After a baseball injury forced Coach Will to leave college and join the United States Navy, he began to play beach volleyball at the Naval Base in Virginia Beach.  Coach Will played for the All Navy Men’s Volleyball Team from 2005 until 2012.  After being transferred to Mayport Naval Station Jacksonville in 2009, Coach Will began to coach club volleyball and has continued to do so ever since.  When not coaching club, Coach Will continues to hone his coaching skills by coaching high school varsity volleyball.  Recently, Coach Will has come full circle as the coach of the All Navy Men’s Volleyball Team in 2017 and 2018.  For the 2017-2018 Club Season, Coach Will’s U14s team placed 5th at the AAU National Volleyball Championship and 10th in the USA division of the Girls’ Junior National Championship for USA Volleyball.  Never tiring of the game, when not coaching you will find Coach Will (and Coach Gil) at the beach, where they … of course … are playing beach volleyball.

In addition to his over thirty years of experience coaching Volleyball, playing volleyball since the age 10 indoor and outdoors, and coaching volleyball at the collegiate level since he was 20, Coach Rico has also done a few other things including: attending Corpsman and Field Medic Service School (FMSS); serving in the U.S. Navy; working as a Phlebotomist; working as a Programmer/Analyst, Health-Screen America, Software Developer, Warehouse Management Systems Inc., Assistant Volleyball Coach, Florida Community College of Jacksonville, High School Teacher, SharePoint Administrater, and Data Analysis utilizing PowerBI, MS Flow, and MS PowerApps Programming. Coach Rico’s proudest moment in his volleyball career was when he took his U12 team to USAV Nationals and won the national title without dropping a single match.

John Goings started his volleyball career playing for his high school in Columbus, Ohio. After joining the Navy he tried out for the All-Navy Team (made it) and played for the Navy 14 of his 26-year Naval career. During the years he did not play for the Navy you could find him traveling and playing beach volleyball in many of the Pro/Semi-Pro volleyball tours throughout The United States. 

During this time John played in the CISM World Championships 2 times on the indoor stage (USA/Canada) and once on the beach (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil representing the USA Armed Forces! 

If you have any questions, you know where to find him (in the gym) coaching and spreading his knowledge back to these young Athletes!! (Because he’s too old to play now lol) 

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Coming from a competitive swim background, Coach Hayley fell in love with volleyball and never looked back. In high school, she played locally for a national team and Creekside High School where she was recognized with numerous accolades including St Johns County Player of the Year in 2011 and competed in the state final four.  Hayley played college volleyball at Florida International University where she majored in international business.

Following college, Hayley returned to Jacksonville for work and was fortunate enough to get an opportunity to coach for her alma mater, Creekside High School where she has been since 2015. In addition to coaching high school, Hayley has been coaching club since 2015, and found her home at OTVA Jax in 2019.

She loves the camaraderie and the competitive nature that OTVA offers its athletes as well as the support from her fellow coaches. It is a learning-based environment that truly trains the athletes for the next level through self-sufficiency, volleyball-IQ, and skill development.

Hayley has been married to her husband, Jared, since 2019 and they have 3 dogs. A chihuahua named Daisy, a Great Dane named Jack, and another Great Dane named Zander. They love to travel and eat good food!

Michelle Sciullo is from Jacksonville Fl. She attended high school at Paxon School for Advance Studies. She was the first volleyball player to be part of that program to get a scholarship and play college volleyball. She went on the play three years of college volleyball. She moved back to Jacksonville in 2014 when she started coaching travel volleyball. This is her second year coaching for OTVA Jacksonville. She also is the assistant varsity coach at Bolles high school. 

Coach Tyler started playing volleyball at the age of 13 for a local middle school in St. Augustine, Florida. With no boys volleyball at the high school level in St. Johns County at the time, Tyler decided to try out for the Jacksonville Juniors Volleyball Association Boys Program. He then went on to play for that club for three and a half years where he was trained as a setter and Outside Hitter. In this time his team won many titles but if you ask him, he will tell you his greatest memory from club volleyball was seeing his team go from losing every game his freshman year to finishing 3rd in the state & 5th on the East Coast to cap off senior year. 

After an injury derailed his colligate career, Tyler decided he was not going to give up on the game he fell in love with; he was going to put his knowledge and passion for the game into a coach’s role.  
Coach Tyler started coaching volleyball at the club and high school level immediately after high school graduation in 2018 and has not taken a season off since.  

