AVC Coaches and Staff
Executive Leadership Team and Steering Committee
 | Brian Highfield - ClubDirector@avcvolleyball.com Brian is the Academy's Executive Leader in charge of Administration and Finance. Before his 6 year varsity coaching career began at Aurora High School, Brian participated on Case Western Reserve University Men’s Club Volleyball Team, who were two-time NCAC Champions in 1993 and 1994. Brian is well known in the volleyball community and has 20 years of playing experience as a USA Volleyball player. Brian coaches the 18 National team and is IMPACT, ASEP, CAP I and CAP II certified. |  | Sheree Harvey - Sheree@avcvolleyball.com Sheree Harvey is the Academy's National Program Director. As a scholar-athlete at Ohio State University, Sheree helped the Buckeyes capture a Big 10 Championship and participated in two trips to the NCAA National Championships. Sheree has more than 25 years of coaching experience, including positions at Kent State University and Stow High School. She has extensive club coaching experience in Northeast Ohio and participated as a coach for USA Volleyball's High Performance program in 2004 and 2005. Her teams have qualified for Nationals each of the past 6 years. Last year her 15 National team was among the best in the country capturing runner up honors at the AAU Championships. |
 | Brian Scipione - Skip@avcvolleyball.com Brian currently serves the club as Chief of Club Operations, handling scheduling for practices and tournaments for each team and also as Head Coach for of AVC 14 National team. His teams have qualified for Nationals each of the past two seasons. Besides Brian’s coaching experience, he also brings valuable playing experience to the table, having participated in Men’s USAVB and in local volleyball leagues. Brian is IMPACT, ASEP, CAP I and CAP II certified. |  | Paul Schiffer - Paul@avcvolleyball.com Paul Schiffer, who is in his 6th year at AVC, brings 9 years of coaching experience to AVC. He has finished in the top 10 of the OVR Region for his division each of the last last four years including two first place finishes and a second place finish. Last year his16 National team won the OVR Bid Championships, Winterfest and the OVR Power League. |
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| Adam Evans - Adam@avcvolleyball.com Adam has coached nine seasons of Varsity Volleyball at both Norton High School and Massillon Washington High School. Adam has also been active on the JO circuit working with 6 clubs in various roles, including 2 years as a Club Director. He has qualified for the USAV Girls' Junior Championships 2 of the last 3 years. Adam has played for 16 years in Men’s USAV mostly at the A and Open levels as a middle blocker. Adam is a CAP II certified volleyball coach, a USAV Regional Official and serves on the Ohio Valley Region Board of Directors. |
| Rob Cline - Rob@avcvolleyball.com Rob is the Kent State assistant coach. As the former Varsity Head Coach at Brecksville Broadview Heights High School, his 2008 team made it to the the state semifinals in Division 1. Prior to that, he was assistant head coach at Beaumont High School. He also spent two years at VASJ as an assistant Varsity coach and was part of the team that won the 2001 D3 state championship. He has coached JO volleyball for 8 years and is IMPACT certified. Rob's National Team has qualified for Nationals the past three seasons. Last year 5 out of 7 of his seniors received Division I scholarships. The other 2 will be playing Division III in 2011. |
| Pat Royer - Pat@avcvolleyball.com "The most interesting coach in the world" For the past 11 years Pat has been the head varsity coach at Beaumont High School where he has amassed over 170 wins with an .800 winning percentage. He has twice been named District 2 Coach of the year. Pat played collegiately at BGSU and in competitive men’s leagues. Pat has 9 years of JO coaching experience at Renaissance, Jump Serve and LEVA. He is IMPACT certified. |  | Maria Prcela - Jackson - Maria is the Academy’s American/Regional Program director for ages 14-18 and serves as a director of the boys program. Her 5 years of experience as the Athletic Director at St. Clare Parish and 3 years as the assistant director of Jump Serve Volleyball club, will contribute to the Academy’s organizational level. Maria was instrumental in forming the first boys JO team for Jump Serve Volleyball club and is looking forward to growing boy’s volleyball at AVC. She is IMPACT and ASEP certified. |
