IndyJuniors.com: Staff

Staff

Tim Hardt

2008 14-1 Head Coach, Owner/Director
Email: thardt@insightbb.com

After graduating from North Central HS and Ball State University he moved to Houston, TX. From 1992-1994 he taught Spanish and coached girls JV volleyball, girls JV Basketball, and boys soccer where he was the JV coach and Varsity assistant.

In 1994, he moved to Fort Myers, FL where he coached the Mariner High School JV volleyball team for one year and then in 1995 was named the Varsity volleyball coach. In two years he lead the Tritons to the most wins in school history, their 1st Sectional win, and had the 1st player accept a collegiate volleyball scholarship. He was named The Lee County North All-Star Assistant Coach in 1996 and the Head Coach in 1997. He was also a founder and co-owner of Palm Coast Juniors Volleyball Club where he was the 16-2's head coach for three years.

Tim moved back to Indy in 1997 and coached the 16-1's at IVA. In 1998, he became a co-owner of Indy ATTAC where he lead the 17-1's team to a Red Division title including a win over Sports Performance 17-1's at the AAU National Championships. In 1999, he took over the 16-1's team and was the head coach until 2002. In 2001, Indy ATTAC changed to Indy Juniors. In 2002, Tim lead the 16-Booyahs to a Regional Championship and qualified for USAV Nationals in the Club division, where they finished 21st. He was the 14-1's head coach in 2003 where the Booyahs finished 5th at the North East Qualifier. In 2004, he lead the 14 Booyahs as the Head Coach.

In 2005, he lead the 16-Booyahs to a 15th place finish at the AAU National Championships. In 2006, he was the 16-1 head coach and 12-1 head coach. In 2007 Tim was our National team coach for the 13-1's who finished 21st at AAU Nationals. This year, Tim will again lead our 14 National team.

Tim is married to Kristi and they both enjoy spending time with their 9 month old son, Shaun.

Greg Spector

2008 17-1 Head Coach, Owner
Email: gregspector@sbcglobal.net

Greg Spector comes to us from Los Angeles, California, where he had a distinguished high school career. He was named the 26th best high school player in the nation by Volleyball Magazine, made the US Junior National team, and played collegiate volleyball at San Diego State University. Greg also played internationally in 4 International Maccabbi games, as well as coaching the 2001 team.

Greg moved to Indy and began coaching for Indy Juniors in 2001. He was the head coach for the 16-5's, while also serving as the head coach at Lawrence Central High School. At LC he used his vast high school coaching experiences from California to lead the Bears to their first Sectional title and Regional appearance in school history.

In 2001, Greg began his college coaching career as an assistant coach at Urbana College and then moved on to Division I at Marshall University, where he served as their 1st assistant and helped lead the Thundering Herd to the Mid-American Conference finals 2 years in a row.

Greg returned to Indy in 2006 and is serving once again as the head coach at Lawrence Central. As the head coach of the 17-1's, Greg led the 17-Zebras to a 15th place finish at the AAU National Championships.

Greg is married to Lisa and is the proud father of their son Nathan and their daughter Solana.

Kyp Harasymowycz

2008 18-1 Head Coach
Email: kharasymowy@uindy.edu

Kyp returned to Indianapolis last season and joined Indy Juniors as the assistant coach on our 18-1s team. He currently is the assistant coach at the University of Indianapolis. The team is ranked 18th in the nation and has a record of 26-1, 15-0 in conference.

Before he moved back to Indy, Kyp had been the Head coach at Missouri Western State University during the 2005-2006 season. He had been the assistant coach at Missouri Western during the previous season.

Kyp is from Williamsville, New York where he was a 3-sport high school athlete athlete. He played Men’s Club Volleyball while he attended the University of Buffalo and the University of San Diego.He has coached club volleyball for both boys and girls during the last 10 years, and we are very happy to have Kyp back on our staff.

Liz Shuyler

2008 18-1 Assistant Coach
Email: shuylere@uindy.edu

Lauran Thompson

2008 17-1 Assistant Coach
Email: blondie_9322@yahoo.com

Emily Hawthorne

2008 16-1 Head Coach
Email: emilyjoneshawthorne@yahoo.com

Emily is from West Lafayette where she attended West Lafayette High School and earned four volleyball Varsity Letters. During her middle school and high school careeer she played for the LAVA Volleyball Club. After graduating from high school, Emily enrolled at Indiana University where she was a student coach for the women's volleyball team under Head Coach Katie Weismiller and former Olympian Elaina Oden.

Emily transferred to Purdue her sophomore year and then graduated in 2002 with her B.A. in Communications. From 1999-2002, she coached at Performance Point as the head coach for the 15-1's. Emily was also the West Lafayette JV coach in 2000, where her team finished the season at 22-1. In 2001, she coached the Varsity team at West Lafayette High School.

