We are very proud of our hard-working and accomplished coaches at CHAVC. We seek out coaches who are not only top-quality volleyball instructors, but also positive and caring people. Click on a name to email a coach if you would like to inquire about private lessons.

Nick Allen
Resource Coach

Nick played as a starting middle blocker for Virginia Tech's Men's Volleyball Club for four years while completing honors degrees in Literature and Professional & Technical writing. He helped the team win two ECVA championships, two Hoosier-Illini Classic titles, two Michigan State Hardwood Classic titles, as well as three top 8 finishes at the NCVF National Tournament. His personal accolades include ECVA and NCVF All-Tournament team honors his sophomore, junior, and senior years. Additionally, he won a number of big money tournaments with JAAIRO Volleyball Club after graduation.

Nick has coached indoor volleyball camps at all age and skill levels at Richmond Volleyball Club where he grew up. He also worked with the Virginia Tech Women's Team during his undergraduate career. He has coached five seasons of travel teams at CHAVC.

Nick recently completed his Master's degree at UNC. Outside of coaching and work, Nick enjoys sand volleyball and hiking, and is an avid folk fiddle and mandolin player.

Tristy Bittikofer
Recruiting & Coaching Director
18 Black Head Coach
Private Lessons Available at $80

Tristy spent five years as the Director of Staff, Director of Recruiting and Director of Player Development in addition to being a Head Coach with the NC Elite Volleyball Club. Prior to that she spent six years with the Triangle Volleyball Club as the Director of Staff, Director of the Volleyshop and 14 Black Head Coach. She has coached her teams to 6 Carolina region championships and 2 Atlantic Coast Power League Championships. As a Recruiting Director she has helped 72 student athletes achieve their goal of playing volleyball at the collegiate level, 34 of whom continued to the NCAA division I level. She is CAP II, Beach CAP and IMPACT certified with USA volleyball.

At St. Andrews Presbyterian College ('92-'96) she was a two-sport standout and earned all-conference honors in both volleyball and softball a total of seven times. Tristy helped St. Andrews capture four consecutive conference titles, including a NAIA National Championship run in 1993.

Tristy is an avid sand player. In 2008 she represented the USA playing on a professional international tour in Turkey. The six week tour concluded with USA finishing second overall. In 2010 she had her best year ever winning a total of 23 outdoor tournaments including sand and grass doubles, coed, king/queen and triples. In 2012 she finished 3rd in the EVP world Championships. She finished in the top ten VolleyAmerica Grand Prix rankings for 5 consecutive years ('11-'15).

Originally from upstate New York, Tristy was a three-sport athlete in high school and has been inducted into her high school's inaugural Hall of Fame class.

Avery Booker
11 Black Assistant Coach

Avery is a senior at Middle Creek High where she has been a leader on the varsity team for four years.  She is a member of CHAVC 18 Black committed to play D1 volleyball at George Mason University.  Avery has played competitive club volleyball for eight years. The last six years, she has competed on the national level.  Avery's 16's club team was recently inducted in the North Carolina Hall of Fame's Court of Honor.  She is passionate about teaching younger players the fundamentals of the game she fell in love with at an early age.

Kinslee Braddy
14 Gold Head Coach
Private Lessons Available

Kinslee is currently a junior at UNC-Chapel Hill double majoring in Journalism and Sports Administration. She played libero at Hunt High School and was named to all conference her senior year. She played travel for six years: two with Wilson Elite and four with ECJVC. In 2019, Kinslee was named MVP of the Division I East Championship. She has coached three years at Carolina Lightning Volleyball Club and this will be her second year coaching a team for CHAVC, as well as being mainstay in the youth program. She has returned for her second year as JV Head Coach at Carrboro High School and is looking forward to shifting gears to club and teaching younger girls some of the great things her coaches have taught her!

Cameron Brence
18 Black Assistant Coach

Cameron graduated from NC State in 2020 with a degree in civil engineering. Cameron started playing volleyball in high school where he played for CUVC in Charlotte. In college, he played on the NC State Men’s Club Volleyball team and was the club’s president his junior and senior year. Throughout college, Cameron spent time as a practice player for NC State Women’s Volleyball team.

