In the fall of 2012 Coach Andrew completed her twenty third season as the Director of JJVA and the Head Coach of the newly named Florida State College at Jacksonville (formerly Florida Community College at Jacksonville). Coach Andrew retired from FSCJ in January 2013.  The past  twelve seasons have seen the JJVA and the FSCJ volleyball programs consistently ranked in the national polls. Coach Andrew has posted a career record of 519-229 while at FSCJ and provided the opportunity for more than 100 JJVA players move on to play college volleyball. 
 
Coach Andrew has thirty four years of work experience in the fields of education, coaching, athletic administration, commercial recreation and professional sports. She has served on the Florida Regional Board of the United States Volleyball Association, is a member of the American Volleyball Coaches Association, served as the volleyball chairperson for the Mid-Florida Conference and as the State Volleyball Chairperson for the Florida Community Colleges. Coach Andrew has been an invited speaker at the American Volleyball Coaches National Convention and Final Four and the Florida High School Coaches Convention. In 2002 she was selected as the AVCA Region Coach of the Year and in the spring of 2006 she was also inducted into the Florida Community College Activities Association “Hall of Fame”. In 2008 she was inducted in to the Florida Region USAV “Hall of Fame” and in 2009 was selected for the “Ambassador Award” for the Florida Region of USAV. In December of 2009 Coach Andrew was awarded the Victory Award by the AVCA for 500 career wins. 
 
Coach Andrew is committed to the values of education, integrity, honesty, personal responsibility, community service and fair play in the arena of life as well as competitive sports. Her volleyball programs seek to serve as an example of these qualities both on and off the court. 

Coach Andrew is the newly elected Florida Region Commissioner. 

 Adis Imamovic

Adis currently serves as the JJVA Operations Director and Director of Coaching and Competition. In 2007 during his 1st  year as a Club Director for JJVA, his National Program sent two teams to the USAV National Tournament.  Adis, has been coaching for our National program for six years. His extensive resume includes playing experience in Boznia and Germany and assistant coaching experience at Northern Iowa University, the University of North Florida and FCCJ. In addition he manages leagues, clinics and coaches for the JJVA. .

Adis is an accomplished player, teacher, coach and director. He has played on the JJVA Men's team which has qualified for the USAV Nationals. He has served as the Head Coach for the US Navy team which competes in the National All-Sevice Championships. He has also been selected for several years to coach with the Floirida Region High Performance Progam and coached in the HP National Championships. In addition he has coached club teams to the USAV National Championships.

Adis is a recognized leader of the local, regional and national volleyball communities and he has been instrumental in leading all JJVA programs to a high level of education, instruction and competition. Adis has recieved several region honors including "Director of the Year" awarded by the USAV. 

Enrico Discacciati

Enrico, has coached for JJVA for over 24 years and  helped, as First Assistant Coach  Nease H.S, win the 2008 FHSAA 4A State Championship. Enrico also was selected to be a Florida Region High Performance Coach for the 'Select' age group at the USAV High Performance International Tournament in Ft Lauderdale, FL in July of 2008. Enrico coached for 14 years with Mary Andrew at Florida Community College Jacksonville.  He has been an Assistant Coach for Orange County (CA) Juniors Boys U16 and U14 teams at the USAV Boys Junior Olympic Tournament.  Rico is IMPACT certified.  

CJ Sherman

A graduate of Covenant College CJ earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Education. She began her collegiate volleyball career earning NAIA All Conference and All Region honors as a player. Her successful collegiate head coaching career includes Palm Beach Atlantic University (88-94), University of South Carolina Aiken (94-98), and University of Montevallo (99-04). With an overall record of 337 wins/188 losses, she has also accomplished two back-to-back 30 win seasons, 7 times Coach of the Year, 34 All-Conference players, 21 Academic All Conference players, 3 Conference Players of the Year, and 5 All-Americans. She has also won 8 Conference Championships, and 5 Regional appearances, and 2 National appearances. Over 25 of her former collegiate players coach high school, club or at college level.
Currently CJ is the Recruiting Coordinator for JJVA as well as Assistant Coach for the 17 National Team.   CJ has coached for the JJVA National Program since 2004 and is also currently also working for Bring IT Promotions where she handles international volleyball tours for NCAA, II, III, NAIA, NJCAA and Junior Clubs.  CJ has assisted JJVA teams to 5 USAV Junior National Tournament berths.  In 2010 the JJVA 17 National team won the USAV Junior National 17 American National Championship.  CJ is also involved with the Florida Region High Performance Programs-- coaching in 2006 and 2007 the Select age group and 2012 the Junior age group.  She is also an evaluator for USAV National High Performance tryouts. 
 
