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Girls National Coaches

Scott Blackmon, 18 Gold Head Coach

Coaching Experience

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Favorite Volleyball Moment

Coaching volleyball for 25 years - Beginning my 18th year at Milwaukee Sting. 9th at 18 Gold.
National High Performance Lead Tryout Coach around the midwest, Lead Camp Coach for a little over 15 camps from NY to CA and parts in between, and Assistant for Youth A2 (AZ)
7 Years at Wisconsin Select which is also where I began coaching club.
10 years with Lodi VB program. Middle school - Varsity
Began coaching at Edgewood college where I was the volunteer assistant for 5 years.
One of the original coaches for the Badger Region High Performance (HP) program where I began as an assistant for our Youth team and then headed up our Select program when it first began.

I'm the most un-interesting man in the world

After 24 years, I have a LOT of "favorite moments" but the most recent three favorite moments are:

Taking third in 18 Open the the USAV GJNC in 2016.
Winning our third set at the National Championship in Dallas two years ago, 29-27.
Winning the NLQ in 2018 beating two teams on day three that had beaten us on days one and two. The kids sealed that one with a three set nail biter.

Karli Koralewski-Flores, 18 Gold Assistant Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Milwaukee Sting 18 Gold Assistant (2011-Present) St. Thomas More Varsity Volleyball Assistant (2011-Present) Green Bay Power Volleyball Club 16-1 (2008-2010) Florence Jrs (Club Team in South Carolina, 2007)	Milwaukee Sting from the time I was 12 through my 18's year (2000-2007) Thomas More High School Varsity (2003-2006) Francis Marion University (2007) University of Wisconsin Green Bay (2008-2010)	While playing--Taking 3rd at USAV Nationals with my Milwaukee Sting 16 gold team. While coaching-- taking 3rd at USAV nationals in 2016 with Milwaukee sting 18 Gold

Sam Derynda, 18 Black Head Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	This will be my 6th season coaching with Milwaukee Sting. I have coached ages 14 - 17 at different levels throughout the course of the past five seasons. I am in my second season coaching as the Varsity Assistant coach at Catholic Memorial High School and coached the JV team at Catholic Memorial for two years prior. Aside from high school and club, I also volunteered as a middle school coach for two seasons in the past.	Played high school volleyball for Catholic Memorial where I played for the State Championship team in 2006, and State Runner-Up team in 2008. I played four years of college volleyball for Carroll University.

Kari Fischer, 18 Black Assistant Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Thomas More High School 08/2015-Present Milwaukee, WI Head Coach, Junior Varsity Next Level Volleyball Club 12/2016- 05/2017 Co-Head Coach, Junior Olympic National Volleyball Club 15’s Next Level Volleyball Club 12/2015- 05/2016 Head Coach, Junior Olympic National Volleyball Club 15’s Next Level Volleyball Club 12/2013- 05/2014 Head Coach, Junior Olympic National Volleyball Club 13’s West Allis Lightning Volleyball Club 12/2011-07/2013 Head Coach, Junior Olympic National Volleyball Club 15’s/16’s Next Level Volleyball Club 12/2009- 07/2010 Assistant Coach, Junior Olympic National Volleyball Club 18’s Franklin High School 08/2007-10/2012 Assistant Coach, Varsity o Franklin High School 08/2009-10/2010 Head Coach, Junior Varsity	Played club volleyball for West Allis Lightning Played college volleyball for University of Wisconsin Whitewater	Winning NCAA Nationals in 2005

Tarah Harms, 18 White Head Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Head Coach La Follette High School - 5 Years Head Coach Milwaukee Sting - 2 Years Prior Club Coaching Experience - 3 years UW Summer Camps Coach - 4 years	Reedsburg Area High School	Playing Women's 3s at the Waupaca Boatride every year

