2010 - Coaches Biography's:
Club
Director - Brick Street
- brickst5@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
Assistant Club Director & Private
Lessons Coach -
Andres Turvis
- turvispr@live.com
Andres
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 Orlando 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, also coaching at Grant High School last year and now is the Head
Coach at Benson High School . Loves everything about the game and
will always be involved in volleyball.
Private
Lessons Coach
- Ashley Glisson
- coach.aglisson@gmail.com
Ashley 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
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
- Amanda Porter-Prows
- amanda.prows@yahoo.com
Amanda started playing volleyball when she was 13 years old, in North Carolina. She
went on to be the starting middle blocker on Varsity her Freshman year in which
her team won the North Carolina State Championships. She then moved to
California where she continued her high school and club career as a
middle, right, and an outside hitter. She placed 5th at the National Tournament
her Junior year, and won second in the state of California her Senior Year. She
was named MVP-Offense for three years, Most Inspirational one of the years.
Amanda earned a full scholarship to University of Oregon where she finished her
competitive indoor career and completed her degree in Sociology. Amanda went on
to compete in sand volleyball in Oregon and here she began her coaching career.
She has been a head coach for 5 years, coaching 14u and 17u teams. She is a
positive and driven coach who is passionate about skill building and team
bonding.
Coach
- Bryant "Griff" Griffiths-
wynn.griffiths@gmail.com
Bio Coming Soon
U16 Coaching Staff
Coach -
Andres Turvis
- turvispr@live.com
Andres
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 Orlando 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, also coaching at Grant High School last year and now is the Head
Coach at Benson High School . Loves everything about the game and
will always be involved in volleyball.
Coach
- Anna Ketchum - annalorrian@gmail.com
Anna started playing volleyball in the 5th grade. She spent
five years playing with various club teams. In high school Anna was put on
varsity as a sophomore at Sam Barlow High School. Her senior year she helped
coach an 8th grade girls' volleyball team. She has a strong love for the game
and is very excited to help the girls develop skills for on and off the court
this season!
Coach -
Benjamin Jedrzjewski
- beaverton0507@yahoo.com
Ben has played volleyball sense he was nine years old, playing in high
school in
Coach
- Rachael Rethwill -
rachael.rethwill@gmail.com
Rachael has been playing volleyball since she was 13 years old. She
played 4 years varsity in high school and traveled all over the NW with her club
team. After high school Rachael played one year of division three in
college. She has continues to play every year and last year her Vancouver
Women's team took first place in their division. Rachael is the current
volleyball coach for Faith Bible High School were last season they finished 3rd
in league and made it to the state tournament. She also has run an annual
youth volleyball camp for the last 3 years in Hillsboro. Rachael loves the
thrill of competition and perhaps most important the positive effects that
athletics has had on her life which she in turns hopes to inspire those same
positive effects in other young women.
Coach -
Bill Berry- Bill_Berry@ddouglas.k12.or.us
Bill
began coaching Volleyball in 1986 in Marin County, California.
In 17 High School 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 and eventually Club Volleyball.
Last year, he joined PDX-VB Club and coached a 12U Team.
For 2009, he is looking forward to coaching U14’s
Coach -
Doug Diller- dd32870@yahoo.com
Doug got the volleyball bug
when watching the 1984 Olympics. After that he joined a club team and
played for two years. Doug has spent many years coaching youth
sports. He has a good child development skills related to sports play
but this will be a first for him applying that knowledge on the volleyball
court.
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.
Coach -
Felicia Chapman- FelChapman@gmail.com
Felicia started playing volleyball when she was 13.
She played at Westview high school in Beaverton and worked her way from the
freshman team, to jv, to varsity for the last two years of high school, when the
team made the state tournament each year, finishing 4th in the state her senior
year. After high school Felicia went on to play volleyball at Whittier
College, in Southern California (Go Poets!). Felicia has helped assistant coach
two 12U teams previously, and after a break from volleyball to attend Lewis and
Clark law school, she is excited to hit the court again and work with PDX)))VB!
Coach -
Kendra Mass- coach_08@live.com
Kendra played club volleyball for 5
years. Played for North Idaho college and Cascade College on volleyball
scholarships. Assisted for Cascade College for one year and then Head Volleyball
Coach for Cascade College for two years and now currently head varsity coach for
Portland Lutheran High School. She also coached for North Idaho, Pacific, North
West Jrs, Vancouver Lightening, Excel and Nafanua volleyball club.
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
- Crosby Bromley -
cbromley21@yahoo.com
Crosby
started playing club volleyball at the age of 10 and continued with different
clubs until she was 18. She played for Grant High School, all 4 years of
attendance, as a setter and defensive specialist. During her junior and senior
years she was captain of the varsity team and hopes to instill team work and
dedication to her players, both skills she learned in the position. Crosby has
coached for Grant's JV2 and this is her second year with PDX- last year she
coached the 16U Team. Crosby believes that the club season is about having fun
and growing as a player and wants her girls to push themselves to be the best
they can. She is really looking forward to the upcoming season!!
Coach - Jeff Sevilla- sevilla.jeff@gmail.com
Jeff started playing volleyball in his sophomore year
of high school. He played on his high school’s varsity team
for three years before moving on to college, where he played one year of college
club volleyball. In addition to playing club volleyball, Jeff
was an avid doubles/mixed doubles player. After playing
college club volleyball, Jeff returned to his high school, where he coached the
boys’ varsity program for two years. Since he and his
family relocated to Portland, Jeff has returned to coaching volleyball, spending
the past two years coaching CYO teams at All Saints. Jeff
looks forward to his first youth club experience and is excited to work with the
12s.
Coach
- Megan Normandin-
megnorm5@verizon.net
Megan started playing
volleyball in the 5th grade. She played seven years of club and was
on varsity her freshman-senior years. She specialized as a defensive specialist
(middle back and libero). Her sophomore, junior and senior years she earned all
league honors. Out of high school she volunteered coaching at the JV level for
two years, and then went on to head coach an 8th grade junior high
team. Two seasons ago she coached the 16’s for Forest Grove Ohana.
She’s really excited to work with the 12’s this season!
Coach
- Lynsee Tasa-
lynsee_tasa@yahoo.com
Lynsee has been playing volleyball since 5th
grade. She started Varsity her Sophomore year in high school and played Outside
All Around. She was awarded 1st team all league her senior year. She
also played three years of club where she specialized in defense. She went on to
coach for Forest Grove Ohana two seasons ago and is now looking forward to this
upcoming season with the 12’s team!