CJ and her husband of 25 years, Bill reside in Ponte Vedra.  She had the pleasure of coaching her two daughter's at Nease High School from 2004-2010-- winning 89 consecutive county and district matches dating back to 2004.  She also coached Nease teams to 7 District and Conference Championships, 3 Regional Championships and 1 State Championship in 2008.  Both daughter's Meghan (University of Tampa) and Kamryn (Clemson University) have jersey's retired at Nease High and play(ed) in NCAA volleyball.
 
She holds at USAV CAP 2 certification as well as a USAV IMPACT Cadre certification.  CJ has coached internationally for 7 years in Europe, Central American, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Barbados and South Africa with Bring IT Promotions.

Rob Holley

Rob Holley was most recently the Head Boy's Volleyball coach at The Bolles School.  Before starting the boys program in 2004 at Bolles he was an Assistant Volleyball Coach at Florida Southern University for two seasons. He served as the Interim Head Volleyball Coach at the University of North Florida, and was the Assistant Volleyball Coach at UNF for two seasons, helping lead the team to 2 Peach Belt Conference Regular Season and Tournament Championships, advancing to the NCAA Tournament both years.  Rob also served from 1992-98 as head coach of the University of Kentucky's men's volleyball club, which was nationally ranked all seven years. The team also finished in the Elite Eight at the NIRSA National Championships in 1999, in the top twenty in 1992, 1995, & 1998, and were the SEC Conference Champions in 1993.   His coaching experience also includes technical advisor for the All Air Force Team and head coach for several club teams.  Rob had been a USAV Regional Referee, FIVB Line Judge, and State Rated College Referee.  

Rob's coaching career began as an assistant coach at Eastern Kentucky University, where he earned his bachelor's degree.  As a former indoor player he played USAV at the Level AA/ Open for various clubs as a setter and rightside. On the beach player he competed on the EVA, Molson, and AVP Qualifying Tours. 

John McCallum

John has coached the JJVA 13 and 14 Regional Teams and 14 N, 15 N and 18 N teams as an assistant. He is currently an Assistant Coach with the   Jacksonville University Women’s Volleyball Team. He was an assistant coach at Nease HS having coached the 2008 4-A State High School Championship team with Head Coach C.J. Sherman and Rico Discacciati, and the following two years with CJ and Miriam Roehrs. John began his coaching career in 1973 in Ocala where he taught P.E. and coached JHS Football and Boys & Girls Basketball and Volleyball. In 1986 he coached the USA Men’s Wheelchair Basketball Team, representing the USA in International competition in Spain and England. John earned his B.S. in Education from Southern Illinois University and an M.S. in Psychology/Mental Health Counseling from Nova Southeastern University. He recently retired from the  Duval County Public Schools. He is a USA Volleyball CAP II certified coach, Beach Impact certified, a certified NFHS Volleyball Coach, and holds a Florida Education Athletic Coaching Certificate K-12.

Jennifer Randall

Jennifer was born and raised in Long Beach , California where she was a distinguished high school and club player. She played collegiate volleyball on scholarship at Georgia Tech 2002- 2005, where she was a defensive specialist and libero. During her career the Jackets reached the elite eight in the NCAA tournament and were ranked as high #4 in the country.  She graduated Tech with a Bachelors degree in business management. 
Her coaching experience includes serving as an assistant for two years with A5 volleyball club and the JV head coach at Marist School in Atlanta before hitting the college ranks as a coach at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2007 Jennifer joined the JJVA coaching staff and served as the head coach of one of our 16-Regional teams. This is going to be here 3rd year coaching with the national teams.  Her competitive experience and knowledge of the game have been a welcome addition to the JJVA coaching staff.
Jen moved to Jacksonville to be near family and is currently pursuing a second degree, this time in the field of nursing.

Magen Wood

Magen graduated from the University of North Florida with a degree in Elementary Education and currently teaches first grade at R. L. Brown Elementary School in Jacksonville. While at UNF Magen played volleyball for 2 years for Coach Bryan Bunn and prior to her two years at UNF Magen played for the University of Akron in Ohio.