Cameron mostly plays Libero or DS but is able to play where needed. He has also won multiple indoor and outdoor volleyball tournaments.

In his spare time, you can find Cameron participating in volleyball tournaments and playing video games.

Becky Dalton
13 Purple Assistant Coach

Becky started her volleyball career playing on her middle school team in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She continued playing for her school's team and played a few seasons for Pittsburgh Elite and Pittsburgh Magic volleyball clubs. She then went on to play on the women's club team at the University of Pittsburgh. When she moved to North Carolina, she started playing in Durham's adult volleyball league and now plays with the CHAVC volleymoms. She is absolutely thrilled to be coaching for her second season. When she isn't on the court, Becky spends her time gardening, walking with her dog, and biking.

Logan Dameris
14 Black Assistant Coach

Logan is originally from Central Illinois but moved to Raleigh during the summer of 2020 to begin his PhD in Toxicology at N.C. State University. He started playing volleyball at a young age and basically grew up in the gym, as his mom has been a volleyball coach since he was six. Despite having little access to organized boys’ volleyball, Logan was able to walk-on and play DIII men’s volleyball at Greenville University in Greenville, IL as a libero/OH. He was a three-year starter and was named a captain for his senior season. In 2020, Logan graduated from Greenville with bachelor's degrees in Biology and Chemistry. After moving to Raleigh, he became involved in the grass and sand volleyball communities and has enjoyed developing his outdoor game. He now spends most weekends competing at tournaments throughout the east coast. Logan is excited to return for his second year at CHAVC and looks forward to sharing his passion for volleyball with others through coaching!

Maredith Devlin
14 Black Head Coach; Board Member
Private Lessons Available

Maredith is from nearby Durham and played competitive club volleyball as a right side and outside hitter for six years. She played four years as an Outside Hitter on UNC's Women's Club team and was the president her senior year.

Maredith was a five-year starter in varsity volleyball at Cresset Christian Academy. She led her team to three conference championships and earned tournament MVP, Conference Player of the Year, and NCISAA All-State honors those three years. Maredith plays beach volleyball as well and has won multiple open-level tournaments in addition to two NCSVA Regionals wins with UNC's Club Beach team. In 2020, she competed in NCSVA Nationals in Long Beach, CA where she and her UNC partner took 3rd.

Maredith is the assistant Varsity coach at Carrboro High School. She is thrilled to be with CHAVC for a seventh year, and has experience coaching indoor at the 13s, 14s and 16s levels, in addition to coaching 12s-15s in the sand with Blue Sky Volleyball.

Madi Evans
Resource Coach

A Tar Heel born and bred, Madi graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2015 with degrees in Biology and Psychology. This is her sixth season coaching a CHAVC team. Though she bleeds Carolina blue, Madi spent time working at Duke as a Youth Program Coordinator, directing summer camps and kids' events throughout the year, and received her Master's in Teaching from Duke. She currently teaches Science at Jordan High School. A two-sport athlete throughout high school, Madi values the importance of teamwork in volleyball. She enjoys helping young players develop tactical skills and positive characteristics that are valuable on and off the court. In her spare time, Madi enjoys being outside, playing other sports with friends, and cheering on the Tar Heels.

Michaela Evans
14 Gold Assistant Coach

Micheala started playing volleyball when she was seven years old. She played three years on varsity in high school, then went to Liberty Christian College and played for 1 year. She returned to her alma mater, Hunt High school, and was the assistant varsity coach for two years. She also coached at Carolina Shockwave volleyball club for a year. She is now excited to bring her varied coaching experience to coach 14 Gold for CHAVC!!! 

Allison Franke
15 Purple Head Coach

Allison started her volleyball career in 8th grade at the Virginia Elite Volleyball Club located in Northern Virginia. Over 5 years she earned multiple awards for leadership. Allison played on her high school varsity team for 4 years, and after competing in the state tournament multiple times, she co-captained the Virginia state winning team her senior year.  

