2022-23 Boys Club Coaches

Ryan Bowerman

Head Coach, 18 Adidas

Coach Bowerman is entering his first season with The Academy Volleyball Club. 

Ryan Bowerman is the head men’s volleyball coach at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Bowerman is also a 2011 graduate of Wabash where he played on the volleyball club team and served as the student president of the club during all four years. He returned to Wabash as a coach in 2020 for the team’s first season as an NCAA varsity sport.
 
Prior to Wabash, Bowerman served as the assistant volleyball coach at Xavier University of Louisiana for two seasons. He was named the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) NAIA Southeast Region Assistant Coach of the Year in 2019 after helping the Gold Nuggets’ team advance to the NAIA national championship site for the first time in school history. He also worked as the assistant volleyball coach at IU Kokomo for two seasons while earning his master’s degree. The Cougars posted a record of 53-19 in two seasons with Bowerman as an assistant coach.
 
Bowerman began his coaching career as the varsity assistant volleyball coach at North Montgomery High School for five seasons, and also served as a head coach for the Indy Juniors Volleyball Club in Zionsville, Indiana, for six seasons.

Bowerman earned his bachelor’s degree from Wabash College as a mathematics major and Spanish minor in 2011. He received a Master Degree in Liberal Studies from Indiana University Kokomo in 2016. 

Jack Lesure

Assistant Coach, 18 Adidas

This will be Jack’s fifth year working with The Academy Volleyball Club and his first as a Satellite Program Director at the Indy location. He served as the Director of Boiler Juniors from 2018-2022.  

Prior to 2018, Jack was at the University of Nebraska serving as a Graduate Manager for the Women’s Volleyball team and also directed The Academy’s Sand Volleyball program. This will be his tenth year coaching club.

Jack’s previous coaching experience includes three seasons at Munciana, two seasons at VC Nebraska, and two seasons of high school. He was the JV Head Coach at New Castle (Ind.) High School (2014), then the Varsity Assistant Coach at Muncie (Ind.) Burris High School (2015).

Jack was an outside hitter for Ball State University’s men’s volleyball team for four seasons (2013-16). He was previously a player at Carmel (Ind.) High School, where he was All-State in 2011 and 2012, and played a major role in the Greyhounds winning State Championships those same years.

Jaclyn Bulmahn

Assistant Coach, 18 Adidas

Jaclyn Bulmahn will be joining the Academy Volleyball Club for the upcoming 2022-23 club season as an assistant coach for the 18 Adidas.

Prior to The Academy Volleyball Club, Jaclyn played four years at Valparaiso University in the Missouri Valley Conference from 2017- 21. In her time there she helped the team to the elite eight in the NIVC tournament. Hitting a .264% and averaging 3.05 kills/set, she was named first team all-conference in her final year at Valparaiso University.

As a COVID athlete she transferred to Ball State university to play a 5^th year in the MAC. She helped lead the team to MAC west division Champions and an overall MAC Conference Championship. Hitting a .212% and averaging 2.99 kills/set she was named First Team All-MAC. She also helped lead the team in their NCAA first round win against University of Michigan.

At Valparaiso University she got her undergrad in Business Management. Jaclyn is currently living in McCordsville, Indiana pursuing her master’s degree in Interior Design at Ball State University.

Fayssal Hamoum

Head Coach, 18 Blue

Fayssal Hamoum is back for another season at The Academy Volleyball Club after spending a few years coaching in Algeria. While overseas, he coached different ages for his team at CRBC Chlef. Along with his time at CRBC, Fayssal coached the Algerian U19 National Team. This year will be his first season as a head coach where he will lead the 18 Blue group.

Prior to coaching, Fayssal’s career included 15 years of playing experience at the amateur and professional levels. At the age of 17, he received honors of First Team recognition in the Super Division.

Fayssal has a degree in sports education as well as a level 1 and level 2 international coaching degrees from FIVB. In 2021,  Fayssal was the Assistant Coach for the 16 Adidas program where he led them to a top ten national ranking throughout the entirety of the season as well as leading them to six championship matches,  eight gold bracket appearances/top five finishes, and three tournament championships as well as a 2021 Open Bid to the USAV Boys Junior National Championships in Kansas City, MO. 

