2009 - Coaches Biography's:
Club
Director - Brick Street
- bnkstreet@comcast.net
Brick has been playing volleyball most of his adult life as well as coaching
since 1985. Brick has been the
Varsity Volleyball Coach at
Player
Coach - Stuart
Blackburn - volleystu@comcast.net
Stuart started playing Co-Ed city league at age 17.
He was an outside hitter and later, while playing club ball, became
middle blocker. He played club ball at
"I love to help people and hope to give them the same passion for the game
that I have" Stuart Blackburn
General Manager - David Anderson
- David@PDX-VB.com
David has been coaching and playing volleyball for the last 20 years. He started
playing volleyball at the Multnomah Athletic Club and was a Grass Doubles
champion in several local tournaments. He
started coaching in 2001 and has been an active coach ever since.
David started the Wilson-VB Volleyball Club in 2004 & PDX))VB in 2006
where he was the
director/coach. Because of his
passion for volleyball, he has taken extensive coaches training including, Terry
Liskevych's (current head coach at OSU) high performance coaching clinic. David is currently
the General Manager of PDX-VB Club.
Coach -
Andres Turvis
- turvispr@live.com
Started playing volleyball when he was 10 years old. Played
for a club called Borinquen Coqui, in Puerto Rico as an opposite hitter. In his
second season of High School he lead his team to a 2nd place victory in the
region. After graduating from High School he went right into coaching Club
and High School. In 2007 the club team he was coaching (13u Fusion
Volleyball Club) went to the AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) National tournament
in Atlanta Georgia and won the 3rd place in the gold division. Andres has been
working with volleyball players in the community ever since he moved to Portland
with high intensive skills clinics and in also coaching at Grant High
School. Loves everything about the game and will always be involved in
volleyball.
Coach -
Lana Torrence - torrencelm@gmail.com
Lana started playing volleyball for her middle school
in Colorado when she was 10. She continued on to play four years in high school
and four years for club where she traveled all over Colorado and several
neighboring states for competition. For the majority of her playing experience,
she played as an outside hitter. Volleyball has been a passion of Lana's for
over ten years and this will be here first year coaching.
U16 Coaching Staff
Coach -
Erin McNulty
- erin.mcnulty@gmail.com
Erin has been playing volleyball
for the past 18 years. She was
involved with club volleyball throughout her four years at Grant High School and
believes that the club experience, hard work, and a passion for the game were
the factors that led her to earn numerous recognitions, including Honorable
Mention All State as a setter her senior year of high school.
Although Erin's athletic focus in college was Rugby, she continued to
find ways to play her first love. Erin
has just finished her first season as Varsity Head Coach at Madison High School.
During the past club season, Erin coached the PDX U-16's Orange team and
she looks forward to coaching a new group of girls this season to be skilled,
determined, and smart volleyball players.
Coach
- Jen Baker - jen.dell.barker@gmail.com
Jen Barker grew up playing on the courts and
beaches of San Diego. A
lifelong setter, Jen's high school years were spent feeding much taller hitters
at La Costa Canyon High school, Coast Volleyball Club and San Diego Volleyball
Club. During this time she was
received accolades such as 1st Team All Conference player, 2x Team
MVP and Team Captain, San Diego Union Tribune Female Athlete of the Month,
Redondo Beach Power Classic Tournament MVP , San Diego Hall of Champions 1997
High School Female Inductee, and was a starting setter for several top division
teams in the southern California club region. She
played college ball at Linfield College then Portland State University. At
Linfield, Jen was a 2 x 1st Team All Conference Player, Team Captain,
2x Team MVP , 2x Team Most Inspirational Player and led the NCIC league in
assists and service aces. Her coaching experience spans back to 1998 and
includes time at McMinnville Girls VB Club, Blues Volleyball Club, St. Mary's
High school , and Cascade Juniors VBC. After
which she returned to San Diego to hang up her kneepads and focus on a career in
Product Marketing and a graduate degree in Sustainable Business. Newly
back to Portland to start her own company, Jen is very excited about getting
back into coaching and the sport of volleyball. She
believes that many of the successes she's enjoyed in her career and education
comes from the amazing lessons learned as a volleyball player and hopes to pass
these on to her players, helping them become confident, articulate and
successful women.
Coach -
Benjamin Jedrzjewski
- beaverton0507@yahoo.com
Ben has played volleyball sense he was nine years old, playing in high
school in
Coach
- Crosby Bromley
Bio Coming Soon
Coach
- Ashley Glisson
- coach.aglisson@gmail.com
Coach Glisson has personally played competitive volleyball since the time she
was in 5th grade. She was
apart of a sister city team that travelled to Japan in 1997 and had all
conference as well as all state awards in high school.
Coach Glisson also played one year for
Coach
- Amy Bell - akbell@firstam.com
Amy played varsity volleyball at Barlow high for 3 years and was on two
state championships team. She was 1st team all state junior & Senior
year, 1st team all tournament and 1st team all conference as well. She played
club volleyball for Nike NW Jrs. In collage she play at Mt. Hood Community
College her team won our Southern Conference and 2nd in NWAAC's, She was 1st
team all southern conference and 2nd team all NWAAC that year. Sophomore year at
Mt. Hood they were Southern Conference champions and she 1st team all conference
and MVP all conference. Also during sophomore year they won NWAAC's that year
where she received 1st team all NWAAC, MVP and I was 1st team all American. Then
went to finish her playing career at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah
(Division 1 Big Sky Conference). She coached at Centennial High School for
2 years at the freshman level as well as coaching at Wilson High School last
year at the freshman level. We welcome Amy to PDX)))VB!
Coach
- Nadia
Aazad - naazad32@yahoo.com
Nadia played 3 years of Varsity volleyball at
Cleveland High School from 2000-2002. She has been the JV Volleyball coach at
Cleveland for the past three years and the Freshman Volleyball coach at
Cleveland for the two years prior. She is looking forward to being a club
coach for the first time.
Coach -
Bill Berry- Bill_Berry@ddouglas.k12.or.us
Bill
began coaching High School Volleyball in 1986 in Marin County, California.
In 17 seasons, he coached Freshmen, JVII, Frosh-Soph & Varsity Girls
Teams at 5 different schools in two states.
In 2004, Bill began working with girls from Laurelhurst Elementary to
introduce them to the sport.
Last year marked this group of girls’ first-ever exposure to Club
Volleyball playing as the U12 Lions.
For 2008, he looks forward to continuing the development of volleyball
skills in these girls as well as many new faces under the banner of PDX)))VB
Club.
Coach -
Doria Hastings - hastidr@pdx.edu
Doria developed an interest in volleyball in elementary school and has been
playing and coaching in the