Allison recently graduated from Franklin & Marshall College, where she played Division lll volleyball as a right-side and middle hitter. During her college career Allison received many honors including: Athletic Director's Award for Leadership (2022), two-time AVCA honorable mention All-America (2018, 19), two-time AVCA first-team All-Mid-Atlantic Region (2018, 19), AVCA honorable mention All-Region V (2021), AVCA Mid-Atlantic Region Freshman of the Year (2018), Centennial Conference Rookie of the Year (2018), three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (2018, 19, 21), three-time Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll (2019, 20, 21), and was selected for the CoSIDA Academic All-District Team (2020). She was also elected as a team captain her junior and senior seasons. 

Allison recently moved to the area and is currently working at a pediatric office as a medical assistant. She plans to start physicians assistant school in a few years.

Jane Freund
Volleymoms Coordinator

Originally from N.J., Jane is retired after working as a physical education teacher, U.S. Army physical therapist and most recently Associate Professor of physical therapy at Elon University.  She has played competitive volleyball since her teens including varsity volleyball at East Stroudsburg University of PA, the U.S Virgin Islands National Team, and several USAV club teams. She is one of the organizers of CHAVC Volleymoms and has previously coached for CHAVC at 12U and 13U.  She enjoys sharing her love for the sport and helping players develop individually and as a team. Outside of volleyball Jane enjoys biking, hiking, and pickle ball.

Bergin Gillespie
14 Purple Assistant Coach

Bergin is originally from Dumfries, VA where she attended St. John Paul the Great Catholic High School. She was a four-year starter and a captain her senior year. She played two years of club at Clash Volleyball Club in Manassas, then moved to Fredericksburg Juniors Volleyball Club for her final four years of club. Bergin graduated from William Peace University in 2021 where she played 4 years of Division III Volleyball and earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication and Public Relations. Bergin was a libero and defensive specialist. She has previously coached at Jammers Volleyball Club and NC Elite Volleyball Club where she worked with athletes from ages 12-17. She is excited to return to CHAVC and work with her team this upcoming season!

Amanda Gough
14 Purple Head Coach
Private Lessons Available

Amanda grew up in Northern Virginia and found a love of volleyball at twelve years old. She graduated from Virginia Tech after double majoring in Biological Sciences and Sociology. Amanda moved to North Carolina in 2022 and immediately took over as the Head Varsity Coach for Woods Charter School. She is in her second season there and just led the Wolves to their second consecutive conference championship. Amanda was a setter/right side and captained both her club and high school teams, where she was named an all-conference setter and won her school’s MVP title. She continues to compete in both indoor and grass volleyball tournaments. Amanda is excited to develop her team as volleyball players and instill the fiery confidence she displayed on the court as a player.  

Megan Harris
14 Silver Assistant Coach

Megan was born and raised in Durham NC, and started playing club volleyball at age 12.  She began as a middle, but eventually landed as an outside hitter. She was team captain as a sophomore, junior and senior at Voyager Academy HS.  She was a four-time all-conference honoree ... selected team MVP in 2013 and 2014 ... Conference player of the year her senior year ...  and guided Voyager to the third round of the state playoffs as a junior, and fourth round as a senior ... No. 83-ranked recruit out of North Carolina according to MaxPreps.com ... Hit .370 as an outside hitter in 2015. Then went on to play Division 1 volleyball at Radford University as an OH for a few years while studying Special Education. 

Ultimately, Megan took a step back from volleyball after college, and has been working as a Veterinary Technician for about 4 years now. Other than volleyball, she has a passion for animals and their care. Megan is more than excited to be coaching again and can’t wait to share her love and knowledge of the game at CHAVC! 

Helen Hofelt
13 Purple Head Coach
Private Lessons Available

Helen started her volleyball career in the 5th grade. Born and raised in Raleigh, she attended a boarding school for high school where she played both varsity volleyball and varsity basketball. This made playing club tricky, but she found a way to play during her Junior and Senior years. Helen played both outside and middle during high school and club seasons. Despite some offers to D3 schools, Helen decided to come back to NC where she attended NC State and played for both the club indoor and beach teams. 

