Current Coaching Level:

Coastal - 16 and Under Open Level

New England Region Juniors - Juniors Commissioner (2007-2011)

USA Volleyball - Grassroots and Development Commission

Chairman and founder of the Coastal Volleyball Club

New England Region Juniors - Former Girls Coordinator

Coaching Certifications:

IMPACT, CAP I, CAP II, CAP III
Certified USAV  MASTER IMPACT Instructor

Year began Coaching: 1981
Year Started At Coastal: 1991
Year began playing Volleyball: 1981

Current Coaching Jobs: Coastal Volleyball Program Director
Other Coaching Jobs:
Former Stonehill College Assistant Coach, UMASS Dartmouth Head Coach, USAV Womens Open Teams, BayState Games

Schooling: Accounting Degree from U-Mass Dartmouth 1981
Your Real Job: Comptroller for SRTA/Union Street Bus Co.

Other Interests:

Member of the City of New Bedford Traffic Commission

Member of the Club SS Sacramento (Feast President 1998, Secretary 2006)

Board Member of the Acushnet Cemetery Corp.

Favorite Food: Fish and chips, Pizza, Portuguese Steak
Favorite TV Show:  Any Volleyball matches, Survivor, Amazing Race,  Red Sox, Patriots

Your Role Model: Karch Kiraly
Best thing to ever happen to you in Volleyball:

• Watching my former players come back to coach

• Playing and Coaching in the Azores 1987

• Winning the 1988 National Wallyball Championship in Reno Nevada

• Helping to run the AVP tour stop on the Cape and hanging out with Karch

• Attending CAP III and learning from National Team Coach Toshi Yoshida, Bill Neville and Carl McGowen

• Spending a weekend at the Olympic Trainin Center (2003) in Colorado with Coach Yoshida the the National A2 Team.

• Having lunch with Pat Powers, Kim Oden after clinics

• Being able to help lead the New England Region and make it grow.

• My involvement with USA Volleyball and the Grassroots Commission
• IMPACT Master course at Colorado Springs in Aug 2005
• High Performance Coaches Camp at the Olympic Training Center Jan 2006
  • Meeting Olimpic Coaches Jenny Lang Ping and Hugh McCutcheon . also Mary Wise (U Fla) and Russ Rose (Penn State)
• Running the CAP Clinic at Stonehill in Jan 06 with the Skyhawk team and USA Volleyball Cadre
• Practicing with the USA Mens National Sitting Team in Colorado Springs.
• Having my daughters play volleyball for Coastal
• Coaching the Sharks 16's in 2007 with Brad and Dee Dee