Caitlyn Coffey, 18 White Assistant Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Milwaukee Sting Coach 2018-Present Previously coached 17 White (2018/2019) DePaul University Volleyball camps (Elite, Middle School, Kid's Clinics, Satellite) (2014-2017) Jr. Chargers 8-Red 2018	Milwaukee Sting 2010-2014 DSHA High School Varsity 2010-2013 DePaul University 2014-2017	My favorite volleyball moment was playing for a national championship at AAU Nationals in Orlando in 2012

Peter Netisingha, 17 Gold HC / Recruiting Director

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	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Milwaukee Sting 17 Gold Head Coach, 2018-Present 9 years of collegiate experience at University of Wisconsin-Madison (2009-2012), Ohio University (2013), University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2014-2015), Illinois State University (2016-2018) Achievements include 4 NCAA Tournament appearances, MAC Champions (2013), NCAA National Champion (2015), Missouri Valley Conference Champion (2018) 13 years of club coaching experience including head coaching teams of all ages at Sports Performance, VC Nebraska, Capital Volleyball Academy	Played club volleyball under Dave Bayer at Sports Performance Volleyball Club Setter and serving specialist at St. Ambrose University	At Illinois State, beating a ranked Northern Iowa team on our home floor in Redbird Arena in front of a crowd of over 3,300 people on Senior Night in 2018. Winning the NCAA National Championship as a part of the Nebraska Cornhusker Coaching Staff in 2015

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Andy Schinner, 17 Gold Assistant Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Milwaukee Sting Coach, 2015-Present Assisted with the 18-Black, 13-Gold, 15-Gold (Boys), and 14 Silver 3 years at Block Party as head coach of the 15-1's 3 years at Saint Mary's Central (Neenah) coaching the JV team	4-year starting setter at UW-Oskosh (All-American and NSVF champions in 2011) Set for the North Shore Milwaukee VBC 1's teams from 14s-18s 3-year Varsity starter at Homestead High School 10 years- washed up bar league volleyball player	Winning a national championship in 2011 as a player.and taking 3rd with the 13-Gold team in 2016 are two favorites.

Chad Kuck, 17 Black Head Coach

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Stacie Kuck, 17 Black Assistant Coach

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Caroline Langer, 17 White Head Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Milwaukee Sting 2015- Brookfield Central Freshman Coach 2015- MOSE Women's Assistant 2015-2016	Milwaukee Sting 2004-2009 Pius XI High school 2005-2009 UW-Parkside 2009-2011 UW-Whitewater 2012	Playing in the NCAA tournament at Whitewater.

Kathy Bullis, 17 White Assistant Coach

	Coaching Experience	Interesting Fact	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	25+ years of coaching and playing. OH at UW-River Falls	We are a coaching family! My husband coaches college football, our oldest son coaches track and field, and our middle son coaches college football. Our youngest is still in high school and would like to coach volleyball one day.	Went into labor at a regional volleyball match in Durand, WI. Gave the pre-game speech then went to the hospital and quickly delivered our second son. After the match the team came to the hospital to check-in and report they had won! We quickly and very appropriately named our son, Joseph Durand:)

Dave Bayer, 16 Gold Co-Head Coach / G15-18 Program D...

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Milwaukee Sting = 16 Gold HC, 18 Gold HC, Program Director
Asics Municana = 18-1 AC, 16-1 AC
Mizuno Sports Performance = 18 Elite AC, 16 Elite HC, Boys 18 Mizuno HC & Program Director
University of Wisconsin = Volunteer Asst. Coach
Wisconsin Power = 17-1 HC, 16-1 HC, Program Director
Capital Volleyball Academy = 16-1 HC, 18-1 HC, Founder & Program Director
Georgia Juniors VC = 17-1 HC, 15-1 HC, Program Director
Prolink-Atlanta = 17-1 HC
Jr. Chargers Boys HC = 6th, 7th, 8th grade teams

William Horlick High School = 2x All-State, Fab 50 Player
Ball State University = 4 year starter, 1 NCAA Final 4
USAV Men's Open = One 3rd place, two 4th place finishes
Waupaca Boatride Tournament = 4x Champion Men's Open
All-Tournament Team at Lynch Family 4th of July Tournament

