Yvonne Devlin - Co Director

Sindee Snow - Co Director

TJ Wilson

Facility Manager

Michelle Culbreth

Accounting Manager

Roberto Santasofia

Facility Staff

Team: 10 Asics Head Coach

Graduated from Barron G. Collier in 1983 and went on to play Div. 1 Volleyball at Stetson University all four years. After graduating in 1987 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education, she started her teaching and coaching career in Orlando, Florida. She is currently at Winter Springs High School and has led her Varsity Volleyball Teams to the State Finals five times. She has coached for OVA since the inaugural season.

 

Team: 17 Asics Head Coach

A graduate and three-year letter winner at Florida Southern from 1980-82, Snow earned second team All-Sunshine State Conference honors, while helping lead the Moccasins to a 48-8 record and the SSC Championship.

A fixture within the Orlando volleyball community, Snow has been Co-Director of the Orlando Volleyball Academy and helped found the organization in 1996.

Prior to OVA, Orlando volleyball was a small blip in the grand scheme of club volleyball.  Since the inaugural season, which had seven teams, OVA has grown into one of the elite club volleyball programs and has over 20 teams.  OVA has achieved a record that is unparallel in the state of Florida. Since 1996, the club has had more than 125 student-athletes attend college on volleyball scholarships. With 22 AAU All-Americans, five USA Volleyball All-Americans and three “Fab 50” players, Orlando is often revered as one of the elite volleyball locations.

 During that time she has served as head coach of several club and junior national teams. Her team finished ranked third-nationally in 1998, 12th in 1999, and second in 2001.  Three of her teams have finished as the national runner-up.



 

Team: 18 Asics Assistant Coach

Yvonne graduated from the University of Central Florida in 1979 with a Bachelor's Degree in Education. While there, she participated in three National Championships in volleyball and two softball National Tournaments. Yvonne was voted MVP and nominated to the Metro Hall of Fame for outstanding contribution to athletic competition.  She played USABA volleyball for six years, and has officiated NAGWS, NCAA, and USVBA volleyball for 25 years.

In 1996, she founded Orlando Volleyball Academy and has served as Tournament Director for the National Amateur Athletic Union since 1998 and the Sunshine State Games since 1999. In 1999, Yvonne was the tournament director for the National Senior games held at Disney's Wide World of Sports for volleyball and badminton. Her work over the past several years in hosting girls' junior tournaments earned her the Best Tournament Host Award for the Florida Region in 2007.

Yvonne has been very active in building youth and adult volleyball in the Florida, serving as the commissioner for USA Volleyball Florida Region from 2001-2005 and the Junior Region Coordinator for girls volleyball from 2005-2008.

Team: 12 National Head Coach

Team: 13 Molten Co-Head Coach

This will be her first year to coach for OVA. Cindy has been playing and coaching volleyball for over 20 years. She played college volleyball in Texas and Missouri and was a graduate assistant for one year. She also coached in Texas from 1993-1996 and Missouri from 1997-2000 and coached at Apopka High School for one year in 2003. She was an assistant coach for back to back Missouri class 2A state championship teams from 1998-2000. As an adult she plays volleyball and is looking forward to getting back into coaching this year.
 

Team: 14 Asics Head Coach

15 Regional Red Head Coach

Daniel has over 10 years of experience coaching youth girls and boys in Puerto Rico. In his first coaching experience with Arsel volleyball club his 10U team won the Puerto Rican championship. Daniel's 14U won the Puerto Rican National title three consecutive years; in two of those three seasons his team went undefeated. In his early years of coaching his 12U team won the AAU national title and his 13U team took 3rd place. In 2006 he became the 4th coach from Puerto Rico to win the USA Junior Nationals in the age 14 open (one of the other 3 coaches to win was his brother Carmelo). In the same year his 12U team won bronze medals for the second consecutive year. In 2006 he became the 4th coach from Puerto Rico to win the USA Junior Nationals in the age 14 open In the same year his 12U team won bronze medals for the second consecutive year.

