Hartford Volleyball Game Program: October 17 vs. UAlbany by HartfordHawks

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helms

NUMBER 9 POSITION MB HEIGHT 6-2 YEAR JUNIOR MAJOR PSYCHOLOGY HAWKS TIDBIT: A two-time America East Commissioner’s Honor Roll member, Helms is coming off a season-high five-block outing at Binghamton last weekend.

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SCHEDULE DAY DATE OPPONENT

TIME+/RESULT

FRI. 8/27 VS. NORTHEASTERN# SAT. 8/28 AT BOSTON COLLEGE# SAT. 8/28 VS. SACRED HEART# FRI. 9/3 AT YALE$ FRI. 9/3 VS. QUINNIPIAC$ SAT. 9/4 VS. SYRACUSE$ FRI. 9/10 VS. MERRIMACK% SAT. 9/11 AT RHODE ISLAND% SAT. 9/11 VS. RIDER% THUR. 9/16 CENTRAL CONNECTICUT& FRI. 9/17 DARTMOUTH& SAT. 9/18 BROWN& TUES. 9/21 BRYANT SUN. 9/26 AT NEW HAMPSHIRE* FRI. 10/1 NJIT* SUN 10/3 UMBC* FRI. 10/8 AT UALBANY* SUN. 10/10 AT BINGHAMTON* SUN. 10/17 UALBANY* FRI. 10/22 STONY BROOK* SUN. 10/24 NJIT* FRI. 10/29 AT UMBC* SUN. 10/31 AT STONY BROOK* FRI. 11/5 BINGHAMTON* FRI. 11/12 AT NJIT* SUN. 11/14 NEW HAMPSHIRE* FRI. 11/19 AMERICA EAST SEMIFINAL^ SUN. 11/21 AMERICA EAST CHAMPIONSHIP^

L, 0-3 L, 1-3 L, 0-3 L, 0-3 W, 3-2 L, 0-3 W, 3-0 L, 1-3 L, 0-3 L, 0-3 L, 1-3 L, 0-3 L, 1-3 L, 0-3 POSTPONED L, 0-3 L, 0-3 W, 3-1 5 PM 7 PM 3 PM 7 PM 1 PM 7 PM 6 PM 7 PM TBD TBD

RED - HOME GAMES (HARTFORD VOLLEYBALL GYM) + ALL TIMES EASTERN AND ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE * AMERICA EAST CONFERENCE OPPONENT | ^ PLAYED AT THE HIGHEST OVERALL SEED # BOSTON COLLEGE INVITATIONAL | $ YALE INVITATIONAL | % URI INVITATIONAL & HARTFORD HAWKS INVITATIONAL

TONIGHT’S MATCH

Fresh off its first America East win of the season last weekend, Hartford returns home to host UAlbany on Sunday evening.

LAST TIME OUT

The Hawks stormed back from a 1-0 deficit to take down Binghamton, 3-1, last Sunday in Vestal, NY. Freshman Camryn Luginbuhl and junior Maddie Lindsay each registered double figures in kills, finishing with 19 and 13, respectively.

SCOUTING UALBANY

The Great Danes battle New Hampshire on Friday night before heading to West Hartford for Sunday’s match. UAlbany enters the weekend riding a three-game winning streak after taking down Stony Brook, Hartford and NJIT.

Kelly Kamara (2.51 kills per set), Oren Abutbul (2.50) and Danielle Tedesco (2.25) pace a balanced Great Danes’ attack that ranks fourth in the America East with a .177 hitting percentage.

SERIES HISTORY

UAlbany topped Hartford, 3-0, earlier this month (Oct. 8) in Albany, N.Y. Tedesco tallied a game-best 12 kills to pace the Great Danes, while Luginbuhl led the Hawks with her sixth doubledouble of the season on 10 kills and a match-high 16 digs.

SERIES HISTORY

Hartford and UAlbany meet for the second time in a 10-day stretch on Sunday. The Great Danes, who have won each of the past 23 matches against the Hawks dating back to 2010,

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improved to 41-4 in the alltime series with last weekend’s straight-set victory.

