Coaches

Kristin Grissom

11 Black Co-Head Coach

13 Black Head Coach

Hayley Alverson

11 Black Co-Head Coach

14 Black Co-Head Coach

Hayley enters her 9th season coaching at NorCal. She is a Bay Area native, attending Saint Francis High School where she was the MVP of the state championships and earned a spot on the national Fab 50 list as a senior. Hayley was a four year student-athlete for the University of the Pacific, earning all-conference and AVCA All-American honors as a setter for the Tigers.

Volleyball has been a driving force in Hayley’s life, inspiring her to contribute to the sport’s community through coaching. She aspires to impart the same core values that shaped her journey – strong work ethic, resiliency, teamwork, and commitment – to her teams.

Outside of NorCal, Hayley works for a digital health start up and spends time with her husband and 3 daughters.

TBD

12 Blue Head Coach

Dana Pineda

12 Blue Assistant Coach

Dana is entering her first season coaching with NorCal and fifth season coaching club volleyball overall. Dana first started playing volleyball at age 10 and instantly fell in love with the sport. She played three seasons of varsity volleyball as a setter at Saint Joseph Notre Dame High School where she led the Tri-County league in assists her junior and senior years. Dana served as co-captain her senior year and also helped the team win their first league championship for the first time ever in 2014. Dana played six seasons of club at Xceleration Volleyball before retiring from playing upon entering college. She loves competing and helping young players grow and find their own success on the court.

Sara Bungarz

12 Black Head Coach

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!

Madi Gonzalez

12 Black Assistant Coach

Darren Hill

13 Blue Head Coach

TBD

13 Blue Assistant Coach

Kristin Grissom

13 Black Head Coach

11 Black Co-Head Coach

MacKenzie Draper

13 Black Assistant Coach

18 Black Assistant Coach

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.

Song Mu

13 Black Assistant Coach

Brian Calimpong

14 White Assistant Coach

15 Blue Head Coach

Joey Chang

14 White Assistant Coach

Mary Torres

14 White Assistant Coach

Bethany Zummo

14 Blue Co-Head Coach

16 Blue Co-Head Coach

Fabricio da Silva Pinto

14 Blue Co-Head Coach

16 Blue Co-Head Coach

Hayley Alverson

14 Black Co-Head Coach

11 Black Co-Head Coach

Hayley enters her 9th season coaching at NorCal. She is a Bay Area native, attending Saint Francis High School where she was the MVP of the state championships and earned a spot on the national Fab 50 list as a senior. Hayley was a four year student-athlete for the University of the Pacific, earning all-conference and AVCA All-American honors as a setter for the Tigers.

Volleyball has been a driving force in Hayley’s life, inspiring her to contribute to the sport’s community through coaching. She aspires to impart the same core values that shaped her journey – strong work ethic, resiliency, teamwork, and commitment – to her teams.

Outside of NorCal, Hayley works for a digital health start up and spends time with her husband and 3 daughters.

Nicole Armato

14 Black Co-Head Coach

16 Black Assistant Coach

Garyn Adams

14 Black Assistant Coach

16 Black Head Coach

Brian Calimpong

15 Blue Head Coach

14 White Head Coach

Krish Brooks

15 Blue Assistant Coach

Albert Ahedo

15 Black Head Coach

Carrie Archer

15 Black Assistant Coach

Carrie is entering her sixth-year of coaching at NorCal Volleyball Club and could not be more excited and proud to do so. She was born and raised in Southern California (GO BLUE!), attended Cerritos High School, and played for Magnum Volleyball Club as an outside hitter and setter. Carrie went on to play at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo as a setter while majoring in Kinesiology. Before Carrie began coaching at NorCal, she spent time as a proud NorCal Mom watching her daughter play for NorCal where she began her career in the Juniors program at just nine years old.

Carrie feels fortunate to be back for another year at NorCal and given the opportunity to coach our high school level players, as well as our youngest NorCal players in the Juniors program. What a privilege to coach our athletes at all levels, help make them better volleyball players, and demonstrate that being part of a team is so much more than just playing volleyball. She looks forward to giving back much of what this sport has given her through the years, on and off the court.

When Carrie is not in the gym, she enjoys spending time with family and visiting her “big kids” in college.

Bethany Zummo

16 Blue Co-Head Coach

14 Blue Co-Head Coach

Fabricio da Silva Pinto

16 Blue Co-Head Coach

14 Blue Co-Head Coach

Garyn Adams

16 Black Head Coach

14 Black Assistant Coach

Nicole Armato

16 Black Assistant Coach

14 Black Co-Head Coach

Sierra Allen

17 Blue Head Coach

Owen Dawson

17 Blue Assistant Coach

Owen started coaching in 2022 as an Assistant Coach for Granada High Schools Boys and Girls Volleyball programs. As a coach, Owen enjoys helping players at all positions have a well-rounded skill set as well as helping with their ability to see what is happening on the court around them in order to make smart decisions and be confident in a variety of situations.

Owen still loves to play volleyball in his free time, mostly playing beach volleyball with friends in the area or traveling to play in tournaments or watch professional competitions with his brother. Owen watches many international indoor and beach volleyball competitions and enjoys learning about evolving strategies used at the highest levels of play.