Team: 16 Asics Head Coach

Tanya has been a member of OVA as a player and then a coach for 13 years. She is currently in her second year as head coach for her alma mature Bishop Moore Catholic High School. This past September, she was elected to the FHSAA Girls Volleyball Advisory Committee were she will serve for three years. In 2005 she was an Assistant coach for the YNT Team Florida team. Tanya graduated from the University of Central Florida in 2005 were she was a 4 year starter for the knights, making 3 NCAA tournament appearances 2001-2003. She is 6th all time in Kills with 1,049, 8th in Aces per game with 0.31, and 8th in Digs with 891. She was a member of the 2001 Atlantic Sun Freshman Team and the 2004 Atlantic Sun Second Team. Tanya played on both 1999 and 2000 Bishop Moore State Championship Teams under the direction of Sindee Snow. In 2001 Tanya and her partner Hannah Roberts placed 3rd at the USAV beach volleyball national championships.

Team: 18 Asics Head Coach / 13 Asics Assistant Coach

Roberto played professional volleyball in Brazil as a defensive specialist. Roberto has been with OVA since 2004. His 13 Asics team qualified for the 2008 USAV Junior Olympic National Championships and finished in 3rd. Roberto has also been the Assistant Coach for Rollins College for the last 4 years.

Team:14 National Blue Head Coach

Team:12 Asics Co-Coach/ 17 Molten Co-Coach

NORTH MIAMI SENIOR HIGH- North Miami, Florida

v  3 Sport Athlete-Volleyball, Softball & Basketball

v  Unsung Hero Award for Girl’s Athletic’s

v  Honorable Mention All-Dade County 

        MIAMI DADE COMMUNITY COLLEGE – Miami, Florida

            COACH DULCIE “COOKIE” STEVENS

            August 1982-June 1984

v  Full-Scholarship Junior College 1982-1983

v  State Champions 1982-1983

v  National Junior College Championship 3^rd place 1982

v  National Junior College Championship 2^nd place 1983

v  All Conference, All State 2^nd team, All Regional Tournament Team 1982

v  All Conference, All State First team 1983, All Regional Tournament 1983

v  National Junior College All Tournament Team 1982 & 1983

v  National Junior College All American 1983

v  Female Athlete of the Year Miami Dade Junior College 1983

v  Sports Society Lady Athlete 1983

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA – Gainesville, Florida

COACHES MARILYN MCREAVY & MARY JO PEPPLER

v  Full-Scholarship Division I 1984-1988 - Setter

v  First All SEC Volleyball Player at Florida

v  Statistical MVP- Led in Assist, digs and passing average

v  Only player to play all 113 games 1984

v  Made every All-Tournament Team ever played in

v  MVP Hofstra Invitational

v  Unanimously voted Team Captain 1985

v  Student Assistant 1986

v  Selected to Florida All-Star Team, 1983 & 1984 Traveled to Germany, Holland, France, Belgium and Switzerland to play volleyball.

WOMEN’S PROFESSIONAL VOLLEYBALL LEAGUE

v  New York Liberties 1987 & 1988 Season

WINTER PARK HIGH SCHOOL- Winter Park,  Florida

v  Junior Varsity Coach 1989

CAMBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL – Cambridge, Ohio

v  Assistant Girls Varsity and JV Volleyball Coach 1996 Season

LYCOMING COLLEGE – Division III – Williamsport, Pennsylvania

v  1997 Record 30-14, Freedom League Champs, NCAA Tournament Appearance

v  1998 Record 27-10, Freedom League Champs, NCAA Tournament Appearance

v  1999 Record 25-16, Runner-Up Freedom League

v  2000 Record 13-11

I was involved in recruiting, scheduling, team conditioning, setting up and running tournaments at the high school and college level. I was also involved in coordinating and running practices for the overall development of the team.

