As one of the founders and club directors of Red Rock Volleyball Club, he has strived to deliver a first-class experience and develop athletes to their full potential. Prior to joining EVA sixyears ago, Paigewas a head coach for Little Rock Juniors (10U-12); Arkansas Eagles (independent club 16s), and NOLA Volleyball (13s & 14s). His experience is a huge asset to EVA in running EVA Beach trainings. This benefits the coach in training as well as the team that they are helping as having more coaches in practice is always better for running smoother practices and providing valuable feedback. Over the years, Leigh Ann has nurtured her passion for the game through adult volleyball programs including grass, sand, and indoor environments as well as two years of club coaching experience for LRJ ages 14 and 15s. At EVA he was coaching 15U teams and was assisting with Elite level teams in preparation for the nationals. The Little Rock Trojans are the athletic teams representing the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.The Trojans are a non-football member of the Ohio Valley Conference and a wrestling affiliate member of the Pac-12 Conference.The University offers 7 men's and 8 women's varsity sports. In 2021/22 season Paige lead 16 Elite team and won three tournaments while playing in an age group up. Taylor graduated from Harding University with a Bachelor's degree in accounting. Under her leadership both 8th and 9th grades were Conference Champions and well as Varsity where she assists under coach Dani Moura. She is returning to her sixth season with EVA as the coach for the highest level team. Veronica played volleyball for the University of Arkansas at Little Rock during 2015-2018 and graduated with degrees in Marketing and International Business and a certificate in Professional Sales. $70 . Leigh Ann was born and raised in central Arkansas where she played varsity volleyball for North Little Rock High School as well as club volleyball. In her collegiate volleyball career she was used as a utility player as she served her team in multiple roles over the 4 seasons plying outside hitter, opposite (right side hitter), and a middle blocker. Quite decorated as a player Veronica received following awards and achievements: Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year (2018), First Team All-Sun Belt Conference (2018), Sun Belt All-Tournament Team (2018), 5 x Sun Belt Defensive Player of the Week (2017-2018), CoSida Google Cloud Academic All-District First Team (2018). Her personality shines each time she is with the young players and we are so happy to welcome her to the EVA coaching staff. We are so proud of our coaches asthey are EVA'sgreatest resource. at 866-495-5172 to learn more. She set the school record for digs in a season in 2014 with 762 and led the nation with a 6.68 per set mark. Miranda shares a passion for helping others and working with children. Interested in becoming a sponsor ofElite Volleyball Academy? She now works as a CNA in home health care for the elderly. The next two seasons were spent coaching 13 & 14 year olds for LRJ. Playing sand volleyball is still today her favorite activity. Standard rates apply. She has fouryears ofclub coaching in team setting along with private coachingexperience. Find out what coaches are viewing your Hannahis a Sherwood, Arkansas, native with five years of high school volleyball experience, three years of club volleyball play, and 12 years of recreational competition. Experience . It was with the Flames that she became a National Champion. In 2004 while playing for Sacramento, she and her team won Minas Gerais regional and All-State. Coach Eckart has over 20years of experience coaching summer volleyball camps at various universities across the nation including UALR, FIU, the University of Florida, the University of Miami and Miami Dade College. 4/22/2023 FINAL Boys Volleyball Season Poll. Bissette Childress joins EVA coaching staff after going through the EVAprogram as a player. She garnered AVCA All-Southwest Region accolades from 2014-16 and finished with the third most digs in school history with 2,153 during her four-year career. After her playing career, she received her MBA from Louisiana-Monroe in 2020, while coaching the North East Louisiana Volleyball Club in the process. She has a true passion for the game and the impact it has had on her life. For over 20 years, David has successfully coached and managed youth volleyball programs across the Bay Area. In 2012, she helped lead her team to their first Sun Belt Conference Division Title since 2000. As a player at Ouachita,Frizzell-Kizer was a four-year team captain and an NCAA Woman of the Year nominee. There she earned her Bachelors of Speech Communications Public Relations that she took with her to Los Angeles to work in Entertainment PR following graduation. During these times, she learned valuable lessons about being a great team player even on the bench. Catherine "Cat" Griffith - 18 Elite Head Coach. She started playing competitive volleyball in the 6th grade in Mansfield, Texas at Mary Orr Intermediate. She is currently coaching tennis at LRCA and has enjoyed seeing some of the former volleyball players pick up the sport and being back in their lives. Division 4. Coach Leigh Ann was a perfect addition to our coaching staff because along with her volleyball knowledge her background as therapist/coach in occupational therapy she was an excellent in balancing high expectation along with encouragement to her 14 Regional Plus team. While this is her first year coaching a club volleyball team, she has over five years of experience coaching girls basketball and golf. Compton, Jorge Becca is entering third season with EVA while already has 6 years of coaching experience. As a juniors club coach, she has coached/trained so many girls over the past years and some of them have achieved very important goals. Valerie is incredibly excited to begin her first year of club volleyball coaching, and knows that she will pour that same energy into the girls she coaches and mentors. 