Chris Steinmetz

Assistant Coach, 18 Blue

Paul Roeder

Head Coach, 18 Black

Paul Roedner joins us for his first season as a boys head coach. He spent the last 2 seasons as head coach of girls teams at The Academy Grand Park.

He has previously spent time coaching at IPS School 84. This is not his first adventure coaching however. In 2021 he was hired to lead the way for the Heritage Christian boys program where he led both the varsity and junior varsity program. 

He is currently the varsity assistant coach at Heritage Christian as well. 

Noah Hornbeck

Assistant Coach, 18 Black

Noah got started with playing volleyball at Webster Grove high school in St. Louis, MO my Sophomore year. After high school he continued following his love for volleyball to Ball State University. There he played Middle Blocker for 4 years on Ball State’s Club Volleyball team, taking on the secretary board position during two of those years. Placing top 10 his Freshman and Sophomore year, and top 15 Junior year.

After graduating with his Bachelors in Computer Science, he moved home looking to coach at his old high school, but got called back to Indianapolis. He had my first season coaching at the head coach for Brownsburg JV boys volleyball team. Around the same time landing a job at Easley Winery helping with Production.

Emma Rosenberg

Head Coach, 18 White

Eric Dudik

Assistant Coach, 18 White

Conner Neal

Head Coach, 18 Silver

Chase Christiansen

Head Coach, 18 NT Gray

Matt Walsh

Head Coach, 17 Adidas

Matt Walsh will be joining the Academy Volleyball Club for the upcoming 2021-22 club season. as the Head Coach for the 17 Adidas. 

Prior to The Academy Volleyball Club, Matt spent time with Indiana University as the Technical Coordinator for their women’s program. In his role, Walsh coordinated all film, video and statistical analysis efforts in both practice and competition settings. Walsh also was heavily involved in scouting opponents and creating scouting reports. 
 
Walsh spent time playing professionally in the Extraliga in the Czech Republic, where he was a member of Aero Odolena Voda. Previously, he has coached at EVP Beach Volleyball and Ultimate Volleyball Club in Chicago. He has also worked camps at the University of Wisconsin.

From 2015-18 Walsh played collegiately at Ball State as a middle blocker. At Ball State Walsh was a two-time AVCA All-America Honorable Mention honoree and a four-time Scholar Athlete. In 2017, the 6-11, Walsh was ranked first in hitting percentage nationally and top-10 in blocks/set. In his senior year he was the team captain and racked up 1180 career points, which ranks second in school history.

Walsh, a native of Chicago, Illinois, was a four year starting middle blocker at Ball State and graduated in 2018 with a Bachelor’s Degree in General Studies. 

Andrea Behling

Assistant Coach, 17 Adidas

Andrea Behling will be returning to the Academy coaching staff with now three years of boys club coaching experience, and also having coached girls high school & club the five years before that.

Andrea began her playing career at Columbus (Ind.) North High School, where she was All-Conference, Academic All-American, and co-MVP of the Varsity team. As a collegiate player, she played four years at Wittenberg University (NCAA Div. III) and was a part of their 2011 National Championship team. Through her college career, Andrea received several honors including: First-Team All-NCAC, NCAC All-Tournament Team, NCAC Tournament MVP, First-Team AVCA All Great Lakes Region, honorable mention AVCA All-American, and was a two-year captain for Wittenberg.

Andrea loves the game of volleyball and is always excited to spread passion for the game to younger players.

Hunter Martin

Head Coach, 17 Blue

Hunter got started with volleyball in high school when he made the decision to become a manager for Wes-Del High School’s girls volleyball team. While with the team, they reached the final 4 in his junior year and were state champions his senior year. He got into coaching right after graduating and became the volunteer assistant for the team for one season before becoming the JV volleyball coach for 2 seasons. He also was a coach for the Warrior Volleyball Club at his high school for a season with the 10/11 year old age group.