Since graduating she continues to improve her play, competing in both grass and beach volleyball tournaments. She's currently the head coach for East Chapel Hill High School and is thrilled to be back on the court helping other girls fall in love with the sport! This will be her third of many club seasons coaching 13s. 

Tatiana Jackson
Resource Coach; Board Member
 

Originally from San Diego, Tati played for Wave volleyball club where she played middle, outside, and right side. She is a 3x State Champion from Cathedral Catholic High School. In 2013 she began her college career at UNC where she had an impressive resume of 2 ACC Championships, a Sweet 16 and Elite 8 NCAA Tournament finishes under her belt. At UNC she spent time as an outside hitter as well as defensive specialist.

She has been coaching at CHAVC since 2017 and is a 2x CHAVC Head Coach of the Year. 

Tom Krakow
Facilities & Scheduling; Board Member

Coach Tom comes from an athletic family: his grandfather played soccer at the University of Iowa and his father was affiliated with the Michigan State swim team. Tom received a Ph.D. in physics from UNC Chapel Hill in 1978. He started playing competitive volleyball while working at Bell Labs in Pennsylvania.  Returning to North Carolina, Tom worked for the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, where he played for 20 seasons as a middle blocker in the Competitive Division of the Research Triangle Park Volleyball League. He was a founding member of CHAVC in 1990. Tom has four children, all who have played for CHAVC: Katie (now 30) for 14U-16U girls teams, Will (now 27) on a CHAVC boys team, Eli (now 23) on a coed CHAVC 12U team, and Adam (26) who plays with CHAVC's Volleydads.  Tom's wife was a founding member of CHAVC's outstanding Volleymoms team.  He started coaching for CHAVC when his daughter was in 8th grade. Since then, he has coached every age group from V101 through 16U.  His non-coaching activities include serving on the CHAVC BOD and the CHAVC working group. Outside the sport, he also enjoys biking, hiking, cooking, gardening, solving fun math problems, and learning German.  Tom is an IMPACT-certified coach.

Linda Lang
11 Black Head Coach

Linda began coaching club volleyball with the Chapel Hill Spikers in 2000, and joined CHAVC in 2005. She has coached club 18’s, 17’s, 14's, and 13’s, her teams winning the Carolina Region many times. She currently coaches at Culbreth Middle School, and coached JV Volleyball and Special Olympics Unified Volleyball at Carrboro High School from 2009 through 2018. She is IMPACT, CAP II indoor, NCHSAA, Special Olympics, and Beach CAP certified. She has coached numerous athletes who have gone on to play NCAA Div. I, II, and III, and is the 2019 recipient of the American Volleyball Coaches' Association (AVCA) National 13's Club Coach of the Year award.

Linda's doubles playing career spans three decades and ten states. She has had tournament wins in every format: sand and grass doubles, coed, reverse coed and king and queen, and was the female high point earner in that format for eight seasons. She and her women's team won a bronze medal in the indoor World Senior Games in 2013. She has a BS and MS in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and when she isn’t coaching or playing volleyball, you’ll find her playing the viola, gardening, or hanging out with her donkeys, dogs, and cats. What makes her happiest is seeing her players learning and loving the game, and giving their best to their teammates.

Trixie MacNeill
Resource Coach

Trixie has lived in Chapel Hill her entire life. She started playing volleyball when she was 11, and played for seven years at CHAVC. She played on Carrboro High School's varsity team as a RH/Setter, as well as four years on the Carrboro beach volleyball team. She was a math tutor for ESL students and a member of the Carrboro High School student government.

Trixie is attending college at Davidson and will continue as a resource coach for CHAVC in the 2023-24 season. She has coached for four years, and  especially loves seeing young players develop and make club teams. Trixie is excited to share her passion for volleyball and encourage young players to play with joy!

