staff

Joe Ripp (Club Director)
​​Joe is both the founder (1997) and director of Vision Volleyball Club. During that 22 year span, the teams Joe has coached have qualified for the JNC’s every year and won multiple NCVA Regional Championships. He has coached at every age level, from 14's through 18's. In 2017 he coach 17 Gold, a team that won the region and finished 5th at Nationals. In 2016 his 15 Gold team went undefeated in the region and qualified for the Open division at Nationals. From 2016 – 2009 his teams all qualified for the Open division. His 2012 team finished 5th at the Junior Nationals in Ohio. In 2009, the team also earned a fifth place finish at the JNC's in Miami. Previously, he coached the 18 Blue team for two seasons. His 2007 team won a Bronze Medal in the 18 Club Division of the Junior Nationals. In 2005, Joe guided the Vision 17 Gold team to the silver medal in the 17 Open Division of the Junior Nationals.  Joe had two stints as head coach at Los Gatos High School and spent a total of 20-year coaching at LGHS.  His high school teams won four CCS championships, three Nor-Cal championships and one California State Championship.

Oscar Crespo (College Recruiting Coordinator)
​Oscar provides a wealth of knowledge in recruiting, with over 25 years of experience coaching at the collegiate level.  Prior to joining Vision, Oscar was most recently the Head Coach of the Women Volleyball Team at San Jose State University where he spent seven seasons. Prior to accepting the Spartan position, Crespo spent seven years as a member of the University of Nevada volleyball coaching staff, as an Assistant Coach and Associate Head Coach. He is a member of the American Volleyball Coaches Association, USA Volleyball, and the Northern California Volleyball Association. Crespo is an accomplished coach with international experience. He coached the BIP/USA Selection team in 2001 in Seblini, Italy. He spent the spring of 2002 coaching a USA College All-Star team in France, Holland and Belgium, and in 2007 was on the USA/BIP staff coaching the USA selection which competed on a six city tour in Argentina vs the Argentinian National Team. Crespo's coaching experience also includes stints at the University of California, Berkeley (1995-98), Saint Mary's College (1993-94) and De Anza College. Crespo and his wife, Lisa Ice-Crespo, a three-time All-American at San José State, reside in Los Gatos with their three children: Ryan, Rachel and Karly.

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Tyler Taylor (Head Coach)

​Tyler is entering his 8th year with Vision and his 6th straight coaching 18 Gold. The last two seasons his teams have had very successful seasons, including both teams qualifying for the Open Division at Nationals. In 2018 Tyler’s Vision 18 Gold team double qualified for the Open division and medaled in 3 National Qualifiers; the Ohio Valley, the Golden State and Colorado Crossroads. Tyler has also served as an Assistant Coach at both Santa Clara and Stanford Universities. Tyler’s last season at Stanford, he helped lead the team to the NCAA Division I National Championship. Tyler has a solid coaching background including as the Men’s Assistant at Golden West, and stints at the University of Nevada and Central Arizona College. After graduating from the University of Arizona, he coached club for Zona Volleyball Club, Arizona Premier, and Huntington Beach. He graduated in history with a minor in psychology, and earned a master’s in Coaching and Athletic Administration from Concordia in Irvine.
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Torre Glasker (Assistant Coach)
Torre is entering her first season with Vision and does so with 6 years of coaching experience. Torre Glasker joined San Francisco State in July 2021. Prior coming to the Bay Area, the South Jordan, Utah native served as a volunteer assistant coach at her alma mater, UC Santa Barbara. Prior to that, she was a graduate manager at Ole Miss for the 2020 season. While in Oxford, she was named one of 40 recipients of the 2020 Diversity Awards by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA). Torre has also served as a club coach for Oxford Volleyball Club in Mississippi, Blenders Volleyball in Santa Barbara, Club GSL and Wasatch Beach Volleyball, both in Utah. Torre is currently working on her MA in Higher Education. She graduated with a BA in Sociology from UC Santa Barbara. Glasker was a member of the Big West All-Academic Team as a senior and helped guide the Gauchos to a 23-6 mark – the program’s best record in 15 years – and the program’s first-ever NCAA Tournament win. Torre began her career at Utah appearing in the NCAA tournament back-to-back, including an appearance in the Sweet Sixteen.