2 AAU Junior National Open Championships
2 AAU Junior National Open Championships Runner-Up
Coaching the 2018 Milwaukee Sting 16 Gold team.
Finishing 5th at 16 Open USA GJVCs with 16 Gold in 2019.
Peppering and playing Crossnet with my kids Max, Ben and Sam

Colleen Hasse, 16 Gold Co-Head Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	20+ Years of head coaching in Wisconsin Former West Bend East Coach (5 Conference titles, 2 State appearances) Current Slinger High School Head Coach Most recently coached 14 Black (2017) and 17 Gold (2018)	Played for West Bend West High School. Continued on to UW-LaCrosse where I was able to be part of a team that qualified for the NCAA Division III playoffs in 1997 and 1998	There are so many memories that I have during my coaching and playing career. During the 2007 State WIAA Tournament, we were down 0-2 in the Quarterfinals and Semi-finals and we came back both nights to win 3-2. I have also had the pleasure of watching many girls grow in the game of volleyball that another favorite moment is their senior night. Sad to see them go but always so proud of the student athletes they had become.

Bruce Meredith, 16 Black Head Coach

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Aly Kujawa, 16 Black Assistant Coach

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Margaret Vervelde, 16 White Head Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	30 years coaching high school and club	25 years, I have played since 6th grade.	Going to collegiate nationals 3 out of my 4 years as a player.

Aly Dawson, 16 White Assistant Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Milwaukee Sting Coach since 2017 Coached 16 Gold and 17 Gold 2 years at Top Ten VBC in Omaha, NE (12-2 & 15-1) 1 year at Eastside VBC in Peoria, IL (17-1 & 18-1)	9 years with Milwaukee Sting 2 years at Iowa Western 2 years with Illinois State	Coaching the Mil Sting 16-Gold in 2018 and beating the #1 seed in our pool Legacy on day 3 of the AAU National Championships!!

Sara Blasier, 15 Gold Head Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Sting Coach, 2016-Present This will be my fourth year coaching at Sting. In the past I was the head coach for 13 Red and 16 white, and last year I was the assistant coach for 16 Gold. This will be my first year at 15s and I am very excited! I also am a setting coach at Sting under Colleen Bayer. I was also the head coach for West Bend East Varsity for two years in 2017 and 2018. I have extensive experience coaching camps in the summer with Rice, Marquette, All-American camps, and Sting.	I played club at Milwaukee Sting as a setter. I then went on to play at Rice University for 2.5 years before transferring back home to play for Marquette for my final 2.5 years. I just graduated from Marquette with a degree in psychology.	When I was at Rice, we came up to a tournament at Marquette and we beat them which was a pretty huge deal. It was really fun coming home and playing and winning in front of friends and family. Last year at Marquette, we went out and played USC and beat them when they were ranked #7 which was really fun.

Michelle Fugarino, 15 Gold Assistant Coach

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Andie Hoffart, 15 Black Head Coach

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Bob Czajka, 15 White Head Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Director of Junior Spartans Volleyball 2018-Present Director of Elmbrook Boys Volleyball 2018-Present 2018- 5th Grade Elite Division Girls 1st Place in division place 3rd Place in tournament play 2019-5th Grade Select Division Girls 2nd place Bronze 2019-6th Grade Select Division Girls		This year my oldest daughter was offered a college athletic scholarship to play Indoor and Beach Volleyball. Seeing the growth of our developmental teams in our High School feeder program coalesce into teams that love the game---it always feels like the season is too short when this happens.

