California Volleyball Club

Shane Beatty, 18-1 Head Coach

• Coached CA Volley 16-1 in 2024 and 17-1 in 2025
• Currently Head Coach, Assistant AD and Head of the International Business Program at Fairmont Preparatory Academy
• Previously Head Coach at St. John Bosco High School
• Coached Team Rockstar to a 15U National Championship in 2018
• Coached collegiately at Holy Names University and Long Beach City College
• Played collegiate volleyball as a Setter at Hope International University
• Won USAV Open National Championship as a player

Shawn Patchell, 17-1 Head Coach

• Over the past two decades, Patchell has accumulated a 230-145-1 record as an NCAA head coach.​​​
• Served as the head coach at Concordia from 2013-21. During that time, he helped elevate the program from NAIA to NCAA Division II status. Once elevated, Patchell’s teams at Concordia earned national rankings, collected landmark victories over ranked teams and established CUI as a team that competed at the highest level against opponents from Division I schools.
  During his time at CUI, he coached the school’s first first-team All-league honorees, including athletes who earned AVCA All-America Honorable Mention honors. He also led CUI to a second-straight NAIA National Conference Championship appearance at the NAIA National Invitational. He was voted NAIA National Conference Coach of the Year and coached two NAIA All-Americans.
• He was the head coach at NCAA DI powerhouse Brigham Young University from 2006-2010. He was an assistant with the Cougars from 2002-2006, including the team’s two MPSF championships in 2003 & 2004, and the NCAA National Champions in 2004.
• Patchell’s involvement with USA Volleyball is extensive as well. He was the head coach of the Men’s National Team in the spring of 2012 at the Pan American Games in the Dominican Republic where they won the gold medal. He worked as an assistant with the Men’s National Team in 2011 and 2010 and was the head coach of the Boy’s Junior National Team in 2009 and head coach of the Boy’s Youth National Team in 2008, where they took a bronze medal at the NORCECA Zone Championships in San Salvador, El Salvador. He coached the Pan Am team again in 2013 in Mexico City.
• Patchell began his coaching career in 1994 as an assistant coach at Irvine High School, and was the head coach at Laguna Beach High School from 1997-2002. His boys’ team won the Pacific Coast League in 1997 and 1998, and the girls won the conference in 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2019, 2020 and 2021. Patchell’s collegiate coaching career began in 1995 as a graduate assistant at UC Irvine.
• A member of BYU’s first NCAA men’s volleyball team, Patchell was a starter all four years during his tenure in Provo. He went on to play professionally in Spain on the indoor and sand volleyball circuits before returning to the states and beginning his coaching career in 1993.  He has also coached club volleyball since 2009.
• Shawn and his wife Davis have four children: Jordan, Sage, Soren and Kai.

Alejandro De Mendoza, 16-1 Head Coach

• California Volleyball Club Coach 2022-2025
• Momentous Volleyball Club Coach and Club Director
• Arcadia HS – helped lead both the FS & Varsity team to their most successful seasons
• Capistrano Valley HS: Freshmen Coach Boys and Girls program 
• Estancia HS: Boys Varsity Head Coach
• Estancia HS: Girls Varsity Head Coach
• Playing Experience
  • All CIF player at Arcadia High School
  • State Champion at Orange Coast College
  • Played collegiate volleyball at Limestone College

Kristen Markowitz, 14-1 Head Coach

Kristen has 15 years of club volleyball coaching experience. She grew up in San Diego and started playing volleyball at 13 years old. Played for Epic Volleyball Club, Westview High School, Lee University in Tennessee, and Vanguard University of Southern California. 

COACHING EXPERIENCE:

2021-Current Momentous Volleyball club 13’s, 15’s, and 18’s. With multiple teams at National appearances

2012-2021 Orange County Volleyball Club 14’s & 16’s with multiple national championship appearances

2024 Red Hat Games coaching staff

PLAYING EXPERIENCE:

​Lee University:

• 3rd place finish at Nationals 2009 and 2010
• 2009 & 2010 Conference champions
• 2009 Character award

Vanguard University of Southern California:

• 2011 NAIA 5th at Nationals

Westview High School:

• 2007 and 2008 CIF champions
• 2007 offensive player of the year award