Nick Monroe (Assistant Coach)
Vision is excited to welcome Nick to its coaching staff. Nick is currently an assistant coach for Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Prior to arriving at the Academy of Arts, Nick was a successful high school and club coach in the bay area. Most recently with Burlingame High School, Monroe headed the girls’ volleyball program and guided the team to a 2021 Central Coast Section Division III Championship. Nick was also assistant coach at Notre Dame High School in Belmont from 2019-21, an assistant varsity and was JV head coach at both Miramonte High School (2018) and Monte Vista High School (2015-17).  Prior to arriving at Vision, Nick sent and last 7 years at Rage Westside Volleyball Club. Nick was a middle blocker/right side for Holy Names from 2010-14, Monroe earned his bachelor’s degree in Business with a concentration in Sports Management from HNU.
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Nick Monroe (Head Coach)
Vision is excited to welcome Nick to its coaching staff. Nick is currently an assistant coach for Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Prior to arriving at the Academy of Arts, Nick was a successful high school and club coach in the bay area. Most recently with Burlingame High School, Monroe headed the girls’ volleyball program and guided the team to a 2021 Central Coast Section Division III Championship. Nick was also assistant coach at Notre Dame High School in Belmont from 2019-21, an assistant varsity and was JV head coach at both Miramonte High School (2018) and Monte Vista High School (2015-17).  Prior to arriving at Vision, Nick sent and last 7 years at Rage Westside Volleyball Club. Nick was a middle blocker/right side for Holy Names from 2010-14, Monroe earned his bachelor’s degree in Business with a concentration in Sports Management from HNU.

Gabrielle Carbonel (Assistant Coach)
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Matt Hoffman (Head Coach)
​Matt is currently in his 6th year as the Head Volleyball Coach at San Francisco State.  In 2018 at Vision he coached 17 Blue and assisted 15 Gold, having helped both teams qualify for Nationals.  Matt returned to Vision in 2017 to lead the 18 Gold team after spending three years as an Assistant at Wichita State where he helped the Shockers win two Missouri Valley Conference Championships and appeared in two NCAA tournaments. Prior to Wichita State, he served as the Volunteer Assistant Coach at Stanford from 2010-2012.  While at Stanford, he helped the Cardinal to three NCAA Tournaments and two Elite Eight appearances and two Pac-12 Conference championships. He also coached five All-Americans, a Pac-12 Conference Player of the Year, and 11 All Pac-12 honorees. In 2011 and 2012, he was the Head Coach of Vision's 13 Gold team, and an Assistant on Vision's 18 Gold team. He was on the 18's staff for their Bronze medal teams in both 2011 and 2012. He helped the 2012 team finish the season with only two losses the entire season.

Katy Ripp (Assistant Coach)
Katy Ripp is a full time instructor and Head Women’s Volleyball Coach at Foothill College since 2004.   Her Foothill teams have won 11 league titles, and in the 2015 season, finished 4th in the state. Prior to her arrival at Foothill, Katy served as an assistant women's volleyball coach at Stanford University (2002 – 2004); at Santa Clara University (2001 -2002); and at CSU Sonoma (1999 - 2001.) Before her coaching career, she played professionally on the Bud Light Professional Beach Volleyball Tour from 1993 to 1997; played in professional indoor leagues in Italy from 1996 to 1997; as well as for the National Volleyball Association's Orange County Diggers in 1996. She played in the Associated Volleyball Professional Beach Volleyball Doubles League from 1998 to 2002 with partner Stephanie Cox. Coach Ripp played collegiate volleyball at the University of the Pacific from 1989 to 1993. Katy and her husband Joe live in Los Gatos, California and have two boys.

