• College Player
• Club Coach
• IMPACT Certified

Playing Experience:

Kristen has been playing volleyball since the age of 14 and has loved the sport ever since. Kristen went on to play volleyball throughout her high school years at Northwest in Justin, TX as a Middle hitter. Her senior year she knew she wanted to attend college far from home near the east coast. Kristen received a full scholarship to play volleyball as a Middle and Right side hitter at Augusta State University in Augusta, Georgia. There she played her four years against other top Division II Peach Belt Conference teams that included: North Florida, Armstrong Atlantic, and USC Spartanburg. Her sophomore year, she helped lead her team to the Peach Belt Conference finals as a Setter.

Coaching Experience:

Kristen began her coaching career once in Augusta, Georgia, 2001. There she coached two club seasons of 16’s for Augusta Volleyball Club at Augusta Prep. Near the end of their 2001 season, Kristen coached her team all the way to be tournament champs in a Hilton Head, South Carolina tournament.

Kristen continued her coaching career with Augusta State as the assistant coach for the 2004 season. From 2005 to the Spring of 2007, she coached with Core Volleyball Club as a head coach for their 14’s & 15’s teams. Her 14’s & 15’s National team accomplishments included: winning 2nd place 14’s Gold Division during the 2006 Easter Classic, 1st place in TAV’s Spring Fest 2007 tournament 15’s Open Silver Division, and becoming 15U Championship Finalists at the Texas Open.

The 2007 season, Kristen comes to Club Kahuna as a head coach for their North Shore 14’s team.

• College Player
• Club Coach
• IMPACT Certified

Playing Experience::

Savannah Powers played on varsity for 2 years at Robert E. Lee High School in Baytown, Texas. She was captain for the 2003 and 2004 seasons. She received MVP in 2002; All-District, All-Area, Offensive Player of the Year in 2003; All-District, Offensive Player of the Year, MVP in 2004. Then played her first 2 years of college volleyball at Galveston College in Galveston, Texas for the 2005 and 2006 season. Transferred to UTDallas for the 2007 season and is currently playing for the UTDallas Comets Volleyball Team.

Savannah started coaching as an assistant for Garrett Black at South Shore Volleyball Club 13s Mizuno in 2005-2006 that went to Nationals. In 2006-2007, she was the assistant coach for Tiffany Pearce at GCVA for 14s East Beach.

• College Player
• USAV Player
• High School Coach
• College Coach
• Club Coach
• IMPACT Certified

Playing Experience:

Leah has been playing volleyball for over 14 years now and has a passion for both playing and coaching the game. While attending Colleyville Heritage High School she was on Varsity her Junior and Senior years. Her Senior year she was Co-captain, 2nd team All-District and received the outstanding hitter award.

Leah went on to play for 4 years at Dallas Baptist University. Both her Junior and Senior years she was the Captain and MVP for the Lady Patriots. Her Junior year she was named to the All-Conference Team for the Heartland Conference, led the Heartland Conference in service aces per game, and was in the top 10 for total digs.

Leah continues to play competitively throughout the year on local USAV teams and in doubles sand leagues during the summer.
 

Leah began her coaching experience while in college for several different club teams; including, Victory, TAV, Southlake Juniors, and TIV. She was also the head volleyball coach at Coppell Middle School West for 2 years. Leah is currently in her 2nd year as the assistant volleyball coach at Dallas Baptist University. She is very excited about this season and working with Kahuna, the experienced coaching staff, and the talented group of athletes.

• College Player
• USAV Player
• High School Coach
• College Coach
• Club Coach
• IMPACT Certified

Playing Experience:

JB played basketball and baseball at Salesianum School in Wilmington Delaware and did not find the sport of volleyball until he attended Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. JB played four years on the EIVA Men’s Volleyball team as an Outside and Middle hitter against nationally ranked teams such as Penn State, George Mason, and Rutgers University. Drexel won the EIVA Championships in his senior year. JB was asked the coach the Drexel Men's volleyball team after he graduated and continued as coach for two seasons.  JB continued playing indoor volleyball on several A & AA USAV teams and in 1996 was invited to support the USA Volleyball team at the Atlanta Olympics. Before moving to Texas, JB also was hired as an assistant coach at Collin County College in Delaware.