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As a co-founder and co-director of Jump Serve Volleyball Club, Marge brings 10 years of club organizational experience with her to AVC. Her most proud accomplishment in the JO community was forming a boys’ team and watching them win Gold at their Super Regional in Columbus. | | Teri Angelotta - Teri will be acting as one of our new assistant directors. Her main duties will be registration, purchasing, uniforms and spiritwear. Teri was director of Jumpserve Volleyball for the past 10 years and is looking forward to her new position at AVC. She is IMPACT and ASEP certified. |
2011 Team Coach Assignments
Coaches and Staff Bios
Club Nutritionist Christine Polisena -MS,MBA,RD GoodNutrition@avcvolleyball.com
| Christine Polisena is a registered dietitian with over 20 years experience helping individuals live a healthier life. Christine has seen and experienced first hand the impact that good nutrition or the lack of it can have upon the athletic performance of both children and adults. Christine will be providing advice to our coaching staff, will conduct nutrition classes for our athletes and parents, answer questions that you may have, and provide nutrition articles/recipes for our newsletter. In addition to volunteering to provide nutrition advice for Academy Volleyball Cleveland, Christine also gives of her time to teach nutrition to the dancers of the Great Lakes Youth Ballet Company. Her experience includes providing nutrition counseling at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in the cancer area and NASA Glenn Research Center working with employees. She has spent the last 6 years at the Oswald Companies, an insurance brokerage and risk management firm where she develops strategies for clients to improve the health of their employees and control health care costs. |
Parisi Speed School John Collis III - Ph.D.
| John is the executive director and owner of the Peak Performance Center and Parisi Speed School. Peak Performance Center is a multidisciplinary health, fitness and sports facility consisting of medical services such as orthopedics, rheumatology, physical therapy, medical massage therapy, nutritional group and individual counseling, and chiropractic medicine. John opened PPC is 1996 and opened Ohio’s first Parisi Speed School in 2007. John is a former All-American swimmer for Seven Time NCAA Champions, Indiana University. In 1984 he was a United States Olympic Qualifier (200M and 400 M freestyle) and a member of the 1984 Greek Olympic Team (200 M freestyle, 400 M freestyle, 400 M freestyle relay, and 800 M freestyle relay). John has over 17 years of coaching experience, working at the Division I NCAA Level, United States Swimming Group Level & high-school level, resulting in 14 State Champions (High school level), 11 age group National Champions and 7 NCAA National Champions. John received his doctorate in Exercise Physiology from the University of Colorado. He currently lives in Brecksville, OH with wife Katey and daughters Casey and Laina. |
 | Alyssa Adamowski Alyssa played her High School Volleyball at Beaumont and her club ball at Jump Serve. Prior to joining AVC she has coaced at Jump Serve for 2 years and also served as a Varsity Assistant at Beaumont, and as Freshman Coach at Regina |  | Sara Bennett-Lerner This is Sara’s second year coaching for AVC. Previously she has coached numerous youth volleyball and basketball teams, including a stint as Assistant Varsity Coach and JV Head Coach at Chagrin Falls High School in the 2000s. As a High School athlete she earned several conference and district honors for volleyball, softball, and basketball. She is attending the University of Akron School of Law. |
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| Laura Bossard - coachbossard@avcvolleyball.com Laura played her high school volleyball at Beaumont . She has served as 7th grade coach for Memorial Junior High in South Euclid and Freshman coach at Beaumont High School past three seasons. She has coached JO for Jumpserve for 3 seasons. She is IMPACT certified. |