Oscar Crespo (Assistant Coach)
Oscar has over 30 years of coaching experience at the club, high school and collegiate levels. Prior to joining Vision, Oscar was most recently the Head Coach of the Women Volleyball Team at San Jose State University where he spent seven seasons. Prior to accepting the Spartan position, Crespo spent seven years as a member of the University of Nevada volleyball coaching staff, as an Assistant Coach and Associate Head Coach. Crespo also has international experience, having coached the BIP/USA Selection team in 2001 in Seblini, Italy. He spent the spring of 2002 coaching a USA College All-Star team in France, Holland and Belgium, and in 2007 was on the USA/BIP staff coaching the USA selection which competed on a six city tour in Argentina vs the Argentinian National Team. Crespo's coaching experience also includes stints at the University of California, Berkeley (1995-98), Saint Mary's College (1993-94) and De Anza College. Crespo and his wife, Lisa Ice-Crespo, a three-time All-American at San José State, reside in Los Gatos with their three children: Ryan, Rachel and Karly.

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Cody Jankowski (Head Coach)

Vision is excited to welcome Cody to the coaching staff. He is entering is 7th year as a collegiate coach, and his second year as an assistant coach at Cal State, Monterey Bay.  Last year he help the CSUMB program more than doubled their wins from the previous season  Before CSUMB, Cody spent three seasons at Fairmont State University (NCAA DII) in Fairmont, WV. At Fairmont State he coached multiple all-MEC selections, including the MEC Player of the Year.  During his final season at Fairmont won the MEC North and advanced to the MEC Championship.  Cody also spent time at West Virginia University (DI) as the technical coordinator for the Mountaineers, we had multiple wins against Top 10 nationally ranked teams. In 2017, he was on staff at Michigan State University where advanced to the Elite Eight in the NCAA Tournament. Fall 2016-Spring 2018 I was the GA for the inaugural men’s volleyball program at Lincoln Memorial University (DI/DII) where we won the IVA Championship in 2018. Cody played at Culver-Stockton College (NAIA) where he was mentored by 3-time Olympian Caren Kemner. 

David Stanton (Assistant Coach)

We are excited to welcome Dave to the Vision coaching staff. He is a graduate of San Jose State University, where he earned his bachelors in Kinesiology in 2018, and his Masters in exercise physiology in May 2022. David began coaching at his alma mater in 2020, as a volunteer assistant with the Women’s Beach Program and is currently a volunteer assistant coach with the San Jose State University Women’s indoor team. He also coached the San Jose State women’s club team in the spring of 2022. Dave also spent two seasons coaching at Hollister High School and also formerly coached for Rush Volleyball Club. His playing experience began at Hollister high school where he played 4 years varsity and won 2 league titles, then continued at San Jose State for their men’s club team. Currently, he plays primarily on the beach and competes in CBVA tournaments during the summer. In addition to coaching volleyball, he is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and has worked both at CSUMB and San Jose State as an assistant strength coach for volleyball, basketball, and softball.

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Ron Whitmill (Head Coach)
Ron returns to the 17's team this season after winning the region and double qualifying for the open division with 17 Gold in 2018. His teams have now won the region 4 years in a row and qualified for the JNC's in each of the past 12 seasons. In 2013, his 15 Gold team won two qualifiers and finished fifth at the JNC's. In 2012, he helped lead the 16 Gold team to a 5th place finish at the JNC's in Ohio. In 2011, he coached both the 16 Gold and 15 Gold teams to JNC Bids. Previously he coached the 18 Blue team for three seasons. All three seasons his teams earned bids to the JO's, with the 2009 squad earning an Open bid, giving Vision two teams in the division. This was the first time in the 28-team format that a club has sent two teams to 18 Open. He has a lengthy coaching and playing resume. He spent seven years with City Beach as a Head Coach, and was the Head Coach for the San Jose State Men's program. He previously was the head coach at Menlo-Atherton High School (2012-2014) where he won 2 CCS D1 championships and was a Mercury News Coach of the Year. He is currently the Head Varsity Coach at Valley Christian High School (2015-present) where his teams have won 2 CCS titles as well as 2 NorCal championships and a CIF State championship.

Keilani Mayo (Assistant Coach)

Keilani is entering her second season coaching at Vision. Before coaching at Vision, she helped assist and lead the strength and conditioning program for the Menlo-Atherton High School Varsity team where they won a CCS Championship. Prior to coaching, Keilani played at Westmont College as a defensive specialist during the 2019-2020 season where they won a (GSAC) conference championship and went all the way to the NAIA National Championship finishing 2nd in the nation. She played at Valley Christian High School where the team won a CCS Championship, a NorCal Championship, and made a State appearance in 2016. She is now returning back to her high school and coaching at Valley Christian.

