This is Aaron Dyer’s first year as head coach for the girls volleyball program at Palos Verdes High School.  Aaron is a former varsity player for both volleyball and basketball at the University of Southern California.  While playing at USC, Aaron’s teams earned the 1988 National Championship Men’s Volleyball and 1985 Pac-10 Champion Men's Basketball titles.  He is a native of Ventura, and has lived his entire life in Southern California.  He first coached high school boys' volleyball at Miraleste High School during the 1986 and 1987 seasons.  In addition to playing and coaching, he practices law in Los Angeles, and received his law degree from UCLA.  He and his wife Suzanne have three children, including son Shane, who attends Palos Verdes High School and plays volleyball for PVHS. 

Leanne Weaver is the new Assistant Girl’s Varsity Volleyball Coach at Palos Verdes High School. She grew up in the Midwest and played college volleyball at American International College and at Western Washington University. Leanne took her skills to the beach and competed on the EVP and AVP tour for 5 years. She has been coaching varsity level volleyball for eight years including both girls and boys.  In 2007 she moved to England to support her husband in his volleyball career and has just returned to California. Along with coaching volleyball, she is also a new member of staff at PV High School, teaching Algebra 1 and Algebra 2. Leanne is looking forward to being a part of the PV High family and having a great season with the volleyball team.

Maddison McKibbin is entering his first year as the assistant coach of the Girls Varsity Volleyball Team.  He began coaching this past summer at the Palos Verdes HS volleyball summer camp. Maddison currently attends the University of Southern California and plays on the men’s volleyball team there. Originally from Honolulu, Hawaii he went to Punahou High School. Maddison had a great time coaching this past summer and feels lucky to continue into the fall. He is really excited for this season and thinks that the varsity team can do very well.  

Patrick has been the girls’ Junior Varsity coach for three years.  He also is the head coach of the boys’ varsity volleyball team at Palos Verdes High School. He grew up in Manhattan Beach and played volleyball at IPFW.  In 2001, he played for Team Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain. He teaches Spanish 4-AP and Spanish 3-Honors at PVHS.  Before teaching at PVHS, Patrick taught at Crane High School in Chicago, Illinois.  While there, he started a boys volleyball program and in 1999 the team won the division and city championship. He enjoys coaching and is looking forward to a great season this year with the amazing dedication and talents of PV’s athletes and coaches.  Patrick is committed to building a legacy of Sea King volleyball that the Palos Verdes community can be proud of.

This is Clark's first season coaching the Palos Verdes Girls Junior Varsity team, after assisting with the Boys Volleyball team for the previous two years.  Clark was a member of the first graduating class of the "new" Palos Verdes High School in 2005, during which time he played Varsity Volleyball all three years under Coach Patrick Lynch, and helped lead the team to a league championship.  Clark attended the University of California, San Diego and recently received his master's degree in International Relations from the University of Chicago.  Clark is a native of San Pedro, and having grown up on the beach, has been addicted to volleyball from a very young age.  Clark is looking forward to the opportunity to give back to the school and athletic programs that gave him so much, and feels truly lucky to be working with such an outstanding group of athletes.

Tim is in his first year with the girls volleyball program at Palos Verdes High School.  Last year he coached the F/S boy’s volleyball team.  He has been teaching Physical Education at Palos Verdes Intermediate School for the past two years, where he has also run both the boy’s and girl’s volleyball programs.  He grew up in Massachusetts where he was a stand-out high school springboard diver, and scholarship collegiate diver at the University of Massachusetts.  He started playing indoor volleyball recreationally at UMASS and moved to Hermosa Beach after graduate school to pursue a professional beach volleyball career on the AVP tour.   He has his AAA rating on the beach and is considered one of the most athletic players at the AVP qualifier level.  Tim hopes to teach and coach in PV for the rest of his career and looks forward to building a culture within the volleyball community that competes at the highest level year in and year out.

 After a career in gymnastics culminating with the 1980 Olympic trials, Jim came to Palos Verdes High School from 1981 to 1990 to train athletes from multiple sports.  During that time, he helped a number of teams earn Bay League titles.  Jim was the first U.S. coach invited by the  Romanian Olympic Federation to work in the USSR and he had the opportunity to coach Nadia Comenici while he was there.  He is also very accomplished in the field of martial arts holding national and world championship titles in kickboxing. Coach Mitchell has an impressive resume of preparing athletes for competition at the high school, national, and international level.  He has lived and conducted training programs all over the world, and his extensive sports and coaching background is a tremendous asset to the Palos Verdes girls volleyball program.  Jim Mitchell is pleased to be back home at Palos Verdes High and he is looking forward to helping his volleyball girls achieve success in the 2010 season.