Specialists in training youth and junior volleyball athletes

AVCA All American NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Professional Indoor, Poland

Jarmoc

NAIA Men’s Volleyball National ChampionProfessional Indoor, Austria

Penolio

NAIA Men’s Volleyball National Champion Professional Indoor, Greece & The Netherlands

Penolio

Jake, a 6’4” middle hitter, competed in professional men’s indoor volleyball in Graz, Austria with UVC Holding Graz in the Austria Bundesliga. He helped the team qualify for the European Cup Tournament in 2014. A native of Imperial Beach, Calif., Jake competed in volleyball since age 15 where he prepped at Mar Vista High School and competed on the boys varsity volleyball team, earning First-Team All-Conference honors from ’05-’07. He was voted South Bay League Player of the Year in 2007 and earned all-CIF honors and competed for legendary coach Fred Featherstone’s Seaside Volleyball Club (San Diego, Calif.). Jake contributed to two Tachikara™ NAIA men’s volleyball national championship teams at Park University (Mo.): as a team member of the 2008 national championship team and as an assistant coach to the 2012 national championship team where his younger brother Zach was a starting outside hitter. He led the NAIA in attack percentage his senior year as Team Captain, helping the Pirates to the NAIA Men’s Volleyball National Invitational Tournament from 2008-2011. Jake is enshrined in the Mar Vista High School Hall of Fame (Calif.) where his jersey number is retired along with younger brother Zachary. Jake serves as co-camp associate director and lead instructor.

Zach, a 6’3” outside hitter, competed in professional men’s indoor volleyball in Athens, Greece for Panathinaikos A.O. and in Groningen, The Netherlands for Abiant Lycurgus in the Dutch League. Zach was third in points scored for Panathinaikos. He helped Abiant Lycurgus to a Third-place finish in the playoffs, recording the highest attack efficiency in a single match (76%, 19 kills in 26 attempts). He was a starting outside hitter for nationally-ranked Park University (Mo.), helping to lead the Pirates to the 2012 Tachikara™ NAIA men’s volleyball national championship, the third in school history. Zach was named first-team All-Conference. The Imperial Beach, Calif. native competed in volleyball since 15 years old and was a starter on the Mar Vista High School boy’s varsity volleyball team earning all-CIF honors. Zach is enshrined in the Seaside Volleyball Club (San Diego, Calif.) Hall of Fame and Mar Vista High School (Calif.) Hall of Fame where his jersey number is also retired with older brother Jacob. Zach serves as co-camp associate director and lead instructor.

Caroline, a 6’2” middle blocker, competed in professional women’s indoor volleyball in Piła, Poland for four-time Polish champion PTPS Piła in the Polish Women’s Volleyball League. She is the first two-time AVCA Division I All-American in Kansas University volleyball program history. Caroline helped lead the Jayhawks to one of their most successful seasons, advancing Kansas to its first Regional Semifinals in program history. She finished her career ranked No. 1 in the Kansas Jayhawks volleyball record book with a sparkling .327 career hitting percentage and second all-time with 1,333 kills and 1,769 points. In addition, the Calgary, Alberta, Canada native, where she competed actively since the 6th grade, recorded a career record 555 total blocks and 454 block assists. Caroline started 126 consecutive matches for the Jayhawks while leading the team in kills (382), attack percentage (.320), service aces (26) and blocks (144, 24 solo/120 block assist. She was named the Dr. Bob Frederick Female Senior Scholar Athlete of the Year.

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Veteran Championship Coach & Mentor

