Admin/Staff

Meg Herr

Club Director, Girls Program Director, Board Member

Jamie Hadenfeldt

Assistant Club Director, Recruiting Coordinator, Board Member

As Jamie enter her sixteenth season as a coach, she is excited to call NorCal her home for the sixth straight year. She was a three sport athlete at Benicia HS and chose to play volleyball in college at UConn where she majored in Molecular and Cell Biology. As a Husky she was awarded Team MVP, All-Big East Team, AVCA All-Region Team, The Iron Husky Award and Scholar Athlete honors. Sports helped to shape the person she is today. It is these invaluable life lessons – self-confidence, team work, commitment, goal setting and respect – that she hopes to imbue to all the athletes and coaches that she works with at NorCal. While not at NorCal she can be found on staff at Monte Vista High School or chasing her two dogs, Mister Pepper and Dash.

Sara Bungarz

Juniors Program Director, Board Member

The 2021-2022 season will be Sara’s 15th season with NorCal volleyball club. Sara has primarily been our 12 Black coach over the past 14 seasons but has also coached our 13 Black team a handful of times. Sara is a Bay Area native, growing up in Castro Valley where she attended Moreau Catholic High School. After Moreau, Sara continued her volleyball career as a setter at Chabot College and Menlo College where her Oaks squad won back-to-back Cal Pac Championships. Sara has always had a love for coaching. She coached CYO volleyball at Our Lady of Grace from 1999-2008 and has been at NorCal since 2006. One of Sara’s favorite parts of coaching is watching the girls develop over the years. It is especially fun for her when her former players come back to coach or help out with her teams at NorCal. When Sara is not coaching, she is busy working for Yahoo!, cheering on the Bay Area Sports teams and enjoying spending time with her brand new twin niece and nephew. Sara is so pumped for this upcoming season and loves her home away from home- NorCal!

Nathan Loewke

Boys Program Director, Board Member

Nathan Loewke started his playing career at MVHS and DVVC, played club at UCLA while earning his B.S. in mechanical engineering, then played club at Stanford while earning his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering. In 2013 he joined MVVC’s coaching staff, where he helped his players earn 17-USA bronze and 18-Open gold medals at USAV BJNCs, as well as earning three top-five finishes. He then joined NorCal’s coaching staff in 2021, helped two of their teams earn top-five finishes at USAV BJNCs, and became their Boys Program Director in 2022. In his free time he likes spending time with his family, playing pick-up sand games, restoring his old truck, and woodworking.

Stacey Navarro

Board Member

Stacey Navarro is returning to NorCal for her eleventh season, but this time as a board member. Stacey is passionate about the sport which has led her to many opportunities. From 2005-2012 Stacey played professionally in Europe and on the Great Britain Women’s Volleyball team. She played for St. Mary’s College from 2001-2004 and graduated in 2005 receiving a BA in Communication. Stacey helped develop volleyball in England and Northern Ireland through Podium Projects, GoSpike, and Adopt An Olympian. She enjoys being involved with youth sports because it instills confidence and self-belief in athletes. In her free time, Stacey likes to be outside running, hiking, and playing with her kids.

MacKenzie Draper

Social Media Coordinator

MacKenzie returns to NorCal for her 4th year of coaching. Involved with both our girls and boys programs, she’s excited for what the 2022 indoor season has to offer. She played for NorCal as a Libero, then converted to setter in high school. She then won two national titles with Cal Poly’s Women’s Club team as the starting setter. MacKenzie has a passion for coaching and pushing the potential for each player she mentors. She looks to her players to find small victories within their game – to build on their abilities both physically and mentally by putting their best foot forward every time they step on the court.

Jose Aguayo

Athletic Performance Coach

Jose is a premier fitness and sports performance coach. His clientele range broadly from 12-year-old novices to collegiate student-athletes to professional, adult athletes. In addition to running SmartFit360, which is integrated into NorCal’s girls and boys programs, he’s also managed various training facilities and helps host performance clinics, such as Nike SPARQ. Jose also works with weight loss-focused clients, and has helped Endocrinology clinics with diabetic and obese patients as a clinical exercise physiologist. His passion is to motivate, educate, and empower his clients to achieve their fitness and performance goals through safe and fun workouts. Jose holds numerous certifications, including from the NSCA (strength and conditioning), the USAWL1 (weight lifting), precision nutrition, self myofascial release techniques (Levels 1 and 2), and CF-L1 (cross-fit).