USAV Selects HP Championships Lead Coaches

Bill Kauffman
Associate Director, Communications
Phone: 719-228-6800
Email: bill.kauffman@usav.org

COLORAD SPRINGS, Colo. (Jan. 9, 2012) – USA Volleyball has announced its lead head coaches for the 2012 USA Volleyball High Performance Championships for each girls’ and boys’ age group.

Todd Dagenias, the head women’s volleyball coach at University of Central Florida, will serve as the head coach for the U.S. Women’s Junior A2 Program, while Piedmont Volleyball Club Director Blaine Tendler will mentor the U.S. Women’s Junior Continental Team. The Women’s Junior age group includes athletes born in either 1994 or 1995.

At the Girls’ Youth level, Wingate University Head Women’s Volleyball Coach Shelton Collier will guide the U.S. Girls’ Youth A2 Team and Deitre Collins-Parker, the head women’s volleyball coach at San Diego State University, will oversee the U.S. Girls’ Youth Continental Team. The Girls’ Youth age division comprises athletes born in either 1996 or 1997.

Tom Hogan, a former U.S. Women’s National Team assistant coach and recent assistant coach at University of Colorado, will serve as the lead coach for the U.S. Girls’ Select A1/A2 Programs. Jeff Wanderer, head women’s volleyball coach at West Hills College in California, will serve as the U.S. Girls’ Select Continental Team. Athletes born in 1998 or 1999 are part of the Girls’ Select age group.

Kevin Moore, head men’s volleyball coach at Juniata College, has been appointed to lead the U.S. Boys’ Youth programs at the USAV High Performance Championships. The Boys' Youth Program age group includes athletes born in 1995 or 1996. Ken Shibuya, associate head coach at Stanford University, will lead the U.S. Boys’ Select program in 2012. The Select Age group includes athletes born in 1997 or 1998.

“Any time a coaching staff with this level of experience, not only at past HP Championship events, but also in the international arena, it establishes a level of expertise and professionalism that will undoubtedly be imitated by the rest of the coaching staff,” USA Volleyball Senior Director Tom Pingel said. “The athletes will be the real winners and will benefit greatly by working with these coaches.”

All programs mentioned above will train together immediately before competing in the 2012 USA Volleyball High Performance Championships that will take place July 24-28 at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa. The USA Volleyball High Performance Championships is one of USAV’s signature events. The 90-plus team event features tournaments for both boys’ and girls’ that include teams from USA Volleyball Region High Performance teams , international teams and teams from the USA Volleyball High Performance pipeline. Past international teams have included: Chile, China, Dominican Republic, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru and Puerto Rico.

For more information on the 2012 USA Volleyball High Performance Championships, click here.

Head Coaches Selected for 2012 USA Volleyball High Performance Champioships Programs
U.S. Women’s Junior A2 Team: Todd Dagenais (University of Central Florida head women’s coach)
U.S. Women’s Junior Continental Team: Blaine Tendler (Piedmont Volleyball Club director)
U.S. Girls’ Youth A2 Team: Shelton Collier (Wingate University head women’s coach)
U.S. Girls’ Youth Continental Team: Deitre Collins-Parker (San Diego State University head women’s coach)
U.S. Girls’ Select A1/A2 Teams: Tom Hogan (former U.S. Women’s National Team assistant coach)
U.S. Girls’ Select Continental Team: Jeff Wanderer (West Hills College head coach)
U.S. Boys’ Youth Age Group (HP Championships): Kevin Moore (Juniata College head men’s coach)
U.S. Boys’ Select Age Group (HP Championships): Ken Shibuya (Stanford University associate head men’s coach)

Todd Dagenais
Todd Dagenais enters his fifth season as the head women's volleyball coach for University of Central Florida, holding a 63-62 record heading into the 2012 campaign. In 2011, the Knights completed their best season since 2003 after amassing a 20-11 record and a program-high 12 victories in Conference USA. Under Dagenais' tutelage, four Knights earned postseason honors including two AVCA All-America honorable mention selections.

At the 2011 USA Volleyball High Performance Championships, he directed the USA Women’s Junior A2 Team to the bronze medal of the Women’s Junior Championship Division. Adding to his High Performance coaching accomplishments, Dagenais was the head coach for the 2007 USA White Select National Team that won the silver medal at the USA Volleyball High Performance Championships.