JB also played beach doubles volleyball and was officially sponsored by K-Coast & Miller Lite in national tournaments such as the Miller Lite Pro Beach Series and AVP Qualifying tournaments. JB continues playing local beach events and in 2004, started KAHUNA Beach Volleyball that promotes beach volleyball instruction to junior volleyball athletes. JB also is an official promoter of AVPNext Beach tournaments for Juniors in the North Texas Region.

JB coached at several high schools in Wilmington Delaware including head varsity coach at Sanford School, assistant varsity coach at 5A Christiana High School and head boys varsity coach at McKinney HS where his boys team won the DE State championships for 18U before moving to Texas. In 2006, JB accepted the position of JV head coach for Ursuline Academy in Dallas, TX and is currently the varsity assistant coach for the 2007 season.

In 2004, JB started Club Kahuna with Craig Weitz, Marci Sanders and Zach Villarreal fielding 4 teams and a dream to be a fun and competitive JOVC. JB has since coached the North Shore 15s, North Beach 16s & North Shore 17s teams within the club and is currently the assistant coach of the North Shore 15s team.

In 2002-04, JB coached with Victory Volleyball Club as a head coach of their 17s & 16s teams while also working as an assistant volleyball coach at Brookhaven College with then head coach Eric Zender.

• USAV Player
• Club Coach
• IMPACT Certified

Playing Experience:

Josh was first introduced to volleyball through a friend. Starting at the rec level Josh continued to play until he was introduced to a much higher level of volleyball. Josh continued to advance his skills by playing against some of the best payers in the area as well as playing on multiple adult USAV teams. Wanting to play year round Josh picked up the beach game and has been advancing his skills ever since.

Starting his coaching career late Josh started by assistant coaching the 15’s national team for ACE in 2004. The Ace team was ranked in the top 10 in the area and made great showings at the national qualifiers. In 2005 Josh moved clubs and started coaching for a start up club in Mansfield ONE 10 volleyball. Josh coached the 2nd 17’s team. Coaching the 17’s to a Gold (1st place) finish at the Club regionals. Staying with One 10 Volleyball in 2006 Josh coached the 2nd 16’s team. Coaching the 2nd 16’s team to a silver (2nd place) finish at the club regionals. Along the way Josh has done private lessons for some of the areas best players primarily focusing on setters and outsides.

• College Player
• USAV Player
• High School Coach
• Club Coach
• IMPACT Certified

Playing Experience:

Lana participated in every sport at Three Rivers High School. She went on to attend Cisco Junior College on a softball scholarship. She walked on to the Volleyball team at Cisco as a starting middle blocker. She received all conference honors both years at Cisco. She finished her College Volleyball career at The University of Texas at Dallas as a starting middle blocker. At UTD she received All Conference awards as well. Lana plays on USAV teams to further her volleyball knowledge and skill.

Lana also plays beach doubles volleyball and was recently at Huntington Beach where she took first place in the A division. She plays in several leagues at Yucatan to work on her sand movement. She also likes to play co-ed beach doubles.

Lana has coached many volleyball camps as well as basketball camps. In 2003 she went back to Three Rivers High School and coached the volleyball team at The University of Texas volleyball camp where they received third place.

Lana was the Head volleyball coach for the 16’s regional team for One Ten Volleyball Club. She was the assistant volleyball coach for the 16’s select team for One Ten Volleyball club.

• College Player
• USAV Player
• College Coach
• High School Coach
• Club Coach
• IMPACT Certified

Playing Experience:

Zach graduated from San Angelo Lake View High School. While at Lake View, he was involved in NHS, Theatre Arts, Football, and Baseball.  He began playing sand his junior and senior years in high school while in West Texas. As he began attending Angelo State, Zach had the opportunity to play on the men's club volleyball team for 2 years while still participating in many outdoor tournaments.
 