HARTFORD’S ACE

Senior Valerie Diede has been a key contributor defensively for the Hawks. Registering a careerhigh seven blocks twice this season, she leads the team and is seventh in the conference with 0.87 blocks per set. The middle blocker has also been on top of her serve game since the start of America East play. In 16 sets, she leads the conference in both service aces (10) and service aces per set (0.63). Diede was impressive in last Sunday’s win at Binghamton, delivering three straight service aces to break open a 19-19 tie and propel the Hawks to the third-set victory.

TOP ROOKIE

Luginbuhl has been one of the league’s top newcomers this season. She has won five weekly awards from the America East this season, including four Rookie of the Week honors (Aug. 31, Sept. 7, Sept. 14, Oct 12) and one Player of the Week distinction (Aug. 31). Luginbuhl’s five awards rank second in program history behind current teammate Maddie Lindsay — an eight-time Rookie of the Week honoree in 2019 — for the most weekly awards accrued by a Hawk freshman.

NEXT ON TAP

The Hawks remain home to host Stony Brook on Friday (Oct. 22). First serve is set for 7 p.m. from the Hartford Volleyball Gym.

AMERICA EAST S T A ND INGS

OVERALL AE W-L PCT W-L PCT

UMBC

10-10 .500

5-0 1.000

UAlbany

7-11 .389

3-1 .750

Stony Brook

8-10

2-2

Binghamton

6-10 .375

New Hampshire

9-9 .500 2-3 .400

Hartford

3-14

NJIT

1-16 .059 0-4 .000

.444

.176

.500

2-2 .500 1-3

.250

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(3-14 OVERALL, 1-3 AMERICA EAST)

# Name

Yr. Pos. Ht.

Hometown/Last School

Kaleigh Fitzgerald

So.

DS/L 5-9

Morgan Galligan

So.

5-10

Canonsburg, Pa./Canon-McMillan

Lika Nkenchor

Jr.

5-10

Ashburn, Va./Flinthill

4 Sophie Paspal

Fr.

6-3

Canton, Mich./Salem

Uzezi Ijoma

So.

5-10

McKenna Reiswig

So.

6-4

Forest Hill, Md./Bel Air

9 Robin Helms

Jr.

6-2

Merced, Calif./El Capitan

11 Valerie Diede

Sr.

6-2

Keizer, Ore./McNary

12 Maddie Lindsay

Jr.

6-3

Lehi, Utah/Lehi

13 Sara Gasparotto

Jr.

6-1

Mansue, Italy/Collegio Brandolini Rota

15 Camryn Luginbuhl

Fr.

6-0

Tolland, Conn./Tolland

19 Alex Lucero

Sr.

DS/L 5-7

Plano, Texas/Plano West

21 Greta De Gasper

Jr.

DS/L 5-10

Wales, Wis./Reading Memorial

Westfield, N.J./Westfield

Colle Umberto, Italy/Liceo Classico G. Marconi

HEAD COACH VINH NGUYEN - Fourth Season - Cal Poly Pomona ’00

ASSISTANT COACHES JAIME SNYDER - Third Season - Suny Brockport ’15 MEGAN ANDERSON - First Season - Hartford ’21

UALBANY GREAT DANES (7-11 OVERALL, 3-1 AMERICA EAST)

# Name

Yr. Pos. Ht.

Hometown/Last School

1 Elaina Wamhoff

Fr.

5-9

LaMoille, Ill./Saint Bede Academy

2 Regan Wright

Sr.

5-11

Houston, Texas/Summer Creek

3 Charlotte Macken

Sr.

DS/L 5-3

Clifton Park, N.Y./Shenendehowa

4 Shynelle Woroniuk

Fr.

6-0 Red Deer, Alberta, Canada/Notre Dame

5 Ellie Benedict

Fr.

5-8

Rochester, N.Y./Our Lady of Mercy

6 Malea Stanton

Jr.