Jeremy Penaflor

17 Black Head Coach

Jeremy Peñaflor comes to NorCal after a career as a collegiate volleyball coach of over 19 years. Currently a Director in the Club Athletics Department at Saint Mary’s College of California, Penaflor comes by way of Ohlone College, having spent 14 years as head volleyball coach of the Ohlone College Renegades Volleyball program (2008-2022). Prior to joining the Renegades, Penaflor spent four years as a member of the San Jose State University volleyball coaching staff (2002-06) as an assistant coach. His primary areas of focus at San Jose State were setter development, libero and defensive specialists’ development, statistical analysis of individual and team play, and coordination of video analysis and exchange.

Penaflor also has an extensive juniors and club volleyball background. Coming from a long range of comprehensive fundamental training, Penaflor requires his athletes to have the same attention to detail both on and off the court. He expects the members of his teams to be the complete student athletes with successful performances in the classroom and positive, hardworking attitudes on the floor. During the 2008 club season Penaflor was the head coach of the Club Yahoo under-16 team, which finished the season ranked 4th among the Northern California Volleyball Association (NCVA) teams in the under 16s division and qualified for the USA Volleyball Junior Olympic Championships (now Junior National Championships). Penaflor also coached with City Beach Volleyball Club out of Santa Clara. Coaching the 15 Black team during the 2014 club season, he led the girls to a 7th place finish in Northern California in the under 15s division, qualifying them for a USA bid at the Junior National Championships in Minneapolis. Penaflor completed four years as a member of the Club Yahoo coaching staff and five years with City Beach Volleyball Club. He has made four appearances at the USA Volleyball Junior National Championships (2005, 2006, 2008, & 2015).

Having earned his bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology from San Jose State, Penaflor went on to attend California University of Pennsylvania to earn his Masters degree in Sports Management. Penaflor served as Club Director for Ohlone Juniors Volleyball Club for over 10 years, managing multiple teams, players, and families of various age groups.

Prior to his professional career Penaflor was a member of the San Jose State University Men’s Volleyball Club Team. As a student-athlete, he was named to the All-NCCVL First Team (2002, 2004). At the NIRSA National Championship Tournament, he was selected All-Tournament Libero for two tournament appearances (2002, 2003). Penaflor is married to his wife Sarah of 12 years. They have two daughters, Lilly (11yrs) and Vivian (7yrs), attending middle and elementary school, and they also have a pet dog named Ryder (18 months). When not in the world of sports, Penaflor enjoys running, cycling, and having family time in Lake Tahoe or going on family camping trips.

Kayla Coleman

17 Black Assistant Coach

Kayla joins Norcal for her 1st season with NorCal, and 15th season of coaching club volleyball overall.

Kayla was an outside hitter and all league performer at Pitman High School in Turlock, CA. The Turlock native was her league MVP for 2 years in high school. After high school she went to play at Holy Names University in Oakland, CA. Kayla was an outside hitter her freshman year, and then became the starting libero in her last 3 seasons. During her career at HNU, Kayla made the all-conference team all four years and was selected Libero of the year in both her junior and senior seasons.

Her favorite part of coaching is helping players gain confidence and skills that apply to every aspect of life.

Away from volleyball, Kayla is dedicated to her career as a clinical pharmacist and in her free time loves to shop, hike, and play with her boxer puppy, Luna.

Maggie Del Grande

17 Black Assistant Coach

Kevin Kramer

18 Black Head Coach

Kevin Kramer enters his second year with NorCal Volleyball Club after spending 12 seasons as the Head Indoor and Beach Volleyball Coach at Gavilan College in Gilory, CA.

During his tenure with Gavilan, Kramer led the Rams to six Conference Championships on the hardwood, 10 consecutive trips to the CCCAA State Regional Playoffs, and two trips to the California State Championship Tournament. Throughout that span, over 40 players from the indoor and beach volleyball programs signed to play at the four-year level, with over 165 academic awards given to players from the two programs. In Fall of 2018, Kramer was selected as the Northern California Community College Volleyball Coach of the Year, and was recognized as the 2018 AVCA Two-Year College Southwest Region Coach of the Year.

In addition to his time with the indoor program at Gavilan, he also served as the 1st Head Coach for the Gavilan College Beach Volleyball program. During his tenure, the program was represented by at least one pairs team in every State Tournament, was home to the 2017 Northern California Pairs Champions, and qualified for the State Final Four Team Championship in 2018. With Beach Volleyball emerging at the four-year level at this time, Kramer helped place numerous players at the four-year level, with five former players capturing National Championships with their Universities. In his free time, Kevin also served as the Club Director and 18’s coach for Adrenaline/Rush Volleyball Club for the majority of his time in Gilroy, and also served as the President of the California Community College Coaches Association for over five years.

Kramer recently made the tough decision to leave Gavilan College to accept the Dean of Health, Kinesiology and Athletics position at Chabot College in Hayward, where he oversees the Gladiator Athletic Department, and all of the Allied Health programs at the college.

MacKenzie Draper

18 Black Assistant Coach

13 Black Assistant Coach

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.