15′s

Steve Hargrave walked across the street from his High School in McKinney in 1991 and picked up beach volleyball as a hobby. Since then, the game has held his facination in all of its aspects. That gives Steve 18 years of volleyball experience and 16 years in coaching it.

He made an effort to play in college, even though the beach court in McKinney wasn’t very highly recruited, and became instantly familliar with the college recruiting process. Making his own video and calling several coaches all over the country, he finally found a home at the University of La Verne in Orange County California. La Verne played in the Pac 10 and Steve played outside against UCLA, USC, UC San Diego, Peperdine, Univerity of Pacific, and Stanford among others. Several of his opponents went on to play for the US National Team.

While in California, he decided to walk to the nearby High School and ask if they needed help. A week later, he was the JV coach for Bonita High School. This began the transition of his love affair with the game to a love affair with coaching the game. It also launched his insatiable appatite for knowledge of coaching and of the game itself as the game transitioned to the introduction of the slide, the libero, let serves, and rally scoring.

When he returned to Texas the following year Steve was the captain of the Dallas Baptist University men’s club team and the team played in the Texas men’s collegiate club league. At this time, Steve began his Texas coaching carreer at Trinity Christian Academy and began coaching club with Dallas Summit, coaching a 15′s team for the young club. For the next five years, Steve coached with Dallas Summit at the 15′s level. Traveling all over the country and seeing many of his athletes go on to college scholarships with Division I, II, and III schools, he also finished in the gold bracket at ovef 80% of the qualifiers he went to.

During this time Steve became a varsity high school coach for the first time at First Baptist Academy winning over 50% of his matches with the program over a three year period for the first time in the school’s history. He spent one year coaching at the University of North Texas and playing for the men’s club team there. During this time, the Lady Eagles finished 5th in the conference tournament which was their highest finish at that point in ten years.

Steve moved to Arlington and took up residence at TAV and Ft. Worth Nolan Catholic school shortly after he graduated with his degree in Biblical Studies from the Criswell College. At TAV, Steve coached primarily in the 15′s age group qualifying 5 teams for nationals (4 of them through National Qualifiers), finishing in the Gold Bracket of the qualifiers he participated in over 90% of the time, finishing 3rd in the USAV National Tournament with the 152 team for TAV, and winnig the Lone Star Qualifier twice.

Looking for more, he moved back to the Plano area and came back home to Premier and led the 16 Mizuno team to a 5th place finish at the USAV Junior National Tournament in Miami. He has done over 2,000 lessons and has played and coached at some of the highest levels. However, he also recognizes the benifit of staying close to the fundamentals. He qualified TAV’s 13′s team his last year there and still has an affinity for spending time with the younger and lower level athletes. He is has been in charge of the camps at VIP for the past two years and has seen over 500 athletes come through the summer camp programs.

Locally, Steve has coached high school, college, club 13′s-18′s, camps, summer leagues, at Nationals, top 20 prospects, beginners, and other coaches. He has also been on the Junior Board of Directors for the North Texas Region for 3 years as the Vice President of Competition. In this capacity, as well as in his role at TAV and Dallas Premier, he has directed and run all levels of tournaments from one day events to power leage events and even the North Texas Regional Bid Tournament.

Steve Hargrave walked across the street from his High School in McKinney in 1991 and picked up beach volleyball as a hobby. Since then, the game has held his facination in all of its aspects. That gives Steve 18 years of volleyball experience and 16 years in coaching it.

He made an effort to play in college, even though the beach court in McKinney wasn’t very highly recruited, and became instantly familliar with the college recruiting process. Making his own video and calling several coaches all over the country, he finally found a home at the University of La Verne in Orange County California. La Verne played in the Pac 10 and Steve played outside against UCLA, USC, UC San Diego, Peperdine, Univerity of Pacific, and Stanford among others. Several of his opponents went on to play for the US National Team.

While in California, he decided to walk to the nearby High School and ask if they needed help. A week later, he was the JV coach for Bonita High School. This began the transition of his love affair with the game to a love affair with coaching the game. It also launched his insatiable appatite for knowledge of coaching and of the game itself as the game transitioned to the introduction of the slide, the libero, let serves, and rally scoring.