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| Scott Carter Scott Carter begins his second overall season with the Hiram program and will be an associate head coach in 2011. He comes to Hiram after a two-year stay as the head volleyball coach at Stow-Munroe Falls High School. While at Stow-Munore Falls, Carter led the volleyball program to two district championships, a regional championship and an appearance in the state final four. He received back-to-back coach of the year awards while producting seven All- Conference and six All-District players. Carter also has had over 17 years of coaching experience at the collegiate level as a head coach and recruiting coordinator. Carter’s resume includes stops at Broome Community (N.Y.) College, SUNY Oneonta, Sacred Heart (Conn.) University, Kent State University and the University of Kentucky. As a recruiting coordinator at the collegiate level, he has produced three recruiting classes that ranked among the 50 nationally which helped lead programs at the University of Kentucky and Kent State University more than double those program’s win totals within a three-year period. In addition, Carter has worked as an intern assistant with the USA Olympic Team and World Games Team in 1999. Has also has seven years experience coaching collegiate men’s volleyball and helped lead the Sacred Heart University men’s volleyball team to their first NCAA Tournament appearance in 2001 as the team finished with a 25-6 overall record. He posted seven consecutive 20 win seasons as head coach and his winning percentage ranks among the top-10 all-time in men’s college volleyball. Carter currently resides in Streetsboro, Ohio with his wife, Melissa and two children, Grady and Alison. |
| Fady Chehade - Head Coach - coachChehade@avcvolleyball.com Fady Chehade brings valuable experience, as he played volleyball at KSU and adult USVBA. This is Fady’s 4th season coaching JO for AVC. He is IMPACT certified. |
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| Andrea Ciavarelli - Head Coach Andrea@avcvolleyball.com Andrea served as assistant varsity coach and JV coach at Cuyahoga Heights High School for five years. She is in her second season of being the assistant coach at Amherst Steele High School. She has made three regional appearances and won four conference championships between both schools. Before joining AVC Andrea coached at Renaissance for 6 seasons and is in her 3rd season at AVC. Andrea is an OHSAA certified official and a certified USAV Junior official. She is IMPACT, CAP I and VCAP certified through USAV. |  | Alex Coundourides – Alex was 4 year Varsity starter for Walsh Jesuit High School where he was their two time MVP. He was All-Region for 4 years and was a 3 time All Ohio recipient. He has 8 years of Club Experience, participating 5 years at the USAV National Championships. He was selected two times to the OVR High Performance Camp Team. His U18 team won the Regional Championship. He is currently a Player for the Baldwin-Wallace College Men's Team. He has coached and assisted at many summer camps and clinics. This is his first year at AVC. |
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Karol Coundourides – Karol was a 4 year starter for Baldwin-Wallace College Women's Tea, helping them qualify twice for the NCAA National. She was selected as the Yellow Jackets Outstanding Senior Female Athlete. She is a member of the Baldwin-Wallace College Athletic Hall of Fame. She has over 15 years experience coaching CYO for both girls and boys at the 4th - 8th grade level. She is an OHSAA Official. This is her first year at AVC. |  | Stacy Coundourides – coachscoundourides@avcvolleyball.com Stacey was a 4 year starter for the Baldwin-Wallace Men's Club Team. He has over 10 years experience coaching Boys CYO and Club. He has coached at both Northcoast Volleyball Club and Southwest Volleyball Club. He is IMPACT certified |
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| Scott Corrao - Asst Coach coachCorrao@avcvolleyball.com Scott Corrao played high school and intercollegiate golf, before getting the volleyball bug in his mid 20’s. Shortly thereafter, he moved to Chicago and really became addicted to the game, playing two to three times a week in leagues, tournaments, charity events, and 2's in the sand. Scott brings 18 years of volleyball playing experience, coupled with youth soccer coaching experience to AVC and is very excited about this opportunity to teach a game that he feels is the ultimate athletic team sport. |  | Brian Cuglewski This will be Brian's 6th year coaching JO. He previously coached both National and Regional level teams at Renaissance and American level teams at CVA-Volley Masters. Brian is the current Varsity Head Coach at Independence High School. Prior to that, he held the position of Varsity Head Coach at Clear Fork, Varsity Assistant at Cuyahoga Heights, and Varsity Assistant at St Ignatius. |
