USAV Holds Beach Cadre Training Session

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

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Nov. 16, 2010) – A who’s who of U.S. volleyball attended USA Volleyball’s first beach cadre training on Nov. 12-14 at the Dockweiler Youth Center in El Segundo, Calif.

Beach cadre members are coaches who will teach people who wish to become certified beach volleyball coaches through USAV’s Beach Coaching Accreditation Program (BCAP).

Those who attended the inaugural course as participants were international beach player Tyra Turner, 1968 Olympian Butch May (also a beach player and father of Misty May-Treanor), UC Irvine men’s coach and beach coach John Speraw, Olympic beach coach Anna Collier, Olympic beach coach Dane Selznick, 1996 Olympian and Olympic beach coach Mike Dodd and 1988 Olympian and top indoor and beach coach Angela Rock.

“We are all going to benefit from this program, as we will be able to enlighten young minds,” May said of the weekend course. “USAV is taking beach volleyball in a good direction.”

Photo: Jon Aharoni for USA Volleyball Participants in USA Volleyball's first beach cadre training session. The cadre course instructors were Dr. Richard Schmidt, Carl McGown, John Kessel, Jon Aharoni, Don Burroughs, and Ali Lamberson.

Among the topics covered during the weekend were Teaching the Skills, Ethics and Athlete Safeguards, Motor Learning and Drill Design and Practice Planning.

USAV will hold its second ever Beach CAP course on Dec. 15-18 in Kansas City, Mo., in conjunction with the AVCA Convention. The pilot course was offered at last year’s AVCA Convention in Tampa, Fla.

"The dialogue and collaboration that happened here this weekend was eye-opening to say the least,” said Lamberson, USAV director of beach programs. “I think we all learned and grew as coaches and educators and I am looking forward to building our beach coaching education program."

"USA Volleyball is very pleased with this initial Beach CAP Cadre Training weekend as well as the expertise and commitment of the attending candidates,” said Diana Cole, USAV’s director of coaching education. “As evidenced by the NCAA's addition of DI and DII sand volleyball as an emerging sport for women, as well as a growing USAV youth and junior pipeline of athletes, beach volleyball is still growing as a discipline and thus the need for trained and certified coaches will also increase.

“We are delighted and proud that USAV Coaching Education will be on the forefront in providing education and certification for beach and sand coaches at all levels of the game."

To register for the USA Volleyball Beach CAP course in Kansas City, visit http://usavolleyball.org/events/4593.

Tags: Ali Wood Lamberson, BCAP, Beach, Beach Volleyball, CAP, Carl McGown, Diana Cole, John Kessel, John Speraw, Jon Aharoni