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Tony Holland (Head Coach)
Tony is in his 14th season coaching club volleyball in the Bay Area. Since joining Vision, Tony has head coached or assisted our 16’s, 17’s and 18’s teams. His teams have won the Pacific Northwest Qualifier (‘16, ’21), a bronze medal at Colorado Crossroads (‘17) and qualified for JNC’s in 4 of his 6 seasons with the club. Prior to joining Vision, Tony served as both a head coach and an assistant coach for Power Teams from ages 12 through 18. He has helped lead his teams to Top 3 Finishes at Far Westerns, the Pacific Northwest Qualifier and qualify for the Junior National Championships in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2021. Tony is currently in his 9th season with the Menlo School Girls Volleyball program and will begin his 3rd season as the Girls Varsity Head Coach and Program Director this Fall. Tony has helped lead Menlo to 6 WBAL Championships, 4 straight CCS Open Division appearances, a CCS Championship, 2 Nor Cal Championships and the CIF Division IV State runner-up in 2013. In 2016, Tony was the First Assistant on Menlo’s  Division IV State Championship team, the first in school history. When not coaching, Tony works in finance and resides in San Mateo.

Isabelle Issak (Assistant Coach)
Izzy is a former longtime Vision player and is currently playing college volleyball at SF State. She made the CCAA All-Tournament Team in the 2021 season and was also an All CCAA Honorable Mention honoree. Before her time at SF State she played beach and indoor volleyball at Foothill College. Izzy played locally at Los Gatos High School where she was a three-year varsity starter and led her team to a CCS Championship.​  

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Shawn Palmer (Head Coach)
Shawn Palmer enters his 4th season with Vision Shawn moved to California with his family in January of 2019.  Shawn has over 15 years of experience as a club and high school head coach in Pennsylvania and Minnesota. Shawn’s club teams have consistently enjoyed success at the regional and national levels.  Recent highlights include a 2018 championship at the North Coast power league (consisting of top open-level teams from Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, and Canada), multiple regional championships, a 2015 NEQ championship, as well as a 7th-place finish at the GJNC.  Shawn also served as a lead skills trainer for 15U-17U age groups. As a high school coach, Shawn has helped to turn around multiple programs. Most recently, he took over a 2012 program that had not qualified for the playoffs in a decade. The team finished third in the state in his second season, qualifying for the WPIAL playoffs all five seasons he was with the program, twice finishing in the final four.

Joe Ripp (Assistant Coach)
​​Joe is both the founder (1997) and director of Vision Volleyball Club. During that 22 year span, the teams Joe has coached have qualified for the JNC’s every year and won multiple NCVA Regional Championships. He has coached at every age level, from 14's through 18's. In 2017 he coach 17 Gold, a team that won the region and finished 5th at Nationals. In 2016 his 15 Gold team went undefeated in the region and qualified for the Open division at Nationals. From 2016 – 2009 his teams all qualified for the Open division. His 2012 team finished 5th at the Junior Nationals in Ohio. In 2009, the team also earned a fifth place finish at the JNC's in Miami. Previously, he coached the 18 Blue team for two seasons. His 2007 team won a Bronze Medal in the 18 Club Division of the Junior Nationals. In 2005, Joe guided the Vision 17 Gold team to the silver medal in the 17 Open Division of the Junior Nationals.  Joe had two stints as head coach at Los Gatos High School and spent a total of 20-year coaching at LGHS.  His high school teams won four CCS championships, three Nor-Cal championships and one California State Championship.

