2023-24 Boys Club Coaches

Haley Instenes

Head Coach, 18 Adidas

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

Prior to her placement with 18 Adidas, Haley has spent most of her time with the 16s age group as a head coach. In 2022-23 she led the 16 Blue roster to one of the best seasons the club has season, with multiple wins at the 16 Premier and Open level.

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, 18 Adidas

Dalen Instenes will be returning the Academy Volleyball Club as an Assistant Coach with our 18 Adidas Team. Dalen has previously worked many of our boys development camps along with assisting our 17 Adidas and 13 Adidas prior to joining the full time coaching staff. 

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 on the south side with his wife Haley.

Matt Walsh

Assistant Coach, 18 Adidas

Matt Walsh will be returning to the coaching staff as an assistant for the 18 Adidas. He has spent the last two seasons as the head coach with 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. 

Hunter Martin

Head Coach, 18 Blue

Lydia Dorton

Assistant Coach, 18 Blue

Ashaun Baker

Head Coach, 18 Black

Ashaun joins The Academy Volleyball Club as an Assistant Coach for the 18 Black. Starting his coaching career with Boiler Juniors 12U and 15U, and following, he coached 15U girls at The Academy Grand Park and Munciana Volleyball Club. 

This past year, Ashaun started a high school boys volleyball program at McCutcheon High School to help grow the sport and finished with a record of 10-17. Ashaun will enter his first season as the next Head Coach of Wabash College in Crawfordsville.

May of 2023, Ashaun graduated with his master’s degree from Ball State University in Sport Administration. Ashaun is a native of Southside Chicago and now resides in Lafayette, where he first picked up his love for volleyball a decade ago. In his spare time, Ashaun is cheering on the White Sox, Bears, Bulls, Tennessee Football, and  Purdue Volleyball and Basketball.

Jacob Kellum

Assistant Coach, 18 Black

Adrianne Taylor

Head Coach, 18 White

Adrianne Taylor is returning to the Academy boys program for year number two. Prior to her time with the boys she had also spent time coaching the girls side of the game. She got her first coaching school job in 2016 and quickly moved up the ranks to Junior Varsity and Varsity in 2020. Her playing career included time playing volleyball in middle school and high school.  This will be her third year coaching girls at The Academy, second year coaching boys, and second year coaching Fall youth league.

Conner Neal

Head Coach, 18 Silver

Alex Bragg

Head Coach, 18 Gray

Alex is joining us this year at The Academy as our 18 Gray head coach. Alex has spent a long time around the game of volleyball. His first exposure to the game of volleyball was holding a position as a student manager at Union City from 2014-2018. Right after high school he jumped into coaching at Union City for 4 seasons. First as a Varsity Assistant where they won The Randolph County Championship in the 2019. He also coach 7th grade in 2020, Junior Varsity 2021, Varsity Assistant 2022.

Alex currently serves as the Junior Varsity Head Coach at Mississinawa Valley. He is excited to continue to branch out his knowledge of the game with the boys program here at The Academy. When he is not coaching volleyball, he works with Special Education at Union City.

Nykey Hester

Head Coach, 18 Onyx

Nykey Hester has grown up in the sport of volleyball. He was exposed to it at an early age through his family. He spends most of the time competing in the sand part of the game and got started as early as 10 years old playing. Though new to coaching volleyball, he has plenty of experience coaching athletes in other sports like soccer and softball. He has been a long advocate of coaching athletes and enjoys teaching kids new and improved skills. 

Andrew Fuller

Head Coach, 17 Adidas

Andrew Fuller has been at The Academy since it opened in 2014, and he is entering his tenth season as a club head coach, fifth with the boys side of the club. 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 four winning seasons and five 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. 

In 2023 Andrew led the 16 Adidas group to a top five finish at the 2023 AAU National Championships in 16 Open, which marks the highest finish in the boys club history and ties highest overall in the Academy Indianapolis location. 

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.

Anna-Marie Lawrie

Assistant Coach, 17 Adidas

Anna Marie is with us for her third 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.

In 2022-23 she spent time as the 13 Adidas head coach and was part of the Guerin Catholic Boys Volleyball varsity staff. 

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

Jaclyn Bulmahn

Assistant Coach, 17 Adidas

Jaclyn Bulmahn will be returning the Academy Volleyball Club for the upcoming 2023-24 club season as an assistant coach for the 17 Adidas. She spent most of the 2022-23 season as the assistant coach of 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 working as an interior designer at Studio M Architecture and Planning in Carmel Indiana.