Megan Resch, 15 White Assistant Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Milwaukee Sting 15-White Assistant (2018 – 2019) Kenosha Bradford High School – Varsity Assistant (2016 – 2019) Wisconsin Juniors 16-Premier Assistant (2016 – 2017) Wisconsin Volleyball Academy 16-Central Assistant (2014 – 2015) & Head Coach (2015 – 2016)	UW Oshkosh Club – (2011 – 2016) Kenosha Bradford High School (2007 – 2010) Wisconsin Juniors Volleyball Club (2009 – 2011) Raytown Volleyball Club (2007 – 2009)

Taylor Morey, 14 Gold Co-Head Coach / G10-14 Program D...

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Munciana Volleyball Camp Coach, Muncie, Ind. (Two Years)
University of Wisconsin-Madison Camp Counselor, Madison, Wis. (Four Years)
TeamONE 14-1 Volleyball Club Team Coach, Madison, Wis. (One Year)
Milwaukee Sting Camp Director (2018-Present)

Played club volleyball for Asics Munciana.

Played college volleyball for Notre Dame and Wisconsin.

2008-2010—Indiana 2A State Champions
2009—AAU & USAV National Finalist, 2x All-American
2010/11—Indiana Gatorade Player of the Year
2011—AAU National Champion, All-American
2011—Under Armour All-American
2012—AAU National Finalist
2013—NCAA National Finalist
2014—NCAA Elite Eight, Big Ten Champion, Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year, 2nd Team All- American, All Big Ten Team Selection
2015—USA Volleyball Collegiate National Team Member
2015—NCAA Sweet 16, All-American Honorable Mention

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Eli Sharping, 14 Gold Co-Head Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Milwaukee Sting Coach since 2018 UW-Milwaukee Assistant Coach since 2017 Spent 2015/2016 as assistant at Univeristy of Tulsa Spent 2014 Season as assistant at East Carolina University Volunteer assistant at University of Georgia in 2013 Former club coach at Capital Volleyball Academy (in part as assistant to Dave Bayer in 2010 leading to a 5th place showing at AAUs in the 18 Open division)	While a student at Wisconsin, Sharping played for the men's club team from 2007-11 and served as a practice player for the women's volleyball team from 2008-11. He was also a member of the Sports Performance Boys' Volleyball Club from 2005-07 under club director Dave Bayer. The all-area, all-conference and honorable mention all-state selection at Lake Park High School (Ill.) earned his Bachelor of Science in neurobiology from Wisconsin in 2012.	One of Eli's proudest volleyball moments was when he won the Madison Mens City League Championship as an outside hitter when his setter, Dave Bayer, set him for Championship Point and Eli got the kill!

Sara Voigt, 14 Black Head Coach

	Coaching Experience	Certifications/Awards	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Head Coach, Royal Volleyball Club 13 National from 2016-2019 HP Camp Coach and HP Tryout Coach for Badger Region HP Program Badger Region Volleyball, 2017-Current Head Coach, St. Mary Parish School Menomonee Falls, 2016-2018 (7th and 8th grade girls Head Coach, Adversity-Wisconsin Volleyball Club, 2013-2015 Head Coach, G-Force Volleyball Club, 2011-2015 Head Coach, St. Bonafice School Germantown, 2005-2014	USAV CAP II Certified (CAP III completion Dec 2019) Double Goal Coach I, II, III Gold Medal Squared Certified USAV IMPACT Cadre USAV Certified Official USAV Meritorious Award Winner 2018	One of my favorite moments was co-coaching the 2017 St Mary Team to win the 2017 Division 1 Seton Championships. I have a picture of the team after winning game point that I love to look at. The other moment was winning our first ever challenge match at AAU Nationals to get into the gold bracket! All of the hard work paid off and it showed through the players and their families.

Elise Girard, 14 Black Assistant Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Sting Coach since 2019	4 years on varsity at Lake Country Lutheran as a middle Regional champions all 4 years, sectional champions in 2015, state runner up in 2015, and sectional runner up 2016 Played for Milwaukee Sting 15s-18s as a right side. Played for Bethel University 1 year as a right side.