5-9

Culver City, Calif./Mira Costa

7 Cami Eder

R-So. MB

6-2

Rochester, N.Y./Pittsford Sutherland

10 Hannah Rowe

So.

6-1

Saxonburg, Pa./Knoch

11 Noa Brach

Jr.

6-0

Buren, Germany/Pascal Gymnasium

13 Casey Brown

Jr.

DS/OH

6-0

Hendersonville, N.C./West Henderson

14 Kamara Kelly

Jr.

6-0

Jacksonville, Fla./Providence High

16 ShaLi Niu

Sr.

6-1

17 Naliah Grannell

So.

6-0

Hamden, Conn./Hamden

18 Anna Chalupa

Sr.

DS/L 5-3

Overland Park, Kansas/Blue Valley Northwest

19 Delaney Foerster

Fr.

6-0

Eagan, Mich./Eagan

20 Lilou Stegeman

Fr.

6-2

Lutz, Fla./George Steinbrenner

22 Oren Abutbul

Fr.

OPP 6-1

Zichron Yaakov, Israel/Hof HaSharon

23 Danielle Tedesco

Gr.

6-3

Cazenovia, N.Y./Cazenovia

27 Anissia Wong

Fr.

6-3

Blythewood, S.C./Blythewood

29 Grace Cozad

Sr.

5-10

Laie, Hawaii/Kahuku

Vienna, Va./Oakton

HEAD COACH JOSH PICKARD - Third Season - Michigan State ’02

ASSISTANT COACH ADAM ROLLMAN - Third Season - Nebraska ’12 BROOKE KRAHAM - First Season - UAlbany ’11 HARTFORD HAWKS DENNIS FUNG - Fourth Season - UAlbany

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kaleigh

sophie

robin

FITZGERALD

SO | DEFENSIVE SPECIALIST

PASPAL

FR | RIGHT SIDE

HELMS

JR | MIDDLE BLOCKER

morgan

uzezi

valerie

GALLIGAN

SO | SETTER

IJOMA

SO | OUTSIDE HITTER

DIEDE

SR | MIDDLE BLOCKER

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lika

mckenna

maddie

NKENCHOR

JR | RIGHT SIDE/OUTSIDE HITTER

REISWIG

SO | RIGHT SIDE

LINDSAY

JR | OUTSIDE HITTER

HARTFORD HAWKS

sara

13 GASPAROTTO

JR | MIDDLE BLOCKER

camryn

15 LUGINBUHL

FR | OUTSIDE HITTER

VINH NGUYEN HEAD COACH Fourth Season

alex

19 LUCERO

SR | DEFENSIVE SPECIALIST/LIBERO

greta

De GASPER

JR | DEFENSIVE SPECIALIST/LIBERO

JAIME SNYDER ASSISTANT COACH Third Season

MEGAN ANDERSON VOLUNTEER ASSISTANT COACH First Season

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HARTFORD HAWKS 2021-22 Hartford Women's Volleyball Overall Team Statistics All games

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Game Records Overall

3 - 14 AMERICA EAST: 1-3 Team statistics

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1-3

ATTACK Kills Errors Total Attacks Attack Pct Kills/Set SET Assists Attempts Assist Pct Assists/Set SERVE Aces Errors Attempts Serve Pct Aces/Set SERVE RECEPTIONS Errors Errors/Set Attempts Reception Pct DEFENSE Digs Digs/Set BLOCKING Block solo Block Assist Total Blocks Blocks/Set Block Errors Ball handling errors ATTENDANCE Total Dates/Avg Per Date Neutral Site #/Avg Current win streak Home win streak Match wins by #sets Team