Marlee Marrotta
13 Black Head Coach

Coach Marlee started her volleyball career in middle school, played through high school at Topsail High School, where she was a 4-year varsity starter, and continued her career in college with the NC State Women's Club Volleyball team. She is a defensive specialist who is passionate about the game. She coached for NC Elite Volleyball Club for 3 seasons, working with 14-16 year old teams. Outside of volleyball, Coach Marlee graduated from NC State in 2020 and recently graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with her Masters in Public Health. She now works as the Nutrition Specialist for the Carolina Hunger Initiative. She loves to talk about everything nutrition.  Coach Marlee is thrilled to coach again for CHAVC this year! 

Khoury May
15 Black Assistant Coach
Private Lessons Available

Helen Khoury May has been playing volleyball since she was 12 years old. She started playing at the YMCA, and then played on the top-level teams for all seven of her club seasons at NC Elite. Khoury was an outside hitter and setter throughout her career. She was all-conference three years of high school while also receiving the team leadership award and MVP. While at NC Elite she received MVP, two coaches awards, leadership award, power hitter award and best offensive player award. After high school she continued her career in volleyball at the University of Lynchburg. While at Lynchburg she received honorable mention, dean's list, best teammate award and the Chi Alpha Sigma Virginia Kappa Chapter at the University of Lynchburg in recognition of high academic and athletic achievements. Khoury graduated in 2022 with her bachelors in psychological sciences and a minor in coaching. She is currently coaching at Seaforth High School and working towards her masters degree in positive coaching and athlete of leadership from the University of Missouri online program.

Gina Morgan
Resource Coach; Board Member

Gina is originally from Colorado Springs, CO where she played middle blocker for Colorado Juniors. She then went on to Regis University in Denver, CO where she was a four year starter and an all conference middle blocker. At Regis she earned Academic Player of the Year and Academic All American accolades with degrees in Chemistry and Environmental Science.

After college, she moved to Chapel Hill for graduate school where she earned her PhD in Biological Chemistry. Gina has coached teams, skills clinics, camps and other formats for almost ten years where she has been with CHAVC for six years, as a middle blocker PST coach and team coach.

In her free time, Gina enjoys hiking, backpacking, beach volleyball, and hanging out with her dog Reggie.

Caroline Mullen
V101 & Resource Coach

Caroline is a senior at Chapel Hill High School and played at CHAVC for six years as a DS/libero. She has coached in the Volley101 program for two years and played on the Chapel Hill High team for two years. In her free time Caroline enjoys volunteering at art camps, reading for book club, and playing with her dog. 

Hideki Nakano
Resource Coach
Private Lessons Available

Hideki was born in Japan, and played volleyball as an outside hitter in high school. After receiving his Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo, and being on the faculty at Toho University School of Medicine, Hideki moved to North Carolina to work for Duke University. He is currently a researcher for the National Institutes of Health in Research Triangle Park. His daughter started playing volleyball in middle school and for CHAVC in 2008, and that's when he began teaching skills to his daughters, their friends and teammates. In 2013, he became an IMPACT-certificated resource coach for CHAVC. Hideki enjoys working with junior athletes to see their improvement and smiles.

Audra Nelson
14 Silver Head Coach

Audra is currently a student at UNC-Chapel Hill studying Psychology and Political Science. She is from Charlotte, NC and played club volleyball for CUVC. Audra started playing volleyball in 8th grade and was a two-sport athlete during high school playing both volleyball and rugby. At UNC, she plays on the Women’s Club Volleyball team and serves as their President. In both of the past two years, the club team has gone to the championship of their bracket at nationals. As a student at UNC, Audra is a member of the Psi Chi Psychology Honors Society and is a Supervisor at UNC Campus Recreation. Audra is excited to coach at CHAVC!

Jack Petty
Chairman of the Board; Emeritus Coach

Jack was a fencer in college finishing 28th at the NCAA championships. But at his first engineering job after college he was asked to play in a YMCA volleyball league and discovered volleyball is the sport he loves most. He played indoors and grass doubles for 10 years including playing at a USVBA Masters Nationals, was a co-founder of the adult Durham Volleyball Club, and was one of the people who helped CHAVC change from being primarily an adult to primarily a juniors club. He helped coach women’s teams in the late 1980s and coached his first of 14 juniors’ teams in 1999. He has also coached school teams and at the Chapel Hill YMCA. He is CAP level 2 certified.