Daniel Mudd

Head Coach, 17 Blue

Coach Mudd is excited to be back with the Academy boys program again, having just finished 2022 season assisting Rev 17-1 girls. The Team finished 2nd at AAU national’s (Open) and 3rd at USAV Nationals. 

Coach Mudd led the 2017 17-1s team so one of the first successful seasons the Academy saw with boys. 

In total, Daniel has over 17 years of coaching experience at a high level. 

Coach Mudd previously coached girls club at Circle City from 2013 to 2020 for the 18-Black (2013,2014, and 2020), 15-Black (2015),16-Purple (2016), and 16-Black

In 2013, the 18 Black team finished 3rd in the Central Zone Shootout (Open), 3rd in the Central Zone Invitational (Open), won the Bluegrass Tournament, the Team Indiana Classic and placed 5th at MEQ (USA).  The team amassed an 18-game winning streak and placed 5th at the Girls’ Junior National Championships (National).

In 2014, the 18-Black team took 2nd at the President’s Day tournament, accrued multiple top ten finishes, placed 23rd at AAU Open National Championships and earned college commitments for 90% of the team.

In 2015, the 15-Black team finished 1st at SPVB Pre-Nationals and placed 5th at AAU Nationals out of 92 teams (Premier).

In 2016, the 16-Purple team finished at a high level having strong finishes in all their tournaments.

Originally from San Diego, CA, Daniel attended and played for Miramar College as an outside hitter. Afterwards he then coached his Alma Mater- Junipero Serra High (CA) to three CIF championships. 

Daniel then made the move to head the boys program at MESA College (CA). During his 2 years there, he was able to bring the winning percentage from .327 to .700 and was able to arrange over 10 college offers to four year Universities.

Daniel then moved to Kansas City to coach for the University of St. Mary from 2009 to 2011. In between collegiate seasons, Daniel coached the 15-1 team for Southern Elite Volleyball Club (KC).

In his spare time Daniel loves to play softball, golf, soccer and beach volleyball.  Daniel and his wife Kristina live in New Palestine with their dogs, cats and 3.5yr old Lilyana. Coach Mudd and Kristina are expecting their 2nd daughter in late October. 

Noah Hornbeck

Assistant Coach, 17 Blue

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.

Jenna Spini

Head Coach, 17 Black

Jenna Spini is entering her 7th season with The Academy. She spent 4 years both assisting and head coaching various levels on the girls side and a year of tournament directing while pursuing a masters for the 2022 season. She is excited to be back for her 2nd season with the boys. 

Jenna received her M.A in Student Affairs Administration in Higher Education in 2022 from Ball State and currently serves as the Assistant Director of Student Activities at Butler University.  Prior to her academic career in Muncie, she was a standout athlete at Franklin College in their volleyball program. 

Born and raised in 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 is excited to continue her coaching career with the boys this season!

Eric Dudik

Assistant Coach, 17 Black

Eric began his playing career at WVU with the men’s club team in 1989. Since then he has been involved in the sport playing indoor, beach, grass and coaching ever since.  Coach Dudik Spent last year as an assistant coach with the Academy boys program after moving to Indianapolis in 2020. He currently resides in Indianapolis with his wife and two kids. Eric’s daughter, Charlotte, plays for the girls program. Eric feels that the sport has treated him very well over the past 34 years and he hopes to help foster the love of the game in all the kids whom he is lucky enough to coach.

Kaitlin Saunders

Head Coach, 17 White

Kaitlin Saunders is returning to The Academy Volleyball Club for the upcoming 2023-24 club season as
the Head Coach for 17 White. This will be her second season coaching on the boys side and third overall
season with The Academy. She has spent the three years both assisting and head coaching at various
levels on both sides. She is eager to return to coach her second season with the boys. Kaitlin is also an
alumni player from The Academy and is happy to be able to return to coach.

Kaitlin graduated from Ben Davis High School where she currently is the Varsity Assistant for her second
season with the girls program and has plans on assisting the new boys program in the upcoming season.
During her time spent at Ben Davis High School she was a right side hitter and transitioned into
becoming a cross trained 6 rotation player by her senior year.

She went on to continue her education at The University of Indianapolis and received her B.S in
Accounting and Supply Chain. While attending college she joined adult volleyball leagues hosted by the
university. When she was available she filled in to coach some of the league teams.

