SportsWorld Volleyball Coaches

SportsWorld coaches come from the world stage of volleyball.

SportsWorld is represented by a broad range of highly qualified coaches with diverse backgrounds of experience and success.

Our coaches have built championship winning teams in “indoor club volleyball” and “beach volleyball” by helping the individual reach his or her potential - which in turn improves the team.

Our staff, more than any other, have traveled the world playing volleyball at international levels. This provides our players experienced coaching at very high levels of skill and strategy; while the depth of our coaching staff provides SportsWorld the ability to match coaching-experience across the widest span of team-potential.

All, have a positive, encouraging approach to coaching and an untarnished record of working with young people.

Pamela Roland RN, MSN, FNP

Head Coach, Boys

Coaching Experience

Head Coach
15-18 Girls club teams

Head Coach
Girls Varsity

2006 & 2007

Assistant Coach & Captain

District Champions 1981
District Champions 1982
District Champions 1983
Regional Champions 1981
Regional Champions 1982
Regional Champions 1983
Air Force National Champions 1982
Air Force National Champions 1983

Playing Experience

1999 voted "Legend of the Game" by The Michigan High School Athletic Association (more info)

Air University Team

Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama 1981-1984

District Champions 1981
District Champions 1982
District Champions 1983
District Champions 1984
Regional Champions 1981
Regional Champions 1982
Regional Champions 1983
Regional Champions 1984
Air Force National Champions 1982
Air Force National Champions 1983
Air Force National Champions 1984

Panama City, Florida 1981-1984

Extreme Volleyball Professionals (EVP)

Regional Champions 1981
Regional Champions 1982
Regional Champions 1983

Battle Creek, Mich

Womens Indoor Volleyball

Conference Championship(s) - 1977, 78, 79, 80
Regional Championship(s) - 1977, 78, 79, 80
National Championship(s) - 1978, 79, 80
National Championship finish - 1977 - 8th place

Coached by National Coach of the Year - Vicki LaRouech

State Champions 1980 Class B
State Champions 1979 Class B 1979
Regional Champions 1980
Regional Champions 1979
Regional Champions 1978
Regional Champions 1977
District Champions 1980
District Champions 1979
District Champions 1978
District Champions 1977
Kalamazoo Valley Champions 1980
Kalamazoo Valley Champions 1979
Kalamazoo Valley Champions 1978
Kalamazoo Valley Champions 1977

Shayna Moreno

Coach

Coaching Experience

14's Girls Club Coach, October 2008 - April 2010
Girls 12 - 14 yrs. old
Fundamentals and game strategy

Junior Varsity Softball Coach, February 2010 - present
Create and organize team
Educate and train players in skills necessary to win

Playing Experience

4 year Varsity

Adam Leitlein Coach
Playing Experience Irvine Valley College Red Shirt - one year Norco High School Senior Varsity, Position: Opposite League record: 10-0 All League MVP CIF: second round Club 18's team, Position: Opposite, Junior Olympics in Open Division Junior Varsity, Position: Opposite Tied as League Champions All League Team CIF: second round Club 18's team, Position: Opposite, Junior Olympics in Austin Texas Sophmore Junior Varsity, Position: Opposite Club 16's team, Position: Opposite, Junior Olympics in Phoenix Arizona Freshman Junior Varsity, Position: Opposite

Tara Roenicke

Head Coach: Beach

Roenicke, Ross Win Historic Gold Medal at Worlds

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Sept. 19, 2010) – The U.S. women’s beach volleyball team of Tara Roenicke and Summer Ross made history on Sunday as the pair won the gold medal at the 2010 SWATCH FIVB Junior (Under-21) World Championships in Alanya, Turkey.

Roenicke (Alta Loma, Calif.) and Ross (Carlsbad, Calif.) defeated Italy’s Marta Menegatti and Viktoria Orsi Toth in the final match, 19-21, 26-24, 15-13 in 1 hour, 14 minutes, the longest match in the entire tournament for either gender. The U.S. team had leads in all three sets and had to fight back to stay in the match and win the final two sets over the more experienced Menegatti and Orsi Toth.