 | Ellen Dempsey In her 10 seasons as head coach of the Hiram volleyball team, Ellen Dempsey has taken a program that hadn't had a winning season in over a decade to the upper echelon of the North Coast Athletic Conference and all of Division III. Now entering her 11th year at the helm, Dempsey has posted a 240-104 record with 11 playoff appearances, marking the best 11-year period in school history, and coached her team to three consecutive NCAA Division III National Tournament appearances (2005-07). Overall in 18 seasons as a head coach, Dempsey has a career record of 372-243. In addition, Dempsey also serves as Assistant Athletic Director and Senior Woman Administrator. Most recently before coming to Hiram, Dempsey served as Assistant to the Director of Athletics at the University of Maine in Orono. Prior to that, she spent six seasons as head coach at Ohio University in Athens where she won a school record 86 matches from 1994-1999 and took the Bobcats to the Mid-American Conference Tournament for the first time, posting two twenty-win seasons along the way, as well as the school's first winning record in 19 years. Before her experience at Ohio University, Dempsey was an assistant coach at the University of Maryland from 1990-1993, where she helped the Terrapins claim the 1990 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship. Dempsey also headed the volleyball program at Southern Oregon State College (now Southern Oregon University) where she was named the 1989 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) District II Coach of the Year. She began her career as the head coach at Lansing (MI) Community College from 1984-1985 and was an assistant coach at Northern Michigan University from 1986-1987. Outside of the collegiate ranks, Dempsey was an assistant coach for the south squad at the 1994 U.S. Olympic Sports Festival and was a court coach for the 1993 Junior National Team. Dempsey graduated from Michigan State University with a bachelor of science in natural resources in 1986 and earned a master's degree in exercise science at Northern Michigan University in 1988. Dempsey resides in Mogadore, Ohio. |  | Thomas Gregory Dlugopolsky Thomas has coached CYO 8th Grade Girls at St. Basil the Great in Brecksville for 1 season and played (DS/Libero) for 3 years at BBHHS. He has been an OHSAA Volleyball Ref for 3 years |
 | Teri Ehert Teri has coached high school volleyball at all levels for the last 25 years. In most recent years Teri served as the Varsity coach at Canton Timken High School and then Canton McKinley. She is currently the assistant varsity coach at Brecksville-Broadview Hts. High School. In addition to her high school experience, Teri was a JO coach with Elite Sports Ohio in Uniontown, Ohio bringing 4 years of JO experience to AVC. Teri has been a physical education teacher for the last 29 years with Canton City Schools, and is IMPACT certified. |
| Jodi Evans - Head Coach - jodievans@avcvolleyball.com Jodi Evans begins her first season coaching at AVC. Upon graduating from Eastwood High School, Jodi accepted a volleyball scholarship to play for the University of Akron. Jodi is still among the top ten all time in many kill and block catagories UofA. In January of 2003, Jodi was honored with her induction to the University of Akron Athletic Hall of Fame. Jodi has been the varsity volleyball coach at three high schools: Our Lady of the Elms, Kenston and Shelby. Jodi has previously coached USA Volleyball with Club NET, Richland Volleyball Club and Renaissance Cleveland. |
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| Kelly Fieseler - Head Coach coachFieseler@avcvoleyball.com Kelly is in her 2nd year with AVC. Last season she coached an 11 regional team and assisted coaching the 13 National team. She has been coaching 7th and 8th grade at GESU for 6 years. During this time her teams have been East Side Champions every season. Her 8th grade teams have made it to the City semifinal or finals each year. Kelly is a Physical Therapist with 15 years of practice with specialties in orthopedics and spine, pediatrics and the young athlete. She has special interest in injury prevention and returning the injured athlete to play. She played volleyball in high school with her team making it to the state elite 8. She played “club” in college and is Impact certified. |
