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 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.

About Coach April Chapple, seen here while coaching volleyball at the USA High Performance Volleyball Championships, Fort Lauderdale, FL 2016.

Highlights

• Creator of the original Volleyball Voice Boot Camp class and elite training, invitation-only Breakfast Club held Saturday mornings for seven years at Stupak Community Center in Las Vegas
• 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

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.

• 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 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

• author of over 100 published articles online and off teaching volleyball skills about playing and coaching elite volleyball

• contributing writer for publications: Active.com, CapitalOneCup.com, Las Vegas Sports magazine, Volleyball Magazine, USA Volleyball Magazine, e-sports.com 

• 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, Coaching at the USA High Performance Volleyball Championships, Fort Lauderdale, FL 2016.

• 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.

• 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 

1. win three SEC (Southeastern Conference) championships in four years 
2. 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

• 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
• (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

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. 
• Club Director, Volleycats Elite VBC

2017, 2018

Web Author

• Improve Your Volleyball
• Dear Beach Volleyball
• VolleyBragSwag
• VS&Q Volleyball Sayings and Quotes

Coach April with Former Teammates

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.

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