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Nabil’s playing career spans the globe: he competed internationally with the Lebanese National Team and professionally with regional power Club Relevement Social Knat before coming to the United States, where he earned All-Conference and All-State honors at Santa Monica College, including recognition as the school’s 1996 “Athlete of the Year.” He moved into coaching shortly after the completion of his playing days and swiftly made a mark for himself, earning a Gold Medal in 1997 at the Junior National Championships as a coach with the Santa Monica Beach Club Boys program—while in the same year earning his Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. Nabil continued to coach for both the SMBC Boys and Girls programs until the year 2000, when a series of events changed the course of his life and brought coaching volleyball firmly to the forefront: he gained exclusive ownership of SMBC Boys, was named Club Director of SMBC Girls, and was hired as the Head Coach for the Women’s Volleyball Team at Pierce College—and under his tenure, all three organizations flourished.

Nabil revitalized a flagging program at Pierce College and, in his first two seasons, took the Lady Brahmas from last place in the Western State Conference to its first Conference Title in more than twenty years. In ’04-’05, he led his program to its first Elite Eight appearance in the school’s history and a #5 ranking in the State of California. His ’06 squad posted an impressive 27-5 won-loss record, winning the Western State Conference for the sixth straight year and soaring all the way to the finals of the State Championship, while his ’08 team finished its season with a 32-2 overall record, a Conference Title, and nine consecutive weeks ranked as the State’s #1 team. Prior to 2010, Nabil had collected an impressive 217-50 record and been named the Western State Conference (South) Coach of the Year in ’02, ’04, ’06, ’07, and ’08. It was the 2010 Pierce team, however, that took the Lady Brahmas to their greatest and most glorious heights: a 29-3 overall record, yet another Western State Conference Title, and the capture of the first California State Championship in school history—cementing the ’10 squad’s legacy as one of the most successful teams ever, in any sport, for Pierce College. Nabil, too, was honored for these tremendous accomplishments, winning the All-Southern California 2010 Coach of the Year, the AVCA 2010 Two-Year College Southwest Regional Coach of the Year, and the AVCA 2010 Two Year College National Coach of the Year, receiving the last at a ceremony held annually in Kansas City before an audience of his peers.

Nabil is also credited as one of the driving forces behind the rise of the Santa Monica Beach Club as a regional and national club volleyball powerhouse. Under his leadership as Club Director for both the Boys and Girls Programs, several hundred SMBC athletes, male and female, went on to play collegiate volleyball, the vast majority on scholarship of some kind. Nabil revamped and revolutionized the SMBC training systems, worked tirelessly to secure and train one of the finest coaching staffs in the region, and was responsible for the institution of swing blocking, up-tempo offensive systems, and other emerging volleyball concepts at top age levels. As Head Coach of the SMBC Girls 18-1’s team for nearly a decade, his teams were consistently competitive in the SCVA region, finishing as high as fourth in overall points in 2006, in national travel tournaments like Junior National Qualifiers and the Las Vegas Classic, and at the Volleyball Festival, where he led the squad to four consecutive Top Four finishes, including a trip to the 18’s Division finals in 2011. As Co-Director of SMBC Boys, Nabil has helped guide the club to eleven medals at the Junior National Championships in the past seven years, including a pair of Open-level silver medals at the 2011 event in Minneapolis.

With all that said, however, Nabil is perhaps best known within the volleyball community for his excellent reputation for honest and ethical dealings. His network of loyal contacts is extensive, owing largely to his upstanding personality and outstanding character, and a great many of those contacts, for this very reason, joined him as he launched the Los Angeles Volleyball Academy (LAVA), an affiliation of junior club volleyball organizations in Southern California. Subscribing to the notion of Volleyball Done Differently, LAVA strives to do differently, to do better, in every single aspect of its enterprise—a philosophy by which Nabil himself has been living for some time, and worked to impart upon all those working with him.

One of LAVA’s four principal members, Nabil oversees and handles much of the day-to-day operational side of the organization as Director of Operations, including content for coaches, correspondence with players and parents, and scheduling, in addition to myriad other duties. He is also the Club Director for LAVA Girls, the flagship girls volleyball club for LAVA and one the biggest clubs in the country, as well as head coach of that club’s top team, the South 18-1’s.

An alumnus of LAVA affiliate SMBC Boys (’97), Trevor found success and earned accolades as a player across multiple levels: he set statistical records (most kills in match and most kills in a season, among others) and earned myriad All-League, All-Area, and All-CIF honors at Harvard-Westlake School, accolades enough to earn induction into the school’s inaugural Athletic Hall of Fame Class; he spent two years training with the USA Junior National Team and saw international competition overseas as captain of the ‘97 squad; he earned a scholarship to the University of Southern California (USC) and was a four-year starter, team captain, and two-time All-American for the oft #1 ranked Trojans, and generally considered to be the best pure serve receive passer in the nation at the time; and he was recruited out of college to train with the USA Men’s National Team at the Olympic Facility in Colorado Springs, an offer he ultimately declined.

Trevor moved quickly and easily into the coaching ranks following his graduation from college, joining his alma mater club and swiftly making his mark. Bolstered by his exceptional reputation as a “players’ coach” among area players, parents, and coaches alike, Trevor spent ten superlative seasons as head coach of the SMBC Girls 16-1’s, where under his guidance the team enjoyed a period of immense, sustained success. A consistent presence in Division One of the SCVA 16’s Regional Power League, the deepest and most volatile age level in the SCVA, the team also triumphed to significant degree on the national stage, including three Top Five finishes in the last four years at the Fiesta Classic over Martin Luther King weekend and six Elite Eight finishes in eight years at the Volleyball Festival—highlighted by a dramatic 16’s Division Championship in 2010.

One of the four principal members of the Los Angeles Volleyball Academy, Trevor is responsible for the creation of much of the literature regarding the organization’s philosophies, particularly the LAVA Girls Three Core Values and the LAVA motto of Volleyball Done Differently, all of which speaks directly to his own personal system of beliefs. Trevor himself is well-known within the volleyball community for having an excellent reputation for honest dealings and high ethical standards, which begets little surprise given his close association with Nabil, whom he joined in launching LAVA—as well as in striving hard to ensure those working and coaching within the Academy endeavor to do differently, to do better, in their every single act and action. Trevor spearheads much of the strategic planning for the Academy as its Director of Development, in addition to supporting Nabil as Assistant Club Director for LAVA Girls, the flagship girls volleyball club for LAVA and one of the biggest clubs in the country. He will also continue his long reign in the 16’s Division as head coach of the LAVA South 16-1’s.