Beach Coaches Named for 2010 International Events

B.J. Hoeptner Evans
Manager, Media Relations and Publications
Phone: (719) 228-6800
E-Mail: bj.evans@usav.org 

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 17, 2010) – USA Volleyball has announced the coaches that will travel with its high performance beach volleyball teams to international events this summer.

Jon Aharoni (Santa Monica, Calif.) will travel with the Under-19 team to the FIVB Youth World Championships on July 28-Aug. 1, Porto, Portugal

Eduardo “Anjinho” Bacil (El Segundo, Calif.) will go with the Under-21 team to the FIVB Junior World Championships on Sept. 16-19, Alanya, Turkey.

Anna Collier (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) will go to the U26 and U23-A2 Team FISU World University Championships on June 15-20 in Alanya, Turkey.

Ali Wood Lamberson, USA Volleyball director of beach programs, will travel with all three teams as the team leader.

"I am thrilled to have this talented group of coaches involved with USA Volleyball,” Lamberson said. “Our beach high performance programs are growing by leaps and bounds, and I am confident that we have the staff to shape the future stars of the sport."

Jon Aharoni

Aharoni has coached beach volleyball since 1999 and has been USA Volleyball’s high performance head coach since 2008. He has served as head coach for Sinjin Smith & Randy Stoklos Beach Volleyball Camps since 2002 and has been its director of operations since 2007.

Aharoni has also played competitive volleyball for 15 years in the United States, Italy, Israel and Hong Kong.

Eduardo “Anjinho” Bacil

Bacil has coached both indoor and beach volleyball in the United States and Brazil for more than 10 years. Among the players he has worked with are Jen Boss, April Ross, Matt Fuerbringer, Sean Scott, Jose Loiola, Pedro Brazao, Nancy Mason and Jenny Kropp.

Bacil is a native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and by age 10 was already winning tournaments in that country.

He has played on both indoor and beach national teams in Brazil and was a two–time Brazilian beach volleyball champion (1990-91). Bacil played on AVP tour from 1993-2006 and with Jose Loiola was the first foreigner to win an AVP event in 1995.

Anna Collier

Anna Collier has coached beach volleyball since 1990, including working with Holly McPeak and Nancy Reno at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and with Annette Davis and Jenny Johnson Jordon at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

More recently, she has worked with such notables as Misty May-Treanor, Kerri Walsh, Nicole Branagh, Angie Akers, Jen Kessy and Rachel Wacholder.

Tags: Beach, Beach Volleyball, FIVB World Championship, World University Championship, Youth World Championships