| Rick Fulton - Asst. Coach coachFulton@avcvolleyball.com Rick has been coaching at St. Gabriel in Concord for 8 years. In 2011 he guided the 7th Grade team to the Eastside Championship, and he also lead the 8th Grade team to a 25-0 record in winning the CYO City Championship. He has also coached at the club level with Renaissance, Eastside and AVC. He finished first in the OVR at both the 10 and 11’s level. Last year Rick was instrumental in guiding his 12 National team to a5th place in the OVR. He is IMPACT and CAP I certified . |
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|  | Libby Gardella - coachgardella@avcvolleyball.comThis will be Libby's first year coaching with AVC. She has previously coached at Eastside for the past two seasons. After attending St. Peter Chanel High School, where she played varsity for three years, she went on to play for at Ursuline College. She has played JO for Jumpserve, and is still very much involved with the sport of volleyball. She is looking forward to this upcoming season with a new club! |
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Valerie Harvey - Assistant Coach - valerie@avcvolleyball.com Val played at Stow High school and at Coastal Carolina University. She has been playing volleyball for over 16 years. She has coached with AVC for 2 years. Val is also one of the directors of JVC. Over the past 10 years Val has coached and assisted at many camps and clinics. | | Troy Haught - coachhaught@avcvolleyball.com
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| Marianne Humphrey Marianne Humphrey has coached volleyball for fifteen years, most recently as junior varsity/varsity assistant at Canton McKinley High School. She coached at McKinley for five years, taking one year off to obtain her Master’s degree in curriculum from Ashland University. She was also the head coach at Tusky Valley High School in 2006 where she was nominated as coach of the year in her district. Her coaching experience also includes 10 years of coaching junior Olympic volleyball, the past five years coaching with Elite Sports Ohio in Uniontown, Ohio. She is IMPACT and CAP I certified. |  | Tracy Ianni
Tracy played/graduated from
Brecksville in 2000, where she was a middle hitter.She then went on to play for
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| George Kambic - Head Coach - coachKambic@avcvolleyball.com AVC appreciates the experience and knowledge that George Kambic has drawn from 24 years of coaching volleyball. George, who originally coached JO for Cannon, then Renaissance, enters his third year with the Academy. Coach Kambic, both IMPACT and CAP I certified, has also contributed many years of time and dedication to the St. Rita volleyball program in Solon. |
| Andrea Kaminsky Andrea played at Glenoak high school and Hiram College as a 4 year starter. Over the past few summers she has worked multiple volleyball summer camps, including Tri-State Elite camp and multiple high school clinics in Ohio |  | Andrew Kerr Andrew has been playing volleyball since he was in 5th grade. He played high school ball at Walsh Jesuit and then went on to play with the men's club team at John Carroll University. During his time there the JCU Blue Streaks finished in the top 20 of division II two years in a row. Andrew received various all tournament team awards and other distinctions within the Penn-Ohio League. Andrew has a total of five years coaching experience at the high school level in both boys and girls programs. He actively plays in TVP and USAV tournaments and various adult leagues around the area. When not coaching or playing volleyball, Andrew is a high school Social Studies teacher who also enjoys cycling, playing soccer and spending time with friends and family. |
| Keara Laffey This is Keara's first year coaching at AVC. She has coached 6th grade CYO volleyball and is looking forward to coaching for AVC. |
| Mike Laffey - Head Coach laffey@avcvolleyball.com Mike is beginning his third season coaching at AVC with his team winning their division in the OVR at Regionals in 2011. Prior to that Mike coached at Renaissance Volleyball Club. In addition to his JO experience he also has coached both boys and girls CYO teams in the Junior High level for the past 14 years at Holy Cross School in Euclid and is currently the Director of the volleyball program at the school. Mike has played competitive volleyball for more than thirty years in various leagues throughout the city. Mike has both IMPACT and CAP I certification. |