13 Grey - Camille Smith / Faith Stone Hometown Hometown / High School Previous School; 2: Livia Kimura: Sr. DS/L: 5-9: Sao Paulo, Brazil: Sao Paulo, Brazil / Colegio Amorim HS Leigh Ann is a firm believer in the we vs. me culture and finds great value in team sports and the positive impact it has on character development into adulthood. Congrats to EVA 16 Elite Coach Pagie Gantar on being selected to AVCA's ThirtyUnder30, ELITE level Veronica is returning to EVA for the second season. Greer began her volleyball career in the 5th grade at the age of 11. She married her husband, Joshua in 2013 and they had their daughter Olivia in 2015. Head and assistant coaches are assigned to a specific team while Floater/Helper coaches attend several teams' practices in order to learn from and be exposed to different coaches in our organization. We apologize for this inconvenience and invite you to return as soon as you turn 13. played for Little Rock Juniors Volleyball Club for 6 years, 2 of those years were spent on a nationals team. Bri loves the game and is looking forward to coaching at it has been her passion to coach kids to their full potential. Coach Dani has been coaching for total of 12years. Other major personnel include: 150-acre, urban campus in Little Rock (population: 187,452). Miranda attended Henderson State University where she earned a degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Management and Marketing. For many players it use to mean 7th grade when they had an opportunity to play on a school team, but with program like Future Starts players had a way of learning the skill and the game as young as 1st grade. Hannah served as floater coach during the season 2018/19 and helped several teams in their practice development but spent most of her coaching time with EVA 12 Regional Team which was ranked 12th overall in Delta Region our of 73 teams. She received a full athletic scholarship to the University of Arkansas-Little Rock (2009-2011), graduating in 2012 with a bachelors in Health Science. She went on to play a season with Harding University Bison (DII) as a DS before pursuing other interests. Her school team played for Saline County Chaos herjunior year. EVA 17 Elite - Tanja Eckart 16 White - Dave Carter During that time at HSU she worked closely with the volleyball team. Coach Daniele Moura came to the United States in 2009 to play college volleyball for University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Cail, Jeila Eckart won this award while leading her 2020/21EVA 16 National Team to 22-8 season. Olivia played under coach Eckart and Coach Markie and has been tabbed as one of the greatest teammates from the program. Becca graduated from HSU with Bachelorsin Sports Managementand Masters in Sports Administration.. Upon transferring back home to Arkansas she would return to Mills and help train the current teams during the off seasons. The team averaged 15.42 digs per set. they can save time and money, get ahead and give back. Season 2020/21 Allie was head coach for 17 Regional Plus team and then last season spent as a master coach helping various EVA teams and working as skill development coach. Baileystarted playing volleyball in the 8th grade at Benton, back when volleyball was not offered until7th grade. Walsh. Paige took over ECS Varsity Volleyball in the summer of 2020 and has transformed it past the recognition. Markie played for Arkansas State University and graduated with Occupational Therapy degree. EVA 12 National - Madison Greer Coach Daniis a former UALR player. She has coached a variety of ages over the years. Following that Allie was a part of 2020 EVA Beach Academy. She got that nickname since she was a little girl. This will be her sixth season as a Junior Olympic Coach in the state of Arkansas. Escudero, Mihaly This is how she approaches her coaching as well, and this is why coach Rafferty perfectly fits into the EVA culture. After some changes in the staffing at Grambling she accepted a bowling and academic scholarship to Texas Southern University (she has been bowling since she was 7). Get Discovered by college coaches. Division: NCAA I. Taylor joined mid season as a volunteer coach and rediscovered the joy for coaching alongside his wife. She was not able to play her finalseason at LRJ and was absolutely heartbroken to be out of the game. Hannah graduated with a bachelor's degree in communication from Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, in 2011 and a Master of Business Administration degree in management and business ethics in 2016 also from Harding. Elizabeth come from very athletic family and has 7 siblings. Over the last 10 years Eckart also played in countless sand volleyball tournaments especially while living in Miami ,Florida for 8 years. He believes that teaching and coaching is a calling, and feels that his purpose is to help students and athletes achieve their dreams. Location for all Camps (on the campus of UALR): Jack Stephens Center 2801 S. University AVE Little Rock, AR 72204 REGISTRATION: (available soon) April 2021 Edition is LIVE! In December 2018, she graduated from UCA with a Bachelors of Biology in Health Science. Educators Rising Region 6 Conference