NCAA Males
December 25, 2023
It’s been since 2019 that VolleyballMag.com offered a School Teaching Hotshots record.
Simply as a ton of latest expertise has come into the collegiate recreation in that timeframe, the identical holds true on the teaching entrance, whether or not it’s veterans of the game taking their recreation to the subsequent stage or newcomers getting their toes moist.
And as you will note, there isn’t any scarcity of teaching expertise in NCAA Division I girls’s, NCAA Division I-II males, and NCAA collegiate seashore packages.
We initially requested sports activities data administrators on the convention stage to unfold the phrase to their member establishments to appoint coaches for this record.
They didn’t disappoint. A giant hats off right here to the conference-level SIDs for serving to get the method began and to the volleyball SIDs at these faculties for ending the job and submitting these up-and-coming teaching hotshots throughout the three disciplines. Along with submitting the same old vitals, SIDs had been requested to supply a summation as to why of us are worthy of being a Teaching Hotshot.
This record spans the gamut from the veteran unsung heroes, comparable to Wisconsin’s Gary White and Lengthy Seashore State’s Nick MacRae, to brand-new Santa Clara volunteer seashore assistant Lance Muret, who by the best way, was the ultimate nominee, beating the submission deadline by 22 minutes.
We’ll do that once more in 2024, additionally specializing in some highschool and membership teaching hotshots.
Tyler Adams, Gavin Watt, Kelsey Campeau
Tennessee Girls
Assistant Coaches
Adams has been a part of 11 NCAA match appearances as an assistant coach and affiliate head coach, and he’s led the defensive cost for 2 nationally ranked packages. He serves because the Vols’ defensive coordinator and constantly has groups that rank inside the highest three in blocks per set of their convention. Watt has been part of the rebuild of Tennessee volleyball and has been answerable for the offense since arriving on Rocky Prime. The Vols have ranked close to the highest of the nation statistically in offensive classes, and he’s skilled a number of all-conference setters. He’s additionally spearheaded this system’s recruiting. Campeau “has one of many brightest futures of any younger coach that I’ve seen, and it’s due to her dedication to this sport, her drive to be an amazing learner and an abundance of expertise and information having been a participant,” Tennessee coach Eve Rackham Watt mentioned. “She’s embraced being a younger coach and works actually arduous with our gamers, and he or she’s keen to place within the additional hours and do further area research to develop as a coach.”
Stacey Aldredge
Northwestern State
Affiliate Head Coach
Aldredge simply accomplished her seventh season on workers after having fun with an accolade-filled enjoying profession on the faculty in Natchitoches, Louisiana. She additionally has been a giant a part of growing excessive and membership expertise within the space.
Linsay Allman
Florida State Girls
Affiliate Head Coach
Allman has been at FSU for 2 seasons. She is the group’s recruiting coordinator and primarily trains the Seminoles’ exterior hitters and works on ball management.
Ellen Andrews
Arizona State Girls
Assistant Coach
Andrews, the group’s recruiting coordinator, is described by head coach JJ Van Niel as a robust communicator with the power to attach with gamers, recruits, membership coaches, directors and everybody else with ease. “Her information of the sport is excellent,” Van Niel mentioned. “Along with her calm, cool and picked up method, she does an amazing job considering strategically each when scouting groups and through matches.”
Johnna Bazzani
Japanese Kentucky Girls
Head Coach
Bazzani has utterly turned across the EKU program which received 5 matches earlier than she took over. The Colonels received 11 matches mixed in her first two seasons in Richmond. Within the final two seasons, Japanese Kentucky has received 36 matches mixed, with the rebuild culminating in Bazzani being named ASUN Convention coach of the yr after main the 2023 group to 21 wins (tied for many since 2005), a 13-match profitable streak (tied for longest in program historical past), first nationwide postseason match look since 2004 (2023 NIVC), first top-three convention end since 2014 and a program-record seven straight sweeps.
Haylie Clark
Bucknell Girls
Assistant Coach
Clark, who performed at Elon, joined the Bucknell workers final season and labored with the setters. She was credited with growing Caleigh O’Connell into one of many Patriot League’s greatest setters. and after she bought harm, setter Laura Caro helped Bucknell in its run to the Patriot League match.
LaToya Clark
Alabama State Girls
Affiliate Head Coach
Clark has had 10 seasons below head coach Penny Lucas-White. She plans journey, goes over lineups with coach White, assists within the scouting report, and works with the setters day by day. As White famous, Clark goes over and above what an affiliate head coach ought to do, however does it with a smile on her face day-after-day.