Ashley Pfiefer, 14 White Head Coach

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Jessica Schein, 14 White Assistant Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Assistant Coach, Mount Mary University, 2017 Assistant Coach, SWCHA Saints Varsity HS Team, 2017 Head Coach, SWCHA Saints Varsity HS Team, 2018-Present Milwaukee Sting Coach, 2018-Present	Has played volleyball since 4th grade SWCHA Saints Alumni (2x Captain) Milwaukee Sting Alumni Played collegiate volleyball at Belmont Abbey College and Ave Maria University	There are way too many moments. But I think, one of my favorite volleyball moments is when my parents first came to watch me play, my Junior year in college.

Amy Wagner, 13 Gold Head Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	20 years of coaching experience beginning with Badger Volleyball Camps, Director of Volleyball Operations at UW-Madison, 18-1 Wisconsin Power Head Coach and club administrator, 16-1 WIsconsin Power Heach Coach and club administrator, 1st Assistant Volleyball Coach at Marquette University 2002-2005, Asst. Director of WAVE volleyball club two seasons, Brown Deer HS Varsity Volleyball Head Coach, Nicolet HS Asst. Varsity Volleyball Coach, Milwaukee Sting 10 Gold Head Coach, Milwaukee Sting 11 Gold Head Coach, Milwaukee Sting 12 White Head Coach and Cadre for 12 and under, Co-Director of Milwaukee Sting Volleyball Camps 2017. Milwaukee Sting 18 Black Head Coach in 2018. Current Head Coach at Germantown High School.	UW-Madison OH 1994-1997, Co-Captained the 1997 Big Ten Championship Team which finished 5th in the nation, 1st Team All Big Ten, 1st Team All Region, 2nd Team All American, Played professionally for the Wisconsin Fury	On Halloween night in 1997 We beat Penn State for the first time in school history and they were ranked 1st in the country. While coaching at Marquette, the Golden Eagles beat the Cincinnati Bearcats to finish 2nd in conference which was Marquette's highest finish in Conference USA.

Bizzie Gonring, 13 Gold Assistant Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Combined 8 years of coaching experience with camps and clinics for kids in elementary and high school, as well as 2 years of mental performance coaching with high school and college level athletes	8 years of club experience at Milwaukee Sting Volleyball Club; 4 years at Dominican High School & 4 years at NCAA DII Assumption College	One of my favorite volleyball moments was in college when we beat Bentley University for the first time in our school's volleyball history. I also really loved beating Southern New Hampshire anytime in college, but especially my sophomore year in front of a sold out crowd to start our conference play that season.

Taylor Klinzing, 13 Black Head Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Milwaukee Sting Volleyball Club 2016-2017 13 Black Head Coach 2017-2018 13 Black Head Coach 2018-2019 Bullpen Coach Summer camp coach Hartford Union High School Varsity head coach since 2017	2004-2006 played club for Eclipse Volleyball Club 2006-2012 played club for Milwaukee Sting Volleyball Club 13 Black, 14 Black, 15 Gold, 16 Black, 17 Black, 18 Black 2007-2008 played for St. Boniface in Germantown 2008-2012 played for Germantown High School 4 year varsity athlete 2012-2016 played at Niagara University in New York Positions played: setter, middle, right side

Paige Edmonds, 13 Black Assistant Coach

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Gundars Berzins, 13 White Head Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Milwaukee Sting Coach since 2017 15 years coaching club volleyball. Coached 13’s, 14's, 15's, 16's and 17's teams. AAU Nationals coaching experience. 15th season as the Freshmen coach at Grafton High School. 6 conference titles and 4 second place finishes. 5 conference tournament championships. 7/8 Grade boys at St. Joseph's in Grafton for 3 years, including Virtus training.	Played club volleyball for 8 years and was an MAVP beach player for 4 years. I am still playing this game (mens, coed, indoor, sand) today.	I've had my share of great moments in volleyball as a player. Though some of my favorite moments in volleyball came when I wasn't even playing. I remember my first away match in college. I was injured and out for the season, but the support from my teammates had been incredible. Another was when the 17's assistant coach and I agreed to color spray our hair if we reached the finals and medaled. We did. Sorry, that was a one time only offer!