After coaching for a few years, Hunter focused on college and playing club volleyball while at Ball State University. He earned his bachelor’s degree in elementary education while playing club volleyball as a setter for the team for 2 years. The team finished in the top 10 in their division at the NCVF National Tournament in both his sophomore and junior seasons, and the team was also the conference champion for their division his junior season. He was the secretary of the club for 2 semesters and the president for 1 semester. 

Lydia Dorton

Assistant Coach, 17 Blue

Jade Humphrey

Head Coach, 17 Black

This is Jade Humphrey’s second year head coaching boys volleyball. She fell in love with the sport when she was six years old, and began playing club volleyball when she was in the fourth grade. Jade is a graduate of McCutcheon High School (2017) where she played Varsity volleyball all four years as an OH/DS. Jade then went on to play Division 1 volleyball for two years. Her favorite aspects of coaching are: developing players’ skills, confidence and helping parents and players increase their volleyball IQ.

Jade lives in Indianapolis where she is finishing her Bachelors in Business with a focus in Human Resource Management.

Jake Watkins

Assistant Coach, 17 Black

This is Jake’s second season as an assistant with head coach Jade Humphrey coaching mens volleyball and first season with The Academy. Jake is an Indy native who’s been playing competitive volleyball since 7th grade. He graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelors Degree in Supply Chain and Operations Management in 2020. While he attended Purdue, he played competitive club volleyball as well was a practice player for the women’s volleyball team. 

Jake regularly plays in indoor and beach leagues, but when he’s not playing volleyball, you can usually find him on the lake. 

Kaitlin Saunders

Head Coach, 17 White

Lynsey Martin

Assistant Coach, 17 White

Lynsey joins the Academy Volleyball Club after many seasons in the CYO Circuit!

Coach Martin grew up competing in CYO volleyball as well as local leagues throughout Indianapolis. She later went on to compete and train at Ball State when she was not in the classroom. 

Since her time in Muncie she has been surrounding by coaches Austin Hillman and Andrea Pawlik where she has learned much of her volleyball background.  

Jill Maude

Head Coach, 17 Silver

Andrew Fuller

Head Coach, 16 Adidas

Andrew Fuller has been at The Academy since it opened in 2014, and he is in his seventh season as club head coach. In 2019, he was named the Director of The Academy Boys Program.

Andrew is the Boys Varsity Head Coach at Guerin Catholic (Noblesville, Ind.) High School, having founded their boys program in Winter 2016. With Guerin Catholic, Andrew has brought three winning seasons and four sweet sixteen finishes,  as well as a regional championship in 2021 in just four seasons.

In 2021 Andrew was the Head Coach for the 16 Adidas program where he led them to a top ten national ranking throughout the entirety of the season (per Advanced Event Systems or AES) as well as leading them to six championship matches,  eight gold bracket appearances/top five finishes, and three tournament championships as well as a 2021 Open Bid to the USAV Boys Junior National Championships in Kansas City, MO. 

Andrew was named the Girls Varsity Head Coach for Shelbyville (Ind.) High School in 2018 where he led the Golden Bears to their first .500 season in five seasons in his inaugural year. The Golden Bears were 6-17 in 2017. He concluded four seasons with Shelbyville exceeding 60 wins. 

Andrew was the online broadcast voice of Purdue Volleyball for the Fall 2017 season, traveling with the Boilermakers during regular season and postseason play. He spent previous falls coaching girls high school teams: Varsity Assistant at Center Grove (Greenwood, Ind.) High School in 2016, and Freshmen Head Coach at Zionsville (Ind.) Community High School in 2014-15. Andrew has contributed two sectional championships at both Zionsville and Center Grove.

Andrew began playing volleyball at age 11, eventually becoming a standout libero at Carmel (Ind.) High School, where he played on teams that won back-to-back state titles and were ranked in the top 25 nationally (2011, 2012). He was also a member of club teams that finished third at Asics Junior Nationals and fourth at USAV Junior Nationals.

Andrew was most recently named to the 2021 AVCA 30 Under 30 High School Coaches awards which ranks him amongst some of the best and prestigious high school coaches in the country under the age of 30. 

Andrew’s brother, Travis, is The Academy’s Director of Coach & Player Development.