 | Chris Lyons – coachlyons@avcvolleyball.com Coach Chris has coached every grade level of CYO volleyball, both boys and girls, at St. Albert the Great and Sts. Joseph and John. Most recently, his boys varsity CYO team at Sts. Joseph and John won the City Championships for 2011. Chris has also coached JO volleyball from 10s all the way through 18s, both boys and girls, at Southwest Volleyball Club in Grafton and at Vanguard Volleyball Club in Columbus. This past summer, his 14s boys Vanguard Volleyball Club team played in the Boys Junior National Championships in Minnesota, and finished fifth in the nation. Chris is not only an experienced coach, but also an avid volleyball player, both court and beach – and he is known well by those he coaches for his ability to both communicate and demonstrate what he wants his players to attempt and accomplish. | | Casey Marcelo -coachmarcelo@avcvolleyball.com Coach Marcelo is the Head Boys Volleyball Coach at Saint Ignatius High School and brings his experience to AVC to help develop the boys volleyball program. He led the Wildcats to four trips to the State Tournament in his four seasons there, and is looking forward to making another run in 2012. You may have also seen Casey coaching girls volleyball at Westlake High School, St. Joseph Academy, Avon Lake High School or as Head Coach at Hearts. As the current Technical Coach at Avon Lake he provides instruction on fundamental skills using information technology to aid in player development. His JO Volleyball Club experience started 11 years ago with 15s, and also includes 17s clubs, one of which placed 4th in the region. In the past 5 years Casey has concentrated on the boys side of JO with a list of accomplishments including 5th and 13th place at Nationals in the 2 years his team participated. Lastly, he was the Assistant Coach for a Boys Youth High Performance Team for 2 years in the OVR. Coach Marcelo’s philosophy is play hard, play smart, raise the bar. He is looking forward to his first year as part of the AVC team. |
 | Marty Marflak Marty has 18yrs total coaching experience including 3years as Varsity Assistant atNDCL High School and 2 years as an Assistant at Midpark High School. He has 6 years he has assisted in Summer Camps/Clinics for Twinsburg, NDCL, Midpark & Hudson Programs. He has coached JO at Cannon VBC, Spirit, Advance (Highest finish at Regionals, 3rd place Gold Division). He also has 20+ Years indoor & outdoor experience BB/A-Levels. He has played on numerous championship teams. He has been a certified official. |  | Donna McNulty – coachmcnulty@avcvolleyball.com Donna has been coaching for over 30 years. She played four years in high school at Mayfield. Began coaching straight out of high school in 1980, coaching CYO for many years, where she won 2 City Championships. She has also coached at the following schools: Beaumont (Freshmen), NDCL (Varsity), Brush (JV), Richmond Heights (JV and Varsity), and Mayfield (Freshmen). Donna previously coached Junior Olympics for LEVA and Jump Serve. |
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| Shana McMahon - Head Coach coachMcmahon@avcvolleyball.com A Hudson High School alumni and former collegiate women's D-II volleyball and basketball player at Mercyhurst College, this will be Shana's second year with AVC. She coached for Great Lakes-Quicksilver Volleyball Club for two years prior to that. During the high school season, she coaches at Lakewood High School as the Junior Varsity Head Coach and Varsity Assistant. She is an active member of USAV and is IMPACT certified. |  | Malinda Miozzi This is Malinda's first year with AVC, he has served as Russ' assistant coach with all his volleyball team. Malinda also did all of the administrative work for Lakeland Ice and Eastside volleyball clubs. |
 | Russ Miozzi - rmiozzi@contemporaryelectric.com
Played volleyball at an A level from 1990 - 2005. Coached CYO at Immaculate Conception in Willoughby 2002 Coached CYO at Notre Dame Elementary School in Chardon 2003 – 2004 Formed Lakeland Ice a JO club which I was the director of from 2005 - 2008 At Lakeland Ice I coached the National level teams Merged with Eastside Volleyball Club in 2009, Was Co – director Co - Owner of Eastside Volleyball Company 2009-2010, 2009 Coached the 16 - 2 National team At Eastside 2010 Coached the 17 - 1 National team at Eastside qualified American Level 2011 Coached the 18 - 1 National team at Eastside, Won the OVR National Bid, Came in 3rd place at Nationals. |  | Alexandra Mrofchak I have been playing volleyball for 13 years now. I played 4 years at Beaumont School. I played at the Club level at High Point University, and again at John Carroll University after I transferred. Although this will be my first time coaching, I hope it is the beginning of many seasons, as I want to continue my love for volleyball and share what I have learned with others. |
