CAMP DETAILS
Date: Friday, February 12, 2021 Where: Kansas City Convention Center Cost: $185.00 Camps are open to any/all players: 14u-18u year olds Coaches Scott Wong - Pepperdine Kirsten Bernthal Booth - Creighton Branden Higa - Cal Baptist Ryan McGuire - Baylor ~ Players will receive instruction from all four coaches during the hour and 1/2 session ~ |
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Pepperdine alum Scott Wong was named the Waves’ head women’s volleyball coach in December of 2014, becoming the fifth head coach in the program’s history. He enters his fourth season at the helm of the Waves’ program in 2018.
In his premier season, Wong Coached freshman standout Tarah Wylie to WCC Freshman of the Year status. He led Wylie and Heidi Dyer to WCC All-Freshman recognition and senior Becca Strehlow to garner All-WCC first team accolades. He led Pepperdine to a 17-14 overall record and a tied-5th place overall finish in the West Coast Conference with an 8-10 record. |
Three-time National Coach of the Year Kirsten Bernthal Booth returns for her 18th season at Creighton as the architect one of the nation’s best programs.
Since inheriting a 3-23 team in 2002, Booth has steadily built a program that has appeared in the AVCA’s Top 25 poll each of the last eight years, and reached nine of the last 10 NCAA Tournaments. That includes a 2016 run to the Elite Eight and a 2015 Sweet Sixteen appearance. Booth owns an impressive past, both on and off the court. Creighton has posted a record of 371-171 and averaged 1,398 fans per home match in Booth’s tenure, compared to a 93-152 mark and 215 fans per match the nine years before her arrival. All of Booth’s teams have qualified for the league tournament, with seven of her last team teams reaching the finals. |
Branden Higa was named the California Baptist University women's volleyball head coach in 2012, after three years as an assistant at NCAA Division I Mississippi State. He has since logged a 143-59 record with the Lancers.
Over the past six years with Higa, CBU women's volleyball has finished in the top half of their conference standings each season and won the PacWest title with an undefeated 20-0 record in 2017. The Lancers finished the season 29-1 overall and hosted the West Regional that year in their second-straight postseason berth, with Higa earning Coach of the Year honors in the West Region and PacWest. Most recently, Higa led the Lancers to a 21-11 campaign in their first year in NCAA Division I and the Western Athletic Conference. CBU earned a berth to the National Invitational Volleyball Championship (NIVC) and won its tournament opener. Three Lancers earned All-WAC honors in their debut season |
Billy Ebel enters his third season as an assistant coach on Ray Bechard’s coaching staff at the University of Kansas in 2020. Ebel joined the Jayhawks after five seasons at Lipscomb University.
During his time at Lipscomb, Ebel helped lead the Bisons to three Atlantic Sun Conference regular-season titles and three appearances in the NCAA Tournament. In 2014, Ebel and the Bisons earned the ASUN’s first-ever at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. After three seasons as an assistant coach he was promoted to associate head coach by Lipscomb head coach Brandon Rosenthal in 2016, which was the first time Rosenthal had named an associate head coach. |