• Student-Athlete Bio

Former Suffolk volleyball standout Talia Lombardo returned to her roots oon Beacon Hill when she joined Scott Blanchard's staff as an assistant coach prior to the 2022 season. The role is her first collegiate coaching opportunity. Lombardo will begin her second season in that same role in 2023. 

In Lombarod's first year on Blanchard's staff, Suffolk assembled a 19-9 overall record and 6-3 CCC mark to lock up the fourth seed in the CCC Tournament, where the Rams played their way to the CCC Semifinals for the first time in program history. Record settering co-captains Kenzley Bell, 2022 CCC Libero of the Year, and Harmony Johnson, only player in program history to dish out 2,000-plus assists, led the way for the Rams. The duo were half of Suffolk's four All-CCC performers. Bell picked up a spot on the first-time, while Johnson sealed a place on the second squad alongside McKenna Keowen, while Alina Nowakowski rounded out the quartet on the third team. 

Lombardo donned the blue-and-gold from 2015-18 and completed her collegiate career during Blanchard's first campaign at Suffolk. That year the head coach relied on the veteran leadership of Lombardo, who left her mark on the program as Rams' all-time leader in aces (231) and a member of the 1,000-assist club. On Oct. 14, 2017, the setter became the first known Suffolk volleyball player to produce a triple-double. 

A Windham, New Hampshire native, Lombardo earned her degree in 2019 in Interior Design.