At the Club level, Tyler has coached for Old City Volleyball Club (2017), Jacksonville Juniors Volleyball Association (2018-2021), and is now currently a part of OTVA Jacksonville.  
At the High School level, Tyler has coached for St. Augustine High school (2018-2021) and earned 2 district titles with them. This past season, Tyler coached for Creekside High School where they earned a district title and a regional appearance. 

If Tyler is not in the gym coaching, you can most likely catch him in a different gym playing. If he’s not surrounded by volleyball, he loves to surround himself with friends, family, and good coffee!

Coach Madilyn started playing volleyball in the 5th grade and club volleyball for Illini Elite in Bloomington, illinois in the 9th grade. Madilyn played 1 year of indoor volleyball at Winthrop university where she was 5 time freshman of the week before transferring to the university of north Florida. She finished her 3 years of indoor and also competed on the beach team finishing with a .603 win percentage. After college, Madilyn got a full time job as an accountant at XV enterprises which kept her in Jacksonville. In addition, she has been the Head Coach of the Covenant School of Jacksonville for two seasons. Madilyn still competes in beach and grass volleyball tournaments.

Tori started her volleyball career in middle school where she quickly fell in love with the sport. Her passion and ability led her to play four years of high school varsity volleyball and afforded her a full-ride scholarship to play Division 1 volleyball at the University of New Hampshire (UNH).

COLLEGIATE ACCOLADES: During her tenure at UNH, Tori was fortunate enough to play all four years as a six-rotation outside hitter. Tori served as the team’s co-captain for two seasons (2014, 2015) and helped lead her team to 3 consecutive America East Conference Championships and NCAA tournament bids, making school history. While playing at UNH, Tori also served on the leadership board for Athlete’s Intervarsity and as the head coach for Seacoast Volleyball Club 13’s team where her team won the 2015 New England Regional Championship.

• American East Conference Champion/NCAA Tournament Bids (2013, 2014, 2015)
• Most Outstanding Player America East Championship (2015, 2016)
• NCAA Woman of the Year Nominee (2015)
• UNH Volleyball Co-captain (2014, 2015)
• 1,000 Career Kills (2015)
• 1,000 Career Digs (2015)
• America East Scholar Athlete of the Year (2014)
• America East All-Conference First Team (2013, 2014, 2015)
• America East All-Academic Team (2013, 2014, 2015)
• America East Commissioner's Honor Roll (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
• America East All-Rookie Team (2012)
• America East Player of the Week (2013, 2014, 2015)
• America East Rookie of the Week (2012)
• Chi Alpha Sigma Honor Society: National College Athlete Honor Society (2015, 2016)
• University of New Hampshire Dean’s List (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
• Paul College of Business and Economics Honors in Major Program
• Paul College of Business and Economics Female Student of the Year Award (2016) 

BEFORE UNH: Tori played at North Cobb High School where she was a two-time 5-AAAAA All-Area Player of the Year, setting six school records and two state records. An All-America candidate, Tori helped her team reach the state Final Four for just the second time in program history. She was also selected to the All-Region Team, was named to the All-State team, and was a two-time Most Outstanding Player.

PERSONAL: At UNH, Tori double majored in Business Management and Accounting. Immediately following graduation, Tori pursued a career in Big 4 public accounting for five years and now works in Operations and Project Management. When not coaching volleyball, Tori enjoys spending time with her husband (Anthony), daughter (Eleanor), dogs (Jelly and Moose), family and friends.

Coach Stephen didn’t start out playing volleyball. He was an elite gymnast and played baseball, he even dabbled in soccer and track until he stumbled upon volleyball. In his senior year of high school, he became the manager for his high school and hasn’t stopped coaching or playing since.

Stephen coached for Middleburg high school for 8 years where they made 2 final four appearances. Head coached for lakeside junior high where he lead 2 undefeated seasons, never dropping a set. Currently, Stephen is coaching at Ridgeview volleyball where he’s been a part of 6 consecutive district titles. This past season, Stephen took over the program and lead the team to a 7th consecutive district title as well as the program's first elite 8 appearance.

Stephen has been coaching for clubs in Orange park for the past 13 years. Started at BCVC then made his way to North Florida pirates until he assisted in the start-up of 904 where he was the Co-director and coached the national teams for 4 years. Now Stephen has found his home at OT Jax!