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Jeanine Haldi (Head Coach)
Jeanine enters her 8th season with Vision, where she has coached at the 16’s, 15’s, 12’s and now 13’s division.  She is currently the Head Coach at Soquel High School where her teams have won 2 league and 2 CCS Championships. Jeanine also sent eight seasons as an Assistant Coach with San Jose State. She is into her eleventh season coaching junior volleyball. As a junior player, she played her senior season for Vision's 18 Gold former Head Coach, Jason Mansfield and was an All-American at the Junior Nationals. She played for SJSU from 1999-2002, and finished her career ranking sixth all-time in digs. She was a three-time Scholar-Athlete, and graduated in 2003 with a degree in Kinesiology. She earned her Masters Degree in Sport Management from USF in 2006. For more information see Jeanine's SJSU bio.
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Jacob Haldi (Assistant Coach)
Jacob is in his third year with Vision and came on board with 15 years of coaching experience. His coaching resume includes 10 years with Club Levile of Tracy, a club he Co-founded. He as also coached boys volleyball for Heritage High School, Main Beach Volleyball Club and currently with Soquel High School's Varsity where he is the Head Coach. At Soquel he also serves as the Girls JV Coach and as an Assistant to the Varsity team with its Head Coach, Jeanine Haldi (Vision's 12 Gold Head Coach). He has a Culinary Arts Degree from Corden Bleu in San Francisco.

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Jon Wallace (Head Coach)
Jon Wallace has over 30 years of coaching experience at the colligate level, including 20 years as the Head Coach at Santa Clara University, before retiring in 2018. Wallace solidified the Broncos as an annual top 25 program nationally and a regular participated in the NCAA Tournament. The program has reached 16 NCAA Tournaments (13 under Wallace), including a 2005 Final Four berth. Wallace has produced 10 All-Americans and 12 AVCA All-Region selections and 92 All-West Coast Conference honorees, including three WCC Players of the Year and five WCC Freshmen of the Year. He was a player himself at UCSB where his junior season included a run to the NCAA Championship. Jon currently resides in the Bay Area with his wife Nancy and three kids.

Baiba Zake McGibben (Assistant Coach)
Coach Baiba is entering her second year at the Vision Volleyball club as assistant coach on 14 Gold team and Head Coach on 14 Blue team. Native to Latvia, she has more than 20 years of coaching experience. Baiba has coached many age groups, including 11s - 14s club teams that consistently have qualified for GJNCs. With her GUNN high school team, she won the SCVL Champion Title in 2018 and the CCS Champion Title in 2019. She was also named CCS “Coach of the Year” in 2019. Prior to her coaching carrier, Baiba played collegiate volleyball for Seton Hall University in New Jersey. There, she earned the “Big-East Player of the Year” title, was selected to the “All-Big-East First Team” and named the “Seton Hall Female Athlete of the Year” in her junior and senior years. Baiba also played for Junior National Team of Latvia and spent her high school years in Moscow playing for Dinamo Moscow Volleyball Club. She and her family currently live in Los Altos.

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Baiba Zake McGibben (Head Coach)
Coach Baiba is entering her second year at the Vision Volleyball club as assistant coach on 14 Gold team and Head Coach on 14 Blue team. Native to Latvia, she has more than 20 years of coaching experience. Baiba has coached many age groups, including 11s - 14s club teams that consistently have qualified for GJNCs. With her GUNN high school team, she won the SCVL Champion Title in 2018 and the CCS Champion Title in 2019. She was also named CCS “Coach of the Year” in 2019. Prior to her coaching carrier, Baiba played collegiate volleyball for Seton Hall University in New Jersey. There, she earned the “Big-East Player of the Year” title, was selected to the “All-Big-East First Team” and named the “Seton Hall Female Athlete of the Year” in her junior and senior years. Baiba also played for Junior National Team of Latvia and spent her high school years in Moscow playing for Dinamo Moscow Volleyball Club. She and her family currently live in Los Altos.

Julian Abreu (Assistant Coach)
​Julian enters his first season with Vision, and his 5th club season overall. He has coached power league teams in the 17,16,15,14’s age groups. He has also spent time as the Boys’ Varsity Head Coach and East Union High school in Manteca. Julian is currently attending San Jose State University where her is majoring in exercise science, and is planning on attending graduate school as an Athletic Trainer.

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Kyra Pelayo (Co-Head Coach)
Kyra returns to Vision Volleyball Club for her 6th season after competing for Vision as a junior player. She also competed at Saint Francis High School before attending Hawaii Pacific University. She was an outstanding Libero, earning PacWest Conference Libero-of-the-Year honors, as well as All-PacWest First-Team honors. She started her coaching career in Hawaii with HI-Intensity Volleyball Club, and with Chaminade University, where she was a Volunteer Assistant.
 

