2004 TRI-STATE CAMP INFORMATION

The Tri-State Championship Volleyball Camp is held annually at the end of July at Mediapolis (Iowa) High School, 725 North Northfield, Mediapolis, Iowa..   

This year's camp will be July 26 - 29, 2004.  It is open to any girl who will be in 7th - 12th grade in the fall of 2004.

Where is Mediapolis, Iowa?  Click here to find out.

The camp includes morning and afternoon instruction sessions from a featured clinician, a knowledgeable, enthusiastic camp staff, daily skills competitions, a week-long volleyball league, and free camp t-shirt.  The camp fee is $95.  It is nonrefundable after July 15, 2004.

Click here for 2004 Registration Form     

If you would like a camp registration form, click on the link above.  Or, you may contact camp director Dennis Jandrey - mrveeball@mediapolis.k12.ia.us at 319-385-9453 or Steve Rheinschmidt - stever@scciowa.edu at 319-759-2925.

Monday, July 26

During her tenure at Oral Roberts, Knowles led the Golden Eagles to six consecutive Mid-Continent Conference titles and six NCAA Tournament appearances. Knowles compiled a 143-59 overall record at Oral Roberts and earned Mid-Continent Co-Coach of the year honors in 1998 after leading the Golden Eagles to a 29-6 record. In 2002, Knowles led the team to a 22-11 overall record and to the first round of the NCAA Tournament. She earned Mid-Continent Coach-of-the-Year honors for her efforts in 2002.

Prior to coming to Oral Roberts, Knowles spent the 1996 season as the head coach at Northeastern Illinois University, where the team finished with a 6-28 overall record. There she helped transform the NEIU program, recruiting one of the best classes in the conference for the next year.

She also served as the assistant coach at Oklahoma from 1992-96. In her time there, the OU volleyball team appeared in its first National Invitational Volleyball Championship, finishing third.

The Walnut Grove, Minn., native was a standout volleyball player for Oklahoma from 1987-91. She was selected as the team’s captain in 1992 and was a member of the Big Eight all-conference team that same year.

In her career at OU, Knowles led the Sooners in digs in 1990 and was third in the Big Eight in that same category. She was fifth among OU career leaders for most aces in a game. Knowles was a member of the OU NCAA Elite Eight team in 1988.

Knowles and her husband, Philip have a daughter, Allana. Knowles earned her bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma in 1991 and her master’s of science degree in sport management and behavior from Oklahoma in 1996.

Link to Cyclone Volleyball

Tuesday, July 27

Kent Clayberg is in his second season as head volleyball coach and his seventh year on the Central volleyball staff. He was an assistant coach for four years before being promoted to associate head coach in 2002 and then head coach in 2003.

A 1990 Central graduate, Clayberg previously was an elementary school teacher at Boone, Iowa. He is completing requirements for a master's degree in exercise physiology at Iowa State University and served as a student coach for the Cyclone volleyball team in 1997.

He also has been a head coach for Power Points Volleyball Club. Clayberg is an admission counselor at Central.

Link to Dutch Volleyball

Wednesday, July 28

Coach Woodin is starting her second season leading the Kirkwood program.  She has been involved in playing and coaching college volleyball for the past nine years. A Waverly, Iowa native, she began her higher education at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, then transferred to the University of Northern Iowa for the remainder of her college career.  She played on the 1997 Panthers team, then decided to focus on the coaching and leadership aspects of the game as a student coach and assistant, as well as junior club volleyball coach for the Waverly Volleyball Club.

Following graduation, DeAnn continued to support the UNI team as a volunteer coach for two years, before becoming an assistant coach at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa.  She balanced her Wartburg and her junior club volleyball involvement with employment at a Waverly financial services firm until moving to the Kirkwood head coaching role in April 2003.

DeAnn has proven to be a focused, dedicated, hard-working coach in her young career.  "I look forward to the opportunity to work with talented and motivated players at Kirkwood and throughout my summer camps. I have had the chance to compete with and learn from some of the best players and coaches in Iowa and America.  Nothing would make me happier than to share some of what I have learned with young people, who want to excel in volleyball, school and life."

Link to Eagles Volleyball

Thursday, July

• Skill Competition

• Volleyball Matches

• League Tournament Finals

• Award Ceremony

2004 Tentative Camp Staff

Please Note: This list has not yet been finalized.  The camp staff is subject to change.  

Monday - Wednesday Schedule: