2025-26 Season
Meet Our Coaches

Palmetto Strikers is extremely proud of its coaching staff, and our ability to provide our players with the most experienced staff in the area. Our coaches have Olympic, National, University, and College level coaching experience. Made up of multiple high school head coaches, former collegiate coaches, long time JO coaches, and an amazing group of talented young coaches, you will not find a better roster of great talent. All coaches are background screened, Impact and Safe Sport certified, and are active members of the Positive Coaching Alliance, Art of Coaching, and American Volleyball Coaches Association. To see a coaches bio click their name/level link.   All coaches listed are currently active.  Coaching assignments are subject to change.

Note: On a mobile device you may need to swipe left/right to see all the coaches in each row.

Recruiting Coaches
Dani Aquino Recruiting Coordinator	Amir Khaledi Recruiting Liaison
; Specialty Coaches
Jay Watterworth Positional Coach	Claire Smith Positional Coach Setters	Bethany White Positional Coach Hitters & Passers
Team Coaches
Josh Kaufman Boys 18U Head Coach	TBA Boys 16U Head Coach
Louise Hazel Boys 18U Assistant Coach	TBA Boys 16U Assistant Coach
Amir Khaledi 17 National Head Coach	Dani Aquino 17/18 Power Head Coach
TBA 17 National Assistant Coach	Dan Owens 17/18 Power Assistant Coach
Valarie Cruz 16 National Head Coach	Zuri Fenderson 16-2 Head Coach
Wendy King 16 National Assistant Coach	Lyric Scott 16-2 Assistant Coach
Jay Watterworth 15 National Head Coach	Maya Wright  15-2 Head Coach
Sabina Wang 15 National Assistant Coach	Katelyn Shindler 15-2 Assistant Coach
Christi Crawford 14-1 Head Coach	AndriaO'Dell 14-2 Head Coach	Lauryn Unger 14-3 Head Coach
Sheena Lanham 14-1 Assistant Coach	Reagan Eppes 14-2 Assistant Coach	Abby Kothera 14-3 Assistant Coach
Jamaica Parker 13-1 Head Coach	Jim McClellan 13-2 Head Coach	Heidi (Anderson) Verran 13-3 Head Coach
Dyanna Guerero 13-1 Assistant Coach	Keelie Britt 13-2 Assistant Coach	Julia Mabe 13-3 Assistant Coach
Mary Jo Stemple 12-1 Head Coach	Lindsay McConnell 12-2 Head Coach	TBA 12-3 Head Coach
TBA 12-1 Assistant Coach	Amy Marston 12-2 Assistant Coach	Jamiya Borden 12-3 Assistant Coach