NORTH MIAMI SENIOR HIGH – Miami, Florida

v  Inducted into High School Athletic Hall of Fame – May 2008

VOLUSIA VOLLEYBALL CLUB – Deltona, Florida

v  Coached 11-15 year old girls club season 2009

DELTONA HIGH SCHOOL – Deltona, Florida

v  Girl’s Varsity Head Coach 2009

ORLANDO VOLLEYBALL ACADEMY-Orlando, Florida

v  Coaching 12 & 17 Year Old Girls 2010 Club Season

Team: 14 Asics Assistant Coach / 16 Molten Assistant Coach

This is Julie’s second season coaching with OVA. She is also the assistant coach to the girls varsity volleyball team at Lake Mary High School. Julie played volleyball for OVA and at Oviedo High School, where she was a member of the 2001 Class 6A State Runner-Up team. While at Oviedo, Julie was a member of the All-Conference, All-District and All-State teams. Julie graduated from Mercer University in May 2008 with a B.A. in Communication.  She was a 4 year starter for the Bears and earned a spot on the 2004 Atlantic Sun All-Freshmen team. Julie holds single-season records for kills per game, points per game, block assists and total points and ranks second all time in career kills (1264).

Team: 14 Regional Red Head Coach

Team: 15 National Red Assistant Coach

Team: 11 Asics Assistant Coach

Team: 13 National Head Coach

Team: 17 Asics Assistant Coach

Dee Dee began her coaching career with UCF and served as both an Assistant coach and the Head coach for a total of   5 years.  She has been involved with club volleyball for 10 years and has coached with OVA for 8 of those. 

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Mitch Sadowsky is in his first year with OVA. In his 13^th year of coaching, Mitch has coached at all levels in the game of volleyball, most recently as the Assistant Coach at Florida State University and at Georgetown University. He has also coached at the club level for the Metro American Volleyball Club in Washington D.C., North Shore Milwaukee Volleyball Club Milwaukee, Wis. and Munciana Volleyball Club in Muncie, Ind. where his 16-Under team won the 1998 Club National Championship. As a player, Mitch played for the North Shore Milwaukee Volleyball Club and competed collegiately for national power Ball State University where he was a part of 3 teams that competed in the Final Four. After college he played professionally in Germany and for Team USA in the 2001 Maccabbi Games in Tel Aviv, Israel. In addition to coaching at OVA, Mitch is also the club director for the Orlando Gold Boy’s Volleyball Club and is the program director for the Dig 4 Kids Education Foundation which started programs here in Orlando in the fall of 2008.

Team: 15 Asics Head Coach

Stephanie Gibson says her mission is to teach young athletes to love the sport of volleyball, build self esteem and confidence in young women, and use their volleyball experiences to manufacture their life skills.  Coach Gibson is currently a Physical Education Teacher, Assistant Athletic Director, and Head Girls Volleyball Coach at Winter Park High School.  She has been the varsity coach at Winter Park High School (2000-2007) and Miami Sunset (1989-1999).  In 18 years of coaching, Gibson has compiled a career record of 505-82. Gibson’s teams advanced to the FHSAA Regional playoffs in all 18 seasons. Her teams have won 15 conference titles, 15 District Titles, nine Regional titles, and seven State Championship Titles (four as a head coach).  Coach Gibson has been named Florida Dairy Farmer Coach of the Year in 1995, 2004, and 2005. She has been selected to coach the FACA State All-Star Game, and has been named Metro-Conference Coach of the year four times.  In 1989, she took over as the director of the South Florida Volleyball Club, and held that position for twelve years. Currently she is a travel team coach with OVA.  Gibson credits club volleyball for the success of her high school teams.  In addition to her coaching experience, Gibson also played on the collegiate level in two sports.  Coach Gibson earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physical Education at Florida International University, while competing on the Volleyball and Softball Teams.  She is a CAP I certified volleyball coach.  Gibson has served five terms with the FHSAA Volleyball Advisory Committee.

