Welcome to Revolution Volleyball Club, a junior volleyball club for girls based in the Antelope Valley and an affiliate of the Los Angeles Volleyball Academy, a respected organization with institutional goals of playing with passion, acting with integrity, and competitive on-court success.
Revolution was founded in 2003 and features coaches and administrators with deep ties to LAVA, as well as to Palmdale, Lancaster, and other adjacent areas. We look to reshape the club volleyball landscape in the Antelope Valley, to change a culture and level of performance that is largely ineffectual. Top players are forced to travel far away to find volleyball clubs with the coaching, organization, training structure, and success they require. Revolution seeks to change that once and for all, to develop a powerhouse right here in the Antelope Valley, to encourage a culture of passion, integrity, and competition, and to provide a structured training environment where our players can grow and develop both as athletes and as exceptional young women.
Our program is based out of Antelope Valley College with additional practice sites at local facilities such as Desert Christian School. We anticipate fielding at least six teams for the 2012 season and multiple new and returning coaches have signed on to coach and operate the club, including some exciting new names and faces, and all of the things making Los Angeles Volleyball Academy affiliates great—structured training, quality coaching, exceptional values, and superior ethics—will be on display at Revolution.
The Revolution coaching staff is an impressive one, some of the finest people in the club volleyball community by virtue of their coaching abilities and acumen, as well as their high character and ethical standards of behavior. The group is well-respected inside our local areas and outside, and brings their expertise and fine personas to Revolution.
The Director of Revolution is Aaron Wong, a respected club volleyball coach who recently guided the 18-Black team for our SMBC Boys affiliate to the silver medal at the Junior National Championships and returns for his second season at the helm of the Club. Aaron will also be guided in his efforts by Nabil Mardini and Trevor Julian, two of the most respected figures in the volleyball community and the Directors of Operations and Development, respectively, for the Los Angeles Volleyball Academy.
The balance of our excellent coaching staff is an outstanding collection of men and women, including Turhan Douglas, the former USC Men’s Program Head Coach and current Head Coach at perennial private school powerhouse Campbell Hall, and also the founder of Revolution Volleyball Club, and Mark Cruz, the other co-Founder of the Revolution Volleyball Club and a former collegiate and high school coach. In addition to the Turhan and Mark, we have several other highly qualified head and assistant coaches in our Revolution ranks. For more information on our Revolution coaches, visit us online at revolutionvolleyball.com/club/coaches.
Our coaches are the face of our organization, the ones who make the real magic of skills development and personal growth happen—but while it’s important for parents and players to know that the volleyball product being groomed on the court is exemplary in and of itself, it is equally important for families to understand that the people on the administrative side of the coin are working as diligently, as hard, and as efficiently as possible on their behalf.
With the framework and backing of the Los Angeles Volleyball Academy, our Vintage Beach administrative staff is organized, our document system navigable, our team protocols concise, our people responsive—subscribing to “FBF”, or the notion of “Faster, Better, and more Frequently”—our financials in order, and our quality control mechanisms second to none. As stated earlier, not only do we know how to operate efficiently and effectively, however, we also know why; it is as important to know why something is being done—and when it must be done—as it is to know how to do it, and our staff happens to know all three. We work well together and care for one another, and as has been said in so many other places, we strive to do differently, and better, in everything we do.