Revolution Volleyball Club is an affiliate of the Los Angeles Volleyball Academy. LAVA is the collaborative fruit of many respected volleyball personalities across Southern California and beyond, but there are a handful of individuals whose collective vision has most significantly shaped the organization, and set and guided its course. Here are the individuals all Revolution people need to know.
Aaron Wong – Revolution Club Director
Bio coming soon!
Turhan Douglas – XX-1′s Head Coach & Revolution Co-Founder
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Mark Cruz – XX-1′s Head Coach & Revolution Co-Founder
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Nabil Mardini – Director of Operations, Los Angeles Volleyball Academy
Nabil Mardini is considered one of the finest volleyball minds in the region, if not the country. As Head Coach of the Pierce Women’s Volleyball Program, Nabil saw his 2010 squad win the CCCAA California State Championship for the first time in school history, with the added bonus of his being named AVCA 2010 National Two-Year College Coach of the Year. As current Club Director of LAVA Girls as well as Co-Director of SMBC Boys, he has extensive knowledge of the operational and training aspects of the club volleyball world. His network of contacts is extensive, owing largely to his reputation as one of the most ethical and upstanding personalities in the coaching world today. All this, in addition to time spent training professionally as a young player himself in his home country of Lebanon, not to mention an advanced degree in Electrical Engineering—in the field of which he worked professionally for several years. Nabil handles much of the day-to-day operational side of LAVA, including content for coaches, correspondence with players and parents, and scheduling, in addition to myriad other duties. He also coaches the top team for the Los Angeles Volleyball Academy, the South 18-1’s. For a more detailed biography on Nabil, please visit here.
Trevor Julian – Director of Development, Los Angeles Volleyball Academy
Trevor Julian brings his respected name and diverse skill-set to the table for the Los Angeles Volleyball Academy. A long-time and immensely successful junior girls club volleyball coach—his 16-1 teams over the years have consistently competed in Division One of the SCVA Power League and finished Top Five multiple times at various national travel tournaments, and he guided his 2010 squad to a 16’s Division Championship at the Volleyball Festival in Phoenix—he has arguably the most impeccable reputation in the region for dealing with players and parents in an honest and caring way. A former award-winning volleyball player himself—captain and four-year starter at USC, inductee into the Harvard-Westlake High School Hall of Fame—he transitioned degrees in Creative Writing and Business Administration into a career in commercial real estate; his decade in the business has seen him work the acquisition, disposition, exchange, or evaluation of more than one billion dollars of southland property, and the skills he developed during his years spent in the business trenches and competitive athletics gives him a unique perspective on growing the LAVA brand. Widely hailed as one of the top area coaches, Trevor is also the LAVA Girls Assistant Director and head coach of the 16-1’s for LAVA South. For a more detailed biography on Trevor, please visit here.
Ron Hamilton – Finance Director, Los Angeles Volleyball Academy & Vintage Beach
Ron Hamilton brings efficiency and accuracy to his role as the primary fiscal figure for LAVA. Ron’s impressive background in the insurance world, combined with his knowledge of all things club volleyball after more than twenty years owning and operating clubs—primarily on the administrative side—not to mention an honest and impeccable character, makes him the perfect person to oversee the financial aspects, in all their myriad forms, of the Academy. Ron handles the accounts and much of the day-to-day monetary decision-making, leaving Aaron, Turhan, Mark, Nabil, and Trevor—and all of our affiliate Club Directors and coaches—free to do what LAVA does best: educate and train.
Our organization is far more than just a handful of people, however: our list of coaches and administrators are some of the best in the business, committed and caring individuals with great passion for volleyball, and great dedication and devotion to our players, parents, and families—the true bedrock of Revolution Volleyball Club!