Before assuming the post at UCF, Dagenais spent three seasons as the assistant head coach at the University of Southern California where he helped guide the Trojans to a 29-5 record and a trip to the 2007 NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship semifinal round for the fourth time in six seasons. USC closed out a successful 2007 campaign by ranking third in the final American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) poll.

Dagenais was also part of the U.S. Volleyball Women's National Team coaching delegation to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. He also spent time as a volunteer assistant coach with the U.S. Women's National Team where he joined the team on domestic and foreign tours. Since his involvement in the 2004 Olympics, Dagenais has continued his work with USA volleyball as a lead court coach and director of USA High Performance tryouts.

Prior to his appointment at USC, Dagenais spent one season with USA Volleyball working to identify and develop future National Team players. From 1998-2003 he served as the Associate Head Volleyball Coach at Michigan State University where they competed in the NCAA Tournament all five seasons during Dagenais' tenure. Dagenais was also an assistant coach at Northern Michigan in 1998, serving as the recruiting and travel coordinator for the Wildcats which competed in the NCAA Division II Tournament.

Dagenais' coaching philosophy has been a fusion of several different styles learned while working under former National Team and Michigan State head coach Chuck Erbe, 2000 Olympic Team head coach Toshi Yoshida and 2004 Olympic head coach and current University of Southern California head coach Mick Haley.

Blaine Tendler
Blaine Tendler, currently the director and master coach of Piedmont Volleyball Club in North Carolina, was selected as the 2010 USA Volleyball Junior National Clinician of the Year.

Tendler recently completed his USA Volleyball Coaching Accreditation Program (CAP) Level III certification and hopes to be able to work on his CAP IV in the near future. His CAP II article on setter training was published by USA volleyball in an issue of VolleyballUSA, the organization's member magazine.

Tendler has been coaching within the USA National High Performance Program pipeline since 2005. The last few years he has worked his way into a head coach role for several camps and as well as the U.S. Women's Junior Continental Team since 2010. He is also heavily involved with the Carolina Region High Performance program as a lead coach and clinician for the last six years.

Tendler has been the head coach for Piedmont Volleyball Club since the 2005-2006 season and took over as owner/operator in 2008. He has been involved in Junior National volleyball in North Carolina since 2003. On six separate occasions, he has trained teams that have reached USA Volleyball JUnior National Championships going through the Qualifiers.

Tendler has served with distinction in the Carolina Region for many years. He is the Region's lead clinician for its High Performance Program. He teaches many IMPACT clinics in the Carolina Region.

He has been part of the sport since 1979 and coaching since 1982. Tendler has trained teams at every level from junior high to the professional leagues in Germany and France. He spent seven years coaching in the women’s college game and five years in the men’s collegiate club side. Tendler has won championships as both a player and a coach. He won a national championship as a player in his native country of Canada, a West German Championship while head coaching for Schwerte vbc in Germany and in 2001 was inducted into the Sports Hall of Fame in his hometown.

He began playing the game of volleyball in 1980. As a player, he has won a national championship as well as numerous provincial championships in Canada. He was inducted into his hometown’s Sports Hall of Fame.

Shelton Collier
Shelton Collier, with over 800 collegiate victories and the current head coach at Wingate University, has been a success at every level he has coached in the collegiate and international ranks.

For the past four summers, Collier has been the head coach for the U.S. Girls’ Youth National A2 Program, overseeing a staff of top collegiate coaches and 40 elite USA players who are in the High Performance pipeline. In 2010, he was the head coach of the U.S. Girls’ Youth National Team that won a bronze medal in the USA Volleyball High Performance Championship Women’s International Junior division. Three years ago as head coach, he directed his team to the gold medal at the USA Volleyball High Performance Championship, again playing up an age group in the Women’s International Junior Division.

Collier has an impressive history with USA Volleyball High Performance outside of its High Performance Championships. He was the head coach for the U.S. Girls’ Youth National Team that participated in the FIVB Girls’ Youth World Championship in Mexico in 2007. In 2006, Collier directed the U.S. Girls' Youth National Team to the gold medal at the NORECA Girls’ Youth Continental Championship, which qualified the team for the 2007 FIVB World Championship. Collier was the head coach for the U.S. Women's Junior National Team in 2005 at the FIVB Junior World Championship in Ankara, Turkey. Under Collier’s guidance, the U.S. Women’s Junior Team won the gold medal at the 2004 NORECA Women’s Junior Continental Championship.