Team: 15 Asics Assistant Coach

Prior to coaching in Orlando, Peterson spent four seasons as the assistant coach at USF. While with the Bulls, he helped guide the squad from a 4-22 record in his first season with the team to a 19-10 record in three-short years. Peterson's primary duties at USF were developing the skills of both the outside hitters and defensive specialists and serving as the secondary recruiter and director of volleyball operations. Peterson was hired at USF after having worked with the USA Women's National Team as it prepared for the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. As an assistant with the national team, he assisted the head coach in all facets of practice progression and also took classes at the USOC coaching sciences department. Peterson began his collegiate coaching career as a volunteer assistant at Florida in 2003. That season, he helped lead the Gators to the NCAA Championship match and a 36-2 record. Peterson's primary duties while at Florida were assisting with on-court training and individual sessions, scouting of opponents' offensive tendencies and charting video for the All-America selection committee. The assistant's first coaching opportunity was at McIntosh High School in 1999. As the head coach of the freshman team, he led his squad to a 15-1 record. Peterson then moved into club coaching as the assistant coach of the South Atlanta Volleyball Club. In 2002, he returned to McIntosh High to serve as the head coach of the junior varsity team and the interim head coach of the varsity team, leading the varsity squad to its first appearance in the Elite Eight. Peterson remains actively involved in the USA Volleyball Development Program. In the summer of 2006, he was an assistant coach at the Youth A2 High Performance Camp in Colorado Springs, Colo. In that position, Peterson assisted in the training of the top-50 players in the youth national team age group under the guidance of Chuck Erbe, trained the outside hitters and coached the Youth National Team USA Gold to a fifth-place finish at the Junior National Tournament international division at the USA High Performance Championships. Peterson has also served as a head coach at both the St. Leo and George Mason Developmental Camps and remains a lead tryout coach for USA Volleyball High Performance. A graduate of Concordia College in Bronxville, N.Y., Peterson earned his bachelor's degree in biology in 1999. While at Concordia, Peterson was a member of the men's intercollegiate volleyball team from 1994-98, serving as captain his final two seasons. He was distinguished as the 1995 Concordia College Freshman Athlete of the Year and was named to numerous all-tournament teams. During his senior campaign he set a NCAA record for career digs with 1,103.

Team: 14 Regional Royal Head Coach / 14 Molten Assistant Coach
 

Team: 15 National Head Coach

Vonn is entering his fifth year as a coach with OVA, working primarily with 15 year old teams. He is originally from Tampa where he coached with Bob Sierra YMCA’s Club Storm with teams ranging in ages from 13 – 16. Vonn graduated from Georgia Tech where he studied Industrial Engineering and Psychology. While at Tech, he was a member of the GT Volleyball Club and served as a head volleyball official for campus intramurals.
Vonn continually strives to improve himself as a player and coach. He has played for over 15 years and currently holds a Level I CAP certification from USA Volleyball.
 

Team: 16 National Head Coach
 

Team: 15 Molten Co-Head Coach

Team: 16 Molten Head Coach

Trav is a graduate from Florida State University with a degree in Recreation and Leisure Services Administration. This will be Trav’s 3rd season with OVA. Trav recently finished his first season as head coach at Lake Mary High School with a 22-5 record. He played club volleyball for Florida State University, Orlando Gold, and during his senior year at Lake Mary High School he participated in the Inaugural Boy’s High School State Championship. At Lake Mary he was selected to the all-conference team, and broke the record for most assists in a season. He is a Level I CAP certified coach.

Team: 13 Asics Head Coach

TJ played high school volleyball for Edgewater High School as a defensive specialist and outside hitter. TJ also has 15 years of experience as a competitive baseball player. TJ Wilson has been with OVA since 2002 as an elite coach. His 15 Asics team qualified for the 2007 USAV Junior Olympic National Championships. TJ has also been the Varsity Assistant Coach for Winter Park High School for the last 5 years, as well as the Head Coach for the Junior Varsity and freshman teams.

Team: 16 Asics Assistant Coach / 18 Asics Assistant Coach

Jose served as an assistant coach at Rollins College from 2002 to 2007.  In 2001, as the head coach of the Bishop Moore girls volleyball team,  Jose led his team to a second place finish at the State Championships.  Prior to coming to Orlando, Jose served as an assistant coach for the Women's National Team in Puerto Rico.