Magen is a USAV certified coach and has served as an assistant coach for the JJVA National program in the14U and 18U divisions. Her playing experience and skills as a teacher are an exciting addition to the JJVA coaching staff.

The Ohio native now resides in Jacksonville and is the proud owner of two great dogs, Cooper and Charlie.

Mike Abinsay

Mike returned to volleyball coaching this year when he joined JJVA as an assistant coach on the 12-Regional team. Previously he coached 3 years with Sandalwood HS in Jacksonville, FL.

Katie Evans

Katie graduated from Pedro Menendez High School in St. Augustine in 2007 and played club volleyball for four years. She then attended FCCJ where she played on the women's volleyball team and distinguished herself academically.

She is currently working towards her bachelors degree in accounting at UNF and also works in the JJVA Volleyabll Center office as a staff member. Last year Katie joined the JJVA coaching staff as an assistant coach for the regional program. Katie's experience also includes several years as a league and camp coach.
 

Jonathan Pennington

Jonathan has coached for 8 years for the Providence Volleyball program. The past three seasons on the varsity team full-time. Last season he help the Stallions to a 23-6 record and a top 25 ranking in the state among all classes.

He began his volleyball career as a player at Lake Howell High School in Winter Park, Florida. As a player he was awarded All-Conference 1st team honors his senior season and All-Conference 2nd team his junior season as a setter and outside hitter. He led the Seminole Athletic Conference in digs and was top 5 in kills, aces and serving percentage during his senior season.

After high school Jonathan attended FCCJ (1998-1999) and ran track on a full scholarship. Afterwards he went on to play 5 years of Rugby for the Jacksonville Rugby Football Club helping them win Florida State titles in 2004 and 2005. Then was selected to play for the Florida Select-Side team in 2005.

John Alipio

John played high school volleyball in Italy then was a student assistant coach at Fletcher HS in Jacksonville, FL. He was a trainer for Florida Community College at Jacksonville (FCCJ) for 2 seasons and also supported many summer camps. This is the 4th JJVA team that John has coached, 3rd as head coach.  John played for First Coast Volleyball in Jacksonville for 8 years.  John has a total of 20 years of playing and coaching experience.

Miriam Bodie

Miriam, is coaching her 5th year with JJVA as the head coach of the 14R team. Miriam is also our local coordinator for the JJVA Local teams.  She coaches T.A.P. as well as Coordinator for the 14 and under Regional Teams.  She graduated from Newberry College with a B.S. in Elementary Education and Special Education Learning Disabilities and a Masters of Education in Divergent Learning from Columbia College. Miriam was a varsity head coach in South Carolina for 5 years. She is currently teaching Inclusion Math at Ridgeview High School in Orange Park.  Miriam married Matthew Bodie (her new Assistant this season former 14R2 coach) in November 2012. 

Linda White

Linda has been the head coach of the Providence varsity volleyball team since 1998, the year the program began. Since then she has led Providence to 5 straight district titles. Winning at least 20 matches every year since 2006 and seven of the last eight years. Before her time at Providence she began her coaching career at Seacoast Christian Academy. This will be her second year coaching at JJVA.

Patti Reed

Patti joined the JJVA staff this year to manage the Pro Shop.  When not in the Pro Shop she is a Sr. Executive Assistant at Chase Bank where she has worked for the last 10 years.

Patti is also the Education & Certification Chair of the First Coast Chapter of IAAP (International Association of Administrative Professional) where she holds her CAP (Certified Administrative Professional) Certification.  Patti also dabbles as the Chapter’s Webmaster.

 James, her husband of 18 years, as well as her daughter Jamie; who plays on a 16 R team, also help out in the Pro Shop. We are very excited to be part of the JJVA Family.

Christina Hovestadt

Christina is from Jacksonville, Florida and played volleyball at Florida Community College at Jacksonville from 2006-2008 as a defensive specialist and libero. Prior to playing for FCCJ, Christina played for JJVA for three years. During her tenure at FCCJ, she earned a spot on the 2008 honorable mention Mid-Florida Conference team.
 
Christina has been coaching volleyball camps and clinics around Jacksonville since 2005. She has also served as an assistant volleyball coach for Darnell Cookman Middle School. This is her first year coaching JJVA.
 