Zach coached at Cleburne High School in 2003 as the first assistant varsity coach and head junior varsity coach. He helped the varsity team reach the regional quarterfinals and led the junior varsity to an 18-10 overall record, and a 9-1 district record.

While at Cleburne, he taught Freshman Algebra and also assisted with the boys soccer program.

Zach has coached club for a total of 6 years. Helping build Club Kahuna from the ground up, he had the pleasure of coaching the South Shore 16's in 2004 winning 3 tournaments.

Zach coached North Shore 16's last year, winning 1 tournament and finishing in the top 10 in the region.

Zach is currently in his fourth year as the Assistant Volleyball Coach and Assistant Sports Information Director at the University of Texas at Dallas.

He helped Coach Marci Sanders lead UTD to the ASC Conference Tournament the last 3 seasons, including an ASC East Division Co-Championship in 2006.

He has had the opportunity to work many volleyball camps throughout his career, including Cleburne High School (2004, 2006), Port Lavaca High School (1997), Club Kahuna (2005-2006), Angelo State University (1997-2001), Univesity of Illinois (2004, 2006), Illinois State University (2006) and UTD (2005-2007).

• College Player
• USAV Player
• Club Coach
• IMPACT Certified

Playing Experience:

Michelle grew up in Argyle were she played basketball & softball all her life until volleyball entered the picture in 7th grade. She continued to play all three sports throughout high school. It wasn't until her junior year when she then decided to work towards getting an athletic scholarship and volleyball was her "Top Choice".

1995-2000: At Denton High School Michelle played 1 year on JV and her last 3 years on the Broncos varsity volleyball team. Her freshmen/sophomore years she played middle blocker and for her final years at DHS she played right side. She received 1st, 2nd & honorable mention honors and lead her team to the semi-finals her senior year where her team faced their second loss of the entire season.

1997: Michelle played one season for the club Texas Attack.

1998: Michelle played one season for the club Third Degree.

2000-2002: Michelle received and an academic and athletic scholarship at Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, TX. She played middle her freshman year and right side her sophomore year. She received Academic Scholar Athlete award.

2005: Michelle moved back home and attended The University of Texas at Dallas to pursue a degree in Public Relations. Michelle stepped back on the court and was co-captain for UTD's first volleyball team. She received Who's Who Among College Athletes, Academic Scholar Athlete & ASC All-East Division Third Team honors. She played right side.

Currently Michelle plays in various volleyball leagues & tournaments.

Michelle has helped out with many volleyball camps for the last three years. Including Richardson High School, The University of Texas at Dallas & a camp that she and a fellow coach put together to help prepare young girls for high school try outs.

Michelle has one solid year of coaching a club team. Last year she was the assistant coach for Xtreme Power's 15's team.

• College Player
• USAV Player
• Club Coach
• IMPACT Certified

Playing Experience:

Anna was originally born in St. Petersburg, Russia and moved to Houston when she was 5 years old. Anna grew up in Katy, TX and now currently lives in Plano.  Anna had 1 year at Houston Juniors and 2 years at Texas Tornados. 2 of the 3 years her team qualified for the tour and her 16's year she qualified for nationals.  Anna played DS/L for one season at Texas Lutheran and finished her college playing at UT-Dallas as a starting L/DS.

Anna started coaching club volleyball while attend UT-Dallas as an assistant coach for the 2006 North Beach 16s team.  She was able to bring her passion and drive to coaching and was a great asset in teaching man-up/rover and perimeter defense.  Last season, Anna was the assistant coach of the South Shore 15s team.  She was able to take a great group of players and build a strong foundation increasing both the offense and defense skills of the players.

