U.S. Women’s Junior National Team Coaching Staff

Bill Kauffman
Manager, Media Relations and Publications
Phone: 719-228-6800
E-Mail: bill.kauffman@usav.org

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 17, 2010) – The U.S. Women’s Junior National Team coaching staff has been selected to guide the 2010 U.S. Women’s Junior National Team at the NORCECA Continental Championship July 6-11 at Tijuana, Mexico.

Rob Browning, head women’s volleyball coach at Saint Mary’s College (Calif.), will serve as head coach for the U.S. Women’s Junior National Team. He will be assisted by Anne Kordes, who is the head coach at Saint Louis University. Jennifer Carey, the director of operations at University of California-Berkeley, rounds out the coaching staff. Along with serving as an assistant coach, Carey will oversee the technical aspects, statistical input and analysis.

Later this summer, Kordes will serve as head coach of the U.S. Girls’ Select National Teams (GSA1) that will compete during the 2010 USA Volleyball High Performance Championships July 26-30 in Wisconsin Dells, Wis.

USA Volleyball will conduct a second round of U.S. Women’s Junior National tryouts held May 20-23 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. Based on the evaluations of the second tryout, the top 12 players will be selected to represent the United States at the 2010 NORCECA Women’s Junior Continental Championship.

Rob Browning – Head Coach
Rob Browning will enter his sixth season as head coach at Saint Mary’s next fall. He has accumulated an overall record of 88-50 and a conference record of 44-26. During the most recent 2009 campaign, Browning led the Gaels to their first-ever West Coast Conference Championship, going 13-1. The Gaels dominated the conference, leading in every statistical category by the end of the season, which has never happened in the history of the WCC. The Gaels went to the NCAA tournament for the second consecutive year and third in Browning's five years as coach, advancing to the second round in 2009.

Within the past five years Browning has had 22 of his players named to WCC All-Conference teams and five players named to the WCC All-Academic team. In addition, Browning helped guide Gael senior Alita Fisher to Saint Mary's first ever WCC Defensive Player of the Year honor and in 2007 freshman Megan York to Saint Mary's first ever WCC Co-Freshman of the Year honor. Saint Mary's has appeared in three NCAA tournaments under Browning and has won five pre-season tournaments over the past four seasons.

Last season, Browning's fifth year as head coach, five players received all-conference honors. Megan Burton, Alita Fisher, and Shannon Lowell were all named to the All-West Coast Conference 1st Team. Lauren Corp and Missy White were named to the 2009 WCC All-Freshman Team. Browning was also awarded 2009 WCC Coach of the Year as voted on by the other WCC head coaches, and AVCA Pacific Region Coach of the Year. The Gaels dominated the WCC, leading the conference in every statistical category.

Browning was an assistant coach for the U.S. Men's National Team for six years prior to joining Saint Mary's in March 2005. He has been to three Olympic Games with the USA men's team: 2000 in Sydney, 2004 in Athens, and 2008 in Beijing where the team won the gold medal.

Prior to coaching the men's national team, Browning served as a volunteer assistant on the BYU men's volleyball team for three years, culminating in BYU's first NCAA National Championship in 1999.

Anne Kordes – Assistant Coach
In six seasons at Saint Louis, Anne Kordes has led the Billiken volleyball program to unparalleled success with a 127-58 record in six years, including three NCAA Tournament appearances and Atlantic 10 regular-season titles in the last four seasons.

Kordes has been visible on the national coaching scene, serving as a coach for USA Volleyball High Performance programs. She was an assistant coach for the U.S. Girls' Youth National Team, which competed at the 2007 FIVB Girls' Youth World Championship in Mexico. In 2000, she was the assistant coach for the U.S. Girls’ Youth National Team, and in 2001 she was an assistant for the U.S. Women’s Junior National Team. Kordes served as an assistant in 2002 and 2003 for the U.S. Women’s National A2 Collegiate Program.

Kordes was the only college coach named as an assistant to the U.S. Women’s Junior National Team in 2004. She had an opportunity to coach some of the nation's best young players and accompanied the squad to the 2005 FIVB Women’s Junior World Championship played in Turkey. Kordes was also tabbed an assistant coach in 2006 and 2009 for the U.S. National Select Team. She helped with the team's training and competition at the USA High Performance Championships in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

While with SLU, the Billikens broke into the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) top 25 for the first time Oct. 20, 2008, and have remained in the top 25 ever since. In 2008, Kordes was named CVU.com National Coach of the Year honors and selected AVCA Northeast Region Coach of the Year. She is the only coach in Billiken volleyball annals to pilot her team to four consecutive 20-win campaigns. In 2009, Kordes was named Atlantic-10 Conference Coach of the Year for the second time in three seasons.

Kordes began her coaching career in 1999 when Indiana hired her as an assistant coach. However, her stay in Bloomington was short-lived. Before sitting on the bench with the Hoosiers, she had an opportunity to take a recruiting position at the University of Illinois. Kordes then spent the next five seasons with the Fighting Illini, serving as the top assistant from 1999-2003 and coaching two All-Americans. During her five-year stint, the Illini qualified for the NCAA Tournament three times and posted a 90-61 record.

Jennifer Carey – Assistant Coach/Technical Coordinator
Jennifer Carey, a former award-winning standout setter at the University of Hawaii, is entering her second season as director of operations at the University of California-Berkeley. Hired on Feb. 5, 2009, she is responsible for planning team travel and maintaining the program's budget while serving as the liaison between with the academic, financial aid and business offices.

Prior to arriving at Cal, Carey was an assistant coach at Georgia Tech for the 2007 and 2008 seasons. Working primarily as the offensive coordinator, she helped guide the Yellow Jackets to back-to-back 20-win seasons with a 21-10 record in 2008. Carey was responsible for developing scouting reports and game-day offensive play sets as well as the technical development of outside hitters and middle blockers.

Carey arrived at Georgia Tech by way of Texas A&M, where she was the director of volleyball operations from 2005-06. During her time with the Aggies, she also worked as the tournament director for the 2005 NCAA College Station Regional and other home tournaments for the Aggies.

While living in College Station, Carey served as the head coach of the Brazos Valley Volleyball Club from 2005-06 and led her squad to a 27-2 record over two seasons. Her coaching experience extends further as she held a post as head coach for the Saddleback Valley Volleyball Club in Lake Forest, Calif. where she guided the team to a 32-3 record from 2004-05.

In 1999, Carey was the starting setter for the Rainbow Wahine as a freshman where she earned All-Western Athletic Conference second-team honors. She helped lead Hawai'i to a 29-2 record, an NCAA regional semifinal appearance and a No. 8 AVCA final ranking in her first season. In her four-year career, Carey took the Rainbow Wahine to two NCAA national semifinal appearances, two No. 3 rankings, and a 123-12 record. She earned All-WAC second team honors three times and finished her career ranked fourth all-time for Hawai'i with 3,540 assists. Carey was selected to the WAC All-Academic team in each of her four years with the Rainbow Wahine.

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