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Coaches for 2011/12

Coaching assignments may change due to age and talent of
players at tryouts and number of actual teams formed.

Directors	Bio
Howard Barnhill	Director of CJV Traveling Teams. Howard led West Charlotte High School to 2 State Championships and has over 15 years of club coaching experience.
Carrie Christian	Director of the Non-Traveling Program. Carrie is the Head Coach at Nation Ford High School in Fort Mill for 2 years (2010 3A State Champions), 2 Region Championships. Was the Head Coach of Charlotte Country Day School Varsity for 5 years.; over 10 years club coaching experience.
Tim Leary	Assistant Director of Non-Traveling Program. Head Coach of Charlotte Catholic High School Varsity (3 NC State Championships and 14 Conference Championships). 3-time All-Observer Coach of the Year.
Suzie Pignetti	Director of CJV Traveling Teams and 2012 13 Traveling Team Coach. Just completed her 10^th season at Charlotte Latin; 2010 won 7^th NCISAA 3A State Championships in a row; 9 CISAA regular season championships. Prior Head Coach at Butler four years and Charlotte Country Day for twenty years (6 NCISAA State Championships). Over 20 years of club coaching experience. Founder of Serve for the Cure; raised over $207,000 in nine years for Charlotte Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
Amanda Valbert	Director of CJV Northlake. Amanda was the assist leading setter for Queens University during her playing career. She has been a middle and high school assistant coach and club coach since graduating from Queens University. Amanda joins us to focus on expanding the program offerings at the Northlake location.

Coaches	Bio
Zoe Bell	Coach of the 2012 17 Traveling Team. Zoe is the Head Coach at Ardrey Kell High School and was the Head Coach for Providence High School Varsity (4 NC 4A State Championships); over 15 years club coaching experience.
Cori Bray	Coach of the 2012 14 Traveling Team. Cori is the Head Coach at Hickory Grove High School as well as a Non-Traveling Program Coach.. Cori was a two-time All-Conference Player at Milligan College in TN as an outside and opposite hitter. Cori has over 4 years of club coaching experience.
Emily Carrara	Coach of the 2012 16 Traveling Team. Emily is the Asst. Coach at Queens University. She has also coached at South Mecklenburg High School and has over 4 years of club coach experience. Emily was an all-conference setter at Winthrop University, Big South Conference Championships from 2003-2006. Emily still holds the Single Season Assists Record, and the Career Assists Record at Winthrop University.
Tom Christian	Tom is the Asst. coach at Nation Ford High School in Fort Mill (2010 3A State Champions), was the asst coach at CCDS for 5 years and has over 10 years club coaching experience.
Stephanie Harpenau	Stephanie is the Asst. coach of the 2012 14 Traveling team. Stephanie was an All-American Middle Blocker for Purdue, still holding 3 school records (blocks, block assists and hitting %). She has also played professionally in Switzerland. Stephanie has over 2 years club coaching experience.
Bethany Johansen	Bethany is the Asst. coach for the 2012 CJV 17 Traveling Team. Bethany played middle blocker at the University of Southern California when they made their final four appearance in 2007. Bethany has over 6 years of coaching experience at various camps and clubs.
Ellen Kazura	Assistant Coach of the 2012 13 Traveling Team, Ellen is the head coach of the Junior Varsity team at Charlotte Latin School and previously coached the Middle School team at Latin.
Mel Jaehnen	Head Coach at Fort Mill High School for the past 3 years. Coached Traveling Volleyball teams for 8 years and has worked with the Non-Traveling program for the past 2 years. Over 10 years of coaching experience.
Ron Larson	Club Consultant from Gold-Medal Squared Volleyball and 2008 Gold Medal Men's Olympic Volleyball Team. Click Here for More Details on Ron and Gold Medal Squared Click Here for Gold-Medal Squared Volleyball Info
Mary Leventis	Asst Coach of the 2012 16 Traveling team. Mary is the Asst. Coach and Recruiting Coordinator at Winthrop University. Mary was an all-conference outside hitter at Winthrop University (Big South Conference Championships, 2002-2006). Mary still holds career records for both kills and aces at Winthrop University and for the Big South Conference.
Mary McGraw	Coach of the Non-Traveling Gold teams. Mary is in her 3rd year as JV and Asst Varsity coach at Myers Park. Mary was a traveling team coach at SC Juniors before moving to Charlotte. She is in her 4th year at CJV.
Heather Mills	Asst Coach of the 2011 16 Traveling Team. 5th year as Head Coach at Covenant Day School (Conference Champions in 2010). Started the program and was the head coach at United Faith Christian Academy (1993-2002). Played at Oklahoma Wesleyan College.
Chuck Rey	Coach of the 2010 16 Traveling Team. Chuck is the Asst. Coach at Winthrop University and was formerly an assistant at Univ. of Minnesota and Georgia-Southern.
Brian Rosen	Coach of 2012 15 Traveling Team. Brian is in his second year as Head Coach of Charlotte Country Day School, has coached for our Non-Traveling program, coached club teams at Univ. of South Carolina, and was the volunteer asst. coach at Winthrop.
Sandi Skidmore	Asst Coach of the 2012 15 Traveling Team. Sandi is the Head Coach at Hough High school and was the Head Coach at North Meck High school. Sandi has over 7 years of club coaching experience.
Karen Stewart	Coach of the Non-Traveling program. Karen is in her 7th year at Covenant Day School as a JV and Asst Varsity coach. Karen has coached for the CJV Non-Traveling teams (all ages) for 6 years.