• College Player
• USAV Player
• Club Coach
• IMPACT Certified

Playing Experience:

April attended Onate High School in Las Cruces, New Mexico where she was part of the varsity team for four years. She received all-district and all-state honors as her team posted 9th, 3rd, and 2nd place state finishes in the top division.

She went on to make an impression at the University of San Francisco. During her tenure at USF, April was the starting setter for four years, in which she received all-tournament and MVP awards, set the school record for single-season assists, and placed herself 3rd on the all-time career assists chart. In 2003, she led her team to a top 25 ranking on the Division I charts, as her team made their first NCAA appearance in school history.
 

Soon after her last days as a player, April accepted a coaching position at Urban High School in San Francisco, where the team posted their best finish in history and ended up just shy of the NCVA championship.

April began her club coaching debut with San Francisco Juniors 17 RoShambo team. In her 2nd year, she joined Skyline Juniors in Dallas; where her team boasted a 3rd place finish at the National Qualifier in Atlanta. This will be April’s first year coaching with Club Kahuna.

• College Player
• USAV Player
• College Coach
• Club Coach
• IMPACT Certified
• CAP I & CAP II Certified

Playing Experience:

Marci began her playing career in Amarillo, TX at Palo Duro High School. She led her high school team to the Regional Quarterfinals in 1994. Because of her performance, she was named All-Area, All-District, and Team MVP. Marci was also a member of the Crown of Texas Volleyball Club in Amarillo for two seasons.

Upon graduation, Marci continued her volleyball career at an NAIA program in Hobbs, New Mexico, College of the Southwest (’95-96’). After two seasons at CSW, Sanders was named her team’s MVP. Marci then transferred to NCAA Division II, Angelo State University (’97-‘98), for her last two years of eligibility. She continued her success there being named Player of the Week on multiple occasions, along with being named Angelo’s MVP her senior season. Marci also set school and NCAA records for her defensive efforts at ASU. Sanders also earned recognition as a GTE Academic All-American in her senior season at Angelo State.

Sanders began coaching collegiately at Angelo State University (NCAA DII) in 1999 as a Graduate Assistant Coach. She took over the full-time Assistant Coach position in 2000. Sanders was the Assistant Coach for four years at Angelo State before starting the volleyball program at The University of Texas at Dallas (NCAA DIII) in the Fall of 2004.

Since her time at UT Dallas her team has qualified for post-season play each season. She has accumulated an overall record of 54-41, and 36-17 in Conference play. In just the program’s fourth season, they earned their first ever East Division Championship, and advanced to the Conference Tournament Championship Match. For her team’s success, Sanders was named Coach of the Year in 2006..

Marci has been coaching with Club Kahuna since its inception in 2004. Her first year, Sanders coached 16’s before moving up to 17s in 2005 & 2006. Each of her team’s have qualified for the Tour of Texas, and have finished within the top 10 in the North Texas Region.

Sanders is IMPACT certified by USA Volleyball as well as CAP I and CAPII. Marci is also a graduate of the NCAA Women’s Coaching Academy.

• College Player
• USAV Player
• High School Coach
• Club Coach
• IMPACT Certified

Playing Experience::

Craig played soccer, ran track and wrestled in high school up until his Junior year. Being burnt out on soccer, not being a big fan of running anymore, and getting beat up on the wrestling mat, Craig decided to look elsewhere for his athletic outlet during his last year of High School. Craig quickly became captain of the Northmont High School Men’s Volleyball Team (Dayton, OH) in its inaugural year. As an outside attacker, Craig led the team in Kills and Passing during the 1997 season. After graduation, Craig went to Purdue University to study Chemical Engineering. During his Sophomore year, Craig made the Purdue Men’s Volleyball Club Team. During the next 2 ½ years on the team (half of Senior year due to injury), he played Outside Attacker, Right Side Attacker, and Defensive Specialist (Liberos didn’t exist back then ), and Purdue finished tied for 17th in Nationals 2 out of the 3 years. After college, Craig moved to Dallas where he continued to play on USAV Men’s Club Teams, multiple local leagues, and various outdoor tournaments (Spikefest, Spike it Up, etc.).