Kristin Perkins, 12 Gold Head Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Former Assistant Coach at Northern Kentucky University Club coach at several clubs in KY Milwaukee Sting Coach at a variety of age levels Head Coach of St. Thomas More HS, 2010-Present	Kristin (Koralewski) Perkins is a former Milwaukee Sting Alum and graduate of Thomas More High School. She played for Milwaukee Sting since she was 12 years old and was a four year varsity starter at Thomas More High School. She went on to play collegiately, where she twice earned All-American honors at Northern Kentucky University.	Winning the WISAA state championship her senior year at Thomas More High School and taking 2nd at Nationals her 18's year with Milwaukee Sting VBC

JC Bruns, 12 Gold Assistant Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	14 years head coach Menomonee Falls HS girls volleyball program 7 GMC conference titles 6 state tournament appearances 2013 Div 1 State Champions 2 years coaching Sting (10 Gold and 11 Black)	4 year starter for UWEC's men's club volleyball team 2 years 1st team all conference 1998 Div 2 1st team all nationals Member of UWEC's 1998 Div 2 national runner up team	Playing in the Div 2 club national finals in 1998 with all of my teammates who are still good friends to this day. Coaching a fantastic group of girls to the state title in 2013. It was MFHS's first team title in any sport in over 20 years.

Traci Buhr, 12 Black Head Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Current Varsity Head Coach at Sussex-Hamilton High School Has been with Milwaukee Sting since 2006 in various coaching roles Coached 16 Gold, 17 Gold, 18 Black teams Arrowhead JV coach in 2006/2007	Milwaukee Sting alum, played for 4 years Played and graduated from Pius XI High School Played collegiately at St. Joseph's College - IN Played OH, RH, S, DS - in the days before libero	Coaching: first time Hamilton HS won Regional Finals 2016 Coaching: beating cross town rival Menomonee Falls for the first time in over 16 years at Hamilton HS

Cindy Ellis, 12 Black Assistant Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Heritage Christian 5th and 6th grade	Played Milwaukee Sting beginning at 12's. Played at Milwaukee Pius XI for High School. Went on to play Division 1 college volleyball at Austin Peay State University in TN for 4 years	My favorite memories of volleyball revolve around the fun I had with teammates and playing what I loved with other girls with the same passion.

Joel Kujawa, 12 White Head Coach

	Coaching Experience	Interesting Fact	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Three years coaching 12-13 year old grade school level. 2018-19 coached Sting 11 Black. Fall 2019 coached Kettle Moraine HS JV2 girls team	Marvel Movie Junkie My three children have won 6 State championships, 3 volleyball, and 3 Lacrosse	Watching my oldest daughter dominate during the 2010 girls Div 2 State volleyball championships. Watching my youngest daughter dominate sectional finals for CMH helping her underdog team win in 4 games, securing a state bid.

Rachel Ambroch, 12 White Assistant Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Brookfield Academy 5th, 6th and 7th grade girls volleyball.	Milwaukee Sting 14-18 Black, Tennessee State University, UW-Platteville	In college my coach would take away our phones as we got on the bus for an away game. About an hour and a half before the game she asked how I was feeling and I was honest and stated, you know, something just isn't right. Could I please get my phone back to call home?(She knew I was homesick since I was 8+ hours away). She gave me my phone and I called my dad knowing he could give me a little pep talk. That game I had my career high kills for a match that we won in three(25 kills). Plus, this game was against my old assistant coach.