In 2003, Emily moved to Indianapolis and worked for the Governor's Office until 2005. She is currently the Western Boone Varsity Head Coach, where was named Boone County Coach of the Year in 2005 and 2006. In 2005, she led WEBO to a 21-7 overall record and went undefeated in conference for the 1st time in school history. In 2006, WEBO again had an impressive record finishing the season 21-12.

Most recently Emily was named the new Head Coach at Zionsville High School.

Kong Ma

2008 15-1 Head Coach
Email: sahso_vb@yahoo.com

Kong began coaching for Indy Juniors back in 1999. He has been the assistant coach for every National team since Pet Rocks were popular. He was the head coach of the 17-1's team in 2004. The 17-1's had a great year coming in 2nd in the 18's age group of the Indy Juniors Classic, winning the 18 Club division at the Munciana Classic, and finishing in the bronze division at the Northern Lights Qualifier.

In 2006 Kong was the head coach of the 15-1's team that finished 15th at the AAU National Championships. In '07 Kong lead our 16-1's team to a 2nd place finish at Regionals which qualified them for USAV Nationals.

Kong is also in charge of the MondayThursday Night Individual Skill sessions offered by Indy Juniors free of charge to all of our Regional players.

Kong enjoys coaching volleyball because "It's an easy sport to start but hard to master. It depends greatly on team work and he likes to motivate players both mentally and physically." Kong is married to Susana and has two daughters.

Katie Holmes

2008 15-1 Assistant Coach
Email: katie3holmes@yahoo.com

Bio to be psoted soon.....former college volleyball player who hails from Brownsburg, Indiana. Has coached club for several years in the 13-14's age groups and has been the Varsity assistant at Park Tudor for the last 2 years. Last year was the assistant coach on our 14-1's team.

Riley Sparks

2008 14-1 Assistant Coach
Email: riley.sparks@bestbuy.com

Stacy Collier

2008 13-1 Head Coach
Email: stacycollier@juno.com

Kristen Geroff

2008 13-1 Assistant Coach
Email: kgeroff@gmail.com

Stacy Lucich

2008 12-1 Head Coach
Email: slucich@butler.edu

Steve Hawthorne

2008 17-2 Head Coach, Tournament and Marketing Coordinator
Email: ijhawthorne@gmail.com

Steve has an extensive high school coaching background. During the last 8 years he has coached at Benton Central, West Lafayette, Western Boone, and Zionsville high schools. During this time Steve won 2 Conference titles while at Western Boone, had the best record in school history while at Benton Central, and is playing a key role in the turnaround at Zionsville high school as the Varsity assistant coach.

Steve’s club experience includes coaching at Performance Point volleyball club for 4 years where he worked with the 16’s, 17’s, and 18’s teams. Several players that he coached during this time went on to play collegiate volleyball.

Last year Steve worked at Indy Juniors and was the head coach for our 17-2’s team. This year Steve will be taking on a bigger role with Indy Junior as he will be our tournament and marketing director. He will also coach for us and is currently slotted to coach our 17-2’s.

Tim Evans

2008 17-2 Assistant Coach
Email: Timothy.Evans@ferguson.com

Matt Maynard

2008 16-2 Head Coach
Email: mmaynard@ibj.com

Matt grew up in a true volleyball family. His mom was one of the first four women to earn a varsity letter in volleyball from USC (University of Southern California) winning National Championships in three of her four years. She coached in Matt’s home town of Mystic, CT (yes the same Mystic from Mystic Pizza) leading her teams to many state and regional titles. Matt decided to carry the torch in a different direction when he started his playing days on the beaches of New London, CT and Westerly, RI before he went off to Virginia Tech on a Track & Field Scholarship. While in Virginia he played in many tournaments in Richmond and Virginia Beach and became involved coaching with the girls club and high school teams.

In 2004, Matt came to Indy Juniors and joined our staff where he spent the 2004 and 2005 seasons coaching 16’s regional teams. In 2006, Matt coached our 16-2's team and this year will again work with our regional team program.

Matt works for the IBJ Contract Publishing division and when not working, coaching or playing volley ball you can find him playing with his four frisbee dogs.

Chris Borm

2008 16-2 Assistant Coach
Email: ck.borm@gmail.com

Ashley Hanslits

2008 16-3 Head Coach, 16-1 Assistant Coach
Email: hanslits@marian.edu

Ashley graduated from Bishop Chatard High School in 2004, where she played Varsity as a Middle Hitter and wrapped up her career by winning the 3A State Championship!! She is continuing her volleyball career at Marion, where she is leading her team in kill %, aces and blocks as a Sophomore. Ashley is majoring in Physical Education and Minoring in Secondary Ed.

Ashley played CYO volleyball since the 4th grade, played club for four years at Indy Juniors and has coached 7th/8th grade CYO volleyball for three years. Ashley will be returning to coach her 2nd season at Indy Juniors as a regional coach. We are really excited to have her on staff!

