also serves as coach of the Orangeburg Lady Cubs Club Volleyball Team in Orangeburg, S.C.

Guinyard is a Charter Member of the Timothy J. Autry Theta Chapter of Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society, and she is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Guinyard also serves as the University lead for the APPLE Training Institute/NCAA Sport Science Collaborative. She is IMPACT certified through the Palmetto Volleyball Association and is a member of USA Volleyball and the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA).

In August 2020 she was chosen to participate in the Turnout Sports Coach Development Academy.

Guinyard received her Bachelor of Science in Sociology from Claflin in 2016.