Team: 14 Molten Head Coach

Team:  15 Molten Co-Head Coach

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Played soccer at Tavares High School, University of Kentucky at Campbellsville for two years, and Warner Southern College for one. Then played Middle Blocker for Warner Southern College Men's volleyball team for 2 years. Coached volleyball camps at University of Florida and Florida Southern College. Recently graduated from Warner Southern with a Masters in Business Administration.
 

Team: 10 Molten Head Coach

Cynthia began playing volleyball at the age of 12.  She was a natural at the setter position and played that position for her entire volleyball career.  She played club volleyball for six years and was the starting setter on her high school team (which was one of the top high school teams in Puerto Rico).  Cynthia was named MVP in several high school tournaments and Athlete of the Year her senior year.
She was awarded a scholarship at University of Sacred Heart, San Juan, Puerto Rico.  After college, her talents were recognized at the next level and she was asked to play semi-professional volleyball, which she did for 3 years. She continued playing in adult tournaments and she and her husband, Felix Viera, were both awarded the MVP award in a tournament (this was the first time a couple won the MVP awards in the same year).
When Cynthia began coaching, she found her niche with the younger players.  She has primarily coached 10U, but also spent some time working with girls in the 12U age group.  Cynthia coached in a private school and helped develop one of the strongest school programs in Puerto Rico.  She was successful in leading her teams to the championship bracket on several occasions. She led her school team to the finals of the National School Tournament where they won the gold medal.

Team: 14 National Head Coach

17 Asics Assistant Coach

Team: 15 National Blue Head Coach

Team: 13 Molten Co-Head Coach

Felix was a late bloomer by Puerto Rican standards as he started playing volleyball at the age of 14, but once he started, he quickly excelled at the sport.  For the next four years he played both high school and club volleyball. His senior year he was chosen as Athlete of the Year. He was recognized as one of the top players in his age group and was awarded a scholarship to play at Central University of Bayamon, Puerto Rico.  After college he played professional volleyball for 4 years.  He was a versatile player which was to his advantage, as he could help his team in so many ways.  As a professional he played Right Side and Middle Blocker.  After his years in the professional league, he still had a strong desire to compete and he continued to play in adult tournaments.  He and his wife, Cynthia Ortega, were the first couple to win MVP awards in the same tournament.  His passion for the game is evident whether he is playing or coaching.

Felix began coaching club volleyball in 1994 and has 11 years experience working with junior girls primarily in the 10U-14U age group.  He came to the U.S. two years ago and coached at the 16U age division for the first time.  Even though he had a young team with little experience, he was able to finish the season with a top 20 ranking in the state.  He has had success across the board as he has won championships with every age group he has coached, including the Puerto Rican National School Tournament on three different occasions.

Team: 13 National Assistant Coach

Team: 12 Molten Assistant Coach/15 National Blue Assistant Coach

Alyson started playing volleyball in eighth grade when the McLean High School Coach at the time, Jennifer Bolger, brought her into the volleyball program early because she saw a lot of potential in her. She was a starting player on JV in her freshmen year and a starting player for Varsity in her sophomore, junior and senior years. In her senior year, she was a team captain and also assisted the freshmen volleyball coach. Although her strongest position is Middle Blocker, She has started as an Outside Hitter and a Right Side Hitter in club, high school and college.

Alyson started playing on a 14s club team in 2003 and has played both club and high school since. She was on 17s and 18s Select teams for Metro American Volleyball Club in 2006 and 2007. She played Middle Blocker and Right Side at Johnson and Wales University from 2007-2008 and has just transferred down to Florida.

Alyson has assisted with various clinics, camps and club teams during her volleyball career. She spent the majority of her summers for the past six years training at some of the best camps on the East Coast. She has had a lot of instruction from some of the best coaches on the East Coast; Barry Goldberg at American University and Steve Henry at the World Volleyball Training Center.