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| Jim Moore - Head Coach - coachmoore@avcvolleyball.com Jim Moore is in his 3rd year on the AVC staff, bringing with him 22 years of coaching and 25 years of officiating high school and JO volleyball in Ohio and Maryland. Jim has taken his team to Nationals4 of those seasons. |
| Steve Muniak - Head Coach - SteveMuniak@avcvolleyball.com Steve has been an active volleyball player for over 30 years, starting by forming a Men’s Club team at Padua High School and playing club ball at Baldwin Wallace College. Steve has coached Junior High and JV teams at Cuyahoga Valley Christina Academy, in addition he runs their annual Junior High Skills Boot Camp. He has 6 years experience coaching juniors, four at Renaissance and this is his third season with AVC. |
 | Rosalie Navarro Rosalie brings 11 years of playing and coaching experience to The Academy. Her playing experience includes both beach and indoor, four years of playing experience at James Ford Rhodes High School, as well as playing at Cuyahoga Community College as the starting setter. She has coached at Advance Volleyball Club; finishing 32nd out of 172 teams this past season. She believes in team unity and coaches with the entire teams best interest in mind. She describes herself as a tough yet compassionate coach. She is looking forward to coaching at AVC. |
| Doug Nolan - Asst. Coach coachNolan@avcvolleyball.com Doug is in his 3rd year with AVC and his 8th year as a JO coach. Most recently he has coached his Sts. Joseph and John 8th grade CYO team to the City Championships in 2010. Doug is also a USAV referee and is Impact and Cap I certified. |
 | Dave Opfer - Head Coach - coachDaveOpfer@avcvolleyball.com Dave Opfer brings to AVC many years of coaching experience at Garfield, Orange and Maple Heights High Schools. Dave is in his 3rd year coaching at AVC. |  | Kristi Opfer - Co-Head Coach - coachOpfer@avcvolleyball.com Kristi Opfer is playing in her 3rdseason for Hiram College this fall. While attending James A Garfield High School, Kristi earned All-Ohio honors and played for PVC for four years. This is Kristi’s 3rd year at AVC. |
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| Glen Osoteo - Head Coach gosoteo@avcvolleyball.com Glenn Osoteo, on staff at AVC for the third year, comes from a long history of coaching. Along with volleyball, Glenn has coached football and baseball but prides himself in the accomplishments of his volleyball team’s successes at St. Alberts, Renaissance and last year at AVC; all teams that have finished in the top 20 each seasons. |
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Michael Passarelli - pass@avcvolleyball.com “Pass” is completing his 2nd year as assistant coach at Hiram College. Prior to that, he spent a season as coach of the women's J/V volleyball team at Stow Monroe Falls and an assistant for the Varsity team. Prior coaching experience also includes Tallmadge 7th Grade team, Northcoast 16's men's team, Kent State men's club team, and working as intern and student assistant with the Kent State Women's volleyball team for 4 seasons. Playing experience includes 4 years on the varsity mens team at Hoban high school, 4 seasons for Northcoast men's 18's team, 5 years on the Kent State men's club team and 5 years of USAV volleyball. Last year, his 15 National team qualified for the USA Junior National Championships. |
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| . Jayme Plummer - Head Coach coachPlummer@avcvolleyball.com Jayme is the assistant coach at the University of Akron and was a club player at Kent State University from 2000-04. After coaching a women's club team at KSU in 2004, Plummer went on to coach the Quiksilver Volleyball Club from 2004-2009 where he led his team to as high as a third place finish at nationals in 2008. Moving onto the college ranks in 2007, Plummer was an assistant coach at Cleveland State for two seasons (2007-08) where he helped the team grab the 2007 Horizon League tournament title and an NCAA tournament appearance. This is Jayme’s second season at AVC. |  | Kallie Rogers
