About the Naperville Volleyball Club Coaches

Daniel Ames

• Impact Certified
• ASEP Certified
• Assistant Women’s Volleyball Coach at Dominican University
• Owner of Naperville Volleyball Club
• Owner of Pipeline Volleyball Club
• Owner of Elite Athletes Chi, Inc.
• NVC Executive Director (Boys & Girls) 2009 thru Present

Dominican University Assistant Women's Volleyball Coach

• 2010 NCAA Division III Tournament First Time in School History
• 2010 NAC Tournament Champions First Time In History
• 2010 Season record of 27-9
• 3 First Team all Conference Players, NAC Conference Freshman of the Year

 NVC Boys Director 2007 thru Present

• Top 10 finish 16–club 2009 Boys Junior Olympics
• Top 10 finish 18–club 2008 Boys Junior Olympics
• Top 10 finish 18–open 2007 Boys Junior Olympics
• Top 10 finish 17–club 2007 Boys Junior Olympics

NVC Boys Head Coach 2006–Present

• Top 10 finish 18–club 2008 Boys Junior Olympics
• Top 10 finish 18–open 2007 Boys Junior Olympics
• Top 10 finish 17–club 2007 Boys Junior Olympics

Sports Performance Volleyball Club Head Coach 16–Mizuno,18–Runbird(2) (1999–2002, 2004–2006)

• AAU National Championship 3rd Place Finish 1999
• AAU National Championship 2nd Place Finish 2000
• Top 10 Finish 18–Open 2004 Boys Junior Olympics
• Asics National Championships 2nd Place Finish 2004
• Head Coach of first club to ever have 2 top 5 seeds to start tournament in Boys Junior Olympic’s 18–open

Lewis University Flyers Program Head Coach (2002–2004)

• AAU National Championship 2nd Place Finish 2002
• Asics National Championship 3rd Place Finish 2003 

Addison Trail Freshman Head Coach–2000

Asst. Coach Glenbard North High School Boys

• 2009 State Finalists

University of Florida Camp clinician–Head Coach

Sports Performance camp clinician–Head Coach

Naperville Volleyball Club camp clinician–Head Coach

Player at Sports Performance Volleyball Club & Circus Volleyball Club

Team Captain of Chicago Volleyball Delegation of Maccabi Games 1997

3 Year Varsity Player at Addison Trail High School

Boys USAV High Performance Tryout Volunteer

Have coached 2 current Olympic Volleyball Players at Sports Performance Volleyball Club

Having coached 30+ NCAA Division I volleyball players into receiving scholarships. Along with many other players with Division II, III and NAIA scholarships. With many of these players going on to play professionally overseas.

Jimmy Lenert

NVC Girls Assistant Director

Player

• 2 years at NVC 04, 06
• 1 year at spvb 2005, Runner up at nationals 05
• 2 year varsity started at Naperville North–Runner up in best of Illinois 05, 06–Runner up in state 06
• Played at College of DuPage 1 year 07

Coaching

• Impact Certified
• 5th year coaching NVC
• NVC Girls Director
• Sophomore Girls Coach at Naperville North Highschool–2010

Jake Mattern

NVC Boys Assistant Director

• IMPACT certified
• Cap I certified
• 4 year player Naperville North High School (2 year varsity)
• 2 year Team Captain Naperville North High School
• 4 year SPVB player
• 2 time AAU National Finalist
• 2 time Asics National Champion (Chicago Navy Pier)
• 1 year club player University of Iowa
• Coached 1 year for SPVB 2003–2004
• Coached 3 years for IPV 2007–2010
• IPV Boys Director 2009–2010
• 3 year Volunteer for North Central College Girls Volleyball Program

Dave Deuser

• IMPACT certified
• Cap I Certified
• 1987 Men’s National Team apprentice
• 1991, 92 Assist. Women’s Coach, Loyola University Chicago
• 1992 Richards H.S. Boy’s Head Coach, Illinois State Champions 41-0
• 1993 Named Head Men’s Coach, Lewis University
• 1996 MIVA Champions, NCAA Final Four, Lewis University
• 1998 MIVA Champions, NCAA Final Four, Lewis University
• 1998 Volleyball Magazine Men’s NCAA Coach of the Year
•  2003 AVCA National Men’s Coach of the Year
•  2004 MIVA Champions, NCAA Final Four, Lewis University
•  2007 USA Volleyball Meritorious Service Award
•  2009-2011 Ultimate Volleyball Club 18-1's Head Coach

Matt Baleiko

• Impact Certified
• 5–year SPVB player: 18–Runbird Captain 2003–2004 and 2004–2005
• 2–Time Aasics Tournament Champions (Chicago)
• 2–Time AAU National Champions
• 2–Time Gateway Festival Champions (St. Louis)
• 2–Time Great Lakes Festival Champions (Chicago)
• JOVC National Runner–Up 16–Open Division (Greatest Finish in SPVB Boys Open Tournament History)
• 3–Time First–Team All–Upstate Eight Conference
• 2–Time All–City Team (Naperville)
• Naperville Sun High School Volleyball Player of the Year 2004–2005
• 4–year player @ Loyola University Chicago
• 2–years as a starter playing Libero and a bit of Opposite
• 2008: Led the team with 1.82 digs/game average and recorded a career–high 13 digs versus IPFW in the MIVA quarterfinals
• 2009: Set career highs in service aces (15), kills (13) and block assists (7). Tallied five kills, 3 digs and 2 blocks in victory over then–No. 1 ranked Penn State (2/20/09)
• 4–year MIVA Academic All–Conference