Jack enjoys being delighted when a player is happy and proud after doing a volleyball skill.

Jamie Pilley
12 Black Head Coach

CHAVC's 2023 Head Coach of the Year, Jamie (she/her pronouns) is excited to start her 14th season of coaching volleyball! This will be her 5th season with CHAVC, and 5th season as the head coach for 12 Black. Throughout her coaching career she has coached everything from beginners to high school seniors, but definitely enjoys the 12’s the most. Her favorite part of season is watching the growth of each individual on the team. 

Prior to coaching volleyball, Jamie played in high school and club in college as a setter and a libero. During that time she also played soccer, being a part of ODP in North Carolina. After college, Jamie continued her love for the sport as a middle school volleyball coach, eventually moving into club volleyball. 

Outside of volleyball, Jamie’s career is in the food industry, working for a premium manufacturer. She also continues to pursue a creative life by sprinkling her art into some free time as well. Jamie’s love for being an athlete has lead her to her new hobby of running where she completed her first half marathon in 2022. She enjoys downtime in her garden with her 5 year old daughter, Mallory, and 2 dogs, Stella and Marley. 

Cat Rucker
11 Black Assistant Coach

Catherine Rucker has been playing at CHAVC for six years and is a two-time Heart of Chavc recipient. She has coached Volley101 for two years. She will be a senior at Carrboro high school where she has started on the varsity all four years and been a captain the past two years.  She made 1st team All State last year, is an AVCA phenom, and is on the AVCA All American watchlist 2023. At Carrboro High school she is the VP of the beach volleyball club. Catherine is committed to play at Elon University next year. 

Steve Scanga
Conditioning/Resource Coach
Private Lessons Available

Steve has been playing volleyball since 1987 and coaching since 1994. He has been the coach of the Carrboro Jaguars since the school opened in 2007, winning back-to-back state championships in 2016 and 2017.  He coached CHAVC U14 programs until his schedule became too full. He is the former director of the Blue Sky Volleyball Club which provides training and tournaments for sand volleyball in the local area for juniors and adults. Steve is also on the board of the High School Sand volleyball association and directs the local high school practices and competitions. He is Beach Cap 1 certified and IMPACT certified. Steve is an electrical engineer from Virginia Tech who became a stay at home dad for his 3 daughters way before it was cool – best job in the world.

Ashley Shade
16 Black Head Coach

Ashley brings ten years of playing experience and eight years of coaching experience to this season at CHAVC. She graduated from North Carolina Central University with a Bachelors degree in Physical Education and a concentration in Exercise and Sports Science with honors. In 2005,  she was named to the All Rookie Team. Her team earned back Conference Championships in 2005 and 2006. Ashley is a setter and played 4 years as setter as well as right-side during her senior season. She holds second in the record book for all-time assists. During high school Ashley was a three year varsity starter and played for the Brushy Mountain Volleyball Club. She lives in Raleigh and works as a Personal Trainer at O2 Fitness at both the Perry Creek and Wakefield locations.

George Skenteris
16 Black Assistant Coach

George discovered volleyball in college and co-founded the club beach volleyball team at NC State. When he wasn’t in class, he was covered in sand at the local beach court. 

In his last semester of college, George joined the coaching staff at Green Level High School. He head coached JV-A that fall and assisted with Varsity volleyball from 2019-2022. While there, the Gators won the 2021 4A State Championship. 

George graduated with a degree in AgriBusiness Management and found a fast-growing fintech company to start his career in software as a sales intern. Thriving in this competitive environment, he is now a Senior Account Executive. On the weekends, you can find him watching volleyball, playing in local tournaments, reading, or traveling. 

George is excited to begin his fourth season with CHAVC and second season as the 16 Black Assistant. He’s coached travel teams ranging from U14-16. George enjoys teaching the strategy of the game and watching his teams thrive in high pressure competitive moments.