Alex Dunphy
Stanford Girls
Assistant Coach
Dunphy, who simply completed her second season at Stanford, works instantly with the Cardinal setters, together with VolleyballMag.com first-teamer Kami Miner. She additionally performs a big half within the Stanford recruiting course of, together with figuring out expertise, constructing and sustaining relationships with potential student-athletes and coordinating on-campus visits. “Alex is a tireless employee who brings large expertise and information to The Farm,” Stanford coach Kevin Hambly mentioned. “She is aware of recruit to a championship-level program, and has a superb thoughts for volleyball.”
Brittnay Estes, Sarah Baldwin
Lipsomb College Girls
Assistant Coaches
Estes and Baldwin had been each excellent gamers and have efficiently transferred their ardour to the teaching career. Coach Brandon Rosenthal famous that they love the sport, love the Lipscomb gamers, love their careers, and it displays itself each day.
Heather Gearhart
Winthrop Girls
Head Coach
After having a tough begin to the season (1-10) and nursing a number of accidents, Winthrop responded by going 12-2 within the Large South Convention. The Eagles first made their first postseason look since 2019 by competing within the NIVC match.
Sarah Gomish
Lehigh Girls
Assistant Coach
“Sarah is most positively an up-and-coming coach. She is passionate in regards to the sport and studying all sides of the sport,” Lehigh coach Alexa Keckler mentioned. “She dives into coaching strategies and philosophies, embraces concepts and explores the ‘why’ for getting it proper. She can be an individual of excessive requirements and toughness, which makes her recruiting and on-court teaching efforts so profitable. Teaching with Sarah over the previous few years has been a rewarding and pleasant expertise.”
Tyler Hagstrom
Bucknell Girls
Head Coach
Hagstrom took over in 2020 and has revitalized this system. Bucknell received 15 matches in back-to-back years, and this season completed second (its highest league rating since 2003). The group additionally hosted its first residence Patriot League match match since 2000, received its first PL libero of the yr award, received its second-straight PL rookie of the yr award, gained a first-team all-conference member for the primary time since 2010, went 2-0 in a PL weekend for the primary time since 2005, swept the weekly PL awards for the primary time since 2000, and broke Colgate’s 33-match residence profitable streak.
Taylor Hammond and Spencer Wickens
Stanford Males
Assistant Coaches
Hammond, the group’s recruiting coordinator, got here to The Farm after spending the 2023 season as an assistant at UC San Diego. Earlier than his stint with the Tritons, he was the highest assistant and recruiting coordinator at Orange Coast School, main the Pirates to a state championship in 2022. Moreover, Hammond served as an assistant coach for the USA U21 Nationwide Group, which received a silver medal on the NORCECA Pan American Cup in Cuba. “Taylor is a good volleyball coach and has a wealth of recruiting expertise. He’s a really arduous employee and extremely diligent {and professional}.” Stanford coach John Kosty mentioned. The 24-year-old Wickens is in his first season with Stanford. He beforehand served as a graduate supervisor with the Nebraska girls’s group in 2022, and was the Volleyball Membership Nebraska (VCN) 16 Elite head coach within the spring of 2023. “Spencer brings nice vitality and fervour to our program whereas enriching our student-athlete expertise. I sit up for watching him develop in his profession,” Kosty mentioned.
Tyler Hildebrand
Lengthy Seashore State Girls
Head Coach
In two years, Hildebrand has totaled 40 wins and owns a profitable share of .678. The previous Lengthy Seashore State participant and males’s assistant coach had two stints as an assistant at Nebraska. This season, Hildebrand guided his group to this system’s first 20-plus-win season since 2016.
David Hunt
Texas Girls
Assistant Coach
Hunt introduced in a wealth of expertise each on the ladies’s and males’s aspect after beforehand serving as the lads’s head coach at Pepperdine. Hunt led Pepperdine to the NCAA semifinals in 2019 as head coach and now has been a part of back-to-back NCAA girls’s titles at Texas.
Merideth Jewell
Kentucky Girls
Assistant Coach
Jewell, a 2019 Kentucky graduate, is in her second season because the recruiting coordinator for the Wildcats. She was a part of a Kentucky program that received its seventh SEC title in a row. Jewell is liable for Kentucky’s protection game-planning and leads the group’s movie classes about opponents.
Crissy Jones Schoonderwoerd
Cal Girls
2023 Interim Head Coach
Jones Schoonderwoerd, a standout participant at Washington who performed some professional seashore volleyball, was employed as an assistant coach in February 2023 after which took over this system this yr on the age of 26 simply two weeks earlier than the beginning of observe. She led Cal to its second profitable report in 10 years and its first since 2019. Cal went undefeated in nonconference play and received 5 Pac-12 matches to complete 16-15 general, with yet another general win and 4 extra Pac-12 wins than the previous three years mixed.
