A year after picking up the sport, Andover’s Chanthaboun a volleyball star

Noah Chanthaboun was a lacrosse player, he had been since childhood. But something unexpected happened at the end of his junior year at Andover High. He became a volleyball star. “My sophomore year I played varsity lacrosse, but went to a few clinics and small tournaments with my brother to play volleyball,” he said. “The joy I got from getting a good dig, or serving an ace was incomparable to any feeling I had previously experienced in sports. So I switched sports the spring of my junior year.” Chanthaboun has blossomed into a force at libero (defensive specialist) for an...