Shae Squeri
Resource Coach

Shaelyn has been a team captain at Wake Technical Community College for two years and played outside/right side hitter. She ranked nationally for most service aces (59) in one season and led her team to 4th All Region while maintaining her standing as All-Academic team member and on the Dean’s List. Shaelyn has played on a national club volleyball team with NC Elite throughout her entire high school career as an outside/right side hitter. She also served as head coach at Fuquay Revolution for 5 years for ages range from 14 to 16u. She enjoys sand and grass volleyball as well and mentoring young women on and off the court. She graduated from Wake Tech with an Associate's of Art degree and transferred to NCSU for a Bachelor’s degree in Business and Communications. 

Emily Stutts
12 Black Assistant Coach

Emily has played six years of travel volleyball for CHAVC and has coached for CHAVC's Volley101 program as well as two years of Jaguar Camp at Carrboro High School. She is currently a senior at Carrboro High, and captain of the Varsity volleyball team. Emily was named All Conference player her junior year, when her team has made it to the third round of the state playoffs. She has been a camp counselor at Camp Cheerio and volunteers on her school's SALT Leadership Team to improve athletic events and facilities. Emily is an academic standout with a 4.0 unweighted GPA and is in the National Honor Society . She is excited to coach her first season of travel volleyball at CHAVC!

Gabrielle Sunseri
13 Black Assistant Coach

Gabrielle Sunseri is from Scranton, Pennsylvania and fell in love with volleyball when she first joined her high school team in 2010.  She played as a libero her first two years and then a setter and outside hitter her final two years. She then continued her volleyball career at Liberty University on the Beach Volleyball team for two years. Gabrielle still competes in grass and beach volleyball tournaments at the A and AA level around PA, NJ, and VA, playing a variety of tournaments from co-ed and same gender doubles, triples, quads and sixes. She loves playing, competing, and further improving her own volleyball skills with hopes to play at the Open level.

Gabrielle has been coaching volleyball for more than eight years at the junior high, junior varsity, high school and collegiate level.  Her coaching mission is to fuel her players’ love for the game and holistically develop them in all aspects of the sport. She believes that mastering the fundamentals of the game sets players up for lasting success. That standard helps her take athletes to the next level as they look to advance in their chosen position and strengths on the court.

Aside from volleyball, Gabrielle is a certified personal trainer at The St. James where she helps all skill levels and ages become successful in their fitness journey and further continues to train athletes off the court and field in strength, sports performance, and conditioning. She loves board games, escape rooms, playing sports, trying new restaurants, exercising and studying/reading.

Danielle Tedesco
15 Purple Assistant Coach

Danielle hails from Syracuse, NY and moved down to Raleigh, NC. She has been playing volleyball since the age of 12. She graduated from the University at Albany in December 2021 where she played 5 seasons of Division I Volleyball. During her career at The University at Albany, she played both middle blocker and opposite. Danielle earned both conference and national recognition during her college career. She was a 3x first team America East All-Conference player! In 2021, She was named America East conference player of the year, AVCA All East-Region honorable mention team, as well as, the AVCA All-American honorable mention team. In 2019, she helped her team earn a conference championship and a berth to the NCAA tournament.

Not only does Danielle have experience playing at a high level, she also has experience coaching at all levels. She was the assistant coach to a U13 club team in 2019-2020 in Albany, NY (NorthEast Thunder), and has coached camps since 2017. Danielle looks forward to sharing her skills, knowledge and passion for the sport of Volleyball with all CHAVC athletes!

Anna Tomkins
Resource Coach
 

Anna Tomkins is a former (5 season!) CHAVC player and highly decorated college setter, leading her Agnes Scott Scotties to many victories including a spot in the USA South Conference Finals. Anna, a math and physics double major, was voted MVP twice during her time at Agnes Scott, was a captain for 3 years and scholar athlete for all four years.  Anna received her masters in Statistics at NC State and works in data and statistical research. Anna has a highly developed strategic knowledge of the game and enjoys imparting this knowledge to her players. Anna and her mom Lynn also play on the Volleymoms adult volleyball team together!

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