Coaching Staff

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Kristi Senf - Head Coach: 18 Black
Email: k.senf@dallaspremier.org

Kristi comes to Dallas Premier Mizuno from Austin Performance Volleyball Club in the Lone Star Region. Kristi spent 3 years coaching for Austin Performance Volleyball where her teams won over 10 tournaments and placed 3^rd at the Lone Star Club Regionals. Kristi brings with her, 11 years of volleyball coaching experience. Kristi began her club coaching career by developing a club in West Texas, named Flaming Fury Volleyball Club, where for 3 years her teams finished in the top 5 in the SURVA region every year. Kristi then spent 2 years coaching 15s at West Texas Juniors.

Kristi currently coaches at Lake Dallas High School and previously coached 3 years in Lake Travis ISD in Austin, Texas.

Kristi played collegiate volleyball all 4 years at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. She was a defensive specialist and utility outside hitter. She finished her career ranked in the top 5 in career aces, digs, and games played.

Kristin played at Permian High School in Odessa, TX., where she received MVP senior year and Offensive Player of the year junior year.

Shamus Crimmins - Assistant Coach: 18 Black
Email: s.crimmins@dallaspremier.org

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Geoff Kiessling - Head Coach: 17 Black
Email: g.kiessling@dallaspremier.org

This will be Geoff’s fourth year to coach with Dallas Premier but first year as an Owner. He is also in his fourth 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 2 to play Professional. Each of his setters were ranked in the top 3 in the Nation each and every year.

Geoff started playing volleyball the summer of his 8th grade year. He helped start a high school boys league while playing at Clear Brook High School and Friendswood High School. This was unheard of at the time in Texas, but the High School league had 10 teams represented by 6 schools. Geoff has played with some exceptional players, one in particular, Riley Salmon of the 2008 USA Olympic Mens Volleyball team that won a Gold Medal in the Beijing Olympics. Geoff has competed in many beach tournaments as well as AVP qualifiers while living in Houston. He started coaching in 1992. That gives Geoff almost 25 year of volleyball experience. Dang he is getting OLD!

Eight of his coaching years were for South Shore Juniors Volleyball Club where he qualified for USA Junior National Championships six 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 in the business. 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 2008 Olympic 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. This team consisted of Cal Berkley standout Tarah Murrey, Nebraska Setter Lauren Cooke, Penn State Setter Kristen Carpenter and Hawaii Outside Hitter Kanani Danielson. As well as coaching, Kiessling also works on the technical side of USA Volleyball as a member of the USA Volleyball 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, Junior Volleyball Association and is a CAP Level II Certified Coach.

Victoria Thomas - Head Coach: 13 Black / Assistant Coach: 17 Black
Email: v.thomas@dallaspremier.org

Victoria Thomas will be starting her 3^rd season with Dallas Premier. Last year she was the assistant on the 16 Molten team and also helped with 18 Mizuno. Victoria was an explosive outside hitter that lettered 3 years at Richardson High school. Victoria along with her sister Regina, led the team in blocks per game and Victoria was named 1^st team all district 2 years in a row.

Victoria went on to play volleyball at Rutgers University in a very competitive conference the Big East and played against such teams as Notre Dame and Louisville. Victoria’s most impressive performance was against St Johns where she hit .625 and recorded 16 kills and 4 solo blocks.

Victoria comes from a sports dense family. She also has a sister Regina Thomas who is an All American MB at Ole Miss University and another sister Esther Thomas who Ran track for TCU.

Victoria started coaching while still in College with VIP All Star Coaches Camps, with coaches from Texas, Baylor, Oklahoma and New Mexico State. In her off-season she coached Rutgers Skills Clinics at 7 high schools and the Rutgers Nike Volleyball camp for two years.

Now as a certified sports specific trainer, Victoria has partnered up with ex professional athletes and is co-owner of 3D Training (determination, dedication, discipline). 3D Training emphasizes the development of athletes both physically and technically in either basketball or volleyball, advancing the core muscles groups to enhance speed, agility and jump.

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Miranda Orr - Head Coach: 16 Black
Email: m.orr@dallaspremier.org

Currently Coach Orr is in her second year as the Head Coach at Dallas Christian College. It is also the program’s second year. She is entering her third year with Dallas Premier. In her first year with the club she was the assistant to Geoff Kiessling for 18 Mizuno, a team that won the regional tournament. Last year she was the assistant coach for 13 Mizuno and head coach for 16 Molten. Her 16’s team qualified for the gold bracket in every tournament and finished in the top 10 of all 3 of their national qualifiers.

Previously Miranda spent 2 seasons as an assistant at the University of North Texas. She also served as the assistant for TAV’s 17 Asics teams in 2008 and 2009 that won or medaled in many national qualifiers. Her 2008 team finished third at Nationals in the Open division.

Before coming to the metroplex, Miranda was a head coach for West Texas Juniors out of Midland. She led her teams to several tournament titles and top ten finishes at national qualifiers. Her teams qualified for nationals in 2006 and 2007.

Orr also spent three seasons as an assistant with the University of Texas-Permian Basin volleyball program helping the team to the regional tournament each year. As a player, she was a four-year starter at outside hitter and earned All-Red River Athletic Conference, Offensive MVP honors, and NAIA Region VI first-team selections. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology in 2003.

Jackie Vincent - Assistant Coach: 16 Black
Email: j.vincent@dallaspremier.org

Jackie Vincent comes to Dallas Premier from Texas Tech University and Guns Up Volleyball Club in Lubbock, Texas. Jackie coached 18’s and 16’s while coaching for Guns Up Volleyball Club. Jackie played high school for Denton Ryan and club for Dallas Premier. She was a First Team All-District selection and went on to play volleyball at Texas Tech University. While at Texas Tech Jackie coached many collegiate camps and clinics.

2010 (Senior): Started in the libero position every match … did not come out of a match during the season, playing in all 103 sets … one of three players to play in every match … posted double-digit digs 17 times … had 19 digs against Texas State, setting a new career high at the time … came close to matching that total twice with 18 digs against Kansas State and Colorado … added a career-high eight assists against Kansas State … her 18 digs against the Wildcats came in only three sets while her total versus Texas State was over five sets … recorded 17 digs against Oklahoma at home … has found success against Kansas State as she almost matched her assist total from earlier in the year with seven at Manhattan … also recorded 15 digs against the Wildcats … matched her career high at Missouri with 19 digs … tied her career high with two service aces against Texas … set a new career high for digs with 21 at Colorado … came close to matching that total the very next match against Iowa State, finishing with 20 digs … finished the season with 19 digs at Baylor … posted 60 digs in Tech’s final three matches … recorded double-digit digs in 14 of 20 conference matches … had over 100 more digs than any other Tech player.

2009 (Junior): Appeared in 41 sets, 20 matches … best single-match performance of the season was the opening match with Creighton when she had 11 digs and at home versus Colorado when she scooped up 10 digs in three sets … was very effective defensively at No. 8 Nebraska as she came off the bench to add 7 digs in the effort and added a kill for fun … had 9 digs vs. Nebraska on Oct. 28 in Lubbock and tallied 7 in the match at Baylor … had 5 service aces to 6 service miscues, and added 13 assists to the team.

2008 (Sophomore): The defensive specialist contributed 90 digs on the season, which equalled a 1.29 dig-per-set average … also made good on 8 attempts with 4 kills and only 1 error, for a .375 hitting average … her 14 digs vs. Colorado is her match-high mark thus far in her career.

2007 (Freshman): Played in 63 sets over 24 matches for the season as a defensive specialist, averaging 1.33 digs per game … picked up a season-best 11 digs against Lamar in the Red Raider RoundUp … Had six-plus digs a total of seven times on the season.

Denton Ryan HS: Played for coach Cindy Williams and helped team advance to state quarterfinals … was a first-team all-district (5A) player … earned numerous academic honors during her prep career.

CAREER HIGHS

Kills: 1, several times, last vs. Kansas, 10/21/09
Total Attacks: 4, at SMU, 9/3/10
Hitting Percentage (Min. 5 Kills): None
Assists: 8, vs. Kansas State, 9/18/10
Service Aces: 2, twice, last vs. Texas, 11/13/10
Digs: 21, at Colorado, 11/20/10
Solo Blocks: None
Block Assists: 1, at New Orleans, 9/5/09
Total Blocks: 1, at New Orleans, 9/5/10

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Kendall Hansen - Head Coach: 16 Red
Email: k.hansen@dallaspremier.org

Kendall Hansen comes to Dallas Premier from Texas Image Volleyball Club. Last season Kendall coached the 18 National team. Kendall played club for Dallas Premier and high school at Euless Trinity High School, where she was selected as the Gatorade Rookie of the Year during her sophomore season, honorable mention all-district team as a junior and earned first team all-district honors as a senior. She was also named Hitter of the Year in 2006. Kendall played volleyball at Tarleton State University.

Ben Boyd - Assistant Coach: 16 Red
Email: b.boyd@dallaspremier.org

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Steve Hargrave - Head Coach: 15 Black
Email: s.hargrave@dallaspremier.org

Steve Hargrave picked up volleyball as a hobby in 1991. Since then, the game has held his fascination in all of its aspects. That gives Steve 20 years of volleyball experience.

He made an effort to play in college, even though the beach court in McKinney wasn’t very highly recruited, and became instantly familiar 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, Pepperdine, University of Pacific, and Stanford among others.

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. Steve started coaching youth sports when he was 16. This gives him 20 years of coaching experience, 18 of it in volleyball.

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. Steve began his Texas coaching career at Trinity Christian Academy and began coaching club. For the next five years, Steve coached with Dallas Summit. Steve also became a varsity high school coach for the first time at First Baptist Academy. After that he spent one year coaching at the University of North Texas and playing for the men’s club team there.

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 Ft. Worth Nolan he took the Lady Vikings to the State Finals for the first time in school history and made the playoffs in each of his five years there. 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 wining the Lone Star Qualifier twice.

Looking for more, he moved back to the Plano area and came back home to Premier led the 16 Mizuno team to a 5th place finish at the USAV Junior National Tournament in Miami. He has done over 2,500 lessons and has played and coached at some of the highest levels. However, he also recognizes the benefit 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.

Last year, he purchased Dallas Premier and is now co-owner of Dallas Premier.

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 4 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 Ranking Tournaments and even the North Texas Regional Bid Tournament. He is currently one of five members of the Seeding Committee for USAV and is in charge of seeding certain age groups for most National Qualifiers and the Junior National Championships.

Amy Gunter - Assistant Coach: 15 Black
Email: a.gunter@dallaspremier.org

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Jenn Bishop - Head Coach: 15 Red
Email: j.bishop@dallaspremier.org

Jennifer Bishop is starting her fourth year with Dallas Premier Volleyball Mizuno Club as the Head Coach of the 15 Molten team. She is currently an Assistant Coach at Austin College and is enjoying her first year at college coaching. She was the Head Volleyball coach at McKinney High School and before that was the Varsity Assistant at Flower Mound Marcus High School. Jennifer grew up in the area playing high school, club, college, sand and adult USAV.

She majored in Kinesiology and minored in Biology at the University of North Texas where she also received her teaching degree. During college, she started coaching juniors and decided to make coaching volleyball her career. In her 12^th year as a high school coach, 4^th as a head coach, she is still as excited about the sport of volleyball as she was when she played it for the first time in middle school.

The game has changed a lot over the years and as a student of the sport of volleyball she attends AVCA, USAV and TGCA clinics as well as coaching club to stay progressive in her approach. Over the last 15 years she has coached for Lake Highlands Volleyball Club, Image VBC, Dallas Juniors and now Dallas Premier Mizuno. Her focus in volleyball has always leaned towards defense but she brings a well rounded approach to the game along with high expectations.

Jennifer is IMPACT certified.

Bekah Newberry - Assistant Coach: 15 Red
Email: b.newberry@dallaspremier.org

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Rhae Walderman - Head Coach: 14 Black
Email: r.walderman@dallaspremier.org

Rhae comes to Dallas Premier Mizuno from TAV where she was helped the 16 black team to a #1 ranking in the country. As well as winning the silver medal at AAU National Championships, they finished 1^st at Northern Lights and 2^nd at Lone Star National Qualifiers.

She is in her 2^nd season at JJ Pearce High School. She is currently the JV head coach and Varsity assistant. JJ Pearce finished 3^rd at UIL State Tournament in 2010. Rhae also plays USAV tournaments and her team was National Champions in 2010 and she was selected to the All-Tournament Team.

Rhae played high school volleyball in San Antonio for James Madison high school where she was an All-District selection as well as voted Team MVP. She played club volleyball for Mark Papich at Texas Juniors VBC where her team qualified for the Tour of Texas as well as the Junior National Championships.

Rhae played college volleyball at Sam Houston State University, where she was a starter for all four years. The team was Southland Conference Runner ups and she was selected to the Academic All Conference team. Rhae continued to play at volleyball at SMU for 2 years while getting her Masters in Cell and Molecular Biology.

Christine Morrill - Assistant Coach: 14 Black
Email: c.morrill@dallaspremier.org

Christine Morrill comes to Dallas Premier Mizuno from Utah State and Cache Valley Volleyball Club in Logan, Utah. Christine has been playing volleyball since the age of 10. Four of those years were at Utah State University (2007-2010) as a Libero. She played club volleyball for High Country Volleyball Club and played one season in Europe.

Quickly:
Is one of the best liberos in the WAC… Has emerged as one of the leaders on the team… Controls the back row very well and is a tremendous defensive player… Ranks second all-time in school history with 1,273 career digs, which also ranks as the second-most among active players in the WAC… Is just 77 digs shy of entering the top 10 in career digs in the history of the WAC… Is 341 digs shy of tying Kelsi Peterson’s (2003-06) school record for digs with 1,614.

2009 Season (Jr.):
Started all 29 matches and played in all 115 sets during the season… Finished the year with 531 digs which ranks second all-time at Utah State and 10th all-time in the WAC for a single-season… Averaged 4.62 digs per set to rank first in the WAC… Recorded double-digits in digs in all 29 matches during the year and posted 20-plus digs 10 times… Tied the school record for digs in a three-set match with 20 against Louisiana Tech on Oct. 29… Also tied her career-high for digs with 29 in a four-set win at San Jose State on Nov. 5… Hit .833 on the season as she had five kills and six attempts… Ranked tied for third on the team with 22 service aces and was second with 48 assists… Was named to the Kent State/Mizuno Open All-Tournament team… Earned academic all-WAC honors for the third straight year.

2008 Season (So.):
Earned second-team all-Western Athletic Conference honors after starting all 28 matches and playing in all 108 sets during the season… Ranked fourth in the WAC with 3.79 digs per set… Averaged 4.17 digs per set during league matches to rank second in the conference… Finished the year with 409 digs to rank fourth all-time at Utah State for a single-season… Recorded double-digits in digs 20 times during the season and had 20 or more digs five times including a career-high 29 in a five-set win against Boise State on Oct. 23… Had a career-high four service aces at Nevada on Oct. 25 and averaged 0.19 service aces per set during the season along with 0.37 assists… Earned academic all-WAC honors for the second straight year.

2007 Season (Fr.):
Played in 24 matches and 85 sets during her first year at Utah State… Finished the season averaging 3.92 digs per set to rank eighth in the WAC… Averaged 4.09 digs in league matches to rank sixth in the conference… Recorded 333 digs during the year which ranks eighth all-time at Utah State for a single-season… Recorded double-digits in digs in 19 matches during the season and had 20-plus digs twice, including a season-high 24 in a four-set win against Fresno State on Oct. 27… Was named the Defensive Standout at the 2007 Golden Bear Invitational hosted by the University of California as she averaged 3.67 digs during three matches… An academic all-WAC selection.

High School/Club:
Earned first-team all-state honors during her senior season and second-team all-state honors as a junior at Union High School…Was a member of the High Country Club volleyball team coached by Kim Norman.

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