COLLEGE  CAMP FRIDAY
*NO Refunds after January 15th*

CAMP DETAILS
​Date: Friday, February 12, 2021
Where: Kansas City Convention Center
Cost: $185 per player
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Camps are open to any/all players:  14u-18u year olds

Coaches
Erik Sullivan - Texas
Leah Johnson - Illinois State
Jeff Grove - Kansas State
Billy Ebel - Kansas
Marie Zidek - DePaul
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~ Players will receive instruction from all four coaches during the hour and half session ~
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Erik Sullivan
Associate Head Coach - Texas
The 2018 season marks Erik Sullivan’s eighth on Head Coach Jerritt Elliott’s Texas Volleyball staff.  Sullivan joined the Texas staff after making two previous Big 12 coaching stops at Nebraska and Colorado.  

On the Forty Acres, Sullivan works with the Horns’ liberos and middle blockers, while developing Texas’ team defensive systems and scouting reports.

During the summer of 2011, Sullivan served as an assistant coach with the U.S. Women’s Junior National Team at the FIVB Championships in Lima, Peru. At the championships he coached current Longhorn Haley Eckerman to a fourth-place finish.​
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Leah Johnson
Head Coach - Illinois State
Leah Johnson was named the seventh head volleyball coach at Illinois State on June 21, 2017.

For the third-straight year, Johnson helped guide the Redbirds to a post-season tournament berth in 2019, as ISU earned the Missouri Valley Conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament after securing the program’s 11th Valley championship title.​
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Jeff Grove
Associate Head Coach - Kansas State
Kaitlin Nielsen joined the Kansas volleyball staff in 2019 and serves her second season with the Jayhawks in 2020. Nielsen spent six season with the Bruins and served in multiple roles, including volunteer coach (2013), assistant coach, assistant beach coach (2013-14) and recruiting coordinator.

​In her six seasons at UCLA, Nielsen helped the Bruins compile a record of 123-67, while also mentoring 18 All-American award winners, 16 American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-Region honorees and 24 All-Pac 12 awardees. The Bruins also reached the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament in four-straight campaigns, which included a 2016 NCAA Regional Final appearance.
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Billy Ebel
Assistant Coach - Kansas
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.​
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Marie Zidek
Head Coach - DePaul
DePaul athletics director Jean Lenti Ponsetto announced on Dec. 22 that Marie Zidek has been named head coach of the Blue Demon volleyball program. Zidek was an assistant coach at the University of San Diego for the last four seasons where she helped the program to four consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances.

Zidek is now entering her second season leading the program. In her first season as head coach, the team won the very first match of the season, 3-2, against Zidek's alma mater Northern Illinois.