During the summer of 2003, Collier was the head coach for the U.S. Girls' Youth National Team. Collier led the team to a fourth-place finish at the FIVB Girls’ Youth World Championships in Poland, the highest finish ever for a U.S. Youth team. The USA’s journey to the medal round included a stunning upset of top-ranked Russia. In the summer of 2002, Collier was the head coach for the U.S. Women’s Junior and U.S. Girls’ Youth A2 National Teams that trained in Colorado Springs.

In 1988, Collier assisted the U.S. Women’s Olympic Team at the Olympic Games in Seoul.

At the collegiate level, Collier led Wingate to the first undefeated regular season in South Atlantic Conference history in 2011 as the Bulldogs won their sixth straight league title. Wingate, ranked 18th in the final AVCA Division II Coaches Poll, ended the season with a school-record 32-1 before falling in the NCAA Division II Tournament.

Collier earned AVCA Region Coach of the Year accolades three consecutive years from 2008 to 2010. Collier is 273-55 in 10 years at Wingate. He won his 800th career match this season. Collier has guided the Bulldogs to seven consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances and eight in the last nine years. The Bulldogs have lost two or fewer matches in each of the last five seasons. Wingate is 160-9 since the start of the 2007 season, leading the nation during this stretch with a .947 winning percentage. The Bulldogs are the only team in the nation to rank in the top three in the category in each of the last five seasons.

Wingate’s historic season in 2010 came to a finish in the Elite Eight, as the Bulldogs fell to third-ranked Central Missouri. The Bulldogs are the first team in league history to advance to the Elite Eight.

Prior to accepting the position at Wingate, Collier was the head coach at Georgia Tech for 11 seasons, developing a nationally-prominent program in Atlanta. He also served nine years (1980-1988) as the head coach at University of Pittsburgh, leading the Panthers to at least 24 wins in every campaign.

Deitre Collins-Parker
Deitre Collins-Parker, a two-time national collegiate player of the year and AVCA Hall of Fame member, was named the head volleyball coach at San Diego State University on Jan. 30, 2009.

In her most recent season at San Diego State, the Aztecs finished the 2011 campaign with an 18-10 overall record and 10-4 mark in the Mountain West Conference. Collins-Parker has led San Diego State to 48 wins in three years.

Collins-Parker, a member of the USA Volleyball Coaching Accreditation Program (CAP) cadre and CAP Level III accredited coach, arrived San Diego State after five seasons as the head coach at Cornell, where she led the Big Red to three Ivy League titles and two NCAA tournament appearances. Under her tutelage, the Big Red has seen seven players named first-team All-Ivy, including two-time Ivy League Player of the Year and honorable mention All-American, Elizabeth Bishop (2007).

Prior to taking over at Cornell in 2004, Collins-Parker spent the previous eight seasons as head coach at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, earning Western Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 1998 after taking a dormant volleyball program and leading the Lady Rebels to a 23-8 record and a WAC tournament semifinal appearance.

Before her stint at UNLV, Collins-Parker served as an assistant coach at South Alabama, Northern Arizona and Houston for one year each. She also has plenty of international coaching experience as well. She served as head coach of the 1998 U.S. junior national team, directing her squad to a gold medal in the national qualifier. She served in the same capacity during the summer of 2000 (silver medal) and 2001 (bronze medal).

A former member of the U.S. Women's National Team and a three-time AVCA All-American at the University of Hawaii, Collins-Parker was the starting middle blocker for the 1988 U.S. Olympic Team in Seoul, South Korea, and was an alternate for the 1992 U.S. Olympic Team in Barcelona, Spain. She played in over 130 international matches and earned bronze medals at the 1986 Goodwill Games and the 1987 Pan American Games. She played professionally in the Italian League (1988-89) and the French League (1989-91), capturing the French League Championship twice and the European Cup of Champions in 1990.

Collins-Parker was inducted into the AVCA Hall of Fame in 2008. She currently serves as a member of the AVCA Board of Directors and the chairperson on the AVCA Minority Coaches Committee.

