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Do You Know What Sets My Private Volleyball Training Apart From Anyone In Vegas?
I invite You to read what my private volleyball training mission says before considering hiring me as a private volleyball coach because I'm not available for everyone.Dear Volleyball Mom, Do You Know What Sets My Private Volleyball Training Apart From Anyone In Vegas? I invite You to read what my private volleyball training mission says before considering hiring me as a private volleyball coach because I'm not available for everyone.

About Coach April Chapple

 Coach April Chapple is a former USA National team member professional indoor and beach volleyball player coaching in Las Vegas for the past 15 years. 

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2022 College Commitments

Coach April Head Coach Tstreet Las Vegas -18s 2022 College Commitments for Seniors Libero Brooke PaigeCoach April Head Coach Tstreet Las Vegas -18s 2022 College Commitments for Seniors Libero Brooke Paige, Cal State Los Angeles
Coach April Head Coach Tstreet Las Vegas -18s 2022 College Commitments for Seniors Setter Anais Badio, MCLACoach April Head Coach Tstreet Las Vegas -18s 2022 College Commitments for Seniors Setter Anais Badio, MCLA
Coach April Head Coach Tstreet Las Vegas -18s 2022 College Commitments for Seniors Setter Rilee Read, Cal State Monterey BayCoach April Head Coach Tstreet Las Vegas -18s 2022 College Commitments for Seniors Setter Rilee Read, Cal State Monterey Bay
Coach April Head Coach Tstreet Las Vegas -18s 2022 College Commitments for Seniors Libero/DS/Setter Mckenzie Gross, Rose Hulman CollegeCoach April Head Coach Tstreet Las Vegas -18s 2022 College Commitments for Seniors Libero/DS/Setter Mckenzie Gross, Rose Hulman College

Coach April Head Coach Tstreet Las Vegas -18s
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Coach April Head Coach Tstreet Las Vegas -18s 2023 College Commitments for Seniors Setter/Oppo Peyton Reese, Virginia StateCoach April Head Coach Tstreet Las Vegas -18s 2023 College Commitments for Seniors Setter/Oppo Peyton Reese, Virginia State
Coach April Head Coach Tstreet Las Vegas -18s 2023 College Commitments for Seniors Setter, Ella Rustand, St Kate's UniversityCoach April Head Coach Tstreet Las Vegas -18s 2023 College Commitments for Seniors Setter, Ella Rustand, St Kate's University
Coach April Head Coach Tstreet Las Vegas -18s 2023 College Commitments for Seniors Middle Blocker/Oppo, Naomi White, Portland StateCoach April Head Coach Tstreet Las Vegas -18s 2023 College Commitments for Seniors Middle Blocker/Oppo, Naomi White, Portland State
Coach April Head Coach Tstreet Las Vegas -18s 2023 College Commitments for Seniors Middle Blocker/Oppo, Mimi Bartlett, Ottawa UniversityCoach April Head Coach Tstreet Las Vegas -18s 2023 College Commitments for Seniors Middle Blocker/Oppo, Mimi Bartlett, Ottawa University
Coach April Head Coach Tstreet Las Vegas -18s 2023 College Commitments for Seniors Middle Blocker/Oppo, Lauren Anderson, Providence ChristianCoach April Head Coach Tstreet Las Vegas -18s 2023 College Commitments for Seniors Middle Blocker/Oppo, Lauren Anderson, Providence Christian

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Coach April Head Coach Vegas Volley -18s
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Proud of my starting senior libero Athena Zhen who is going to play volleyball in New York at Molloy University. 

Congratulations to senior outside hitter Amber Cerny who'll be playing at Coalinga College.


Coach April Head Coach Vegas Volley - Boys 17s

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18s and 17s Boys Singing Happy Birthday

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Coaching Volleyball in Las Vegas


The award-winning 12 year old Las Vegas based program created and directed by Coach April Chapple, author of "Improve Your Volleyball.com is a highly focused program aimed at improving individual skills and physical fitness while refining techniques to youth in Clark County in the sport of volleyball while maintaining low costs to the participants with exceptional results.

For more information on volleyball classes, volleyball lessons, locations and private and semi private training please fill out the form in the upper right hand corner and then go to our volleyball classes page.



Coach April Chapple Highlights





  • All Volleycats Elite VBC club teams have finished in the gold and no lower than silver divisions of the Southern California Volleyball Association (SCVA) Power League in all three years of the club's history
  • Volleycats Elite Panthers coached by Ken Beckham earned a Silver medal at the 2015 SCVA Summer Soiree 




Coach April Chapple is a former USA National team member professional indoor and beach volleyball player coaching in Las Vegas for the past 15 years. Coach April introduced Sydney and Kami to the USA Volleyball High Performance program.Coach April Chapple is a former USA National team member professional indoor and beach volleyball player coaching in Las Vegas for the past 15 years. Coach April introduced Sydney and Kami to the USA Volleyball High Performance program.


  • Three year regular Boot Camp class member and semi-private client, elite level setter in the USAVHP pipeline and three year Volleycats Elite player Kami Miner participated in the USA Volleyball High Performance Championships on the top team Girls Select A1 National team at age 14.
  • Recruited by a majority of the very top teams in Division I

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  • Kami at the completion of her freshman high school year has been named to the 2018 USA Youth National Girls National Training Team - the top 20 players in the United States. Only five freshmen in the nation made the team. Kami is one of only four setters. 

Kami at the completion of her freshman high school year has been named to the 2018 USA Youth National Girls National Training Team - the top 20 players in the United States. Only five freshmen in the nation made the team. Kami is one of only four settersKami at the completion of her freshman high school year has been named to the 2018 USA Youth National Girls National Training Team - the top 20 players in the United States. Only five freshmen in the nation made the team. Kami is one of only four setters

Kami at the completion of her freshman high school year has been named to the 2018 USA Youth National Girls National Training Team - the top 20 players in the United States. Only five freshmen in the nation made the team. Kami is one of only four settersKami at the completion of her freshman high school year has been named to the 2018 USA Youth National Girls National Training Team - the top 20 players in the United States. Only five freshmen in the nation made the team. Kami is one of only four setters.




  • Middle blocker, Danyale Berry was the first Volleycat Elite club player ever to receive a volleyball scholarship


  • 2012 -  Las Vegas High School - Freshmen Boys Head Coach team - later as seniors these freshmen finished as Nevada State championship runners up in 2016

About Coach April Chapple
Volleycats Elite VBC, Club Director


2014 - 2018 Volleycats Elite VBC - Club Director

  • 2015
  • Tigers Elite 14s, Cougars Elite 15s


  • 2016
  • Tigers Elite 14s, Panthers Elite 15s, Cougars Elite 16s
  • For the second year in a row Volleycats Elite players dominated the Max Preps Volleyball Statistical Categories Top 10 rankings 
  • Three Volleycat Elite helped lead Silverado High School to the finals of the state championship


  • 2017
  • Tigers Elite 15s, Cougars Elite 17s
  • Two Volleycats three year club member and five year regular Boot Camp class attendee Braedyn Peters and Taliah Bell one year Volleycats member win the state championship with their Shadow Ridge High School team

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      About Coach April Chapple      
Author, Writer, Journalist


  • From 1996 - 2000 coached coaches  as the "Five Quick Tips" regular columnist for the American Volleyball Coaches (AVCA) Association bi-monthly "Coaching Volleyball" magazine
  • websites: Improve Your Volleyball formerly Inspiring Female Volleyball Players.com, Volleyball Voices.com, The Volleyball Voice and Volleycats Elite.com 
  • e-booklets: "How To Stop Serving Like A Wimp" and 86 Girls Volleyball Tips: How To Gain Confidence on the Court




About Coach April Chapple: 
Photography


  • photographed some of the top international players in the world while living in Italy 
  • work has been published in many of the top Italian magazines and publications including MAX, Corriere dello Sport, the cover of the Gazzetto dello Sport magazine, the Gazzetta di Vicenza, and all three Italian volleyball magazines.

Hall of Fame, University of Tennessee, Knoxville


  • Four time All American
  • The first four-year volleyball Hall of Fame Inductee at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
  • Inglewood, California native is a former USA Volleyball National Team member 
  • represented the US in indoor women's professional Italian league for eight years


  • Having attended the University of Tennessee, Knoxville from 1981-1984 coached by Bob Bertucci I'm a member and former team captain of the ONLY volleyball team in UT Knoxville history to 
  1. win three SEC (Southeastern Conference) championships in four years 
  2. win three SEC regular seasons in four years 


  • Statistical category results still rank in the top ten rankings in the SEC - records that stand for more than 30 years 
  • Southeastern Conference MVP
  • All SEC Conference team - 3 yrs
  • SEC Tournament MVP

Coach April Chapple is a former USA National team member professional indoor and beach volleyball player coaching in Las Vegas for the past 15 years.Coach April Chapple is a former USA National team member professional indoor and beach volleyball player coaching in Las Vegas for the past 15 years.