Joe Ripp (Co-Head Coach)
Joe is both the founder (1997) and director of Vision Volleyball Club. During that 22 year span, the teams Joe has coached have qualified for the JNC’s every year and won multiple NCVA Regional Championships. He has coached at every age level, from 14's through 18's. In 2017 he coach 17 Gold, a team that won the region and finished 5th at Nationals. In 2016 his 15 Gold team went undefeated in the region and qualified for the Open division at Nationals. From 2016 – 2009 his teams all qualified for the Open division. His 2012 team finished 5th at the Junior Nationals in Ohio. In 2009, the team also earned a fifth place finish at the JNC's in Miami. Previously, he coached the 18 Blue team for two seasons. His 2007 team won a Bronze Medal in the 18 Club Division of the Junior Nationals. In 2005, Joe guided the Vision 17 Gold team to the silver medal in the 17 Open Division of the Junior Nationals.  Joe had two stints as head coach at Los Gatos High School and spent a total of 20-year coaching at LGHS.  His high school teams won four CCS championships, three Nor-Cal championships and one California State Championship.

Oscar Crespo (Assistant Coach)
Oscar has over 30 years of coaching experience at the club, high school and collegiate levels. Prior to joining Vision, Oscar was most recently the Head Coach of the Women Volleyball Team at San Jose State University where he spent seven seasons. Prior to accepting the Spartan position, Crespo spent seven years as a member of the University of Nevada volleyball coaching staff, as an Assistant Coach and Associate Head Coach. Crespo also has international experience, having coached the BIP/USA Selection team in 2001 in Seblini, Italy. He spent the spring of 2002 coaching a USA College All-Star team in France, Holland and Belgium, and in 2007 was on the USA/BIP staff coaching the USA selection which competed on a six city tour in Argentina vs the Argentinian National Team. Crespo's coaching experience also includes stints at the University of California, Berkeley (1995-98), Saint Mary's College (1993-94) and De Anza College. Crespo and his wife, Lisa Ice-Crespo, a three-time All-American at San José State, reside in Los Gatos with their three children: Ryan, Rachel and Karly.

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William Lo (Head Coach)
William (Will) is entering into his 15th season coaching, and his second at Vision.  Last season, his 14 Blue team finished 10th in region and earned a bid to Junior Nationals.  Prior to joining the club, Will had 10 successful seasons at City Beach, where he was the head coach for their 14's and 15's top power teams.  Having coached alongside successful coaches who have won state HS titles and have been part of the USA Volleyball coaching staff, William looks forward to passing that knowledge along to the teams he coaches.  William is Gold Medal Squared and IMPACT certified.  He received his MBA from Santa Clara University and currently works as the university budget director for SCU.
 

Bekah Roth (Assistant Coach)

Bekah returns for her second season coaching at Vision. She is a former longtime Vision player and played her high school career at Valley Christian in San Jose. Collegiately she played at BIOLA University for 4 years and a final season at San Francisco State University, for Head Coach Matt Hoffman.  She is excited to use her experiences to help young athletes improve in their skills and hopefully enjoy the sport as much as she has. Currently, Bekah is finishing up her education at San Francisco State, working on a degree in Civil Engineering and a Masters in Civil and Structural Engineering. 

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Erin Reineking (Head Coach)
Erin is a Bay Area native having grown up in Salinas. She is a senior setter and defensive player on the Santa Clara University team, which she joined after spending a season at TCU. She had a stellar junior career in the Monterey Peninsula, having helped lead her Salinas High School team to a perfect 36-0 Tri-County League record during her three years on Varsity. She dished out over 1900 assists as a 3-year starter. In her senior season she was her team MVP and the Monterey County MVP. Erin had a successful club career playing for Main Beach in Santa Cruz. She is a Psychology major at Santa Clara, a member of the National honors Society and National Charity League.

Lindsey Daniel (Assistant Coach)

We are excited to welcome Lindsey back for her second season coaching at Vision. She played at Rice University, taking the program to their first ever NCAA appearance her senior year.  She earned a BA in Art History and English then went to NYU for a MA in Museum Studies.  At Bishop Moore Catholic High School she won 2 state championships and Lindsey was named Central Florida Player of the Year her junior and senior years. She played club for OVA (now OTVA) qualifying for JNCs every year.  Lindsey lives in Redwood City with her husband Rob and their three children. 