When he returned to Texas the following year Steve was the captain of the Dallas Baptist University men’s club team and the team played in the Texas men’s collegiate club league. At this time, Steve began his Texas coaching carreer at Trinity Christian Academy and began coaching club with Dallas Summit, coaching a 15′s team for the young club. For the next five years, Steve coached with Dallas Summit at the 15′s level. Traveling all over the country and seeing many of his athletes go on to college scholarships with Division I, II, and III schools, he also finished in the gold bracket at ovef 80% of the qualifiers he went to.

During this time Steve became a varsity high school coach for the first time at First Baptist Academy winning over 50% of his matches with the program over a three year period for the first time in the school’s history. He spent one year coaching at the University of North Texas and playing for the men’s club team there. During this time, the Lady Eagles finished 5th in the conference tournament which was their highest finish at that point in ten years.

Steve moved to Arlington and took up residence at TAV and Ft. Worth Nolan Catholic school shortly after he graduated with his degree in Biblical Studies from the Criswell College. At TAV, Steve coached primarily in the 15′s age group qualifying 5 teams for nationals (4 of them through National Qualifiers), finishing in the Gold Bracket of the qualifiers he participated in over 90% of the time, finishing 3rd in the USAV National Tournament with the 152 team for TAV, and winnig the Lone Star Qualifier twice.

Looking for more, he moved back to the Plano area and came back home to Premier and led the 16 Mizuno team to a 5th place finish at the USAV Junior National Tournament in Miami. He has done over 2,000 lessons and has played and coached at some of the highest levels. However, he also recognizes the benifit of staying close to the fundamentals. He qualified TAV’s 13′s team his last year there and still has an affinity for spending time with the younger and lower level athletes. He is has been in charge of the camps at VIP for the past two years and has seen over 500 athletes come through the summer camp programs.

Locally, Steve has coached high school, college, club 13′s-18′s, camps, summer leagues, at Nationals, top 20 prospects, beginners, and other coaches. He has also been on the Junior Board of Directors for the North Texas Region for 3 years as the Vice President of Competition. In this capacity, as well as in his role at TAV and Dallas Premier, he has directed and run all levels of tournaments from one day events to power leage events and even the North Texas Regional Bid Tournament.

Peder brings years of volleyball experience to Dallas Summit. He started his volleyball career in his native Sweden with the club Sollentuna VK, first as a youth player and then as coach of both boys and girls teams in the 14 to 18 year range. Peder played for Rudbecks Academy, during his sophomore year they advanced to the National championship match. Since moving from Stockholm to Dallas, Peder has played and coached men’s USVBA/USAV A and BB teams, Dallas Summit and now with Dallas Premier.

In his fourth year with Summit/Premier, Peder has been coaching 13 & 14′s, as well as assisting in many of Summit’s camps and clinic. The 2008 season his Summit 14′s Elite team won the NTR (non-bid) Regional Championship. Peder is a volunteer coach at All Saints Catholic school, and last fall took their 6th grade team to a Dallas Parochial league Championship.

Last season he was head coach for Summit 14 Mizuno and an assistant with Dallas Premier 14 Mizuno, that qualified for Open Nationals.

Peder is IMPACT certified (USA) and corresponding to CAP II (Sweden).

This will be Geoff’s fourth year with Dallas Premier. He is also in his third season with John Paul II High School as the Varsity Assistant Coach. Kiessling comes to Dallas from the Houston area as a former collegiate coach at Alvin College and Galveston College as well as Co-Director of South Shore Junior Volleyball Club. While at ACC, Kiessling took the program from the bottom of the Conference and helped to make ACC a Nationally ranked program. During his 8 year collegiate coaching career he helped lead his teams to Post Season play every year. He helped to produce 20 All Conference, 10 All-Region and 2 All-Americans. 21 of his players went on to play at Major Universities and 1 to play Professional. Each of his setters have been ranked in the top 3 in the Nation each and every year.

Since 1992, he has been coaching or playing volleyball.

Eight of those years were for South Shore Juniors Volleyball Club where he has qualified for USA Junior National Championships five times, producing 2 All Americans and finishing as high as 5th in the Nation twice. Geoff has coached or trained 75 Seniors who all received scholarships to play volleyball in college. For the past few years he had 10 players selected to PrepVolleyball.com’s top 250 Seniors in the Nation. 8 Players were selected to the Lonestarvolleyball.com All Texas Team. In 2005, three of Kiessling’s former players competed in the NCAA Division I National Championships.