If you haven’t met Christina, you’ve probably seen her on commercials for First Coast News, as she currently freelances there. She also covers the Jacksonville Jaguars as a contributing writer for Scout.com. Christina has much experience in the sports field as she has worked or interned for many sports organizations throughout Jacksonville including JagNation.com, Velocity Sports Performance, Diamond Baseball Training, The Jimmy Smith Foundation and Atlas Sports Medicine.

Anna Renton

Anna is originally from Baton Rouge, LA and earned a scholarship to the University of West Georgia where she held the role of starting libero for a year before transferring and finishing her career at the University of Tennessee at Martin in the same position. During that time she spent her summers working a variety of team camps around the southeast.  After graduating with a Health and Human Performance degree in the area of K-12 Licensure, she attended the University of Memphis, earning a Master’s degree in Sports Commerce and Leisure.  Anna coached for Memphis Metro Volleyball Club during her two year stay in Memphis.  In her first year with Metro, Anna coached 3 travel teams: 11 and under, 12 and under, and 14 and under, and followed that with a stint as 15’s national team coach the next club season.
      Anna now lives in the Jacksonville area and is the head coach at St. Augustine High School.  During her three years at JJVA she has worked with the 12 and under and 13 and under teams.

Tangela Ennis

1995 - present
After graduating from East Bay Senior High School in Gibsonton, FL, Tangela traveled to the highest of seven hills in Tallahassee, FL to joint the Lady Rattlerette Volleyball Team.  She was a member of FAMU's 1995 & 1996 MEAC Championship Teams.  Her coaching career began in 1998, but she left in 2001 to follow her dreams of working in professional sports.  Her true passion for teaching (and especially coaching) prompted Tangela to leave the Heat Group (owners of the Miami Heat & formerly Miami Sol) and return to coaching. Tangela is now in her 3rd season with JJVA (last year she was the Head Coach of one of the 16R teams) and looks forward to a long future together.

Casey Benner

Casey graduated from West Branch High School in Beloit, Ohio in 2006 as a four year letter-winner in volleyball and track. She also participated in club volleyball from 2000-2006 for Mizuno Elite. She accepted a scholarship to West Virginia Wesleyan then transfered to the University of North Florida where she completed her degree in PreK-Primary Education. This is her 3rd year coaching for JJVA in the 14 regional division.

Jesse Newton

Jesse is excited to be on the  JJVA team for her third season.  Jesse is originally from Delray Beach, Florida and has 15 years total of volleyball experience as a player and a coach. She attended Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama. Jesse was on the Faulkner University women’s volleyball team where she was the Lady Eagles libero/ds for her four years there. She received NAIA- GACC Defensive Specialist of the Year in 2001 and won two conference championships with the Lady Eagles. She earned both her Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Criminal Justice from Faulkner University and is currently enrolled at Florida Coastal School of Law here in Jacksonville, emphasizing in Sports Law.

Melissa Merchant

Melissa Merchant returns to JJVA for her second year having been the assistant for the 15-1 team last year.  Previous to JJVA Melissa coached with local club BCVC for two years after graduating from Jacksonville University where she finished her collegiate career. Melissa transferred to JU after playing for two years at North Idaho College in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. A native of California, Melissa played both high school and club volleyball before entering the collegiate circuit.
Since graduating with a Bachelors of Science in both political science and sociology, Melissa has attended the Art Institute of Jacksonville, obtaining a culinary skills diploma. She loves to bake and does specialty cake/pastry catering. Currently Melissa works as a fitness consultant for Bailey’s Powerhouse Gym.

Melissa Cariatti

Melissa graduated from Ridgeview High School in Orange Park, Florida in 2010 as a four year letter-winner in volleyball and basketball. She also participated in club volleyball from 2008-2010 for BCVC. She is currently a sophomore playing at Florida State College at Jacksonville under Coach Mary Andrew. This will be her second season coaching with JJVA as a 16 local team.