Sam Kull

• Impact Certified
• Helped coach Downers Grove South summer camp for 4 years
• Played on NVC 18-Quiksilver last year.
• Played Sports Performance for three years
• 15's years ended in 11th place
• 16's year ending in 9th place
• Received silver medal at USA 2009 High performance championship
• Played for Downers grove south varsity team for 3 years.
• Captain senior year
• Regional champions all three years
• Named all Conference in 2010,2011
• Du page county all area team honorable mention 2010
• 1st team all area(Daily Herald) 2011
• Bolingbrook 2011 boys spring sports all area team
• Team MVP 2011

Brock Ullrich

• Impact Certified
• All conference DVC 04, All Area 04, special mention All state 04 at Wheaton North
• College: All MIVA 2007, MIVA tournament team 2006 2007. MIVA champions 2006 2007. NCAA D1 3rd place 2006 and 2nd place 2007
• 4 Year Starter at IPFW Div.1
• Captain Sr. Year at IPFW
• Pontiac game changing performance vs Pepperdine in final four
• Professional in Puerto RIco, winning silver medal
• Professional in Sweden, winning silver medal

Jay Krick

• 2010–Assistant Coach at University of Florida, Ranked #1 in Country
• Impact Certified\
• Teacher at Stratford Middle School
• Played at Wheaton Warrenville South H.S.
• Founded men’s club volleyball team at Valparaiso University, player/coach (1996–1999)
• Varsity coach, Glenbard North H.S. girls volleyball
• Coached at NVC for the past 6 years (16-1's and 18-1's Coach)
• Coached for Club Elite girls volleyball (Downers Grove) 2001
• Coached for Valpo Volleyball Club girls(Valparaiso, IN) 1997–1999
• Camp clinician for University of Florida and Colorado School of Mines summer camps

Matthew McCarthy

• Impact Certified

College: Ball State University (4 Year Starter)

• 2 Time Team Captain (2008, 2009)
• First Team All–Star (MIVA, 2008)
• 10th in Nation for Attacking Percentage (.428%, 2008)
• Second Team All–Star (MIVA, 2007)
• 9th Position in Nation for Attacking Percentage (.448%, 2007)

Match Highlights

• 16 Kills (.625%) and 8 Blocks vs. No. 1 Penn State
• 13 Total Blocks vs. No. 7 UCLA
• 18 Kills (.400%) and 8 Blocks vs. No. 14 George Mason

2004–2005 – USA Men’s Junior National Team

High School (2004): Wheaton Warrenville South

• 2004 Illinois State Championship with a 41–0 record
• MVP of 2004 Best of Illinois Tournament
• Unanimous selection to DuPage Valley All–Conference and Illinois High School Association All–State teams
• Chicago Tribune Player of the Year, 2004 All–State Team

2004 Chicago Sun-Times All–State Team

• Member of Chicago Area Sports Performance club team
• Volleyball Magazine’s Fab 50 Class for 2004

John Tanner

• Impact Certified
• ASEP Certified
• Played for 4 years at Wheaton Warrenville South H.S., played on varsity for 2 years
• 2003 honorable mention all conference, and all area
• 2004 All–conference, all–area, honorable mention all–state, M.V.P. of the state championship game, team won state after a 41–0 record
• Played for SPVB for 2 1/2 years, captain of the 18–mizuno team
• 2005 played at Missouri Baptist University, runner–up for freshman of the year. Honorable mention all conference. M.V.P of the MAMVIC conference tournement. Honorable mention All–American. Career highs–kills (16) Loyola, Block (13) Park University, Aces (4) Park University
• Assistant coach for Wheaton Warrenville South 2008 State Championship Boys team
• Coached for STL High Performance for 1 Season

Mike Morice

• Coached clinics for Loyola University Chicago Men’s and Women’s volleyball camps all four years attended specializing in skills with blocking, attacking and setting
• Coached attacking clinics and setting clinics for Sports Performance Volleyball Club for last 3 years
• Traveled to Texas State University and coached a clinic specializing in setting and in attacking for the university’s team
• Played for Division 1 Loyola University Chicago Men’s Volleyball team and started for 3 years as a middle blocker
• Just recently graduated from Loyola in 2010 and working to play overseas
• Led Waubonsie Valley to regional and Upstate Eight championships during senior season had 545 kills and 68 blocks in 2005–2006. Named to all–area, all–city and All–Upstate Eight Conference teams as a senior
• Earned All–Upstate Eight Honorable Mention during junior year
• Graduated high school with high honors
• Played on Sports Performance Volleyball club team.