One year was spent with Texas Tornados where as the Head Coach his team qualified for the Junior Olympics and won the Bronze Medal in the 18 American Division and three of his girls were selected as All Americans.

Kiessling is known as one of the top technical trainers. Geoff has trained many athletes from all levels of High Schools, Clubs and Colleges in Texas as well as surrounding states.

Coach Kiessling is also very involved with USA Volleyball. Geoff has been selected for the past 8 years to train athletes from all over the country in High Performance and Development camps held by USA Volleyball. Kiessling has trained with 2004 Olympic Coach Toshi Yoshida and current National Team coach Jenny “Lang” Ping. Kiessling was also selected as an apprentice coach for USA Volleyball for the High Performance program. Geoff was involved in the training of the USA HP A1 Team that participated in the USA High Performance Championships where his USA HP Red won the Gold Medal despite playing up in an older age group. As well as coaching, Kiessling also works on the technical side of USA Volleyball as a member of the USA Volleyball Logistics staff.

Kiessling was asked to help with training the USA Junior National Team as they prepared for the NORCECA Continental Junior Women’s Championship in Winnipeg, Canada. He also helped with the 2000 Olympic Team tryouts in San Diego, California.

Kiessling was also chosen to represent the Lone Star Region as a Coach for the High Performance Program for the first 4 years of its conception. Before being asked to work with USA HP Program.

Geoff is a current and active member of the American Volleyball Coach’s Association and is CAP Level II Certified Coach.

This will be Geoff’s fourth year with Dallas Premier. He is also in his third season with John Paul II High School as the Varsity Assistant Coach. Kiessling comes to Dallas from the Houston area as a former collegiate coach at Alvin College and Galveston College as well as Co-Director of South Shore Junior Volleyball Club. While at ACC, Kiessling took the program from the bottom of the Conference and helped to make ACC a Nationally ranked program. During his 8 year collegiate coaching career he helped lead his teams to Post Season play every year. He helped to produce 20 All Conference, 10 All-Region and 2 All-Americans. 21 of his players went on to play at Major Universities and 1 to play Professional. Each of his setters have been ranked in the top 3 in the Nation each and every year.

Since 1992, he has been coaching or playing volleyball.

Eight of those years were for South Shore Juniors Volleyball Club where he has qualified for USA Junior National Championships five times, producing 2 All Americans and finishing as high as 5th in the Nation twice. Geoff has coached or trained 75 Seniors who all received scholarships to play volleyball in college. For the past few years he had 10 players selected to PrepVolleyball.com’s top 250 Seniors in the Nation. 8 Players were selected to the Lonestarvolleyball.com All Texas Team. In 2005, three of Kiessling’s former players competed in the NCAA Division I National Championships.

One year was spent with Texas Tornados where as the Head Coach his team qualified for the Junior Olympics and won the Bronze Medal in the 18 American Division and three of his girls were selected as All Americans.

Kiessling is known as one of the top technical trainers. Geoff has trained many athletes from all levels of High Schools, Clubs and Colleges in Texas as well as surrounding states.

Coach Kiessling is also very involved with USA Volleyball. Geoff has been selected for the past 8 years to train athletes from all over the country in High Performance and Development camps held by USA Volleyball. Kiessling has trained with 2004 Olympic Coach Toshi Yoshida and current National Team coach Jenny “Lang” Ping. Kiessling was also selected as an apprentice coach for USA Volleyball for the High Performance program. Geoff was involved in the training of the USA HP A1 Team that participated in the USA High Performance Championships where his USA HP Red won the Gold Medal despite playing up in an older age group. As well as coaching, Kiessling also works on the technical side of USA Volleyball as a member of the USA Volleyball Logistics staff.

Kiessling was asked to help with training the USA Junior National Team as they prepared for the NORCECA Continental Junior Women’s Championship in Winnipeg, Canada. He also helped with the 2000 Olympic Team tryouts in San Diego, California.

Kiessling was also chosen to represent the Lone Star Region as a Coach for the High Performance Program for the first 4 years of its conception. Before being asked to work with USA HP Program.

Geoff is a current and active member of the American Volleyball Coach’s Association and is CAP Level II Certified Coach.