Kaitlin currently lives in Lebanon with her dog Poppy, where she works as a Corporate Accountant for
Ascension. When she is not coaching or doing her accounting role she enjoys trying new food places,
traveling and new parks with her family and dog, Poppy!

Hank Ellison

Assistant Coach, 17 White

Hank Ellison joins the Academy Volleyball with over ten years of Volleyball experience. He spent all four years competing for Zionsville High School as a varsity member while also participating in travel volleyball for Indy Assault. Hank would go on to play at the University of Olivet for a season. Currently he resides in Indianapolis with his wife Kacie and their three year old son. 

Jeanna Eddleman

Head Coach, 17 Silver

Jeanna Eddleman was born and raised in Indianapolis, IN. She played volleyball throughout her high school career at Trinity Christian School where she was a defensive specialist and setter. After graduating she became a volunteer volleyball coach at Christel House Academy. 

She was a volunteer for the first boys’ team at Christel house. After that season, she was brought on as a junior varsity girls’ coach. She will be working with both the boys and girls program at The Academy.

Karen Witherite

Head Coach, 17 Gray

Karen Witherite will be coaching at The Academy Volleyball Club for the first time. She is eager to work with the prestigious boys program at The Academy. 

Karen graduated from Ben Davis High School where she is currently the JV Head Coach for her second season and has plans to assist with the new boys programs. During her time at Ben Davis as a player she played right ride and middle and was trained as a six rotation player. She would later go on to continue her education where she received her B.S in Elementary Education. While in college she stayed active in the volleyball community. 

Karen currently lives in Indianapolis where she works as a 6th social studies grade teacher. 

Steve Giron

Head Coach, 18 NT Midnight

Fayssal Hamoum

Head Coach, 16 Adidas

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 16 Adidas. 

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. 

JP Whiteman

Assistant Coach, 16 Adidas

JP is entering his fifth season with the boys program and this year moving to the 16s age group. 

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).

Emma Rosenberg

Head Coach, 16 Blue

Emma started coaching in 2019 coaching the 12-1 girls’ team at the Monon Select, after playing on the Academy 18-1’s team her final year. Last season, she made her transition to coaching boys as a head coach for 18 White. Following that, she led 18 Black to Nationals during the summer season.

She is going into her second year as the Head Varsity Coach at Avon High School for the Boys Volleyball Team. Avon made it to the Sectional Championship just falling short to our opponent in the 2023 season.

Emma graduates from Ball State University this upcoming December with a bachelor’s degree. During the summertime she coaches and leads the volleyball skills camps.

Maddie Greuenberg

Assistant Coach, 16 Blue

Madelyn is joining her second year with The Academy Volleyball Club as an assistant to 16 Blue. During her first year she headed a 16’s non-travel team while also helping out with the 16 Adidas group.

Before The Academy, Madelyn aided the boys’ team at Avon High School, where she also played volleyball as a defensive specialist and outside hitter.

In addition to playing school-ball she also played club for a total of 8 years. Now she plays recreationally and in local leagues.

She currently lives in Indianapolis and is attending the University of Indianapolis as an undergraduate to study exercise science with a pre-physical therapy concentration.

Tyler Beeman

Head Coach, 16 Black

Tyler is am going into this season as 16-3’s head coach and this will be his second season at The Academy. This past season he coached boys club, girls club, and it was his first season coaching boys high school as a head JV coach at North Central High School. 

He attended ball state university where he played club volleyball for 3 seasons where he was the libero for two seasons. He graduated with a psychology degree where he currently work at a behavioral clinic for children diagnosed with autism. 

Madison Scott

Assistant Coach, 16 Black

Madison Scott returns to the Academy Volleyball Club for the upcoming 2023-24 club season as an assistant coach for 16 Black. She spent most of the 2022-23 season as the assistant coach of 15 Black, and helped run The Academy Boys’ social media for AAU Nationals.

Madison was a three-year Varsity player at Whiteland Community High School, where she earned the most digs, most aces, and MVP award.

She later attended Franklin College where she was an athlete in their volleyball program, and graduated in 2020 with a Bachelors in Public Relations.

Madison currently lives in Indianapolis, where she works as a Social Media Coordinator for Dittoe Public Relations in Broad Ripple.