Hartford Opponents

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th TOTAL 0 0

0 0

1 10

1 4

1 0

OVERALL:Home3-14

Conference

3 14

HOME: 0-5

•

0-5

Away

2-5 AWAY: 1-5

Points by set Team

Hartford Opponents

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th TOTAL

314 324 344 90 15 424 411 401 141 13

1087 1390

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Neutral

1-4 NEUTRAL: 2-4

HART

OPP

561 351 2058 .102 9.7

734 286 2035 .220 12.7

519 1939 .268 8.9

678 1861 .364 11.7

65 127 983 .871 1.1

98 130 1237 .895 1.7

98 1.7 1129 .913

65 1.1 876 .999

865 14.9

965 16.6

38 155 115.5 2 28 47

30 237 148.5 2.6 12 23

645 5/129 5/28 0 0

931 7/133 -

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2021-22 Hartford Women's Volleyball Overall Individual Statistics All games Game Records Overall

Conference

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1 2 3 4 7 8 9 11 12 13 15 19 21

Fitzgerald, Kaleigh Galligan, Morgan Nkenchor, Lika Paspal, Sophie Ijoma, Uzezi Reiswig, McKenna Helms, Robin Diede, Valerie Lindsay, Maddie Gasparotto, Sara Luginbuhl, Camryn Lucero, Alex De Gaspar, Greta

HARTFORD Opponents

## Player 1 2 3 4 7 8 9 11 12 13 15 19 21 -

HARTFORD Opponents

Home

1-3

Away

0-5

Neutral

2-5

1-4

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Team Box Score ## Player

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58 58 22 45 41 27 57 58 35 8 58 57 56

58 58

58 58 22 45 41 27 57 58 35 8 58 57 56 -

58 58

17-3 17-17 11-0 16-3 15-7 14-1 17-17 17-17 11-9 8-0 17-17 17-0 17-11

17-17 17-17

7 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 5 0 43 22 6 10

98 65

5 25 1 26 57 17 63 58 76 1 224 3 5

561 734

K/S

0.09 0.43 0.05 0.58 1.39 0.63 1.11 1.00 2.17 0.13 3.86 0.05 0.09

9.67 12.66

Attack E 6 9 0 18 50 18 33 36 41 1 137 0 2

351 286

Receptions TA PCT 225 4 0 1 25 0 22 7 78 1 346 346 64 -

1129 876

.969 .750 .000 1.000 .920 .000 .955 .857 .936 1.000 .876 .936 .906 -

.913 .926

43 92 2 108 250 57 216 264 305 8 686 8 19

2058 2035

PCT

-.023 .174 .500 .074 .028 -.018 .139 .083 .115 .000 .127 .375 .158 .102 .220

Dig DIG DIG/S

110 97 5 14 10 2 15 22 32 0 166 279 113 -

865 965

1.90 1.67 0.23 0.31 0.24 0.07 0.26 0.38 0.91 0.00 2.86 4.89 2.02 -

14.91 16.64

9 467 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 10 19 9

Set A/S

0.16 8.05 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.04 0.03 0.03 0.00 0.17 0.33 0.16

519 678

8.95 11.69

0 6 0 1 2 1 11 14 1 0 2 0 0 -

38 30

0 24 0 17 7 9 32 37 11 2 15 0 1 -

155 237

42 1617 2 7 10 4 19 21 15 1 47 118 36

1939 1861

PCT

.214 .289 .000 .000 .000 .000 .105 .095 .067 .000 .213 .161 .250

.268 .364

Blocking TOTAL BLK/S 0 30 0 18 9 10 43 51 12 2 17 0 1 -

115.5 148.5

0.00 0.52 0.00 0.40 0.22 0.37 0.75 0.88 0.34 0.25 0.29 0.00 0.02 -

1.99 2.56

SA/S

Serve SE

65 98

1.12 1.69

127 130

12 7 0 0 0 0 0 13 1 1 15 4 12

0.21 0.12 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.22 0.03 0.13 0.26 0.07 0.21