Collins-Parker received the NCAA Silver Anniversary Award during the 2009 NCAA Convention in Washington, D.C. The award honors former student-athletes who successfully completed collegiate careers in various sports and have excelled in their chosen professions on their 25th anniversary of completing their athletic eligibility.

As a collegian, Collins-Parker was a two-time Broderick Award honoree as the national player of the year (1983, 1984) after leading the Rainbow Wahine to consecutive national titles and a 110-5 record in her final three seasons. Collins capped off her career by becoming the first volleyball player to be awarded the Broderick Cup recipient, given to the nation's best collegiate athlete in all sports. She was twice named to the NCAA all-tournament team and still holds the record for solo blocks in one NCAA tournament (15 in 1982). She was one of six players named to the NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball 25th Anniversary Team in October 2005.

Tom Hogan
Tom Hogan, who recently resigned from his position as assistant coach at University of Colorado after three seasons, has a long history with USA Volleyball. Prior to joining the Buffs, he was a part of the U.S. Women's Volleyball National Team coaching staff as an assistant coach for four seasons culminating with the silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games.

The U.S. reached the Olympic Games gold-medal match in 2008 for the first time since 1984 and ended up winning the silver medal. The U.S. handed winner Brazil its only set loss of the entire Olympics. During the 2008 Olympics Games, Team USA picked up victories over second-ranked Italy, third-ranked Cuba, fifth-ranked Japan and host seventh-ranked China.

As an assistant with the U.S. Women's National Team, Hogan proved valuable to the program. In 2005, he helped Team USA to the gold medal at the 2005 NORCECA Championships and the silver medal at the FIVB World Grand Champions Cup. After a disappointing 2006 season, Team USA won 26 of 37 matches in 2007 and earned 2008 Olympic Games qualification at the FIVB World Cup with a bronze finish. Hogan served as the head coach for Team USA at the 2008 Pan American Cup in Mexico, which resulted in the U.S. receiving a berth into the 2009 FIVB World Grand Prix and fifth-place finish with a young team.

Prior to his role with the U.S. Women's National Team, Hogan served as an assistant coach with the U.S. Women's Junior National Team in 2004 and was a member of the 2005 U.S. Women's Junior National Team that traveled to Ankara, Turkey, for the 2005 FIVB Women's Junior World Championship. The squad won the gold medal at the 2004 NORCECA Women's Junior Continental Championship the year before. He also worked with the U.S. Youth National A2 Team. Hogan started his USA Volleyball coaching career as an apprentice coach in 2003 working with the U.S. Women's National Team, the U.S. Women's National Training Team and the U.S. Girls' Youth National Training Team.

Hogan served as the head coach of the Miami University (Ohio) women's volleyball club team, which won the national championship in 2002 and was a national championship finalist in 2001. He also served as a student assistant with the Miami University women's varsity team.

Jeff Wanderer
Jeff Wanderer, the current head women’s volleyball coach at West Hills College in California, is highly involved in junior volleyball at the national and regional levels of club volleyball. Regionally, he has been the head coach for the Northern California High Performance Team, a squad composed of some of the best athletes in Northern California and competes with the best teams representing other regions of the country and Europe. Nationally, Wanderer has been involved with the USA Volleyball High Performance pipeline since 2002 and served on several USA Volleyball High Performance training staffs.

On the club level, Wanderer has enjoyed much success. He was the 18s coach and later executive director of the South Valley Volleyball Club. Leaving South Valley, Wanderer began coaching the 18s team with Team O’Neil (later becoming Team Mizuno). In 1995, Wanderer helped guide Team Mizuno to a 99-4 season and a National Championship. Since moving to Fresno, he has coached with Central Cal Volleyball Club and continues to reach the National Championships regularly.

In 1989, Wanderer began coaching at Independence High School (San Jose) where his teams vied for league championships and qualified for postseason play in each year he was there. Leaving high school volleyball for NCAA Division I volleyball, Wanderer accepted a position with the San Jose State University women's volleyball team.

While at San Jose State, Wanderer helped turn around a slumping program to back-to-back 20-plus win seasons. In 1996, Wanderer moved to Fresno to assist the women’s team at Fresno State University. While serving as an assistant, Fresno State went on to record the most wins (24) and the fewest loses (9) in a season. Fresno State also went on to enjoy three 20-plus win seasons while Wanderer was there.

