USA Volleyball Staff Expanding to Meet Needs

Bill Kauffman
Associate Director of Communications
Phone: 719-228-6800
E-Mail: bill.kauffman@usav.org

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 10, 2011) – The USA Volleyball National Office has filled nine positions since middle of December 2010 as it works toward meeting current and future programming needs at the Regional and National levels.

Along with the new hires, seven USA Volleyball staff members have been promoted within their departments. USA Volleyball has also combined its Grassroots and Membership Services Departments into the new Region Services Department under the direction of Senior Director Margie Mara.

“USA Volleyball is committed to the continued growth of our sport at all levels, and one of the priorities has been creating an organizational structure that further assists the Regions in reaching untapped membership markets and providing added support for existing programs,” USA Volleyball Chief Executive Officer Doug Beal said. “In almost all cases, the newly created positions within USA Volleyball have a direct benefit to the Regions.”

While USA Volleyball is expanding with new hires, it will need to replace long-time USAV Managing Director of Events Mike Chandler, who accepted another position within the sports events industry. His final day with USAV was Feb. 28.

“Over his 13 years with USAV, Mike performed nothing short of a remarkable job in growing and operating our domestic championship events and an ever increasing number of National Team competitions and tournaments,” Beal said. “We owe Mike a huge vote of thanks for so many advances and successes in this area and others. We, of course, are very sad to lose his skills, dedication, professionalism and commitment to both our sport and USA Volleyball. But, at the same time, are excited for what he and I believe are wonderful new opportunities and challenges for his future.”

USA Volleyball has opened a national search to fill the vacant position created by Chandler’s departure. The job posting can be found by clicking here. In the meantime, Kristy Cox is serving as USAV’s interim director of events.

New Hires (Name, Title, Start Date)
Brady Compton: Technical Coordinator, Beach National Teams (April 4, 2011)
Patty Fadum: Assistant, Region Services Program (Feb. 24, 2011)
Sherri Kershman: Assistant, Events (March 29, 2011)
Donise King: Manager, Region Services Programs (March 14, 2011)
Gary Moy: Director, Indoor National Teams (Jan. 19, 2011)
Becky Murdy: Assistant, Media Relations and Publications (Feb. 24, 2011)
Jonpaul Roepke: Coordinator, Beach Events (Dec. 14, 2010)
Amber Scott: Assistant, Beach National Teams (March 14, 2011)
Denise Sheldon: Coordinator, High Performance Indoor Programs (Feb. 11, 2011)

Title Promotions
John Kessel: Managing Director, Region Services Programs
Susan Barkley: Associate Director, Region Services Administration
Bill Kauffman: Associate Director, Communications
Carla Hall: Senior Manager, International Programs & Executive Operations
Barbara Eisenbeis: Manager, Events
Heath Hoke: Manager, High Performance Indoor National Programs
Irina Damy: Coordinator, Events

Title Clarifications (Due to restructure of Region Services Program)
Kerstin Fracassini-Rieff: Coordinator, Region Services Administration
Tori Hoke: Coordinator, Region Services Administration
Jeff Mosher: Coordinator, Region Services Programs & Grants
Ty Pring: Coordinator, Region Services Administration

Brady Compton, who starts as the technical coordinator for the Beach National Teams on April 4, was the scouting video coordinator and team manager for the Michigan State University varsity volleyball team for the past three seasons. With USA Volleyball, Compton will update and distribute FIVB rankings and disseminate competition information to athletes, manage communication between athletes and staff in relation to international events serving as team manager at select events, registering athletes for international competition and providing DataVolley and Dartfish support to athletes and coaches. Compton served as an intern for the USA Volleyball Beach Program from May to July 2010 assisting with the Under 19 and Under 26 National Teams. He is a graduate of USAV’s inaugural Beach Volleyball Coaching Accreditation Program (BCAP) in December of 2009.

Patty Fadum has been hired as the new coordinator of Region Services Program administrator. Fadum and her husband were self-employed for 35 years, operating an art gallery and traveling the art show circuit. She comes to USA Volleyball from Beyond Boundaries Travel, where she did group event planning for active adventures such as ski and bike trips. Her first day was February 24.

Donise King has been hired as the new manager of the Region Services Programs. She was the Oklahoma Regional commissioner for nine years and served as one of the Regional Operating Division (ROD) representatives to the USAV Board of Directors from 2004 to 2008. She comes to us from Austin Junior Volleyball Club where she served as the Director of Operations for the Austin Sport Centers. King will begin her duties March 14, relocating to Colorado Springs sometime after the USA Volleyball Annual Meetings.

Gary Moy, who started on Jan. 14 as the Director of Indoor National Teams, has extensive experience working for USA Volleyball and the United States Olympic Committee. His past positions include associate director of International Games at the USOC, special assistant to the CEO/Manager of the U.S. Men’s National Volleyball Team, associate director of athletics at Pepperdine University and special assistant at Mizuno. In his current position with USA Volleyball, Moy will serve as a liaison for the U.S. Men’s and Women’s National Volleyball Teams in Anaheim and the USA Volleyball national office.

Becky Murdy, media relations and publications assistant, started at USA Volleyball on Feb. 24. A December 2010 graduate of Penn State University, she will be working primarily to help publicize areas of juniors, grassroots, education and USA Volleyball Regions through traditional and new media. Murdy has nearly four years experience working within the Penn State athletic communications office along with consulting outside companies on social media.

Jonpaul Roepke has served as coordinator of beach events with USA Volleyball since Dec. 14, 2010, after a five-year stint as manager of grassroots and special events with the AVP. In his current role, Roepke manages event registrations for camps, tryouts and other events for elite teams participating in domestic, NORCECA and FIVB tournaments. He is creating and maintaining the beach national ranking system, while serving as the liaison for regional beach promoters in regards to event management. In his AVP role, he reorganized the registration process by starting an online registration system with over 14,000 members and increased total members by 6,000 over three years. He was responsible for registration for all professional AVP events, organized the AVP Qualifier, Developmental and Young Guns tours for three years, while serving as the tournament director and organizer for the Collegiate Nationals.

Amber Scott will start as an assistant, Beach National Teams starting on March 14. She previously served as an administrative assistant at Intelli-Heart Services with a variety of duties including accounts payable/receivables, manual creations and producing sales rep orientation presentations. With USA Volleyball, she will coordinate staff travel, support athletes with submission of necessary documentation for competition, membership verification for event registrants and administrate financial activities.

Denise Sheldon, who started on Feb. 10, will be responsible for programs associated with the USA Volleyball High Performance Boys’ and Girls’ Select and Future Select age groups. She will also serve lead staff person working with USA Volleyball Regional Volleyball Associations and program development of Region High Performance programs. Previously, Sheldon had served as club director and head coach of Redwood City, Calif.-based Peninsula Juniors Volleyball Club since August 2009.

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