Katie Winters

Assistant Coach, 16 Adidas

This is Katie Champion’s eighth year coaching club volleyball and her second year at The Academy Indianapolis, but first with the boys. She has coached club for the past two seasons at Boiler Juniors. She was the Varsity Head Coach at West Lafayette (Ind.) High School from 2019-2020 and also previously coached high school for two years in Colorado. She currently serves as the Varsity Assistant for Shelbyville High School. 

Katie played at Logansport (Ind.) High School before going on to play at the University of Northern Colorado (NCAA Div. I).

Katie is an elementary school teacher in the Franklin Township Corporation. She has two rescue dogs, Gump and Kessie. In her spare time, she enjoys being an aunt to her five nieces and nephews.

Haley Sobieralski

Head Coach, 16 Blue

Haley Sobieralski joins the Academy Volleyball Club for his first season as a coach after spending the last four seasons at Lewis University where she played for the Flyers. 

A graduate and standout from Franklin Central High School, Haley Sobieralski was a career athlete at Lewis University. During her career, she led the Flyers to the longest active top ranked program in NCAA Division II during the 2021 season. In 2018 the Flyers were a final four team in the NCAA tournament, where they also won regionals to advance. 

She currently lives in Indianapolis, Indiana where she attend IUPUI in graduate school. During her time at Lewis, she graduated with a Bachelors degree in psychology. 

Dalen Instenes

Assistant Coach, 16 Blue

Dalen Instenes will be joining the Academy Volleyball Club as an Assistant Coach with our 16 Blue Team. Dalen has previously worked many of our boys development camps along with assisting our 17 Adidas and 13 Adidas the past two summers.

Adding to Dalen’s coaching career, he was an Assistant Coach with Carthage Men’s Volleyball in 2021. Dalen helped bring Carthage to win their first National Championship and go 23-0 on the season. 

Prior to Dalen’s coaching career he played volleyball for Lewis University. Dalen served many roles for Lewis working his was up to a starter and team captain. Throughout his career at Lewis they were ranked in the top 10 all 5 years, making a Final Four appearance in 2019. 

After graduating from Lewis, Dalen signed to play professional volleyball in Sweden where he was a member of Floby VK. Dalen finished the season as the #2 outside overall in the league along with top ranked finishes in total aces and kills. Dalen helped lead his team to a bronze medal finish for the clubs first time in 20 years. 

Dalen is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and now resides in Fishers with his wife Haley.

Jenna Spini

Head Coach, 16 Black

Jenna Spini is in her second year of coaching at The Academy. In previous years, she has coached summer camps and clinics for high schoolers at RedRock Volleyball in her home state of California. 

Jenna was a two-year Varsity player at Notre Dame High School (Belmont, Calif.), where she won State her senior year. It was her high school’s first-ever state title.

Jenna recently graduated from Ball State with her masters. Prior to her academic career in Muncie she was a standout athlete at Franklin College in their volleyball program. 

Terry Crabtree

Assistant Coach, 16 Black

Trinity Benedict

Head Coach, 16 Black

Reece Whitney

Assistant Coach, 16 White

Adrianne Taylor

Head Coach, 16 Silver

Tyler Beeman

Head Coach, 16 Gray

Maddie Greuenberg

Head Coach, 16 NT Midnight

Cameron Schlegel

Head Coach, 16 NT Onyx

Michael Killion

Head Coach, 16 NT Royal

Carlos Capo

Head Coach, 15 Adidas

For years, Carlos Capo has been a driving force behind the development of boys volleyball in the Indianapolis area, and he will be back for his sixth season at The Academy.

Carlos is currently the Varsity Head Coach at Fishers (Ind.) High School. In 2014, he restarted the boys program at the school, and just five seasons later, the team captured the 2019 State Championship with an in-state record of 36-0. Carlos was named Indiana Coach of the Year in 2019, and Conference Coach of the Year in 2017 and 2019. Other team achievements include three consecutive Regional Championships (2017-19), a conference championship (2019), and Indy Metro Tournament Champions (2019).

In 2021, the Tigers of Fishers repeated as State Champions only dropping one match the entire year. They also kept their active regional, metro, and conference championship streak alive.