BHE

28 12

47 23

0 1 1 4 0 2 6 6 0 2 6 0 0 -

0 44 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 -

22 13 12 0 1 0 0 12 5 1 19 19 23

169 144 47 1 7 0 0 113 13 3 160 155 171

983 1237

PCT

.870 .910 .745 1.000 .857 .000 .000 .894 .615 .667 .881 .877 .865 .871 .895

Points PTS PTS/S

17.0 50.0 1.0 35.5 62.5 22.5 90.0 103.5 83.5 3.0 248.5 7.0 17.5 -

741.5 980.5

0.29 0.86 0.05 0.79 1.52 0.83 1.58 1.78 2.39 0.38 4.28 0.12 0.31 -

12.78 16.91

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NGUYEN Entering his fourth season as head coach of the Hartford volleyball team in 2021, Vinh Nguyen has transformed the Hawks into a winning program. Under the brief tutelage of Nguyen — who became the 11th head coach in the 44-year history of the program in February 2018 — the Hawks have become a potent threat in the America East Conference. In just his second season at the helm, Nguyen and the Hawks were on the doorstep of claiming the program’s first-ever NCAA Tournament berth. Earning the program’s first victory in the 2019 America East Tournament with an upset win over No. 2 New Hampshire, Hartford, which posted the most wins since the 2014 campaign, fought top-seeded UAlbany down to the wire in the title match. However, the Hawks fell just short of earning the league’s coveted automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament in five sets. That postseason run was an historic one for Hartford for several reasons, as it also marked the first time in program history that the Hawks qualified for the America East Tournament in back-to-back seasons. In his debut season at Hartford in 2018, Nguyen led the Hawks back to the conference tournament for the first time since 1996, ending a 22-year postseason drought for the program. Hartford also made a five-win improvement that season, posting 11 victories in 2018. Nguyen has brought the Hartford volleyball program to new heights in just three seasons. One year after he piloted the program its first top-four finish in the America East since 1995, he led the Hawks to their best ranking — a third-place finish — in the league standings in 26 years in 2019. In addition, that squad, which went 6-4 in conference play, posted the highest winning percentage (.600) since 1993, a season that saw the Hawks claim both the North Atlantic Conference Regular-Season and Tournament Titles. The 2020-21 season, Nguyen’s third at the helm, was unconventional for the Hawks. In addition to the typical fall season getting moved to the spring of 2021, the campaign was shortened to just 10 matches due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Behind three America East All-Conference performers, Hartford dominated on its home court inside the Hartford Volleyball Gym, posting a perfect 4-0 mark. The winning ways and recent postseason appearances aren’t the only indicators of the success of the program since Nguyen’s arrival. The numbers are also proof of the continued upward trajectory of the Hartford volleyball program. In 2019, Nguyen propelled the Hawks to the top of the America East statistics in nearly every category, both on the offensive and defensive side of the net. Hartford closed the book on one of its best seasons in recent years by finishing as the league’s stat leader in a plethora of offensive categories, including hitting percentage, total kills, kills per set, total aces, aces per set and assists per set. Defensively, Nguyen and the Hawks led the way in solo blocks, digs and digs per set. To go along with all of the team’s successes, Hartford’s players have flourished under Nguyen in his three seasons.

Jenna Bridges, a 2020 graduate who led the league in hitting percentage, kills per set, blocks per set and points per set in 2019, made history that season when she became the first Hawk since 1992 to earn recognition from the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) by earning a spot on the East All-Region Team.

VINH NGUYEN’S CAREER HIGHLIGHTS AMERICA EAST TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES 2018, 2019 AMERICA EAST TOURNAMENT FINALIST 2019 TWO AMERICA EAST PLAYERS OF THE YEAR Jenna Bridges (2018, 2019) AE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR AWARD Maddie Lindsay (2019) AVCA ALL-AMERICAN Jenna Bridges (2019) NINE AMERICA EAST ALL-CONFERENCE Megan Anderson (2x) Jenna Bridges (2x) Abbie Nash (2x) Maddie Lindsay (3x)

