Pearland Juniors Summer Staff


Beatrice Aguilera
Director
 

Bea founded Pearland Juniors in 2002 and is the Club Director.

She coached the 13 Maroon team in 2002/03.

In 2003/04, Bea coached the 14 Maroon team which won the Junior Olympic Bronze medal in the American Division of the USAV Junior Women's National Championships.

Bea attended the High Performance Coaches Clinic at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. The clinic was taught by Junior and Youth National Team coaches as well as Doug Beal, former USA Men's Olympic Coach and currently Chief Executive Officer for USA Volleyball.

 
Gabi Carbone  

Pearland Juniors is very pleased to welcome Gabriella Carbone to our staff at Pearland Juniors for our Summer Camps. This has been a big year for Gabi, as she just finished her first season as a Division I NCAA coach. Gabi is the newest assistant coach for the University of Houston Cougar volleyball program.

After graduating from UH in spring 2003, Carbone coached volleyball and soccer at Houston Christian High School, leading her soccer team to a third-place finish in the state tournament. She has also coached club volleyball for four years.

As a player for UH head coach Bill Walton in 2000-01, Carbone set records for digs per game with 3.55 and service aces per game with 0.39. She finished her playing career with 756 digs and 74 service aces in 57 matches.

Before coming to the Cougars as a player in 2000, Carbone was a standout at Seward County Community College in Liberal, Kansas. In her junior season she garnered First-Team JUCO All-American honors after averaging 3.25 kills, 3.80 digs and 1.01 digs per game.

At the University of Houston, Coach Carbone is responsible for recruiting, team travel, camps and clinics and on court coaching. 

Chien-Yu Lee  

Chien-Yu Lee has served as volunteer assistant coach and team manager for Rice University since 1997. In addition, he also played on the Rice men’s volleyball club team from 1998 – 2002.

He has participated in many summer camps, including Rice University, University of Houston, Debbie Sokol Camp, Pearland Juniors, Chapelwood Volleyball Camp and Humble High School Camp.

Chien-Yu Lee is currently Advisor and Specialty Coach for Pearland Juniors Volleyball Club.

Damon Nelson  

Coach Nelson has tasted the highest level of USAV competition. Three times he has taken his team to the USAV Junior Olympics. A club coach since 1995, Coach Nelson also has UIL experience. His Bellaire High School Junior Varsity teams were district champions in 2001 and 2002, and district tri-champions in 2003.

Watching Coach Nelson on the court, his strong belief in fundamental technique quickly become apparent. Simply running drills is not productive unless the drills are run properly; doing the wrong thing over and over is not much help. Building on fundamental skills, Coach Nelson's specializations are team defense, individual defense, passing and setting.

Coach Nelson has over ten years of summer volleyball camp experience including stints with Texas Southern University, Southwest Texas State University, Bellaire High School, Memorial High School. He has been Head Court Coach at the Debbie Sokol Volleyball camps since 1995.

LaToya Terry  

LaToya Terry is heading closer to home. Having just finished her sophomore year in at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, this Pearland High School graduate will be pounding the volleyball on the courts of Houston Baptist University this Fall. "I am working towards a double major in International Business and Criminal Justice."

The 5'11 Middle Blocker, also played Outside Hitter and Right Side Hitter for MSU. Here's LaToya's 2004 season preview from the MSU press guide. "Terry is an extremely talented athlete that started in all 33 matches of her freshmen season. She is very good close to the net as evidenced by the fact she finished fourth on the team in kills and second in total blocks her freshman campaign." In her sophomore season, LaToya finished fourth in kills, third in service aces per game and second in blocks for the Lady Indians.

At Pearland, LaToya played for Coach John Turner, and served as a captain her senior year. She also played club volleyball for two years with Club Texas.

Coach Terry has experience at numerous summer camps, including high school camps at Pearland, Clear Lake and Clear Brook.