Roenicke, 19, and Ross, 17, are the first U.S. team of either gender to medal at the FIVB Junior World Championships. Ross also became the first athlete of either gender to win both the FIVB Youth World Championships and the FIVB Junior World Championships in the same year.

Ross won the youth title with Jane Croson (Lakewood, Calif.) in July in Porto, Portugal before returning to Alanya where she finished fifth in last year’s junior tournament with Jazmin Machado (Encinitas, Calif.).

After the Italians won the first set, the Americans had several leads evaporate in the second set. After eight ties the U.S. team finished it on a Roenicke kill off of an Orsi Toth block attempt. In the third set, the Italians overcame an 11-6 deficit to tie the score at 13-13 before the United States secured the gold medal on Ross’ kill to the back line followed by her stuff of Menegatti’s block attempt at the net.

Climbing to the top of the podium, Roenicke and Ross marched to the gold medal by first beating Check Republic’s Eliska Galova/Adela Machova (21-12, 21-18 in 33 minutes), then besting Spain’s Maria Corral/Paula Soria (21-17, 26-24) and Poland’s Beata Galek/Kinga Kolosinka (19-21, 21-14, 15-9 in 48 minutes) in pool play.

(more bio coming soon)

Sunny Marcum

Sunny began her volleyball career at the age of 11 playing for her elementary school then continued playing through her middle school and high school years.

After graduating from high school, she was recruited by Club Midopa where Sunny contributed to the teams' ranking as the #1 club team in South Korea year-after-year.

Sunny and her teams' consistent track record allowed them to play in the Hiroshima Cup in Japan where they competed against the Japanese National Team in 1981. From her performance at the Hiroshima Cup, Sunny was chosen to represent South Korea in the 1981 World Cup where she and her national team competed against national teams from China, Russia, Peru, USA, Brazil and Japan.

In 1983, Sunny played throughout Europe in the Dinamo International Volleyball Tournament which has hosted in the Netherlands, Belguim and Germany.

Sunny's soft-spoken style is reassuring to young athletes just beginning to play volleyball, while her depth of knowledge and meticulous attention to detail allow her to take the experienced player to higher levels of performance and strategy.

Sunny is also an accomplished professional golfer who has placed within the Top 10 on the money list of the Korean LPGA.

She is currently certified by the KLPGA as a Teaching professional and Professional Club Fitter(tm) and has been a golf instructor for Juniors and Adults at Empire Lakes Golf course in Rancho Cucamonga, Ca since 2000.

Sunny is married to Michael Marcum who is also a professional golfer with the PGA and Director of Instruction, Master/Professional Club Fitter at Empire Lakes Golf Course.

Bonita Wise

Coach Wise grew-up as an accomplished club player in southern California and then received a full ride to the University of Cincinnati where she was a valued contributor in volleyball.

Following her successful college career, Coach Wise was selected to play volleyball internationally throughout Europe and has done so for five seasons. She plans on returning to Europe in the Fall of 2010.

LP Kangasala (2009-2010)
   Team Leader in points
   5x Player of the Game
   Regular Season Champions

Police Team (Maldives National Championship Oct-2009)
   National Champions
   Awarded Best Blocker of Tournament
   Undefeated in Tournament

CECELL Camp Escolar, A-2 Spain (2008-2009)
   Current team leader in blocks
   5x nominee as Ideal Siete De La Jornada (Ideal Seven Players of the Week)
   Superliga B Finalists

Jersey
Position

Height
Weight
Reach
Approach
Vertical
Languages

#17
Zone 3
Zone 2
6' 0"
81 kg
7' 7"
9' 11"
28"
English
Spanish
Croatian
German

OTP Banka Pula, A-1 Croatia (2006-2008)
   Team leader in points (Two Years)
   2007- 7th Place
   2008- 3rd Place Croatian Cup
   2008- 3rd Place Croatian League
       Asst Coach: Goran Jovanovich

VC-Tirol Volleyball Club, A-1 (2005-2006)
   Team Leader in points
   7th Overall in Austrian league points
       Head Coach: Therese Achammer

At University of Cincinnati (1999-2001)
   1999 Conference USA Champions
   1999 Conference USA Tournament Champions
   2000 Conference USA Co-Champions
   2001 Conference USA Champions
   Four NCAA Tournament Appearances

Individual Awards
   2001, 2002, & 2003 First Team All-Conference USA
   2001 & 2002 AVCA All-Region
   2002, 2001, & 1999 Conference USA All-Tournament Team
   1999 AVCA District 6 Freshman of the Year
   1999 AVCA Conference USA Freshman of the Year
   1999 Second Team All-Conference USA
   1999 Conference USA All-Freshman Team
   Posted 30 kills 11-5-1999

Team Awards
   1999, 2001 & 2002 Most Outstanding Offensive Player
   2001 Most Outstanding Blocker
   2002 Team MVP

Tyler Lucas

The eldest son of a single mother and a devoted brother to his disabled sibling.

Tyler grew up on the shores of Southern California and at the age of 9, he started his athletic career as an enthusiastic student of taekwondo.

He and others soon discovered that he had natural athletic talent.

He began playing in organized youth leagues. Baseball, Soccer and Basketball, and making All stars each season.

Finding success in all the sports he played. He couldn't make a choice between one despite season's sometimes overlapping. He never tired. Racing between playing in a game, then a practice for another sport and then training at the dojo.

As his body structure begin to form, it was obvious that the one sport he didn't play he was well suited for. But football would have to wait until high school. Because he was physically larger than his peer age group.

Before entering high school Tyler took up and competed in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

Tyler played high school Football (nose guard) "lettered" | Indoor Volleyball (middle blocker, setter, opposite) "lettered" | Track & Field (shot put, discus) "lettered" | Basketball.

In his high school years beach volleyball was starting to catch his attention.

Heading to college to play football. He just grew more excited and interested in playing beach volleyball. Against his body type and what some people told him about what he could accomplish playing football. He traded in the grass & cleats, for sand & bare feet.

And in 2007, made the decision to pursue a career in pro beach volleyball; playing in the AVP, CBVA, GAV, EVP & Karch Kiraly USA Open.

Tyler is a dedicated, focused and hard working individual. With the determination of a champion, and the character of which no one can dispute.

Phu Tran, Ph.D.
Phu began playing volleyball in junior high during PE classes; then continued playing recreationally throughout high school on their asphalt court - not a lot of diving. He then attended Cal Poly Pomona as an undergraduate and while pursuing a Bachleor of Science degree in Physics he participated in several volleyball programs ranging from intermediate to advanced skills. Phu continued his advanced schooling in Physics at the University of California, Riverside where he earned a Masters degree in Physics and Ph.D. in Experimental High Energy Particle Physics. During graduate school at UCR, Phu ran his own intramural volleyball team consisting of graduate students in Physics. He then did his doctorate research at the European Center for Nuclear Research, CERN. CERN laboratory had many sports clubs including a volleyball club. He played club volleyball on the CERN's men team during the season on the Geneva League which trained and competed against other club teams within Switzerland. Phu has been trained and played mainly as an outside hitter, but has also stepped in as an alternate setter and on rare occasion as the setter. During summers in Switzerland, Phu managed and played in a grass volleyball program for the CERN volleyball club and assisted running the annual end-of-summer grass volleyball tournament held by the club. Phu moved back to California to graduate and continued playing recreationally by finding open gyms and a few west-side tournaments. Then about 6 year ago, a friend ask Phu to play beach volleyball - he did and has been playing beach volleyball recreationally, nearly every weekend since. Phu was instrumental in coaching our U18 Boys and U18 Girls beach teams to win the 2010 Club Beach Championship for each.

Bob Bishop

Assistant Coach

Started playing volleyball in college and fell in love with the game.

I practiced and played off and on with the club team at Cal Poly Pomona, however I could not commit to full time, as I was still playing baseball.

I played a lot of 2 man grass tournaments in the A and Open Division.

Head Coach

South Hills High School
Junior Varsity Girls team 1991
2nd place finish in CIF

Assistant Coach

South Hills High School
Varsity Girls 1990
Periodically between 1991 to 1993
First year went to the CIF finals
Continue coaching South Hills Varsity Girls periodically under Head Coach Charm Doyle.

Remains active in the sport as a player-coach by participating in a competitive weekly adult league.