Alyssa Morrell

2008 16-3 Assistant Coach
Email: lyssa25_87@yahoo.com

Nate Littlefield

2008 15-2 Head Coach
Email: nathantlittlefield@yahoo.com

Jason Young

2008 15-2 Assistant Coach
Email: jay@sdbrecruiters.com

Lisa Wright

2008 15-3 Head Coach
Email: lilie99@hotmail.com

Robyn Eads

2008 15-3 Assistant Coach, Regional Setter Trainer
Email: rmeads@iupui.edu

Jeanne Holmes

2008 15-4 Head Coach/Team Mom Rep
Email: holmescjkk@aol.com

How 'bout them Hawkeyes! That's the school Jeanne wished she could have attended....yes, that's right, she's an Iowa State Cyclone.

While at Iowa State, Jeanne was on a track scholarship where she competed against Olympic great Mary Decker Slaney! After she graduated, she regained her senses and moved to Indiana, "The Burg" to be exact.

That is where she has coached the Brownsburg 8th grade team for the last three years, collecting two 1st place finishes at the Tecumseh Invitational. She has also coached CYO volleyball for five years, junior basketball-travel and rec for seven years, and junior softball for six years.

Jeanne wears many hats for Indy Juniors... she is the Team Mom Representative and was the head coach of the 14-2's in 2004 and 2005. Jeanne is a veteran "Indy Juniors mom." In 2005, she was the head coach for our 14-3's and in 2006 will again lead a 14's regional team. Both of her daughters played for Indy Juniors and have played volleyball in college.

In her free time she likes to read, garden, and go on trips to Puerto Rico.

Janelle Johnson

2008 14-2 Head Coach
Email: johnsonjanelle@hotmail.com

Janelle moved here from the great state of Washington after graduating with a BA in Elementary Education from Western Washington University. She played club volleyball for four years at Tacoma Juniors and Puget Sound VBC. In high school, Janelle made Varsity as an outside hitter and finished her career as a 2nd Team All-League Selection. She was also a three sport Varsity letter winner in Volleyball, Basketball, and Softball.

Janelle coached freshman volleyball in 2003 and 2004 at Peninsula High School in Gig Habour, Washington and also served as the Varsity Assistant in 2004 when they went to the State Playoffs.

In 2006, Janelle coached our 17-2's team, in 2007 she lead our 15-4's team, and will coach our 14-2 team this season. She currently is the freshmen team coach at Fishers High School.

Emma Rosenbarger

2008 14-2 Assistant Coach
Email: digvolleyball10@yahoo.com

Kelly Antcliff

2008 Guerin Middle School program coach

When interviewed in 2004, she said that she wanted to learn from one of the great teachers in the game today. Naturally she was placed with Steve Math as the 16-2's assistant coach. She did so well that she was named the new head volleyball coach at Guerin High School in Noblesville and has turned Guerin into a competitive program in two short seasons.

Her coaching background includes two years of working with the 8th graders at OLMC, the 2003 Middle School Cross Country coach at Park Tudor, and the 2003 assistant Softball coach at Park Tudor. She is currently the Head Volleyball Coach at Theodore Guerin High School in Noblesville.

Kelly also comes from Illinois, but she too realized that the best university-level educations are found in Indiana. She did her undergrad at the University of Indianapolis and did her Graduate work at Butler. She worked for three years in the Sports Information Department at Butler before accepting a 3rd grade assistant teaching position at Park Tudor. In 2004, she accepted the marketing position at Guerin Catholic.

When she's not coaching, you will find her snow skiing, playing volleyball, and watching men's college basketball.

Trisha Franciosi, Athletes in Action

SQA Trainer

The SQA schedule is currently posted on the Indy Juniors website.

SQA(Strength, Quickness, and Agility) training program that is available to all of our atheletes free of charge.
Indy Juniors teams are spending 3 days a week improving their speed, increasing muscular power, developing more explosive impact and overall becoming stronger volleyball players. Our teams are working this season with Strength & Conditioning Coach, Trish Franciosi, CPT, CSCS, MBA, owner of ATHLETES IN ACTION CO. , a professional fitness & sport consulting company specializing in conditioning athletes, athletic fitness design and program development in school, home and club settings.
Franciosi is a nationally Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist, Personal Fitness Trainer, post rehab conditioning specialist, and group fitness trainer/director.
For 5 years Franciosi coordinated & developed all of the group fitness programming at Life Time Fitness, Indianapolis. She has previously worked with strength & conditioning program development for the Indianapolis Colts, the Indiana Pacers, the Ball State University football team, rugby & men’s volleyball programs as well as with several local area high school athletic programs.
Franciosi, has designed the ultimate training program personalized for the volleyball players at Indy Juniors.

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