In addition, Bridges became the third player in program history — and the first since 1993 — to win America East Player of the Year honors, when she took home the distinction as a junior in 2018. She continued to make history in her final season, as she began Hartford’s first-ever repeat America East Player of the Year honoree after leading the league in five different statistical categories. Garnering an America East and program-record nine America East Player of the Week awards during her four-year career, Bridges went on to graduate as the program’s all-time leader in block assists. Nguyen and his Hawks made program history in several ways in 2019. Maddie Lindsay, a current junior, joined Bridges in earning a major award from the America East. A seven-time Rookie of the Week recipient, she became just the second Hartford player to earn Rookie of the Year honors, joining Stephanie Volkers, who took home the award in 2001. Nguyen has continued to demand excellence in the classroom from his student-athletes. For the ninth straight season, the Hawks took home an AVCA Team Academic Award. Most impressively, Hartford earned AVCA Team Academic Honor Roll distinction for the fourth time in as many seasons in 2020-21, as the squad’s 3.79 GPA was one of the top 46 marks among all Division I volleyball teams. Of the 15 members on the volleyball team last year, 14 student-athletes posted at least a 3.0 GPA during the academic year, with 11 of those Hawks achieving at least a 3.75 GPA. Since Nguyen’s arrival, the Hawks have combined for six America East All-Academic Team members, as 2021 graduate Megan Anderson, a three-time recipient of the award, joins Bridges, Abby Nash (’21) and Lindsay in earning the honor in 2019. Anderson also made program history in Nguyen’s first season by becoming Hartford’s first CoSIDA Academic All-American since 1992. Nguyen arrived at Hartford by way of North Texas, where he spent four seasons as an assistant coach, including three as the women’s volleyball team’s Associate Head Coach from 2015-17. He played an integral role in all aspects of Mean Green volleyball, specializing in the training of the middle and pin hitters, arm swing development and offensive/defensive blocking systems. Nguyen was hired full-time for the Mean Green in 2015 after spending the second half of the 2014 season as a volunteer assistant, helping lead the team into the Conference USA Tournament. The Mean Green had an outstanding year with Nguyen’s guidance in 2017. North Texas captured the CUSA Championship and finished the season with the best record in program history, a 29-3

mark. Nguyen’s expertise translated to individual success as well, as he coached three Mean Green student-athletes to First Team All-CUSA honors and one to Freshman of the Year accolades in 2017. In addition, he guided Carnae Dillard to two CUSA Player of the Year honors and a pair of All-America nods in 2014 and 2015. Nguyen brought 18-plus years of coaching at the collegiate level to North Texas, logging six season as a member of Cal State Fullerton’s coaching staff and 12 as an assistant at Cal Poly Pomona. At Cal State Fullerton, Nguyen reinvigorated the Titans’ offensive attack, as two hitters earned Big West Player of the Year awards and three received AVCA All-American honors. In addition, the squad led the Big West Conference in kills per set (14.45) in 2010 while calculating a school-record .246 team hitting percentage. That season, Nguyen helped propel the Titans to a BWC Championship and the program’s first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance. Nguyen also enjoyed a great deal of success at Cal Poly Pomona, leading the Broncos to 18plus wins in six seasons, including a 24-3 mark in 2005. That year, he also helped Pomona win its first California Collegiate Athletic Association Championship since 1990. Prior to his work at Cal Poly Pomona, Nguyen coached at five high schools in Southern California. He also worked with the San Gabriel, Magnum and Power Volleyball Clubs. Nguyen brings a wealth of experience outside of collegiate coaching to Hartford. In the summer of 2009, he was named the administrator to the Southern California High Performance teams that participated at the USA Championships in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he oversaw the four SCVA HP teams. As a result, the SCVA Select Red Team earned a gold medal at the HP Championships. In 2007, Nguyen was hired by the USA Men’s National Team as a staff member to help them prepare for their run at World League, Pan-Am Cup, America’s Cup and Norceca Cup championships, which resulted in two gold medals, one silver and one bronze medal. He has also been involved with the USA High Performance Pipeline since 2003, and he has coached several development A2 camps throughout Michigan, Colorado, Montana and California. Nguyen played volleyball at Mt. San Antonio College and Long Beach City College before transferring to Long Beach State. He finished his schooling and graduated from Cal Poly Pomona in 2000 with a degree in kinesiology.

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