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Lara Montgomery Farwell (Head Coach)
Lara comes from a family of collegiate hall of fame coaches including her father who coached the women’s volleyball team at SJSU. Fundamentals and work ethic have been a constant focus through her volleyball career and she attributes so many valuable life lessons to volleyball including perseverance, determination, working as a team, and staying positive in the face of adversity. Lara is excited to pass on these valuable skills through coaching to help her players grow both on and off the court. Lara played high school volleyball at Los Gatos High School where she was coached by Vision Director Joe Ripp, winning a CCS, Northern California, and State Championship and continued to play at the Division 1 collegiate level at UCSB under international hall of fame coach, Kathy Gregory. She resides in her home town of Los Gatos with her husband and three children. 

Sam Philipopoulos  (Assistant Coach)
Sam is entering his first year coaching at Vision. Has previously coached 2 years down in Southern California at Beach Cities Volleyball Club. He grew up in Torrance, CA playing both high school and club volleyball. His high school team finished top 10 in the nation his junior year, as well as awarding him MVP of the Pioneer league, and All Southern Section Division 1 2nd team honors. Is now a senior at San Jose State University studying Business Management-Supply Chain. Sam currently plays on the Men's Club Volleyball team, in which he helped lead them to a 3rd place national finish last year in Division 1AA, as well as 2nd team all Northern California honors.

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Christa Cook - (Co-Head Coach)

Christa is a local product from Los Altos and played collegiality at San Jose State University. She earned a Conference MVP award, went to the Final Four, and the Spartans were ranked in the Top 10 in the country her sophomore, junior and senior years. After college, she continued her career playing professionally both indoor & beach. She represented USA Volleyball on the Olympic B team at the World University Games in Yugoslavia, and as part of the USA All-Star Team Tour of Egypt. Christa has over 25 years experience coaching at the club, high school, and college levels.

Katie M'Guinness (Co-Head Coach)
Katie is returning for her fourth season coaching at Vision. She is from San Jose and recently graduated with her Bachelors degree in Liberal Studies for Teacher Preparation from Notre Dame de Namur. She played seven years of club volleyball, finishing out her competitive play as a middle in high school. Katie coached the 12s/13s age groups at her alma mater for 5 years prior to coming to coach for Vision.

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​Lisa Becerra (Head Coach)

Lisa has 20-plus years of combined coaching experience at the high school and club level. As the Head Coach at St. Ignatius College Preparatory Lisa led the team to its first ever CCS championship in 2010 and was named "Coach of the Year" by San Francisco Examiner. More recently Lisa served as an assistant coach at Archbishop Mitty when the Monarchs won three consecutive CIF State Championships from 2015-2017 in dominating fashion. A Santa Cruz native, Lisa was a four-year varsity starter and first-team all-league player at Aptos High. In 2000, Lisa's club team won a gold medal at Girls Junior National Championships in the open division. She was named SCCAL MVP her senior season before going on to play at Georgia State and earning Atlantic Sun Conference "Freshman of the Year" award. Lisa is currently the Head Coach for Hollister High School and lives in Hollister with her husband and three kids, ages 10, 9 and 5.
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Cassidy Lichtman (Club Assistant)
Cass will be helping across all high school age Vision teams this season. She returned to Vision to assist with the 18 Gold team in 2017 and 17 Gold in 2018, after taking a break to compete with USA Volleyball. Her resume in volleyball is extraordinary. She is a current member of the Board of Directors for USA Volleyball and will be playing professionally this spring in the new American pro league, Athletes Unlimited. In 2016 she served as an Assistant Coach, helping Stanford University win the NCAA National Championship. This added to her collegiate resume, which as a player included earning First Team All-American honors in 2009 and 2010. Her start into collegiate coaching followed a successful stretch competing with the USA National Team. During that time she earned multiple medals in helping her teams in international competition, including five golds. Cass also had an outstanding junior career, recognized as one of the top players in the country. She graduated from Stanford in 2011 with a degree in Political Science and a master's in History. She currently runs P/ATH, a non-profit focused on using sports to teach the next generation new skills around empathy, equity and empowerment.