Coach April Chapple is a former USA National team member professional indoor and beach volleyball player coaching in Las Vegas for the past 15 years.Coach April Chapple is a former USA National team member professional indoor and beach volleyball player coaching in Las Vegas for the past 15 years.


About Coach April Chapple: 
Professional Volleyball Player


  • Eight year professional volleyball player playing in Italy
  • Finalist D-I Italian League Championships (Reggio Emilia)
  • Finalist Italian Cup Tournament
  • Finalist European Cup of Cup (Coppa delle Coppe) Tournament
  • A-2 to A-1 Promotion - Fulgor Fidenza
  • First round draft pick and First Team All Pro - Major League Volleyball (the first American women's pro league ever) - New York Liberties
  • First round draft pick and First Team All Pro- Team Champion - Budlight Fours (ESPN) 

Coach April Chapple is a former USA National team member professional indoor and beach volleyball player coaching in Las Vegas for the past 15 years.Coach April Chapple is a former USA National team member professional indoor and beach volleyball player coaching in Las Vegas for the past 15 years.

About Coach April Chapple: 
Beach Volleyball Player


  • Voted Budlight Four Person Best Left Side Hitter
  • (WPVA) Womens Pro Beach Volleyball Association member
  • (AVP) Association of Volleyball Professionals
  • (FIPAV) Italian 3x3 Beach Champion with partners Simonetta Fillippini and future first  Italian Olympian Laura Bruschini
  • (CBVA) California Beach Volleyball Association - earned #1 ranking in the state of California
  • (FIVB) as high as #80 ranked in the world
  • played in FIVB and AVP events w/ five-time Olympian Danielle Scott Arruda
  • Manhattan Beach Six Man - won first place title twice, second place title twice

About Coach April Chapple: 
Former Teammates

Former teammates include

  • three-time Olympian, Olympic MVP and silver medalist and 
  • current UC Irvine coach Paula Weishoff,
  • two-time Olympian Elaina Oden, 
  • her sister two-time Olympic team captain Kim Oden, 
  • three-time Olympian and USA Volleyball team captain Tammy Liley, 
  • AVP Beach volleyball pro Dianne Shoemaker DeNecochea, 
  • WPVA standout Heather Hafner along with beach legends and Olympians Karolyn Kirby, Liz Masakayan, Mary Jo Peppler, Ruth Lawanson and many European, Asian and South American Olympians and World Champions. 


  • Coach travelled the world as an elite professional indoor and beach volleyball professional for 30+ years


Coached by some of the top volleyball coaches in the world including 

  • Taras Lyskevich - USA National Team
  • Russ Rose - 7-time NCAA Champion
  • Mick Haley - USC 
  • Bob  Bertucci - Tennessee
  • Claudio Piazza- Parma, Italy
  • Mary Jo Peppler - New York Liberties
  • Nina Matthies - Beach Doubles
  • Elaine Roque - Beach Doubles
  • Mark Barber - Beach Doubles
  • Pat Zartman - Beach Doubles
  • Joel DeNocochea -  Beach Fours
  • Claudio Cuello - Italy
  • Claudio Cattani - Reggio Emilia, Italy
  • Gary Sato - Club and College

2014 

  • Club Director, Volleycats Elite VBC 

2015 

  • USA Indoor Girls HP - Tryouts in Los Angeles April 19 - Evaluator Setting
  • Future Select National Training Program Apprentice Coach
  • Club Director, Volleycats Elite VBC

2016

  • USA Indoor Girls HP - Tryouts in Los Angeles April 11 - Lead Evaluator - Setters
  • USA Indoor Girls HP - Tryouts in Los Angeles April 17 - Lead Evaluator - Setters
  • Assistant Coach for the USAV Youth Continental Team Program at the USA High Performance Championships, Ft. Lauderdale, FL from July 14 - 24, 2016. 
  • Club Director, Volleycats Elite VBC

2017, 2018

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Congratulations to my seven Boys-18s Vegas Volley club players who played in two state championship finals yesterday, the 3A and 5A State champinship finals at Sunrise Mountain High School.

TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS!
In It To Win It Tournament,
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TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS!

A-1 Vegas Volley VBC

    In It To Win It      Tournament   

May 2 - 4, 2025 Tournament

Gold Medalists

18s Premier Division



Making A-1 Vegas Volleyball history as the very first TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS! In the In It To Win It Tournament,
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Gold Medalists, 18s Premier DivisionMaking A-1 Vegas Volleyball history as the very first TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS! In the In It To Win It Tournament, May 2-4, 2025 Tournament, A-1 Vegas Volleyball Club Gold Medalists, 18s Premier Division




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