Jacob Kerschner
Lewis College Males
Assistant Coach
Kerchner is in his fourth season as a Lewis males’s assistant. A 2023 AVCA Thirty below 30 recipient, Kerschner, together with being a key part to this system’s continued success and improvement of gamers. He has helped the Flyers to an MIVA championship and an NCAA nationwide semifinal look. Kerschner additionally has been constantly concerned within the USA NTDP pipeline in a number of roles.
Trent Kersten
Loyola Marymount Girls
Head Coach
Kersten is a rising teaching star in Division I girls’s volleyball. After success at San Jose State, he took over the pinnacle teaching place at LMU in 2022 and continued LMU’s success. The Lions completed second within the West Coast Convention and during the last 10 matches, hit .309 as a group and held opponents to a .156 hitting share.
Ahen Kim
American College Girls
Head Coach
Kim was an assistant at America from 2012-17 for the legendary Barry Goldberg, and he returned as head coach after Goldberg’s passing earlier this yr. The previous Brown head coach took a group that had been by means of a lot and gone 15-15 in 2022, main the Eagles to a 20-11 report in 2023 and an look within the Patriot League Championship match. There was a tricky stretch for a month from early September to early October, however Ahen finally bought the buy-in from the group and the Eagles received 9 of their last 11 matches.
Nick MacRae
Lengthy Seashore State Males
Affiliate Head Coach
Part of the Lengthy Seashore State males’s program since 2013, MacRae has labored his approach as much as affiliate head coach and has helped information the Seashore to 224 wins and a .780 profitable share. In his time inside the program, MacRae has helped Lengthy Seashore State to 6 NCAA semifinal appearances (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023) and helped make them two nationwide championships (2018 and 2019).
Luke Maloney
Ohio State Males
Assistant Coach
Ohio State coach Kevin Burch reported that Maloney is continually considering of latest strategies to evolve his teaching, he’s revolutionary and intensely invested in this system, and the athletes imagine in his teaching.
Parker Mikesch
North Carolina Girls
Assistant Coach
Mikesch, a younger assistant at 23, has taken over the Tar Heel protection. Coach Mike Schall famous that Miksch is a continuing supply of vitality on the sideline and his youth and fervour have allowed him to attach along with his gamers and energize them in matches.
Aquiles Montoya
Portand State Girls
Affiliate Head Coach
Montoya has recruited three straight Large Sky Convention newcomers of the yr — Makayla Lewis (2021), Madison Friebel (2022) and Lauryn Anderson (2023). The Vikings have made the nationwide postseason in two of his 4 seasons and made the Large Sky championship match for the primary time in 9 seasons in 2022.
Rachel Morris and Brett Agne
Indiana Girls
Affiliate Head Coaches
Morris, the group’s recruiting coordinator, helped combine psychological well being check-ins, meditation and team-bonding actions, and has taken the keys to the offense and helped develop among the best younger setters within the nation in Camryn Haworth. Agne, the group’s technical coordinator, didn’t play however has taken on many roles within the recreation, together with tech roles, director of operations and dealing his approach as much as an assistant teaching place. He’s liable for scouting Indiana opponents.
Taylor Muff
Japanese Washington Girls
Assistant Coach
Muff, additionally the group’s recruiting coordinator, is a former all-Large Sky choice as an outdoor hitter at Northern Colorado, the place she performed for present Japanese Washington head coach Jon Haruguchi. Muff helped develop EWU’s two important hitters, Sage Brustad and Alyssa Radke. EWU certified for the Large Sky match the previous two seasons and received its first postseason contest since 2008. Muff helped safe 9 newcomers final season (5 transfers, 4 freshmen) and has added three incoming recruits.
Lance Muret
Santa Clara Seashore
Volunteer Assistant Coach
Muret is in his first yr as a volunteer assistant with the Santa Clara seashore program. He was at WAVE Seashore juniors volleyball membership, primarily based in San Diego for 4 years, working with the membership’s faculty prep and faculty alumni packages. WAVE has 30 former gamers in NCAA Division I seashore packages. “He’s completed a tremendous job right here already in his first quarter with us throughout fall competitions,” Santa Clara head coach Jeff Alzina mentioned.
Gabby Ording
College of the Incarnate Phrase Girls
Head Coach
In her first yr at UIW, Ording helped the San Antonio, Texas-based Cardinals break this system report for many regular-season wins with 15. She was the affiliate head coach at Southeastern Louisiana in 2022 when the Lions received the Southland Convention championship.
Kellen Petrone, Kamalani Akeo, Alicia Roth
Pitt Girls
Petrone was promoted to affiliate head coach after the 2022 season, and along with his assist, the Panthers introduced of their highest recruiting class in program historical past (No. 8 in keeping with one media outlet). He was named the 2023 AVCA nationwide assistant coach of the yr. Akeo set at Pitt and was promoted to assistant coach after being director of operations in 2022. She coached Rachel Fairbanks to 2023 first-team all-ACC, ACC setter of the yr and AVCA East Coast area participant of the yr honors. Roth is in her first season with Pitt after stops at Arkansas State, Mercer, Johnson and Wales (head coach), Northwestern State and Campbell. She primarily works with the Pitt serve-receive and protection.
