2012 Coaching Staff
Look for yourself and you will see that from from top to bottom, Goldenwest VBC has arguably one of the best coaching staffs in the country. The coaching staff at Goldenwest VBC has amassed a staff that includes a former Olympian, an assistant to the National Team Program, State and CIF-SS winning coaches and more. We are very pleased to announce the coaching staff for the upcoming 2012 season:
| Jason Dillard - Club Director/Head Coach 16 Asics |
Phone Number:Email: Jdillard@goldenwestvbc.com Quick Bio: This is Jason's 7th season as the Club Director of Goldenwest Volleyball Club and 8th year as a coach at the club. Jason has over 12 years of coaching experience in College, High School as well as Club volleyball. He is currently in his fifth season as the Assistant Women's Volleyball Coach at Fullerton College where he is also an instructor. Prior to Fullerton Jason spent a year and a half as an Assistant Women's Volleyball Coach at the University of California Riverside. The rest of his coaching experience came from both High Schools and various clubs. Most notably would be 6 years at Esperanza (his alma mater) and 1 at Mater Dei (won CIF and 2nd in State) as well as clubs like Santa Monica Beach, The LBC, and Golden West Volleyball Clubs. Jason has been a part of teams that have won 3 CIF Championships, 1 State Final and also a bronze medal with The LBC Volleyball Club in 2001. He has also worked at the University of Rhode Island, UC Riverside and Stanford Volleyball Camps. |
| Kevin Hitt - Assistant Club Director/Head Coach 18 Asics |
Phone Number: (562) 244-7156Email: khitt@goldenwestvbc.com Quick Bio: Kevin starts his 11th year here at Goldenwest VBC and is in his fifth season as girls' volleyball coach at Canyon High School while simultaneously assisting the USA Women's National Team. Before taking those positions, Kevin served as an assistant coach at Long Beach State University from 2004 until 2006. Prior to that, Kevin was the head girls' volleyball coach at Mayfair High School ('98-'04) where he coached 7 consecutive Suburban League titles with a league record of 80-0 over the 7 years. During that span at Mayfair, Kevin's players were named Suburban League MVP 6 times and had 30 All Suburban-League players. Kevin's past includes a 7 year run at Ichiban Volleyball Club, which featured players such as Misty May, Katie Olsolvsky, Heather Bown, Heidi Illustre, Jessica Sudduth, Jennifer Fopma, and Robin Lewis. Kevin claimed his own Bronze medal with Ichiban in the 18's Division at Jr. Nationals in 2000 and a Silver medal with the Goldenwest 17 Asics team in 2005. Kevin's other collegiate experience includes assistant coaching stints at Dominquez Hills '99-'00, Rice University '94, and Northern Michigan University '91-'93 where the Wildcats won the NCAA Div II National Championship in '93. During his time as a collegiate assistant coach Kevin has coached 3 NCAA Division II - Players of the Year and 12 NCAA All-Americans. Kevin has also served as head tryout coach for the Olympic Festival and an evaluator for the Junior and Youth National Teams for three seasons. In 1998 Kevin was inducted into the Northern Michigan University Athletics Hall of Fame |
| Dave Huber - Club Administrator/Head Coach 15 Asics |
Phone Number:Email: dhuber@goldenwestvbc.com Quick Bio: Dave is in his 7th season coaching at Goldenwest Volleyball Club and in addition to coaching our 15 Asics team will be the club administrator in regards to accounting. He is in his fifth year as Head Coach of the Girls Volleyball Programs at Los Alamitos High School. This past season Dave's Los Alamitos High School squad captured the CIF-SS Division IA championship. He is a former Div. 1 college player at Long Beach State University where he was an outside hitter and we are pleased to have his coaching experience back on staff. |
| Erika Chidester - Head Coach 14 Asics |
Phone Number:Email: echidester@goldenwestvbc.com Quick Bio: Erika is currently in her 3rd season as the 1st Assistant for the Cal State Long Beach Women's Volleyball Program. As a player at CSULB Erika was selected 1st Team All Big West three times, while completing her Degree in Sociology. After graduating from LB State she was the Graduate Assistant at Univ. of La Verne where she earned her Master's Degree in Business. Her final season at La Verne her team was the runner-up for the Division III National Championship. She has been a coach at Goldenwest for 6 seasons and worked at various age levels. Her teams have had a history of competing at Junior Olympics including the 18 Open in 2009 and 17 American in 2010 and 18 National in 2011. |