Akshay Kumar

Head Coach, 16 White

Desirae Spearing

Assistant Coach, 16 White

Don Whiting

Head Coach, 16 Silver

Don is in his seventh year of coaching boys volleyball, starting as the Head Coach of the JV2 team at Fishers. In 2022, he moved to the Junior Varsity Head Coach at Fishers. 

On the club side, Don was an Assistant Coach at the Academy in 2017. 

He started playing beach volleyball in 1991 in rec leagues and switched to hard court play in 2008. He still plays recreationally around his other commitments. He was also a WITS and ACE certified Personal Trainer from 2001-2005. 

He currently lives in Indianapolis and is attending Purdue University for his dual Masters in Engineering Management and Business Administration. 

Trinity Benedict

Head Coach, 16 Gray

Andrew Pluckebaum

Head Coach, 16 NT Midnight

Edward Schwering

Head Coach, 16 NT Onyx

Austin Hillman

Head Coach, 15 Adidas

Austin Hillman enters his fifth 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 wife, Mackenzie, daughter Remi, son Sutton, and two dogs, Finnigan and Oakley.

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

Mackenzie Whitehead

Assistant Coach, 15 Adidas

Andrea Pawlik

Assistant Coach, 15 Adidas

Paul Roeder

Head Coach, 15 Blue

Paul Roedner  is entering his second season as a boys head coach. Prior to his time with the boys program he spent the last 2 seasons as head coach of girls teams at The Academy Grand Park (now Monon Select).

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. 

Jay Hochstetler

Assistant Coach, 15 Blue

Lexi Perez

Head Coach, 15 NT Black

Jim Joven

Head Coach, 14 Adidas

Jim Joven returns for his fifth. year of coaching at The Academy Volleyball Club. Jim  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. 

Jessica Roberts

Assistant Coach, 14 Adidas

Jessica will be returning to the Academy Volleyball Club for the upcoming 2023-2024 club season as an assistant coach for 14-1 boys. Jessica previously coached the 14-7 girls, 14-8 girls and Fall Youth League several years ago at the Academy. She is currently the girls volleyball JV head coach/Varsity Assistant at University High School in Carmel and will return to Bishop Chatard in the spring as the freshman coach for boys volleyball.

She graduated from Ball State with a Bachelors Degree in Physical and Health Education and a Masters Degree in Applied Behavior Analysis with an emphasis in Autism. She was also a member of the Ball State Club volleyball team for three years.

For the past 6 years, Jessica has been an employee of Damar ABA Services focusing on the needs of children with autism and disabilities. Making a difference in children’s lives has became her #1 passion and goal.

Jill Maude

Head Coach, 14 Blue

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.

John Currens

Head Coach, 14 Black

Antwanae Whigham

Head Coach, 14 NT White

Jordan Guler

Head Coach, 13 Adidas

This is Jordan’s second 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.

Adam Post

Assistant Coach, 13 Adidas

Adam Post returns for his second season coaching at The Academy Volleyball Club, once again assisting with the 13 Adidas Team.    

He is also the current Boys’ Volleyball Coordinator at St. Pius X School, where he has also coached the past 6 years at multiple age groups with both the girls’ and boys’ program.  While coaching the boys’ program, he helped obtain a City CYO Championship in 2022 at the 5th/6th A boys level and attained Runners-up the prior two seasons. 

Adam continues to play volleyball both outdoor sand and indoors with a competitive adult group and in various leagues.  He graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Civil Engineering, and is currently a Professional Engineer working as the Bridge Asset and Programming Manager at INDOT.  He is also involved in a real estate business with his wife Michelle.   They have two children, who both play club volleyball at the Indianapolis Academy. 

Hunter Gibbs

Head Coach, 12 Adidas

Bart Archer

17-18s Regional Master Coach

Carlos Capo

15-16s Regional Master Coach

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. He helped lead the Tigers back to the championship match in 2023, where they fell just short.

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.

Emma Rosenberg

Non-Travel Master Coach

Emma started coaching in 2019 coaching the 12-1 girls’ team at the Monon Select, after playing on the Academy 18-1’s team her final year. Last season, she made her transition to coaching boys as a head coach for 18 White. Following that, she led 18 Black to Nationals during the summer season.

She is going into her second year as the Head Varsity Coach at Avon High School for the Boys Volleyball Team. Avon made it to the Sectional Championship just falling short to our opponent in the 2023 season.

Emma graduates from Ball State University this upcoming December with a bachelor’s degree. During the summertime she coaches and leads the volleyball skills camps.