Coach April Chapple is a former USA National team member professional indoor and beach volleyball player coaching in Las Vegas for the past 13 years.
Coach April Chapple is a former USA National team member professional indoor and beach volleyball player coaching in Las Vegas for the past 13 years.
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April Chapple's Lady Vol 1981 - 1984 UT team is the winningest team in Tennessee history winning three SEC championships in four years.
Coaching Volleyball in Las Vegas
The 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.
About Coach April Chapple, seen here while coaching volleyball at the USA High Performance Volleyball Championships, Fort Lauderdale, FL 2016.
Has been teaching volleyball skills to high school and middle school athletes both boys and girls for the past 13 years after moving to Las Vegas in 2006.
Volleycats Elite VBC players at USA High Performance
More than 20 players have been chosen or invited to play on USA Volleyball High Performance teams, and one, setter Kami Miner, in the USA High Performance Championships
Volleycats Elite VBC players on USA High Performance Teams
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 2015 SCVA Summer Soiree
Volleycats Elite Tigers coached by C'era Oliveira earned a Silver medal in the Open division at 2017 AAU West Coast Championships held in Las Vegas
Volleycats Elite Tigers coached by April Chapple advanced to the semifinals in the Open 15s division of the Far Westerns National Qualifier held in Reno Nevada. Tigers finished in 4th place overall after going 8-0 their first day of competition.
Volleycats Elite Cougars coached by Quinton Bradley and assistant coach Andrew Hass and Olivia Costancio finished 9th place in the 17s Open Gold division at the 31st Annual Las Vegas Classic
Five year regular Boot Camp Class member, semi private client and four year Volleycats Elite team captain, player Sydney Berenyi was the 2016 Nevada state Gatorade Player of the Year.
Accepted a scholarship to Division I school
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
Update:
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.
Middle blocker, Danyale Berry was the first Volleycat to receive a volleyball scholarship
Danielle Berry first Volleycat player to receive a volleyball scholarship.
2012 - Las Vegas High School - Freshmen Boys team - later as seniors 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
Volleycats Elite Panthers coached by April Chapple dab after finishing first in their pool on Mandatory Day 3 in the SCVA tournament.
For the second year in a row Volleycats Elite players dominated the Max Preps Volleyball Statistical Categories Top 10 rankings
Three Volleycats helped lead Silverado High School to the finals of the state championship
in 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
Hit Stat Leaders
Aces Stat Leaders
Assists Stat Leaders
Block stat leaders
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
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 US National Team member
represented the US in indoor women's professional Italian league for eight years
My Freshman year as a Lady Vol- University of Tennessee Knoxville
Having attended the University of Tennessee, Knoxville from 1981-1985 coached by Bob Bertucci I'm a member of the ONLY volleyball team in UT Knoxville history to
win three SEC (Southeastern Conference) championships in four years
to qualify for the NCAA Championship playoffs four years in a row
University of Tennessee Knoxville - SEC champions- Junior Year
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
About Coach April Chapple: Professional Volleyball Player
Eight year professional volleyball player playing in Italy
Finalist Italian League Championships
Finalist Italian Cup Tournament
Finalist European Cup of Cup (Coppa delle Coppe) Tournament
First round draft pick and First Team All Pro - Major League Volleyball - New York Liberties
First round draft pick and First Team All Pro- Team Champion - Budlight Fours (ESPN)
Coach April Chapple - former American professional volleyball player - 1990/91 Team Paris Mode, Verona, Italy
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 Italian Olympian Laura Bruschini
(CBVA) California Beach Volleyball Association - earned #1 ranking in the state of California
Manhattan Beach Six Man - won first place title twice, second place title twice
About Coach April Chapple: Former Teammates
Me, Five-time Olympian Danielle Scott and two-time Olympian team captain Kim Oden
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.