| Isaac Owens - Head Coach 17 Asics |
Phone Number:Email: iowens@goldenwestvbc.com Quick Bio: This is his 12th year coaching the boy's team and 7 years coaching the girls @ Esperanza High School. Isaac has won 4 CIF Championships @ EHS. He won two with the boy's team 2002 and 2007 and two with the girls 2004 and 2006. Isaac has also coached with Laguna Beach Volleyball Club, Magnum VBC, Power VBC, Asics Nova, and Goldenwest VBC. Isaac is one of the original coaches and club directors. Isaac has been CIF & OC Register Coach of the Year 2002, 2007 OC Register Coach of the Year, while coaching OC All Star Game Coach in 2003, 2005, 2006 & 7, 2009 &10. Last season his Goldenwest VBC 17 Asics team took 2nd place Far Westerns JO Qualifier. Isaac has coached over 100 club girls who have gone on to play college volleyball. Two of his former club players have become college coaches. |
| Art Garcia - Head Coach 15 Art |
Phone Number:Email: agarcia@goldenwestvbc.com Quick Bio: Art will be starting his 33rd year of coaching and 2nd season at Goldenwest. He has coached every level for boys, girls, men and women, starting at the Elementary, Middle School, High School, Community College, University and at the International level. He first started coaching at the junior club level with ICHIBAN Volleyball Club, which he help to found in 1978 and had won 7 junior national titles. At the high school level, Art is currently at Mater Dei High School as the Girl's and Boy's Jr. Varsity Head Coach and is assisting the Varsity teams as well. At the Community College level (which Art has been coaching as an Assistant and Head Coach at the women's and men's level), he will be starting his 3rd season at Fullerton College. At the University level, He assisted at Concordia University (at that time, the university was called Christ's College), and Cal State University Dominguez Hills. Art is also a volunteer with the USA Men and Women's National Teams at the ASC. He is also on staff with the USA Volleyball High Performance programs and coached internationally in places such as Canada, Australia, and China. |
| Jaclyn Chavez - Head Coach 16 Black/Assistant Coach 17 Asics |
Phone Number:Email: jchavez@goldenwestvbc.com Quick Bio: Jaclyn is in her third season as the Head of the Girls Volleyball Program at the newly built Yorba Linda High School, after serving as Esperanza's girl's JV coach and Varsity Assistant since she graduated from EHS in 2002. She is one of the up and coming coaches in the sport of Volleyball. This will be her 8th season coaching at Golden West Volleyball Club. Jaclyn graduated from Long Beach State where she majored in Mathematics. She is a credentialed teacher and teaches math at Yorba Linda High School in addition to coaching. |
| Mike Wadley - Head Coach 18 Black |
Phone Number:Email: mwadley@goldenwestvbc.com Quick Bio: This past season Mike Wadley completed his 16th season at Lakewood High School. Over the last seven years he has had 14 All-CIF, 11 All-Americans and 3 Fab-Fifty players suite up in a Lancer uniform. There have been 13 student/athletes signing at: Long Beach State (3), Pepperdine, UNLV, University of Miami, University of Illinois, University of Great Falls, Wyoming, Utah, Missouri State, CSUF and CSUDH respectively. His girl's teams have enjoyed the most recent success with the last seven varsity teams advancing to the CIF SS-IAA Quarter-Finals with four of those teams advancing to the Semi-Finals. Those teams have an overall record of 189 wins with 41 losses. The 2007 team finished with a ranking of #11 out of roughly 5,000 from Prep Volleyball and a #9 National Ranking from Max Preps. Mike is currently in his 2nd Season as the 1st Assistant Coach for the Golden West College Men's Team and in his 2nd season here at Goldenwest Volleyball Club |
| Elizabeth Younglove - Assistant Coach 18 Black |
Phone Number:Email: eyounglove@goldenwestvbc.com Quick Bio: This will be Liz's second season at Goldenwest VBC. Liz played 4 years here at GW as a setter, winning a bronze medal as a 15's player and competed in the OPEN as a senior in 2009. She is currently playing locally at Concordia University and is a great beach player as well. |
| Carlos Briceno - Head Coach 16 Carlos |