In 2010 and 2011, Carlos ran a boys league, and that league has grown into an official CYO program since the 2012 season. He was the original Boys Volleyball Coordinator and a coach at St. Pius Catholic School in Indianapolis and served in those capacities for six years. In 2015, Carlos received the CYO Monsignor Albert Busald Service Award in recognition to his volunteer contributions to CYO Boys Volleyball. In 2013, he led the 5th/6th A Team to an undefeated season and the school’s first City Championship. He also captured another City Championship in 2015 with St. Pius’ Cadet A team. Prior to developing boys volleyball in the area, he coached a St. Pius 7th/8th grade girls team for three years.

Additionally, Carlos helped with Irish Juniors during the 2011 and 2012 seasons.

Carlos was born and raised in Puerto Rico, where volleyball is a very popular sport. He started playing the sport in seventh grade and eventually played for the Purdue Men’s Club Volleyball Team, for which he was a two-year captain. He continues to play in indoor and outdoor competitive leagues and tournaments.

Carlos earned his bachelor’s from Purdue University in hospitality management before obtaining his MBA from The University of South Florida. When not involved with volleyball, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two sons, golfing and playing basketball.

JP Whiteman

Assistant Coach, 15 Adidas

JP is entering his 2nd season as the 15 Adidas assistant coach, 4th season overall at the Academy, previously coaching 15 Blue and 17 Blue.

JP is now in his eighth year of coaching boys volleyball, having started as the Junior Varsity Head Coach at Hamilton Southeastern (Fishers, Ind.). In 2016, he was the Varsity Assistant at Guerin Catholic (Noblesville, Ind.), where he helped Head Coach Andrew Fuller start a program that became the first-ever first-year program to make it to the IBVCA Regional Finals. In 2019, JP returned to Hamilton Southeastern as Varsity Assistant.

On the club side, JP was the 17-1’s Head Coach at Indy Assault Volleyball Club from 2016-2018.

JP started playing volleyball his sophomore year at Hamilton Southeastern. He was a three-year starter and two-time captain as an outside hitter. His senior season, he helped lead the Royals to the IBVCA State Finals, earning Academic All-State and All-Star honors along the way. Throughout his career, he also received the Mental Attitude Award three times and Best Server Award twice.

JP attended Purdue University and played on their men’s club team for five years. Each of his last three seasons, the Boilermakers finished inside the top 10. Also while at Purdue, JP was a manager for Dave Shondell and Purdue’s women’s team (NCAA Div. I).

Jordan Guler

Head Coach, 15 Blue

This is Jordan’s first season as a coach for The Academy Volleyball Club where he once played club volleyball. 

Jordan started playing volleyball his sophomore year in high school. He was a two year varsity starting setter at Fishers High School where he led Fishers to their first undefeated season and State Championship in 2019. He earned academic all state and all star honors in 2019 as well as an all tournament team award for the 2019 state run.

He later attended IU and was involved with volleyball throughout his time as a Hoosier before graduating in just three years with a Sport marketing and Management degree. 

In his off season in the summer Jordan has spent time with his Alma-mater helping out with the team and youth camps.

Kaitlyn Groce

Assistant Coach, 15 Blue

Kaitlyn has coached at The Academy for four seasons, specifically having head coached girls 13’s teams and assisted boys 18’s teams. She has also coached numerous camps and clinics at The Academy, ad she is in her second season as the Varsity Volunteer Assistant at Shelbyville (Ind.) High School.

Kaitlyn has been a passionate influencer of the game in Indianapolis and we are excited to have her part of our boys staff for 2021.

Kaitlyn played for Kentucky Wesleyan College (NCAA Div. II) from 2015-2017. She was named to Great Midwest Athletic Conference Academic All-Conference Team in 2017, and was an Academic All-American the same year. She received her bachelor’s in communications with Magna Cum Laude honors. In August of 2019, Kaitlyn finished her master’s in management from The University of Indianapolis.

