This upcoming club season season, I will be coaching the Carolina Juniors Volleyball Club 16s National Team.  I feel fortunate to have the opportunity to coach this team and look forward to working with the talented athletes from the Charlotte area.

If you have interest in trying-out for this team, tryouts will be held at the Sports Connection on Granite Street (click here for map) on November 9th from 7:00 – 9:00 and November 12th from 5:00 – 7:00.  Please visit the Carolina Juniors website to register.

We look forward to seeing you on the court and remember to keep the ball off the floor!

There was some great volleyball on TV today.  Back-to-back-to-back matches on ESPN-2 and ESPN-U.  I was able to watch Illinois beat Purdue in five at Huff Hall (unfortunately, I already received the results from Rich Kern before the match), Notre Dame over Louisville in four sets, and then LSU dominate Florida 3 – 0…awesome! Continue Reading

I’m starting to think the Asians have it right all along. After all, they have Confucius, Genghis Khan, and of course Mao Zedong But in all seriousness, maybe the formal greeting of a simple bow keeps the germs and infection to a minimum. How many volleyball matches have been canceled this season from the Swine Flu? At the end of matches, players no longer slap hands, instead, it’s an uncomfortable spoken “Good Game” through the net. Maybe we need to just bow at each other from the end lines and only pass germs to one another on the volleyball itself.

I do not often comment directly about my collegiate activities on my personal blog, but this match has been stirring in my mind.  Winthrop University played Liberty University last Friday night.  The match went 5 sets.  The 5th set (a set to 15 points) was an epic battle.  Each team’s studs stepped up, defensive digs were amazing, and it became a side-out frenzy.  It was awesome to be a part of the match.

The score was 28 – 27 in Liberty Continue Reading