at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock by Val Bell, University at Little Rock Wind Ensemble (And the man with a plan for the band) by Val Bell. Upon graduating she was offered a half bowling and half volleyball scholarship to Grambling University. She is married to Taylor Owens, with whom she frequently plays volleyball, and lives in Sherwood. Coach Alicia enters her fifth season of coaching for EVA. Coach Madisonwas also involved in coaching EVA Beach Academy and she works as private/semi-private coach on skill development. She payed an outside hitter and continued to love and enjoy the game past the high school as she was involved in adult play. Coach Paige Gantar is 2022 American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) 16's Club Coach of the Year! She is thrilled to be coaching closer to home this year! Shelby held few mini seminars on topics of grit, resilience, overcoming disappointmentand adversity before the season got cut short due to COVID-19. 11 Navy - Mary Herman Becca was coaching four years of Little Spikers and Pass.Set.Hit. She also has coaching experience in a local club in Arkadelphia where she coached 14U team. While at Benton HS Olivia and her team were three times6A Conference Championsand two times 6A State Runner-up., her junior and senior years. Begic tied for the most points in the voting among southwest region outside [] Abigail has been an avid volleyball player since the 8th grade. Taylor played her high school career at Central Arkansas Christian (2007- 2010) as a setter, utility player earning an All Conference Honor her senior year. Jonathans coaching philosophy focuses on making YOU better at practice so WE can be our best during the games. Consent is not a condition of purchase. She enjoys spending her free time hanging out at the dog park with her dog, Indie, and with her family. 41 results found. In her first season she lead the Tigers to their first State Championship tournament after close to twenty years of drought. She coached five years for Little Rock Juniors club on different age groups (12-17 years old). In previous season besides indoor coaching, Shelby was also part of 2020 EVA Beach Academy as thelead coach in July session. Prior to arriving at UALR, he was Arkansas Tech's women's coach in 1987-2003 . She played varsity for Mount Saint Mary Academy (7A Division) from 2010-2014 as a defensive specialist/Libero (DS/L). FILTER RESULTS: People Departments Department Athletics Copy contact link JSC 204 501-916-3167 501-569-3030 (Fax) Website Employee List University of Arkansas at Little Rock 2801 S. University Avenue Rachelstarted playing volleyball in the 6th grade at age 11. Spankus, Van Van Compton Volleyball Camp. Season 2020/22 Madison coached EVA 14 Regional Plus Navy won 3 tournaments and got Gold bracket championshipat Ozark Challenge, Mississippi Mayhem, and Volley in the Rock. Every year, she led her team to the state tournament. She grew up in Houston, TX and played lots of different sports growing up (softball, soccer, volleyball and golf). Last year she helped provide additional coaching for several national level teams and she has worked on player/skill development over the course of the year. During the club season, she played for 501 Volley as an outside/right side hitter as well as a DS. Allie has been part of EVA staff for 4 years now in various roles. She has been working with Eckart Volleyball for 6 years and coached countless skills clinics and summer camps. She has coached volleyball at Little Rock Central for 6 years and helped to introduce the use of a 9th grade volleyball team 5 years ago. Frizzell-Kizer is married to Chris Kizer, North Little Rock High School football coach. Van Compton Van Compton will begin her 33rd season as the head coach of the Little Rock Volleyball program in 2018 after recording a 508-389 (.566) record at Little Rock and a 238-124 (.657) record in the Sun Belt. In her first season already Central has won more matchesthan Central teams combined in the last seven seasons. Ranked second in the school program history for total blocks in a single season (185). After high school, Bailey attendedUCA to become an athletic trainer, but quickly changed my major to teaching/coaching. With her 6' frame she played middle blocker and right side hitter for Benton High School and EVA. She went on to play at Ouachita Baptist University. Abigail played for the Little Rock Flames as a defensive specialist (DS) and an outside/ right side hitter. This took her out of over half her senior season at MSM. Division 1. During her time at Arkansas State, Shelby primarily played outside and right side. She went on to sign a volleyball scholarship for the University of Central Arkansas but after a change in coaching staff and an awarded academic scholarship, Leigh Ann decided to focus on academics in pursuit of her passion for helping others through a graduate degree in occupational therapy. Stutzman, Patrick She will help new 11's coaches on-board them to the EVA principles of training and culture. Paige has been coaching club for the last twelveseasons. She graduates in December and hopes to become a licensed therapist quickly upon graduation. The Trojans did much more than that Saturday night, picking up a 25 . Teaching base-to-release has become a staple of hers. EVA is dedicated to coach preparation and mentoring sowithinour organization we offerseveral coaching positions: Head coaches, Assistant Coaches, Floater Coaches/Helper coaches. She started playing volleyball at 16 and quickly fell in love with the game and madea huge impact on her high school team. Markie starting