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| Betsy Smerglia - Head Coach - coachSmerglia@avcvolleyball.com Touting the distinct honor of earning over 300 wins as a varsity high school coach, Betsy Smerglia clearly brings a wealth of volleyball knowledge and experience to the Academy. Between serving as Head Coach for Maple Heights and coaching JO for LEVA, Eastside and PVC, Betsy has tallied 29 years of coaching experience. In 2010 her Maple Heights team finished the regular season undefeated. |
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Bill Smerglia - Head Coach billsmerglia@avcvolleyball.com Bill joins AVC with extensive JO coaching experience and recently was the club director of PVC. He has coached at the varsity high school level with over 200 victories to his credit while at Kenston, Field, Laurel and Streetsboro schools. While at Streetsboro Bill’s teams have been a regional qualifier and won 6 league titles in a row. His past two OVR teams have won the regional championships! |
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Raechal Triscaro Raechal is currently not playing volleyball in a sand league in the summer and will be joining a league indoors in the early spring. She has coached for 3 years at Kenston High School for the freshman volleyball team. She insists on progression, dedication, and love for the game. |
| Gary VanCauwenberge - Head Coach - coachVan@avcvolleyball.com Gary served 9 seasons as the head coach for the Lake Erie College volleyball and softball teams. His college team made appearances in the semifinals of the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference tournament in both 2006 and 2007. In 2006, his squad posted the most wins in more than a decade of competition and then improved upon that mark by one game in 2007. In 2008, is team posted the best conference finish in program history, recording the most league victories in a season in 11 years of membership as he earned AMCC Co-Coach of the Year. This is Gary’s second season at AVC. |
 | Christine Walker Christine was a multi-sport athlete in school. She has competitively played basketball, soccer, softball, volleyball and flag football in city leagues and college intramurals. In 1989 I was voted Best Female Athlete for our co-ed flag football league. I was a wide receiver and safety. We won the State Championship that season. Injuries lead her to coaching in the late 1990’s. She began with basketball and soccer teams for youth CYO and city leagues. In 2002, she coached volleyball for a 6th grade team, and immediately fell in love with the sport. Since then she has coached all ages from 3rd graders to 12th graders. The longest running volleyball team I coached had a final overall record of 55-3, with several league championships. She enjoys teaching female athletes important life lessons through playing their sports. Currently Christine is in her second year as the Varsity Head Coach at Norton High School. |
| Dale Walter - Co-Head Coach - coachWalter@avcvolleyball.com Dale Walter has assisted Betsy Smerglia at Maple Heights HS for the last 15 years. Besides his HS coaching experience, Dale brings 12 years of JO experience having coached for AVC, Eastside and PVC. |
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is Megan's first year with AVC; she has coached at the Tri-State Elite
recruiting camp in Pittsburgh for 4 years. This is her 4th season
playing at Hiram college, Hiram college were the 2011 conference
champions. She also has 3 years experience as an OVR provisional referee |
| Amaris Woodland - Head Coach - coachAmaris@avcvolleyball.com We are pleased to have Amaris Woodland back on the AVC coaching staff for another JO season. Amaris started her volleyball career playing JO for five years for Club Net, LEVA and Nova and also played during her four years of high school for Solon. |
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| Rich Woodland - Asst Coach - coachwoodland@avcvolleyball.com This will be Rich’s 4th season with AVC. He has amassed over 15 years of volleyball coaching experience. Rich has worked with different age levels, both boys and girls, at programs such as St. Rita, Andrews School and Renaissance VBC. Rich has directed the Vipers VBC and is ASEP, IMPACT, CAP I and CAP II certified. |
| Erin Zimmerman -coachzimmerman@avcvolleyball.com Erin gained her playing experience at Arch Bishop Hoban High School in Akron and Toledo University. She accumulated her coaching experience at Synergy Volleyball Club in Toledo, and as the Freshman coach at Regina High School and then the Head Varsity coach at Regina High School. She is the current Assistant Varsity coach at Cleveland Central Catholic. She is IMPACT certified. |