Tualagi

Alfred, affectionately called ‘Coach Alfy’ by his players over the years, serves as the master coach and camp director. He has over 20 years of lead instructor experience. The 24-year coaching veteran provides extensive experience at the collegiate, junior club and high school prep levels. Of Filipino-Samoan ancestry, he currently serves as Associate Men’s Volleyball Coach and Director of Volleyball Recruiting at Briar Cliff University (Iowa) to fellow Hawai’i native, head coach Trevor Schirman (UCLA ’90). Alfred, from a football and volleyball family, competed in volleyball since the 7th grade, later competing on two championship teams in high school in his native Hawai’i as a setter. He has been mentored by some of the game’s greatest masterminds, including four collegiate Hall of Fame coaches. Alfred specializes in setting, offensive systems, individual skill development, practice planning and design, systematic training, match preparation and scouting. He travels the country to mentor coaches and assists parents and student-athletes with the college recruitment process. His first coaching assignment was at the NCAA DII level at Chaminade University (Honolulu, Hawai’i) where he helped the Silverswords to the 1996 Pacific West Conference championship in the ultra-competitive PacWest. He coached two PacWest conference Player of the Year honorees, 8 all-conference and 6 AVCA all-region honorees. Recently, he coached at the United States Air Force Academy (USAF Academy, Colorado) where the men’s volleyball team won back-to-back Mountain West Conference Championships in 2012 and 2013. Respected for his ability to train and develop high-level performance skills, he led his boys and girls teams to 7 junior club national championship medals. In addition, he has guided his 12U to 18U club teams to numerous Top-10 national finishes in the Open and Club divisions in the past 20 years. He has trained over 70 varsity level collegiate student athletes since 1996. In all, Alfred has trained and coached 19 All Americans, 17 Volleyball magazine “Fab 50” Boys & Girls national honorees, 47 high school all-League and 27 collegiate all-Conference honorees. In 2013, he was honored as a co-recipient of the 20-Year Junior Coach Service Award for his contributions to the junior volleyball community. Away from his first passion in volleyball and helping others, Alfred has been a restaurant manager in his other passion to prestigious private social athletic clubs and award winning Five Star Five Diamond award properties fine dining establishments since 1995 and cooks classic island favorite Hawaiian cuisine for family and friends when traveling across the country and around the world. He has authored volleyball articles for publication and wrote the commemorative retrospective on his friend, legendary UCLA men’s volleyball coach Al Scates, who coached the Bruins to a record 19 NCAA national championships. Alfred also created and designed the historic Al Scates Family Tree of Coaches art piece, as shown nationally on the Pac-12 television network, featuring many of Coach Scates’ former players whom have contributed significantly to volleyball in the coaching profession. There are only four original copies in existence worldwide.

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NCAA Division Men’s Volleyball Volleyball magazine “Fab 50” national honoree

Wilson

NCAA DII Men’s Volleyball First-Team All-ConferenceProfessional Indoor, Puerto Rico & The Netherlands

Mercado

Chad, a 6’5” opposite hitter, completed his first season at national power University of Florida as a volunteer assistant coach with the Gators. He has extensive experience coaching junior athletes at the club level in California and Florida. Chad enjoyed a decorated collegiate career and has competed at the indoor professional men’s volleyball level. The Orlando native competed for Abiant Lycurgus of the Dutch League in Holland. Prior to his coaching assignment at Florida, Chad coached at national power California Baptist University helping the Lancer men’s volleyball program to an AVCA DI-II No. 5 national ranking, the highest NCAA Division II national ranking in program history. As an athlete, Chad competed for Lees-McCrae College (North Carolina) where he had a standout career. He became just the second player in Lees-McCrae men’s volleyball program history to earn Division II Sports Imports/AVCA Men’s Volleyball National Player of the Week coupled with two Conference Carolinas Men’s Volleyball Player of the Week honors. Chad is among the all-time leaders for Lees-McCrae: career kills (1,090), blocks (178), digs (428), service aces (63) and points (1,276). He was selected as a two-time All-Conference Carolinas Men’s Volleyball First-Team honoree in 2010 and 2011. A proud Floridian, Chad continues to compete as an explosive right-side attacker in the Premier Volleyball League (PVL) men’s indoor volleyball team for the Florida WAVE as a starter.

NCAA Division I Men’s Volleyball, UCLA UCLA Scholar-Athlete Honors

Izuchukwu

Jack, a 6’6” outside hitter, is an NCAA Division I student-athlete. He competes in the ultra-competitive Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) featuring perpetual national power Penn State, Harvard and Princeton. Jack, a Midlothian, Virginia native, was a four-year Varsity Letterwinner at Cosby High School. He was named Top 30 Underclassmen to Watch and USAV High Performance Continental Team as a junior. During his senior year, Jack was named a 2012 Volleyball magazine “Fab 50” national honoree. He competed for the Richmond Volleyball Club, the premier junior club program in Central Virginia. A dynamic attacker, he recorded a season-best .647 attack percentage against Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras during his collegiate debut along with 130 kills and 49 digs.