Steve Giron

Head Coach, 15 Black

Madison Scott

Assistant Coach, 15 Black

Austin Hillman

Head Coach, 14 Adidas

Austin Hillman enters his third season The Academy after directing Indy Elite Boys VBC for four years. He has many years of experience coaching nationally and locally and youth and high school ages. Austin also serves as the Assistant Boys Director, Master Youth Coach and Youth Director for the Academy boys program.

Austin, alongside his assistant Andrea Pawlik, have led five USAV qualified teams in the U14 division: three different Indy Elite 14U boys teams to Open bids at USAV Nationals (2016, 2018, 2019), an Academy U14 team to a USA bid (2020) and most recently an Academy U14 teams to an Open Bid and a 10th place finish at USAV Nationals. Prior to starting Indy Elite, he coached two seasons at South Indy VBC.

Austin is currently the Boys Coordinator at Saints Francis and Clare, where he has captured five City Championships and five Runner-Up finishes in the Catholic Youth Organization. He has also served on the girls and boys staffs at his alma mater, Center Grove High School in Greenwood, Ind. He previously assisted Roncalli High School’s boys program, helping them to State Runner-Up finishes in 2015 and 2016.

Austin is a graduate of the Indiana University Kelly School of Business, with a concentration in marketing and supply chain management. He is the Vice President of Commercial Solutions for Offprem Technology, a Salesforce Implementation Firm. He live with his Fiancé, Mackenzie, daughter Remi, and two dogs, Finnigan and Oakley.

In his free time has enjoys skydiving, being a Scuba Diving Instructor, and rock climbing.

Andrea Pawlik

Assistant Coach, 14 Adidas

Mackenzie Whitehead

Assistant Coach, 14 Adidas

Jim Joven

Head Coach, 14 Blue

Jim Joven returns for his third year of coaching at The Academy Volleyball ClubJim recently currently serves as the Boys Varsity Head Coach at Bishop Chatard High School in Indianapolis. For the Spring 2019 season, Jim was their Junior Varsity Head Coach, compiling a 21-5 record. In 2013, Jim helped start the boys program at St. Simon the Apostle Catholic School in Indianapolis. He still serves as their Boys Volleyball Coordinator and Cadet Head Coach. The St. Simon Cadet A team won the 2018 CYO Tournament championship and was a semi-finalist in 2017 and 2019.

In 2021, Jim lead the Trojans to their first ever regional championship advancing to the IBVCA Elite Eight.

Jim earned his bachelor’s degree from Wabash College and his law degree from the Maurer School of Law at IU-Bloomington. At Wabash, Jim was a four-year letter award winner in track & field, as well as an all-conference triple jumper. While in college and law school, Jim played rec league volleyball, intramural volleyball, and Wallyball.

Jim is a judge with the Marion Superior Court. In his spare time, he plays guitar and tries to keep his house plants alive. Jim and his wife, Carol, have been married for 19 years and have three children. 

David McCann

Assistant Coach, 14 Blue

David is entering his second year at academy as a boys coach. He is an avid volleyball player but did not play in college instead wrestled at Indiana University. Where he graduated with a degree in English Education. He is currently head JV coach at Bishop Chatard.

David spends a lot of time inside both The Academy and Bishop Chatard gym assisting with other teams to help continue develop his coaching and outreach to youth athletes.

In his free time likes to go on hikes with his dog and wife, loves baseball, and a reading fanatic.

Jeff Kniola

Head Coach, 14 NT Black

Pat Kniola

Head Coach, 14 NT White

Anna Lawrie

Head Coach, 13 Adidas

Anna Marie is with us for her 2nd season coaching at the Academy after playing for the Academy 18-1. Graduated from Roncalli and Manchester University. During her time there, she led the Spartans to a final four conference finish as a 3 year captain. Anna Marie sits in top 3 most all time digs for Manchester.  She brings energy and passion to the Academy Family.

Anna Marie graduated with a Business Management & Professional Sales double major. She currently resides in Indianapolis.

Adam Post

Assistant Coach, 13 Adidas

Honnor Orlando

Head Coach, 13 Blue

John Currens

Assistant Coach, 13 Blue

Vicente Giordanelli

Head Coach, 12 Adidas

Eric Stout

Assistant Coach, 12 Adidas