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Tulsa Volleyball Academy - Tradition Starts Today

 

Tulsa Volleyball Academy Coaching Staff

We are confident that our coaching staff can help our players learn and grow in the sport. We offer a positive environment focused on teaching technical skills and helping a player become the best player they can be. We foster the personal development of our players. Participation in group sports provides opportunities to learn life skills that will serve players throughout their life. Our coaches take their role in the players' personal development seriously and manage their teams to develop responsible team players with positive mental attitudes. 


4 of our coaches have played collegiate and/or professional volleyball and 2 are USAV CAP I certified.

Team assignments are made prior to tryouts, however, the assignments are subject to change.

 

Coach Inna Felkins Teams 13-1 and 15-1

Head Coach Inna brings over 25 years of playing experience to her coaching. At 12 she started attending the Special Olympic
Reserve school and completed her high school education there. She played volleyball in college and graduated from The Teachers Training State Institute of the Ukraine in 1988 where she was awarded a Diploma of the Specialist after passing the state exams for Theory and Methods of Physical Education and Pedagogics.


Coach Felkins then became a professional player. She played for the Ukraine from 1990-1994 and for Team Kalarevas in Belgrad, Yugoslavia from 1994-1995.
Coach Felkins coached for over 8 years in Europe. She was offered a coaching position with the Junior Olympic teams at the Olympic
Training Facility in the Ukraine before she decided to marry and move to the US. She is now a US citizen.

 
She has coached for several schools and clubs in the Tulsa area since moving to Tulsa including Cascia Hall where she has been the JV coach for the 2006 and 2007 seasons.

 

Inna is currently coaching Middle School and High School Volleyball at Holland Hall.

2007/2008 was her 6th season to coach club in the Tulsa area. Coach Felkins has completed CAP I certification (Coaching Accreditation Program) requirements.
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Coach Ronaldo Pacheco  Team 15-1

Coaching Experience:

2007 - Miami University

2007 - Talawanda High School

Head Coach:

2005 Club Jundiai, Men's Volleyball Team

2002 Melhoramentos, Men's Volleyball Team

2002 Club Melhoramentos, Women's Junior Volleyball Team

Professional Player in Brazil/Argentina 1983 - 2001

Experiences playing for the Brazilian National Team:

World Cup Championship, Italy, 1989

Junior World Championship, Greece, 1989

Mondo Volley, Italy, 1988

South America Junior Championship, Venezuela 1988

World Junior Championship, Bahrein (Africa) 1987

South America Junior Championship, Brazil, 1986

Coach Teresa Wynn  Team 14-1

Coach Teresa played high school volleyball in Nebraska and was a Nebraska High School All-Star player. She played Womens USAV club volleyball for 6 years and was on a USAV National Team.


Coach Teresa played collegiate volleyball at ORU and Texas State University. She was a high school volleyball official for 10 years and a college volleyball official for 5 years. She gave private lessons at Velocity for 2 years.  She was the Head Coach at Lincoln Christian School for 2 years.

This is her 4th season with TVA. Teresa has completed CAP I certification (Coaching Accreditation Program) requirements.

 

Coach Germana Hilario Team 14-1

2005/06 AS A JUNIOR:
-Played in 103 games, including all 31 matches, with 23 starts.
-Ranked second on the team with a 2.93 kills per game average.
-Also ranked second on the squad with 302 kills recorded, a season-best 19 kills against Utah State.
-Named MVP of the Loyola Invitational.
-Led the team in kills seven times.
-Had 15 double-figure kill performances.
-Posted a season-best hitting percentage with a .529 percentage against North Texas.
-Set season-highs for points (24.0) and digs (8) against Loyola.
-Reached double-figures in points in 20 matches, including three with 20-points or more.
-Recorded a season-best five aces against UAB.
-Also had a season-high three assists aginst UMKC.
06/07 AS A SENIOR:
-Season Record of 27-7.

Germana is in her 3rd season as a coach for TVA.

Coach Courtney Coleman  Conditioning Coach

-Head Strength and Conditioning Coach for the top-rated Nebraska Volleyball Team for 8 years (1996 - 2004).
-First female in University of Nebraska's history to be named Full-Time Strength and Conditioning Coach.
-Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
-Strength and Conditioning Coach Certified through Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association.
-Bachelor's of Science in Exercise Science (Nebraska).
Master of Physical Education in Exercise Physiology with Minor in Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics (Nebraska).
Contributed Volleyball-Specific portion of two chapters (Creating Conditioning Drills and Designing and Periodizing Workout and Training) to High Performance Sports Conditioning Book by Human Kinetics.
Here's what John Cook, the University of Nebraska Head Volleyball Coach had to say about our new conditioning coach:
"Courtney was instrumental in developing the Husker Power Volleyball Program during her 8 years at Nebraska. Our players and team continued to improve their vertical jumps and quickness each year that she ran the program. When people watch the Nebraska Volleyball Team they know that they are the best conditioned team in the country."
Boyd Epley, known as the "Godfather" of strength and conditioning, said the following of Courtney:
"Courtney Coleman is one of the top strength coaches in the country and was the first female full-time strength coach in Nebraska history."
In the 1970's Boyd founded the NSCA. (National Strength & Conditioning Association)

Coach Peter Velet Team 13-1

Peter is in his 2nd year with Tulsa Volleyball Academy.

- Coached TVA 12's Team for 2 years

- Coached TVA 14's Team for 2 years

- Assistant Coach TVA 15's, 16's, & 18's

- Played two seasons of Men coed power volleyball

- Played Mens doubles and coed volleyball for 3 summer  leagues

- TVA Conditioning Coach for ages 12's, 14's, 15's, & 18's