Following our tryout this weekend, coaches are currently being determined for the 2010 Club Season. Coaches for this season will include some of the top high school and college coaches in the area, as well as college volleyball atheletes.

Coaches for this season will include:

18 Elite:
Anna Vallinch - Iowa Western Community College
Marian Lisboa De Goes - IWCC

16 Elite:
Stephanie Figueroa - IWCC
Brad South - IWCC

14 Elite:
Dennis South - Lewis Central High School
Lindsey Diederich - IWCC

131:
Kim Barents - Lewis Central High School

132:
Andrea Rojas - IWCC

121:
Bonnie Clinch - Nebraska Christian College
Kaitlin Wright - Creighton University

 

Dennis South

Dennis is taking over the role of Club Director. TopTen will continue to offer quality training and recruitment opportunities.

Dennis is now entering his tenth season as the head Volleyball coach for Lewis Central High School. Coach South has collected 316 wins with 176 losses in his varsity career. A career where he has coached varsity volleyball for Lawndale High school and Norco High School in California. Coach South has also coached at the freshman and JV levels for 8 years. Pacific Christian College was his only college coaching experience from 1976 to 1978.

In additon to his coaching career, Coach South was a certified High School official in California, Nebraska, and Iowa. Dennis also officiated at the college level in California. As a player Dennis played High School volleyball at Lawndale High school and in college at Pacific Christian College and Cal State Fullerton. Dennis has played setter on many club teams in Southern California and has played in many beach tournaments in the late 70's and early 80's.

Dennis South is the coach of the 14 elite program.

Dennis is married to Susan and has four children Kyle, Kacy (and husband Arick), Bradley and Bonnie.

Anna Vallinch

Anna Vallinch has finished her first season as the assistant volleyball coach at Iowa Western. Although she is new to Iowa Western, she is not new to the area, or to the game. She is originally from Papillion, NE where she began her athletic career at Papillion LaVista High School. Anna will coach our 18 Elite team

Most recently Anna served as an assistant at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC. Prior to that, she was the varsity assistant at Bryan High School in Bellevue, NE.

As a collegiate athlete, she had celebrated career. She began at the University of Nebraska-Kearney, but transferred after one season to Clemson. As the starting libero, she was a standout athlete for three seasons receiving numerous honors and setting several defensive records.

She holds records at Clemson for digs in a season at 620 and for digs per game at 5.04. She is also tied for most digs in a match at 36, and finished her career with 1421 defensive saves in just three seasons. In addition to setting records, she also garnered numerous honors as a Tiger. She was twice named as Defensive Player of the Year and awarded as Team MVP in 2006; she was ranked 3rd in the ACC and in the top 50 in the NCAA for digs. She served as a team captain for the 2005-2006 seasons.

She has a B.A. in Sociology from Clemson and is working towards a master’s degree in Organizational Management, with an emphasis is Sport Management.

 

 

Kim Barents

"I Coach Volleyball!"