Ansaya Hubbard, 11 Gold Head Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Volleyball Coach since 2012 Junior Spartans Coach (2 Years) Former Midwest Penguins 11s Head Coach Coach for Milwaukee Sting since 2016 Head Coach for Brookfield East Varsity Former Arrowhead JV Head Coach	I played as an outside hitter/ defensive specialist at Shorewood High school. I also club volleyball all 4 years of high school for various clubs in the Metro Milwaukee area. I continued on to play as libero at Carthage College. I continue to play in competitive sand and indoor leagues/tournaments when my schedule allows.	My favorite volleyball moment was the club season of 2016-2017 when my 13-white team was runner up at nationals in Orlando. This team showed a tremendous amount of growth throughout that season going from scoring single digits in our first tournament to taking second place at AAU Nationals in Orlando, FL. It was a great group of young athletes as well as supportive parents which made it my best season thus far!

Maddy Micech, 11 Gold Assistant Coach

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Coached the past two years at UW-Oshkosh Volleyball Summer Camps,

Coached three years of club volleyball at Wisconsin Volleyball Academy: 16-white, 14-white, 16-red

Played club volleyball for Sting 2006-2010,

West Bend Power 2010-2014,

MFHS 2010-2013,

Grand View University 2014-2015,

UW-Oshkosh 2015-2017

Winning the State Championship Division 1 Tournament in 2013

Lisa Weimann, 11 Black Head Coach

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Skylar Czaplewski, 11 Black Assistant Coach

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Brad Van Dam, Board Member/11 White Head Coach

A transplant from San Diego, CA, Brad began playing in his youth on the beaches of San Diego where he grew up. He competed indoor for Hilltop High School where he was a team captain, coaches award winner, and earned all conference honors as a setter. Falling in love with the leadership role he enjoyed on the court, he immediately begin coaching girls JV at Castle Park High School, while continuing to play in his first year at Southwestern College.

Brad left school and San Diego after an apparent labotomy in 1994, to purchase ownership in a business in Wisconsin. While shivering for the first several years and losing his blonde hair from lack of sun, he continued coaching women's volleyball in the mid 90's and 2000's with SAVE Select, one of the early Badger Region youth volleyball clubs.

He later coached with Wisconsin Power, commuting from the Milwaukee area to Madison. Brad coached many age groups in the program, helping U14 to U18 athletes achieve their goals, and seeing many develop into collegiate players. After a 4 year hiatus around the birth of his children, Brad returned to coach his local parochial school program, co-coaching both the 2012 and 2014 St Mary's Menomonee Falls 8th grade Girls Volleyball teams and helping both squads secure Seton A Championships.

After having competed against the program for many years, Brad began coaching at Milwaukee Sting, in the U12 and U13 age brackets and did so in 2012, 2013, and 2014, enjoying several very successful teams and tremendous parent groups. Brad joined the Sting Volleybee's program in 2013, and has worked with some of the exceptional teachers and athletes Sting is fortunate enough to have engaged in the program.

As the Sting Youth Director and passionate advocate for making volleyball a fun and lifelong sport for more people beginning at a younger age, he can be found smiling, laughing, and rolling around on the Teraflex flooring, working in the Youth Academy Program. Brad has two lovely creative daughters ages 4 and 7, and very patient wife of 15 years Andrea.

Brad is USAV CAP Level 2, writes a blog weekly on being a dad with daughters, and is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Metal-Era Inc in Waukesha, WI.

Amy Krueger, 11 White Assistant Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	3 years assistant coaching middle school girls and boys 2 years head coaching 8th grade girls Jr. Chargers 2 years volunteer coaching high school freshman	Played volleyball from 5th grade through High School

McKenna Scharnek, 11 White Assistant Coach

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Morgan Young, 10 Gold Head Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	High School Level Coach since 2013 Experience as head coach for Freshmen and JV teams and assistant for Varsity Milwaukee Sting Coach since 2016

Rick Wagner, 10 Gold Assistant Coach

	Coaching Experience	Playing Experience	Favorite Volleyball Moment
	Has coached in the Madison and Milwaukee areas for over 15 years Most years coaching boys 14s, 15s, and 16s	Has played in the Madison and Milwaukee areas for over 30 years	Highlights include winning two Bronze, a Silver, and a Gold in the Open division at USAV National Championships