her fourthyear as EVA'shighestlevel coach. Val has been training as high school player under coach Eckart so now they are back to full circle of player-coach to coach-coach relationship. Little Rock Christian Academy as four time varsity player and led LRCA to the 5A state championship match in her junior and senior seasons. We are most proud ofBecca as she is one of the huge volleyball enthusiasts who bring bubbly personality to the gym each day. Allieplayed and started at Bryant all threeyears ofvarsity and all fouryears at AR Tech. After playing her freshman year at HSU, Becca changed over to cross country and became volleyball manager at the same time. Harris, Zanobia Hannah will serve as 16 Navy Assistant Coach while Taylor will be Helper Coach! The team was competitive in there 6A district as they were bi-district champs, regional champs, and earned the all district academic award. Season 2020/22 Madison coached EVA 14 Regional Plus Navy won 3 tournaments and got Gold bracket championshipat Ozark Challenge, Mississippi Mayhem, and Volley in the Rock. During those undefeated campaigns,Frizzell-Kizer teams led the conference in total kills, assists, digs and hitting percentage. The Official Athletics Site for the University of Arkansas. You can also ask your parents to call us Hitter/Setter Camp: June 20-21, Grades: 8-12. Three years in Florida (5th and 6th graders), 3 years at PA (7th, 8th and 9th) and 5 years at LRCA (7th and 8th). From soccer and swimming to baseball and basketball, view the team schedules and come cheer on the Trojans. Athlete Spotlight : Johnathan Jones. She also offers indoor private lessons and beach volleyball lessons. Get Exposure with college programs. If you're receiving this message in error, please call us at 886-495-5172. lstutzman@ualr.edu: 680-4581 680-4581: Patrick Walsh: Associate Director of Communications ptwalsh@ualr.edu: 501-916-5381 501-916-5381: Find more Volleyball Coachs and other Sports trainers near in Arkansas by specifying the city where you need their services. Frizzell-Kizer (Coach Frizz) has been sixseasons at the helm of the Ouachita Baptist University volleyball program. Miranda has been attending EVA volleyball tournaments for years as a supporter. Taylor is excited to be joining the EVA family for the 2022-2023 season! Now, Camilleis a senior in college at UAMS. After high school she attended the University of Arkansas at Little Rock as a Donaghey Scholar to receive her Bachelors in Math in 2016 and in 2019 she received her masters from Arkansas State University in Educational Theory. and Volley Jams for the past four summers. She is looking forward to helping players with their development this season. Kennedy, Nedima Position: z. With nearly 200 student-athletes competing nationwide in more than 200 athletic events annually, there is always an opportunity to support #LittleRocksTeam. Dave loves all things sports, exploring in nature, reading for pleasure, immersing in creativity, and hes always up for new experiences. She also offers indoor private lessons and beach volleyball lessons. Mechanical Engineering Related Technologies. Deadline for Submission of Applications Applications are being accepted immediately. All three teams enjoyed a lot of success which Eckart contributes to the coaching philosophy and principles implemented to create hard-working and positive environment paired with quality of training and knowledgeable coaches provided at EVA. She graduated with a bachelor of International Business with emphasis in Spanish language. Department Mailing Address: PO Box 7777, 350 North Razorback Road . Public Administration and Social Services, Other. Victoria is Junior High 7th gradeCoach at Episcopal Collegiate School (ESC). Last season her 14 Elite team suffered a great deal of unforeseen challenges with major injuries that took several players for the great majority of the season and a season ending injury. In December 2018, she graduated from UCA with a Bachelors of Biology in Health Science. Directory. This position is open until filled. Lakeside High School Womens Soccer Coach: (2 years) 16 Navy - Taylor Sherill / Hannah Owens Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Professions. camps where she was focusing on teaching skill fundamentals along with game for the young players. Bissette was a stand outlibero for Benton High School where she earned huge honors and achievements, individual and team. University of Arkansas at Little Rock Athletics Hall of Fame member Ron Sheffield, Little Rock attorney Malcolm Means and UALR volleyball Head Coach Van Compton helped unveil new athletic logos in . In her volleyball career, she posted 225 blocks, and was named second-team All-Louisiana in 2018. In the past five seasons, hes led Bauxite to 54 wins, two consecutive state tournament bids, and his players have received five All-State selections, 15 All-Conference selections, and two players have gone on to play in college. 2019/20 season was cut short due to COVID-19 pandemic but the most memorable accomplishment for coach Alicia's 13 Regional Plus team was winning President's Day Classis in St. Louis coming with a tournament trophy in 13 club division. She is married to John Eckart since July of 2004 and the couple has two sons Filip (14yo) and Daniel (10yo). profiles were viewed 4.1 million times by college coaches in 2021. Their oldest daughter Emma is a recent graduate of Mississippi State University with a degree in aerospace engineering and just completed a research fellowship at the University of Tennessee Space Institute this summer.

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