Phone Number:Email: cbriceno@goldenwestvbc.com Quick Bio: Carlos graduated from Fountain Valley High School in 1985, earned a Scholarship to the University of Hawaii at Manoa. In 1990 he graduated from the University of Hawaii with a BA in Communications. He also achieved All-American honors in volleyball his sophomore, junior, and senior years. In 1991 he joined the National Team and earned a spot on the 1992 Olympic Team that eventually won a Bronze Medal at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain. In 1993 he left the National Team and began playing on the beach. Carlos captained Team OP on the Bud-Light Four Man Tour and concomitantly played doubles on the FIVB Tour. While on the FIVB Tour he won the Silver Medal at the Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg, Russia and a Silver Medal at the World Championships in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. After six years of playing professionally on the beach he retired and enrolled at Azusa Pacific University earning a Master of Science degree in Physical Education and a Master of Arts in Educational Administration. Carlos has taken over the reigns at Wilson High School in Long Beach and has been coaching a junior girls coach for the past 10 years, his 4th with Goldenwest Volleyball Club. |
| Courtney Catt - Head Coach 16 Courtney |
Phone Number:Email ccatt@goldenwestvbc.com: ccatt@goldenwestvbc.com Quick Bio: Courtney is a graduate of Downey High School where she played varsity for two seasons. After High School she continued playing at Fullerton College, winning an Orange Empire Conference Championship in 2006. This will be Courtney's fourth season at Golden West Volleyball Club and fifth season coaching club overall, having also coached at Protege VBC. In 2009, Courtney was the Assistant Coach on our 13 Asics team that finished 5th at Junior Olympics in Miami. She has also been the Varsity Assistant Coach at Canyon High School for the past three seasons. |
| Daniel Hart - Head Coach 14 Green |
Phone Number:Email: dhart@goldenwestvbc.com Quick Bio: Daniel is going no his second year as the head Frosh Girls' coach at Yorba Linda High School and is in his third season with Goldenwest VBC. Daniel played volleyball for Villa Park High School and is also a coach on the GWVBC boy's side coaching our 16 Boys' Team. |
| Doug Kawa - Head Coach 17 Black |
Phone Number:Email: dkawa@goldenwestvbc.com Quick Bio: This is Doug's 3rd year coaching at Golden West Volleyball Club. Doug has coached teams in the 14's, 16's, and 17's age divisions. Doug has over 5 years of coaching experience at the high school, junior college, and club levels. Doug is currently in his 3rd season as varsity head coach at Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton. He is also assisting with the Fullerton College Women's Volleyball Team. He has previously coached at Crean Lutheran High School and Bishop Amat High School (his alma mater). Doug graduated from Gonzaga University in '05 and recently received his Masters in Physical Education through Azusa Pacific University. |
| Drew Weztler - Assistant Coach 18 Asics |
Phone Number:Email: dweztler@goldenwestvbc.com Quick Bio: Drew is the Head Girls' Varsity Coach at Villa Park High School where he has developed 3 NCAA scholarship athletes in the past two seasons. This is his second year at Goldenwest Volleyball Club. |
| Brooke Raynor - Head Coach 15 Brooke |
Phone Number:Email: braynor@goldenwestvbc.com Quick Bio: She has a variety of experience playing and coaching volleyball. She has been around volleyball for nine years, which includes four years of club and two years of college play. Brooke won a gold medal at the Junior Olympic Invitational in 2004 and went to the State Championships with Fullerton College two years in a row. For two years she coached the boys and girls JV and assisted the Varsity volleyball team at Cypress high school. Both years her team was Empire league champions. Brooke has coached at Goldenwest Volleyball Club for three years in the 15's and 16's age bracket. She is a well-rounded, energetic coach whose main goal is make her team better. |
| Megan Johnson - Head Coach 13 Black |
Phone Number:Email: mjohnson@goldenwestvbc.com Quick Bio: This will be Megan's second season at Goldenwest VBC and played her collegiate volleyball at Long Beach State as a setter/defensive specialist. She is a GW product who also played for Mike Wadley at Lakewood High School. As a player at LB State she brings a wealth of experience in the fundamentals and applies that experience in her coaching. |
| Lauren Minkle - Assistant Coach |
Phone Number:Email: lminkle@goldenwestvbc.com Quick Bio: Lauren is the starting Libero at Long Beach State, where she currently ranks 3rd in digs at the school with more than 1,400. She graduated from Lolani School in Honolulu, Hawaii and is in her 2nd season of coaching at Goldenwest after coaching both 12's and 14's last season. |
More coaches will be added soon!
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