Austin Lanteigne

Austin has been involved in the game of volleyball since 2000. He started all 4 years for Kellam High School in Virginia Beach, VA as an Outside Hitter and earned All-District, All-Region, and All-State honors his junior and senior year. He played club volleyball for Coastal Virginia Volleyball Club and was selected to USAV High Performance Camp his junior year. In college, Austin played club volleyball for the United States Naval Academy. He was selected as EIVA Player of the year and named Honorable Mention All-American his senior season.
 Austin served as a student-assistant coach at New Mexico Military Institute in 2004 and worked the Navy Volleyball Camps from 2007-2009. Austin was also the JV Head Coach and Varsity Assistant Coach at Escambia High School in Pensacola, FL in 2009. Austin is serving his second year as a head coach with JJVA after coaching in the 16L division in 2011. He continues to play in Open level beach tournaments and trains and competes with the All-Navy men’s volleyball program. Austin earned a B.S. in Political Science from the United States Naval Academy and currently works as a Naval Flight Officer at NAS Jacksonville.

Kara Gonzalez

From St. Augustine, Florida. Played volleyball for St. Augustine High School. Played for JJVA two years before going to play at The University of West Florida. While there West Florida went to the NCAA tournament 4 times, reaching sweet 16 twice. Highest ranking while there was 15th. While in Pensacola for college she coached for The Pensacola Lizards volleyball club for 3 years. Is IMPACT certified. Graduated from the University of West Florida in August with a bachelors degree in Exercise Science. Moved back to St. Augustine to be close to family and to go back to school. Coaches the 17 national Rico team with head coach Rico!

Matthew R. Heffner

Matt recently moved to the Jacksonville area from Wyomissing, Pennsylvania.  Matt played club volleyball for seven years for the Red Rose Club making three trips to the USA Juniors nationals.  He played four years of varsity volleyball in high school winning two straight county championships and qualifying for the state playoffs his senior year.  He graduated from Millersville University in 2008 where he played four years of club volleyball winning the division two years and placing 5^th at the NIRSA championships for DII schools.  Matt coached one year at Millersville where he was the assistant coach. He spent last two season as the assistant coach at St. Augustine High School.

Jose Rivera

After coaching the 15 Regional team last season, Jose Rivera returns to JJVA as coordinator for the 16 and under JJVA league.  Jose has worked with JJVA for nine years since he moved to Jacksonville.   Jose brings over 20 years of coaching experience to JJVA ranging from juniors to Division-I college volleyball.  In addition to working as JJVA’s local coordinator, Jose assists Mary Andrew with the Florida State College volleyball program and is the Physical Education Specialist for Duval County Public Schools

Courtney Overstreet

Courtney graduated from West Nassau High School in Callahan, Fl in 2007 and played club volleyball for two years. She then attended FCCJ where she played on the women's volleyball team and distinguished herself academically.

She is currently working towards her bachelors degree in Math Education at UNF and also works in the JJVA Volleyabll Center office as a staff member. Courtney was an assistant regional coach in 2009. Courtney is now the head coach of the 13R team. Courtney also coached volleyball at Yulee High School for two years where she was the head coach. Courtney's experience also includes several years as a camp coach.
 

Ginny Alexander

Coach Alexander returns to her hometown of Jacksonville as the Director of Membership Services for JJVA.  Alexander began her career in athletics in 1987 after completing her undergraduate degree at the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB) where she played volleyball for the Blazers for three years.  Prior to that, she competed one year at Lake City Community College (now Florida Gateway College) in both volleyball and softball.  Coach Alexander went on to spend 17 of the last 25 years in coaching, mostly at the NCAA DI level (Western Kentucky University, Michigan State University, Bowling Green State University, Drexel University, Temple University, Utah State University and Converse College).  She was named the Atlantic 10 Conference Coach of the Year while coaching the team’s first ever Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year while at Temple University.  Alexander also recruited and coached Utah State’s first Big West Freshman of the Year and Freshman All-American.  While at Utah State, Alexander also served as Chair of the Big West Volleyball Coaches Committee as well as several NCAA committees.   
Alexander has also developed three NCAA CHAMPS (Challenging Athletes Minds for Success) Life Skills programs (San Diego State University, Converse College and Brevard College), served as an Athletic Administrator (Brevard College) and has spent 7 years in Youth Development for the City of Jacksonville (JSO) Police Athletic League and City of Asheville Community Relations Division. She is a past Chair of the First Coast Girls Initiative and is currently a Community Coach for the NonProfit Center of Northeast Florida, a cadre of experts in nonprofit organizational management.  Alexander earned an MEd in Education in 1992 from Bowling Green State University.  She currently serves as the Assistant Coach for FSCJ Volleyball.