CAMP DETAILS
PORTLAND STATE | FORT LEWIS | UTAH VALLEY | WHITWORTH
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Date: Thursday, June 2, 2022
Where: Mountain Amercia Expo Center Age: All players 14u - 18u Cost: $175 per player Players will receive instruction from all four coaches during the 1.5 hour session. All players will receive a camp t-shirt. Camp check-in will be located in Hall 3 of Mountain America Expo Center. Follow signs to check-in which will be located next to the main tournament desk. Player check-in will take place the 30 minute window before your specific camp starts. Players don't need a wristband to enter Mountain America Expo Center. |
SESSION #1 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
SESSION #2 5:45 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.
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Parents must have a tournament wristband in order to enter the check-in space and they aren't allowed on courts during the camps.
PARENTS/SPECTATORS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO WATCH CAMPS ON THE COURTS
(The College Coaches have requested this)
(The College Coaches have requested this)
COLLEGE COACHES
Meet the coaches running the camp:
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PORTLAND STATE
Assistant Coach: Pati Anae One of the best attackers in the recent history of the Portland State volleyball program has returned to the Park Blocks as Pati Anae will serve her first year as an assistant coach during the 2022 fall season.
Anae was named an All-Big Sky first-team selection in 2016, when she set the third-best single-season kills-per-set average during the 25-point scoring format. Anae averaged 4.26 kills per set in 2016 while leading the Big Sky in the category. Anae also led the Big Sky with 4.84 points per set in 2016, and led the Vikings with 15 double-doubles. Since graduating, Anae played professionally in Germany for the Rote Raben volleyball club. She then entered the coaching world as head coach for the Vortex Volleyball Club's 15's team in Davis County, Utah. Anae spent the past year as an assistant coach for Yavapai College, a National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) school that advanced to the NJCAA Region 1 Championship last season. Anae brings experience at both the junior college and Division I levels as a player. Before transferring to Portland State, Anae played two years for the College of Southern Idaho. Anae started 35 matches in her second year at Southern Idaho, averaging 2.10 kills and 1.89 digs per set. |
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FORT LEWIS
Head Coach: Giedre Tarnauskaite Tarnauskaite completed her second season as the Head Coach of the Fort Lewis College volleyball program in 2021, finishing the season with an overall record of 6-16 and a 6-12 mark in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference play. The Skyhawks were 5-4 on their home court with three of the wins coming in exciting, five-set fashion. The team narrowly missed out on the RMAC Volleyball Tournament, but will look to a young core of returners to carry the Skyhawks even further next season.
In her first season at the helm, the Skyhawks finished the spring 2020-2021 season with an overall record of 4-9 while playing a conference-only schedule due to the global pandemic. The season was highlighted by a five-set win over No. 22 University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, the program’s first win over an AVCA Coaches Poll Top-25 opponent since moving to the NCAA Division II level in 1994. The team enjoyed offensive improvements which included career marks for several attackers and a season-best .305 hitting percentage in a sweep over Adams State on Jan. 28. Tanauskaite comes to FLC after one season at Seattle University as an Assistant Coach/Co-Recruiting Coordinator and three seasons (2016-18) as an Assistant Coach and Recruiting Coordinator at the University of Montana. During Tarnauskaite's time in Missoula, the Grizzlies improved their win total each season, including in 2018 when they qualified for the Big Sky tournament for the first time since 2014. The 2018 season marked the highest win total Montana had since 2013, in addition to its most conference wins, home wins and road wins in five years. A native of Kaunas, Lithuania, Tarnauskaite moved to the United States in 2001 to play at Jefferson College, a two-year institution competing at the NJCAA level based in Missouri. She transferred to the NCAA Division I level to play for Arkansas State as a junior, where she'd go on to help ASU to 46 wins in her two years. She earned second-team All-Sun Belt honors in 2003 and Sun Belt Player of the Year accolades as a senior in 2004 after leading ASU to a share of the Sun Belt's East Division championship. Tarnauskaite was also named AVCA honorable mention all-region and academic all-district as a senior. |
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UTAH VALLEY
Head Coach: Sam Atoa The 2021 fall season marks Sam Atoa's 23rd year as the head coach at Utah Valley University. During his tenure, his Wolverines have posted a 435-260 overall record (.626 winning percentage), including a 297-229 mark in 18 NCAA Division I seasons (.565).
This past season (Spring 2021), which was his eighth in the Western Athletic Conference, Atoa helped lead his team to a second-place finish in league play with a 12-4 WAC record, including a 14-6 overall record. He then guided his spikers to the Wolverines first WAC Tournament Championship and its first birth in the NCAA Tournament in school history. Atoa also coached Kazna Tanuvasa to become the programs first AVCA All-American Honorable Mention, WAC Player of the Year, and AVCA Pacific South All-Region Honorable Mention in school history. Atoa's teams' have also excelled in the classroom over the years, as the 2014 season marked the fourth straight year and seventh overall that his Wolverines were honored by the American Volleyball Coaches Association with AVCA Team Academic Award recognition. Prior to his current run in the WAC, Atoa led UVU to its second consecutive Great West Conference regular season title in 2012 -- with a 7-1 league record -- and its first GWC Tournament Championship. That season, his squad won all six sets it played in the conference tournament en route to the tournament title. Atoa was honored by the league as the conference's coach of the year for the second straight season following his teams' impressive run. Atoa took over the reins of the UV volleyball program in 1999 after six years as an assistant to former head coach Lori Richards. In his first season at the helm of the Wolverine volleyball program, Atoa led UV to a 32-12 record. The Wolverines just missed a trip to the national tournament with a tight, five-set loss in the district championship. Then, in just his second season at the helm, Atoa led UV to the national tournament and a third-place finish in the nation. The third-place finish equaled UV's best showing ever at nationals. Atoa was named Tachikara/AVCA Junior College National Coach of the Year and Region 18 Coach of the Year. In 2002, Atoa led the Wolverines to a sixth-place finish at nationals. Atoa played volleyball for Brigham Young University from 1984 to 1988, and helped led the Cougars to three consecutive National Collegiate Club Championships. In 1989, Atoa started his coaching career at BYU assisting Coach Carl McGown when the program was officially sanctioned as an NCAA sport. In 1990, Atoa accepted a supervisor position in the Intramural program at Utah Valley and traveled back and forth between both schools for a year to fulfill his obligations |
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WHITWORTH
Assistant Coach: Brenna Berkimer Brenna joined the volleyball coaching staff in 2017 as a graduate assistant coach. She was elevated to assistant coach and recruiting coordinator in 2019.
Brenna had a successful volleyball career with the Pirates that included a second team All-Northwest Conference honor following her senior season. Brenna started as middle blocker for three seasons and earned honorable mention All-NWC in 2014 and 2015. |
FACILITY
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Mountain America Expo Center
9575 State St. Sandy, UT 84070 |
REFUND POLICY
NO REFUNDS
NO TRANSFERS
NO TRANSFERS