Kene, a 6’0” outside hitter with an 11 feet 11 inch vertical, competed for the most successful NCAA Division I men’s volleyball program in the country: 19-time NCAA national champion UCLA. He was coached by International Volleyball Hall of Fame inductee, legendary UCLA men’s volleyball coach Al Scates. He was a four-year volleyball letterman at Palisades Charter (Palisades, Calif.) where he was a three-time First-Team all-City selection and was voted Section Player of the Year. Kene was also voted 2010 Palisadian Post Outstanding Senior Athlete and Farmer’s Prime Ticket Student-Athlete of the Week. The Ladera Heights, Calif. native played three years for the Pacific Palisades Volleyball Club and one year for Manhattan Beach Surf Volleyball Club where he helped his team to the USAV Boys Junior National Championship gold medal. He is a sought after summer volleyball camp instructor by campers who enjoy his positive attitude and insights.

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Veteran Coaching Great Maui & Florida

Quinsaat-Suzuki

Mililani, a Hawai’i native affectionately called “Coach Mili” by her players, provides over four decades of extensive experience hailing from Maui’s first family of volleyball. With extensive background in the entertainment field teaching hula and volleyball, she was the former coach at the prestigious Kamehameha Schools-Maui campus. An advocate of grassroots level developmental programs, Mili also does specialty training: setters and libero. Coach Mili’s daughters competed for top NCAA collegiate programs and legendary Hall of Fame coaches: University of Hawai’i Rainbow Wahine volleyball star Nalani for legendary coach Dave Shoji; Tania at national power UC Santa Barbara for “The Queen” and ESPN Women’s Professional Beach Tour color commentator, the legendary Kathy Gregory; and Twaila at powerhouse Hawaii Pacific University for legendary coach Reydan “Tita” Ahuna. All three daughters are in their respective school’s record books in various all-time leader categories. Mili founded the Maui Volleyball Officials Association (MVOA), where she served as Director of Volleyball Officials to all high schools on Maui, Lanai and Molokai for the Maui Interscholastic League. A testament to her ability to train skills, recently three former boys players all became high school conference Player of the Year- two setters and an outside hitter. Some former noteworthy players she has trained in volleyball include the daughter of worldwide star “The Rock” Dwayne Johnson, current University of Colorado-Boulder women’s volleyball head coach Liz Kritza and University of Nebraska All-American setter Fiona Nepo.

NAIA Men’s Volleyball National Champion NAIA Tournament Defensive Player of the Year

Rose

Kalani, a four-year starter at libero as a member of the Park University men’s volleyball team, provides a wealth of junior and youth coaching and high-level playing experience. The San Diego native coached at his alma mater Hilltop High School (Calif.) and with the Seaside Volleyball Club (Calif.). Kalani also coached junior club in Kansas City, Missouri. He helped the Pirates to an 85-29 record, helping Park to the 2012 National Championship, a Runner-Up finish in 2013 and three NAIA Final Four appearances. For his work and dedication, Kalani was selected the NAIA national tournament Defensive MVP, the MAMVIC West Conference Defensive Player of the Year and all-MAMVIC Second Team. In addition, he earned multiple Libero of the Week honors. Kalani served as a graduate assistant coach to the University of Missouri-Kansas City women’s volleyball team, helping the Kangaroos to a program best 24-6 record in school history, the 2014 Western Athletic Conference (WAC) championship and an appearance in the WAC championship tournament.

NCAA Division II Women’s Volleyball

Penolio

Meghan, a 5’9” outside hitter, competed at Missouri Western University following a standout career as a four-year Letterwinner at Mar Vista High School (Imperial Beach, Calif.). A great all-around athlete with a great work ethic and positive attitude, Meghan served as team captain and was team MVP. She earned Second Team all-League as a junior and First Team all-League honors as a senior. Meghan led the league in kills and was the team’s best offensive player and earned Union Tribune Scholar Athlete accolades. Her older brothers have enjoyed decorated playing careers at the high school prep and collegiate levels and have followed their dreams to play professional indoor volleyball. All three siblings were coached by their father in high school. The Imperial Beach, Calif. native has coached at Mar Vista High School as an assistant coach in the girl’s volleyball program and is currently working towards completing her studies in physical therapy.