Shanice Marcelle

Shanice Marcelle (born May 28, 1990) is a Canadian female volleyball player and head coach for the Queen's Gaels women's volleyball team. She is a five-time CIS volleyball champion as a university athlete and two-time Bundesliga champion as a professional athlete. Individually, she was twice awarded the CIS women's volleyball player of the year in 2011 and 2013, was the 2011 CIS volleyball championship MVP, and was named the 2013 winner of the BLG Award as the best female athlete in all of Canadian Interuniversity Sport. She joined the Canadian women's national volleyball team in 2011 and is a member of the beach volleyball national team.

University career Marcelle elected to play for the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds following her high school playing career rather than join an NCAA program in the United States, despite receiving offers to play there. While playing CIS volleyball, she would be able to participate in international competition over her five-year career while she would only be able to play for four years in the NCAA with no international options if she went south. For the 2009–10 season, the Thunderbirds repeated as national champions, which was their third in a row and Marcelle's second, as she was also the team's leading point-scorer in the championship win over the Manitoba Bisons.

After assuming more of a leadership role for the 2010–11 season, Marcelle had an outstanding season as she was in the top eight nationally in kills, service aces, and hitting percentage, while also leading the team in digs. Based on her multifaceted excellence that year, she was awarded the 2011 Mary Lyons Award as the best women's volleyball player that year. She was also named a First-Team All-Canadian in 2011.

For the 2011–12 season, Marcelle was again named a First-Team All-Canadian and the Thunderbirds won the CIS women's volleyball championship. She was also named the BLG Award winner in 2013 as the top female athlete in Canadian Interuniversity Sport, becoming the fourth UBC player to win the award. In both seasons that she played, Dresdner won the Bundesliga championship. In the summer of 2015, she played for Team Canada's indoor volleyball team at the 2015 Pan American Games. She then played one season for Nantes VB in Nantes, France from 2015 to 2016. She planned to compete with her beach volleyball partner, Jamie Broder, but Marcelle suffered a torn ACL injury within two months of her move to Toronto during a practice session.

Coaching career While recovering from her ACL injury, Marcelle began her coaching career by attending coaching camps and becoming a coach for The York School and Leaside Volleyball Club. She joined as an assistant coach for Team Ontario of the Ontario Volleyball Association in late 2017 and later became the team's head coach in 2018. She served in that capacity for six years and was named interim head coach in March 2024 during head coach Jen Neilson's leave.

On August 14, 2024, it was announced that Marcelle had accepted the position of head coach of the Queen's Gaels women's volleyball team, becoming the 15th head coach in the program's history.

Personal life Marcelle was born in Toronto, Ontario to parents Roger and Tracy Marcelle. She has an older sister, Tanisha, and a younger brother, Jordan. She moved to Errington, British Columbia when she was five years old with her mother following her parents' separation. Her family later moved to Victoria, British Columbia where she spent most of her childhood. She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in Kinesiology.