Two-time Olympic gold medalist and my first ever pepper partner (age 13) Eric Sato on a visit to Stupak
Me and former teammate and opponent in the Italian league USA Volleyball Olympian Ruth Lawanson
Me and friend, former teammate and University of Hawaii NCAA champion, current head coach at San Diego State, Olympian Deitre Collins at Stupak
travelled the world as an elite professional indoor and beach volleyball professional for 30+ years
My mentor and former coach, seven time NCAA champion head coach Russ Rose comes to Stupak to visit.
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
Me and my big bro Gary Sato (club coach) at the USA Volleyball High Performance Championships in Fort Lauderdale, Florida Gary Sato - older bro Eric Sato, two-time Olympic gold medalist as former US Men's Olympic Asst coach, USC Men's Asst coach, former Japan Men's Olympic coach, president of Association of Beach Volleyball Coaches Association, USA Volleyball Boys High Performance
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.
Do You Have A Great Volleyball Voice Volleyball Class Story?
Do you have a great story about taking (or your daughter/son) taking one of our Volleyball Voice Boot Camp Classes? Were you/they scared at the beginning? Were you/they sore the first week? Were you/they able to set their goals and meet them? Did you/they make the team they wanted to make? Did you/they learn life lessons while learning how to play? We invite you to share your story!
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For 12 years Coach April has given Vegas high school and college players volleyball private lessons and offers sessions from Jan-Mar 2023 on sale until 12/31.
Are you looking for a private volleyball coach for your player who has 2+ years experience looking to improve high school indoor or sand skills in Jan-Mar 2023?
Here's the growing list of email, social media and texted sports coach testimonials about Coach April's, one-on-one private and small group volleyball training.
My open letter to Las Vegas jr high/high school volleyball parents about my predictions on individual/small group/club coaching/training trends for 2019/2021.
Do not hire me if any of these five reasons are why you are looking at private volleyball coaches in Vegas to hire to get private training for your player. .
I was recently asked what my motivation was for charging $2 and $5 for coaching Las Vegas volleyball classes so Im sharing my response to inspire other coaches
Non-setter players should regularly work on setting skill and technique with regular wall ball reps with a partner. Learn more with my setter volleyball tips.
I'm passing on my knowledge with my love of how to teach volleyball serve skills to high school players because it's my fave way of giving back to the sport.
Learn the history of Volleyball Voice Boot Camp classes. How the classes developed into a must attend event and how strength and conditioning played an important part to developing strong players.
If you're a Vegas high school player with goals of wanting to learn how to properly play volleyball and improve your indoor or sand skills contact me for info.
For the the 2015-2016 Volleycats Elite Volleyball season I had a very specific club volleyball philosophy because its was my first year of competitive club.
Coach April's 2023 Private and Semi private Volleyball Training
Pre-Registration opens on December 2 for January to March 2023 Private and Semiprivate Training Sessions with Coach April.
30 sessions - 10 sessions/month - 3 months
Email now for information on semiprivate or private indoor skills and/or sand skills individual and/or small group training volleyball classes for 2023.
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Read my open letter to Las Vegas Jr high/high school volleyball parents about my predictions on individual and small group volleyball training trends for 2019/2021
Beach and Indoor Olympian Liz Masakayan, UCLA middle blocker legend Merja Connolly and Coach April, former National Team and World University Game teammates
Former pro players and teammates Olympian Elaina Oden and April Chapple
Elaina Oden, Olympic middle blocker, bronze medalist. Former Italian teammate in Fidenza, Italy.
Former pro players and opponents Olympic silver medalist Debbie Green and April Chapple
Debbie Green, America's first Olympic silver medalist, setter for the 1984 Olympic team in Los Angeles, CA. Former opponent on in Major League Volleyball, Debbie was on LA Starlites and I played for New York Liberties.
The spike definition volleyball terms describe 4 ways to hit a ball including a cross court shot, hitting a line or cross court shot, or using the cut shot.
You can improve volleyball serve difficulty by serving deep line to zone 5 helps to take the Left Side hitter out of the offense forcing them out of system.
My "Coach April Overhand Jump Serve Volleyball Tips" designed to help you increase your serving accuracy, power and the ability to serve more aces in volleyball.
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