The Youth National Volleyball Association's 

  Teaching Philosophy 

The YNVA believes the key to a child's success in sports development is the good fortune of having learned the correct fundamentals and skills at an early age. 

The dilemma is that many parents who are coaching our young volleyball player have not had the opportunity to learn the correct fundamentals and skills themselves.

The YNVA Program addresses this issue by attracting Head University Coaches, University and Professional players, including All-American players who have experienced playing and coaching at the highest level.  These exceptionally talented and gifted coaches train the YNVA Program parents on how to properly teach the basic fundamentals to our young athletes.

The YNVA coaches are on the field at all times to train the children in the proper skills and to ensure the volunteer coaches are teaching our children the correct volleyball fundamentals and skills.

"It is a great day when children can learn from the best coaches."  Couple this with the YNVA Mission and Objective of building positive character, and enriching the lives and health of youth and you have a winning result.

Please Meet Our Coaches:

Westlake, Texas YNVA Coach

Kyle Robertson

Coach           Site Director

Kyle Robertson is the Athletic Director at Trinity Episcopal School.  She holds a Master's degree in Physical Education and has taught P.E. for     19 years.

Kyle has 15 years experience in coaching both middle school and varsity high school volleyball.  She teaches private lesson, offers skill clinics and summer camps throughout the year.  She also worked as the League Director for Third Coast Volleyball Club in Huston, TX where she organized men's, women's and coed volleyball leagues for over 100 teams. She is a member of the GCVA and USAV Volleyball Association.  Kyle was an avid participant in coed and women's indoor and outdoor volleyball leagues, and competed widely in beach and grass volleyball tournaments.  Kyle has a love for sports and kids!  She brings expertise and enthusiasm to the Youth National Volleyball Association and will be a true inspiration to our youth who participate.

Ashley Engle 

Coach

Westlake, TX

Cedar Park. TX

Member of the University of Texas 2009 NCAA Volleyball Finalist.

Three-time AVCA All American; Three-time Volleyball Magazne All-Amercan First Team; Three-time AVCA Alll-Central Region First Team; Four-time All-Big 12 First Team; Acdemic All-Big 12 Second Team; Several Big 12 Player of the Week honors. Engle has far too many credits to list them.

 FOR A COMPLETE BIOGRAPHY CLICK HERE

Heather Kisner

Coach

Westlake, TX

Member of the University of Texas 2009 NCAA Volleyball Finalist.

University of Texas All-time digs leader; Recorded a Texas single-season record of 488 digs in one season; Three-time Academic All-Big 12 First Team; Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week; Time Warner Cable Invitational Most Valuable Libero and CoSIDA ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District 6 First Team. 

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Honolulu, Hawaii YNVA Coach     

Charlie Wade

Coach

Site Director

University of Hawaii Head Men's Volleyball Coach and most recently the head women's volleyball coach for the University of Pacific.

Honolulu, Hawaii YNVA Coach

Shelton Tang

Coach

University of Hawaii Assistant Coach for Men's Volleyball.

Tang joins Head Coach Charlie Wade's inaugural staff.  Coach Wade said, "We're very fortunate to acquire Shelton's knowlege and experience on our staff as we are getting a professional who has the experience of a veteran volleyball coach." Tang has worked with the Rainbow Wahine Volleyball Program in various capacities for the past fifteen years. 

Since 2002, Tang has served as Project Coordinator for USA Volleyball High Performance for the Aloha Region.  He coached vaious teams including 18-under Aloha Region which took second place in the Youth Natioal Team Division in 2003.

FOR A COMPLETE BIOGRAPHY CLICK HERE

Huntington Beach CA YNVA Coach

Tim Johnson

Coach

Site Director

The 2009 Ireland Men's National Team Coach and currently the Associate Head Coach for the Golden West College Men's Volleyball Team. 

Tim Johnson has been coaching volleyball over 12 years.  Some of his coaching positions include coaching the Boys and Girls JV Teams at Santa Margarita HS; Head Boys Varsity VB Coach for Fountain Valley HS; Head Men's VB Coach for Golden West College and Coach of the Ireland Men's National Team.  

While at GWC as Heads Men's Volleyball Coach, Johnson won the Pacific Coast Conference two times and was named Pacific Coast Conference Coach of the Year twice.

FOR A COMPLETE BIOGRAPHY CLICK HERE 

Santa Monica, CA YNVA Coach

Allison Rivera 

Coach

Site Director

The Head Varsity Coach of the St. Monica Catholic High School, a CIF playoff team; Rivera played competitive beach and indoor volleyball while attending the University of San Diego

Allison attributes much of her career success to being an athlete.  She brings this to her coaching philosophy, balancing academics and athletics.  Her dedication to the development of each player as part of the team has resulted in the personal growth of each individual player.

Rivera's trust and respect for each player as well as their parents is highly regarded.  Her greatest strength is her interpersonal skills where she is able to observe and asses skills and personality which enables her to place the players in the most appropriate position for the good of the player and team.  She spends time in the off-season attending clinics with top ranked college coaches to bring new drills, techniques, offensive and defensive strategies to her programs. 

Although Rivera's first love is volleyball and basketball, she participates in many other athletic activities, which include, road biking, triathlons, snowboarding, surfing, running, swimming and yoga.

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The YNVA has awesome volunteer coaches who assist in teaching our chidren the correct skills!

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 Our Objective

The Objective of the YNVA is to build positive character, and enrich the lives and health of youth through the promotion of Youth Volleyball.

 Our Mission

To put into practice the core values of integrity, teamwork, respect, caring, discipline, accountability and fair play. 

YNVA Coaches teach skills correctly!

YNVA Coaches  teach fair play and sportsmanship! 

Kyle demonstrates the pass!

A winning set by
Three time AVCA All American Ashley Engle

 
Proper Blocking Technique by Elliott's Longhorns 

 

Coach Wade talking to press!

Assistant Coach looks on as Coach Wade has words of wisdom for his Hawaii team!

YNVA Coaches teaching our children to keep their eye on the ball! Our Coaches teach our child to believe in their dreams! Tim Johnson coaching the Ireland Men's National Team

 

 

  YNVA Coach teaching the correct skills! 

Participants learning basic technique.

Huntington Beach

Pacific Palisades

Westlake