Alyson was born and raised in McLean, VA and just recently moved to Florida to be closer to her family. She is currently completing her A.A. at Valencia Community College and plans to pursue a B.S in Sports Medicine at UCF next year.

Team: 17 National Assistant Coach

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Team: 17 National Head Coach

Team: 18 Molten Head Coach

This is Carrie's 4th year coaching OVA. She is an OVA alumni and started playing OVA in it's inaugural season. Carrie played Division I volleyball as an Outside Hitter at Jacksonville University from 1998-2000 and received Player of the Year Honors for the Trans America Athletic Conference in 1999. She also made First Team All Conference in both 1999 and 2000 and received the JU team MVP award those same years. While at JU Carrie was ranked nationally in Service Aces per game and in 1998 finished 13th in the country and in 1999 finished 4th in the country in that category. Carrie played 3 years at JU and didn't play her senior season due to a back injury but still holds both individual season and career records at JU.

Prior to college Carrie played for Lake Brantley High School in Altamonte Springs, FL and was named the Orlando Sentinel Seminole County Player of the Year in 1997. She also made Class 6A 1st Team All State and made 1st Team All Conference Teams and won the team MVP awards a couple years throughout her career at Brantley. Currently Carrie is the Head Coach at Osceola High School and just completed her 5th season coaching the Kowboys with an overall coaching record at Osceola of 83-42. She was named the Orange Belt Conference Coach of the Year in both 2007 and 2008 and has advanced to the playoffs for the last 3 years. The Kowboys furthest run under Palmi was in 2008 when the team went 25-2 on the season and finished in the Sweet 16 in Class 6A.

Carrie Palmi resides in Kissimmee with her husband Brett and their four children. 

Team: 12 Asics Head Coach / 17 Molten Head Coach

Played at University of Central Florida, 2 Times All American.

1978 National Champions 55-00

1985 European Professional Tour

1987-1989 Major League Volleyball (First Professional League in the United States for women)

1989-1990 Professional League in Brazil.

1990- 1993 Professional Beach Volleyball

1999 Inducted in the Hall of Fame at University of Central Florida

Head Coach Boys 17-1 at San Diego Volleyball Club.

Head Coach of Central Florida for seven years with a record of 188-74 (.718). Conference coach of the year twice.

Six consecutives conference championships, five trips to the NCAA Tournament, 63 consecutive wins against conference competition.

Orlando Amateur Athletic Association Coach of the Year.

Head coach Valencia Community College for 5 years, record 88-37.

Head Coach Dr Phillips High School Boys and Girls for 4 years, record 68-12 boys runner-up-state Championships.

Coached 4 years in Brazil, recently returned to Orlando.

Team: 11 Asics Head Coach / 18 Molten Assistant Coach

Lindsey Lampert hails from Southern California, where she played middle blocker for the University of San Diego from 1998 to 2001. While at USD, Lindsey earned 1^st Team West Coast Conference All-Conference Honors in 2000 and 2001.  She earned team MVP honors in 2000.  In 2000 and 2001, Lindsey led the West Coast Conference in blocks and services aces. Before that, Lindsey played for Long Beach Volleyball Club (Mizuno Long Beach) since age 12.

After college, Lindsey started her coaching career with her former volleyball club, Mizuno Long Beach. While at Mizuno LB, Lindsey coached ages 14-18 as both head and assistant coaches.  Lindsey also coached at Millikan High School (alma mater) in Long Beach, CA and at St. Josephs Academy (all girl school) in nearby Lakewood, CA.

From Long Beach, Lindsey moved to Washington, DC and began coaching with Northern Virginia Volleyball Club (NVVA).  As head coach of the NVVA 15 Select team, her team won the East Coast Championship and earned at spot at Nationals in Minneapolis, MN.

In addition to coaching, Lindsey remains a player at heart and was involved in many adult leagues in both California and Virginia.

Carlos Arias

Team: 12 Molten Head Coach