Kurt Steuer

• Impact Certified
• ASEP Certified
• 4 year Volleyball Player at Downers Grove South(3 on Varsity)
• All Conference Setter Junior and Senior Year
• All Tournament Team 2yrs at Richards Invite
• Coached Club Elite Girls 2000-2001
• Coached Tigers Volleyball Club (TVC) 2003-2010 16-18s levels
• 16s team won Silver Bracket in 2009 at Open Qualifer
• Coached Elite Force 2011
• 18s team took 2^nd at Great Lakes Qualifier, Club Division
• Freshmen Coach at Downers Grove South 2005-2006

• Assistant Varsity Coach at Downers Grove South 2007-Current

Eric Ball

• Impact Certified
• Started playing in 6th Grade at Ss. Peter and Paul
• 3–year Varsity Starter at Naperville North High School
• 3–year player for Sports Performance Volleyball Club
• 17’s Mizuno SPVB team T–5th in Open Division at JOVC
• 2005–2006 Naperville Sun Unanimous 1st team All City
• 2005–2006 Chicago Tribune 2nd Team All–State
• 2005–2006 Chicago Sun–Times 2nd Team All–State
• 2006 State Runner–up with Naperville North
• Played 4 years at Carthage College in Kenosha, WI
• Team Captain for Carthage 2009–2010
• 2009 All Conference Team
• National Runner–up 2007 Molten Division III Championship
• 3rd Place 2010 Molten Division III Championship

Josh Zolecki

• Impact Certified
• ASEP Certified

Playing Experience

• Attended Minooka High School from 2001–2005
• Played 4 years of volleyball, soccer
• Captain 2 years
• 2 years all conference
• MVP in 2005
• Conference championship in 2005
• Regional championship 2005
• Played for SPVB
• 2005 placed fifth in the Midwest
• Hunter College
• Rookie year recorded 340 digs
• Made CUNY all stars
• Won regular season conference
• Named all conference

Coaching Experience

• Assistant Coach at Joliet Junior College
• Coached for Uno VBC for 2.5 years
• Was head JV and Freshman coach of JCA and Assistant head coach
• ssistant coach of sophomore boys at LWC
• Assistant college coach of JJC women’s volleyball team
• Coach SPVB Summer camps
• Coached for VolleyballPros
• Coached Minooka Summer Volleyball/Soccer Camps

Peter Lapin

• Impact Certified
• ASEP Certified

Coaching

St. Viator HS Boys Varsity Head Coach (2002–2005)

• Worst to First in ESCC Conference
• School’s first and only ESCC Conference Championship and IHSA Regional Championship in 2005

Circus Boys Volleyball Club

• Head Boys Coach 17-1’s (2002, 2003)
• Head Boys Coach 18-1’s (2004, 2005)
• Assistant Coach (2007–2009)

Addison Trail HS Boys Varsity Assistant Coach (2009)

• IHSA Regional Champions

Proviso West HS Girls Sophomore Coach (2002–2004)

Officiating

• USA Volleyball Certified Official (2007–Present)

College Volleyball

Lewis University (1997, redshirt 1998)

Clarke College (1999–2001) (DIII school participated in DI/II MIVA conference)

• DIII Final Four 1999 and 2001 (Finished 3rd in 1999 and 2001)
• DIII West/Midwest Conference All–Tournament Team (2001)
• MIVA Conference – Top 10 Digs per game, Overall Statistics
• 1999 – 4th
• 2000 – 5th
• 2001 – 10th

Career Bests

• 20 Kills vs. Mercyhurst College MIVA (2–9–2001)
• 21 Digs vs. Quincy University MIVA (3–24–2000)

H.S. Volleyball

• Circus Volleyball Club 18–1’s (1996)
• Schaumburg H.S. graduate (1996)
• All–Conference, First team
• All–Area, First team
• Chicago Sun–Times Athlete of the week



Mark Lau

• Impact Certified

• Naperville Volleyball Club (2007-Current)

  Ass't 17-1 (2010), Head 17-3 (2009), Technical Coor. (2007, 2008)
  **most recently 13th place finish in 17 Club division
• Sports Performance (2003-2005)
  Head 18-Wave
• Circus Volleyball Club (2001-2003)
  Head 16-1 (2001), Technical Coor. (2002)
• Lake Park H.S. (2001)
  Assistant Girls Varsity
• FC Schuttof 09 (2000)  Schuttorf, Germany
  Head 14-1 Girls
• AVP and EVP participant (beach volleyball)     (2001-2008)    7+ Open wins

• USAV Men’s Open- Summit                           (2002-2006)

      MVP ’02, All Tournament ’03, ‘04

• USAV Men’s AA – Team Ashley Home Furniture  (2001-2002)

      All Tournament

• USA Men’s National Training Team                 (2001)

• FC Schuttorf 09         Schuttorf, Germany        (2000-2001)

      Finished 3^rd in nation

• Ball State University - Division 1 men’s team    (1998-2000)

      3^rd in nation in blocking ’99, 3^rd team all-conference ‘00

• Augustana College – Men’s club volleyball       (1996-1997)

      Finished 2^nd in nation (Div. II) at NIRSA championships

      1st team All-American at NIRSA championships

• Maine West High School                                (1992-1995)

              Sweet 16 in ‘94