Craig started his coaching career by assisting the McKinney Christian Academy Varsity / Junior Varsity Volleyball Team. In his first year, the team went from a .500 season to winning District (TAPPS 1A) for the first time in this small school’s history. The team continued rolling through the tournament losing in the Regional Finals (one game away from going to State). Craig continued assisting McKinney Christian for the next 3 years, winning district 3 out of 4 years (TAPPS 1A and TAPPS 2A), Bi-district 2 years (TAPPS 1A and TAPPS 2A), and Area once (TAPPS 1A). The team had three players over the course of the four years that received State Level recognition.

In 2003, Craig coached a 17s team with a local NTR Volleyball Club and realized that there could be much more added to a program of this nature. So, in 2004, Craig met up with JB started putting together the ideas for Club Kahuna Volleyball. With Marci Sanders and Zach Villarreal quickly coming on board, the core of Kahuna had been formed. Craig has since coached the North Shore 15s team two years (2004-2006) and has assisted Marci with the North Shore 17s last year, and will continue that same role this year.

• College Player
• USAV Player
• Club Coach
• IMPACT Certified

Playing Experience:

Ben played 4 years of college volleyball at Illinois State University as an Outside Hitter and Libero on the men’s club team. In 2003, his senior year, Illinois State was ranked as high as 15th in the nation after beating Michigan State in the championship match at the University of Tennessee. That year, Illinois State won the Bronze division championship at nationals in Columbus, Ohio.

Ben has been coaching for 4 years, beginning in 2003. He began as a volunteer coach, working with the Illinois Juniors program (12-14 yrs old) for one season in Normal, IL. Since then, Ben has also coached several summer camps at places such as Eastland High School (IL), Rockwall High School (TX), Illinois State University, and The University of Texas at Dallas.

Ben also enjoys the administrative/programming side of volleyball, working as a volunteer for the 2006 National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) Collegiate Volleyball Sports Club Championships in Salt Lake City, UT. He will also be assisting the 2008 championships in Dallas, TX.

Ben is IMPACT certified with USAV. Other certifications include Coaching Principles and Sports First Aid from the American Sports Education Program (ASEP) and a certified instructor for CPR/AED/First Aid.

• College Player
• USAV Player
• High School Coach
• College Coach
• Club Coach
• IMPACT Certified
• CAP I & II Certified

Playing Experience:

He is a 1999 graduate of Pepperdine University and was a standout on the school’s men’s volleyball team from 1995-97.

Skip Freeman was named the interim head volleyball coach for Southeastern Oklahoma State University prior to the 2007 season.

He took over the position when Cherrie Wilmoth was named the interim athletic director for SOSU.

Freeman has been involved with volleyball for 20 years as a player and a coach.

He is a USAV CAP II certified coach and has been the Director of Coaching for the Oklahoma Charge Volleyball Club for the past two seasons.

He has been elected as the 2007 Oklahoma Regional Volleyball Association Head Coach and has also since been named the High Performance Director for OKRVA.

Freeman now holds an elected position on the OKRVA Regional Board and is one of the Junior Representatives to the Youth Junior Olympic Volleyball Division.

He is an assistant coach for the U. S. Women’s Sitting Paralympcs team.

In recent years he has worked numerous camps, including Central Oklahoma, Edmond Santa Fe High School, Edmond North High School and the Oklahoma Charge Clinics.
 

• College Player
• USAV Player
• High School Coach
• College Coach
• Club Coach
• IMPACT Certified

Playing Experience:

Clif started playing volleyball in the summer of 1983. After several years of beach and indoor tournament play and training, he moved to Los Angeles where he had an open tryout to play volleyball in college. Through hard work and dedication, he secured a spot on the adversary squad at UCLA where he trained with a National Championship team in 1989. During that time, he played on several Men’s USAV teams and placed in the top 10 in men’s Open Nationals four times between 1988-1992. He also competed on the AVP pro beach tour through qualifiers from 1988-1992, entering into the main draw 26 times. Over the duration of his playing career he has entered and competed in over 600 indoor, beach and grass volleyball tournaments, and still plays competitively today, most recently at the USAV Open Beach Nationals in Huntington Beach, California.

Clif has said that his UCLA experience was "the most valuable of all my time playing." Having been coached by Al Scates, and personally witnessing the most successful and one of the greatest minds of this game work and teach, and learning this game from him is what inspired Clif to be a coach.

Clif graduated from UTA in 1990 with a BA Degree in Communications (RATVF) He is currently employed by American Airlines in the Corporate Communications dept. He also owns his own Sports Production company dedicated to the development and marketing of college bound student-athletes, www.C2N-Sports.com

Clif has been coaching club volleyball since 1991 where he started as an assistant with a club in Seattle WA where his 16's black team won Nationals. He has also coached several successful club teams here in North Texas including Texas Heat, Texas Assault, North Dallas Juniors, and Addison Boys volleyball. This is Clif’s third year with Club Kahuna, in his first year with the Kahuna North Beach 17's team, he had several top finishes including a Championship at Cowtown, a 9th at the Southern California Qualifier, and a 7th at the Regional Open Qualifier, and finished the season ranked 7th overall in the North Texas Region. Last year with the 18 North Shore team, he led the team to several top 5 finishes, an 18th at the Big South Qualifier and finished the Season ranked 7th overall in the North Texas Region.

Before coaching club volleyball, Clif was an assistant coach at Santa Clara High School in California in 1988 and then a became a Varsity coach here in Ft. Worth at All Saints Episcopal for 5 years from 1992-1997 where they took the TAPPS Championship 3 out of 5 years. Clif was also an assistant coach at Brookhaven college in Richardson from 1996-1998. 

• College Player
• USAV Player
• Club Coach
• IMPACT Certified

Playing Experience:

Kalee starting playing volleyball in eighth grade as a setter in Tokyo, Japan. After intensive training at the University of Minnesota and BYU, she moved to outside hitter where she continued through the rest of her high school career. After graduating, Kalee played on the Texas A&M University Women’s Club team as an outside hitter.
 

This will be Kalee’s second year coaching with Kahuna.  Last year she assisted JB with the North Shore 15s for the 2007 season.   

• College Player
• USAV Player
• Club Coach
• IMPACT Certified

Playing Experience::

Julie started her volleyball career in The Colony, Texas in 1992. While attending The Colony High School, Julie lettered three years on the Varsity Volleyball Team as an outside hitter. During her Senior year as a team captain, Julie led The Colony in most offensive categories.

During her high school career, Julie also played club volleyball with Mid-Cities and North Dallas Juniors. Her team qualified for Junior Olympic Nationals for two years. Among her team’s accomplishments, they finished 3rd in the open division of Lone Star her sophomore year. From all this success, Julie was recruited to play volleyball at Arkansas Tech University on a full scholarship. While at Arkansas Tech, Julie had many individual and team accomplishments:

Julie continues to play on an adult USAV Team where she helped her team, Code Red, finish 5th in Nationals this past season.
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Julie’s first taste of coaching came during college when she helped with volleyball camps at Memphis, Arkansas Tech, and back at her alma mater, The Colony High School. So, after graduation, and moving back to Dallas, Julie quickly joined up with Dallas Force to start her coaching career. Julie continued as a Head Coach for Dallas Force over the course of the next five years working with 14s, 15s, and 16s. Julie worked many camps and clinics for Dallas Force and Club Kahuna over the past couple of years and continues to be highly sought after for private lessons.

Julie is taking a break from “full-time” coaching this year and will be helping on the Administrative side of the business. However, she will be filling in as a Floater Coach every once in a while to make sure she gets her coaching fix! She will also be available periodically for individual training.

Julie currently works for PepsiCo in Plano as a Corporate Equipment Analyst.