Eric Plunkett
Gardner-Webb Girls
Head Coach
Plunkett was named head coach in Could 2021 and took over a program with its justifiable share of ups and downs. In his third season as a Runnin’ Bulldog, he helped information Gardner-Webb to its first convention match semifinal look in program historical past and safe a program-record eight convention wins.
Jaylen Reyes
Nebraska Girls
Assistant Coach
Reyes is the Huskers’ recruiting coordinator and defensive coach. Nebraska, which was ranked No. 1 many of the season and made it to the NCAA title match, has landed a top-three recruiting class in every of the previous three years and the Huskers are one of many nation’s prime 10 defensive items for a 3rd yr in a row below his tutelage.
Krista Rice
Oakland College
Head Coach
In her second yr, Rice led the Golden Grizzlies to a 17-14 (11-7 Horizon League) report. Each win counts had been probably the most in a season for the group since 2017. Rice noticed three of her gamers earn all-league honors, together with Emily Wichmann as Horizon League defensive participant of the yr, this system’s first since 2014.
Brian Rosen
Creighton Girls
Assistant Coach
In his two years at Creighton, Rosen has helped it win two Large East regular-season and convention championships, in addition to advancing to this yr’s NCAA Event spherical of 16. His ardour, vitality and work ethic on and off the court docket is contagious and inspirational, fellow assistant coach Angie Oxley Behrens mentioned.
Brandon Row and Matt Noland
North Florida Girls
Assistant Coaches
Row, in his first season in Jacksonville, and Noland, in his second, helped lead the Ospreys to a 17-15 mark this previous season.
Emilie Selvidge
Charleston Southern Girls
Assistant Coach
Selvidge, a 2023 graduate of Florida School, adopted her head coach, Carry Brown, to CSU to work with the setters. Selvidge was a two-time convention setter of the yr and an honorable point out All-American her senior yr.
McKay Smith
Lengthy Seashore State Males
Assistant Coach
Smith has been on the Lengthy Seashore State males’s workers for the final 5 years, and in his time on the Seashore has helped it seize two nationwide championships (2018 and 2019), whereas advancing to 4 NCAA semifinals in six years (2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023). Throughout this time, he has coached 28 All-People, together with nationwide gamers of the yr Josh Tuaniga (2018), TJ DeFalco (2019) and Alex Nikolov (2022).
Nick Vogel
UCLA Males
Assistant Coach
In his first season, UCLA captured its first NCAA championship and first MPSF match title since 2006. Vogel beforehand coached at DePaul (girls), UC San Diego (males) and UCLA (girls) after a professional enjoying profession.
Hayden Wagner
Wake Forest Girls
Assistant Coach
Wagner made an instantaneous affect in his first season. He’s a former three-time honorable-mention All-American choice for the George Mason College males’s group, from 2018-2021,
Angela White
Loyola Marymount, Seashore
Assistant Coach
The previous LSU indoor standout and professional seashore participant joins the LMU workers after most lately teaching seashore in Austin, Texas. “She’s at all times been nice at bringing the most effective out of the folks round her,” LMU coach John Mayer mentioned.
Gary White
Wisconsin Girls
Affiliate Head Coach
White has served as an assistant coach and affiliate head coach with the Badgers since 2013. Throughout that point, Wisconsin has received 5 Large Ten championships and superior to the NCAA spherical of 16 or higher the final 11 seasons. Wisconsin received all of it in 2021. White makes use of his background in data sciences and expertise to information UW’s opponent scouting, breaking down opponents’ offenses with key analytics and technique. He additionally assists in teaching the Badgers’ center blockers.
Jeremy White
Southeastern Louisiana Girls
Head Coach
The 38-year previous White simply completed his fifth season at SLU, and has breathed life right into a as soon as moribund program in Hammond, Louisiana. Within the three seasons earlier than his arrival, SLU had a report of 12-77. In his 5 years, he’s had three seasons with a profitable report, and in 2023 SLU had a historic 22-match win streak. The Lions received the Southland regular-season title for the primary time, received the league tourney for the second straight yr, and made its first two NCAA match appearances in program historical past.
Morgan Williams
Texas A&M-Commerce Girls
Assistant Coach
Williams simply completed her first season because the assistant coach at Texas A&M-Commerce, which went to the postseason for the 12th yr in a row. The previous standout at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi beforehand served as the pinnacle coach with the Pressure Volleyball Membership in Texas for seven years.