Kevin Moore
Kevin Moore, a 2002 Juniata College graduate with volleyball coaching experience at the club, high school, collegiate and national levels, begins his second season at the helm of Juniata men's volleyball.

Moore has been active with the USA Volleyball High Performance program for the past seven years, directing tryout camps and serving as an evaluator at camps in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. He has served as a clinician at the USA Volleyball Boys' Development Camps and the U.S. Boys' Youth A2 Camp and USA Volleyball High Performance Championships since 2008. In 2006 and 2007, Moore was a training coach and evaluator at the U.S. Boys' Youth National Team camp, helping select a team to qualify and represent the United States at the 2007 FIVB Boys' Youth World Championship.

In his short time at Juniata, Moore has already helped shape the future of the program for years to come. He led the transition of Juniata's storied men's volleyball program out of the EIVA and into a new Division III affiliation, the Continental Volleyball Conference. In 2011, the Eagles' final season of EIVA competition, he guided Juniata to an 8-0 record in the Hay Division, earning a berth in the EIVA Tournament, and an 18-12 overall mark. For those achievements, Moore was voted by his EIVA coaching peers to receive the 2011 Bob Sweeney Coach of the Year Award.

Moore returned to Juniata after spending two seasons at George Mason University, where he was an assistant coach and the lead recruiting coordinator for the Patriots' men's volleyball program. He previously served as head boys' volleyball coach at Gates-Chili High School in Rochester, N.Y., from 2004 to 2008, leading his squad to a sectional championship in both 2005 and 2006. He was named the Section V Monroe County Class A Coach of the Year in 2006. Moore concurrently served on the coaching staff of the Pace Bootlegger Boys Volleyball Club in Rochester, and was head coach of the club's 18-and-under squad from 2006 to 2008.

A four-year letterwinner in men's volleyball at Juniata, Moore helped lead the Eagles to their first Molten Division III Invitational title in 1998. He earned EIVA Division III All-Star honors in 1998 and 2000.

Ken Shibuya
Ken Shibuya, an assistant with the Stanford University men's volleyball team since 2006, is in his first year as the Cardinal's associate head coach. Shibuya has been a key figure in the Cardinal's rise to prominence and its 2010 NCAA championship.

In August 2011, Shibuya was the head coach of the U.S. Boys' Youth National Team that finished 11th at the FIVB Boys' Youth World Championship in Argentina. Earlier, the U.S. team was third at the Under-19 Pan American Cup in Mexicali, Mexico. Shibuya also was active coaching at the USA Volleyball High Performance championships for the top young players in the country.

Shibuya has been part of the coaching staff of the U.S. Boys' Youth National Team since 2003 - he served as an assistant for the 2005 U.S. Boys' Youth National Team and has headed U.S. development camps. In 2002, he was on the coaching staff of the USA Volleyball High Performance Boys' Camp at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Shibuya has handled much of the scouting, game-planning and recruiting for the Cardinal. His vast knowledge of the game belies his volleyball origins. Shibuya never touched a volleyball until he was a student at University of Virginia, but quickly made up for lost time with his appreciation, passion and knowledge for the game.

Shibuya's 23-year collegiate coaching journey began during his undergraduate days. He was instrumental in starting Virginia's first men's club team, before assisting the Cavaliers' women's varsity from 1990-94.

Shibuya established himself as a head coach in the small-college ranks, first with the women's team at Sweet Briar (Va.) College from 1994-95, where he set a school mark for consecutive victories.

He then led the Christopher Newport women to their best success. The program had one 20-win season in 21 years until Shibuya led the Captains to three consecutive 20-win seasons (1999-2001), capturing the 2001 Dixie Conference title with the school's first undefeated conference season and reaching the NCAA Division III tournament for the first time in school history. Twice during his four seasons, he was named conference coach of the year.

Shibuya next took over the men's team at Juniata College (Huntingdon, Pa.) in 2002 and led the Eagles to three consecutive Molten Division III Men's Invitational Volleyball Championship titles (2004-2006). Shibuya coached two national players of the year and was named AVCA Division III Coach of the Year in 2004.

Shibuya has also served as the lead coach for the Bay to Bay Volleyball Club, with a specific assignment of the 17 Black team.

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