Camp Information
What to expect at HP Camp
- Great coaching: the camp is led by USA Volleyball coaches, and camp coaches come from Iowa’s colleges (Div. I, Div. III, and NAIA!), high schools, and volleyball clubs.
- Great volleyball: every player at HP Camp is a great player, so the level of skill in drills and scrimmages will be higher than almost any other camp you have ever been to.
- And if you're attending an overnight camp: Great sleep! You will play a LOT of volleyball every day, so you will be tired!
- Great friends: the connections and friendships developed between players and coaches will last for years to come!
- Great ratio: the coach to player ratio at camp is around 1:4.
2012 HP Camp Schedule (PDF)
Camp Tournament Schedule (PDF)
William Penn Map and Driving Directions (PDF)
June 9-12, 2012--GSEL & GYNT Divisions
William Penn University, Oskaloosa, IA
Cost: $495 (includes room & board, and a t-shirt)
We also ask that you give the Iowa Region a $100 deposit that will be applied toward your travel cost if you make the travel team. You can pay this deposit by check (a separate check from your camp payment), or leave a credit card number. If you make the travel team, the Iowa Region will contact you before cashing your deposit check or running a deposit on a credit card.
June 9-11, 2011--Boys HP Camp
Brochure and Registration information
William Penn University, Oskaloosa, IA
Cost: TBD (includes lodging, meals, and a t-shirt) 2011 HP Camp Coaches
TOM HOGAN
University of Colorado Assistant Coach
U.S. Women's National Team Assistant Coach (2005-2008)
Tom Hogan is in his second season as an assistant at the University of Colorado.
Thomas Hogan completed his fourth campaign as part of the USA Women's Volleyball National Team coaching staff by helping the U.S. to a silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
The U.S. reached the Olympic Games gold-medal match for the first time since 1984, despite many experts believing the team was a long shot among a crowded field of medal contenders. The U.S. settled for the silver medal again in 2008, but handed winner Brazil its only set loss of the entire Games. During the 2008 Olympics Games, Team USA defeated second-ranked Italy, third-ranked Cuba, fifth-ranked Japan and host seventh-ranked China.
As an assistant, Hogan has proved valuable to the program. In 2005, he helped Team USA to a gold medal at the 2005 NORCECA Championships and a silver medal at the World Grand Champions Cup. After a disappointing 2006 season, Team USA won 26 of 37 matches in 2007 and earned 2008 Olympic Games qualification at the FIVB World Cup. In September 2007, Hogan was named the USOC Coach of the Month. He served as the head coach for Team USA at the 2008 Pan American Cup in Mexico, which resulted in the U.S. receiving a berth into the 2009 FIVB World Grand Prix and fifth-place finish with a young roster.
Prior to his role with the women's national team, Hogan served as an assistant coach with the USA Junior National Team in 2004, and was a member of the 2005 JNT team that traveled to Ankara, Turkey, for the 2005 World Championships. The squad won the gold medal at the NORCECA Championships. He was also involved with the USA Youth National A2 Team. Hogan started his USA Volleyball coaching career as an apprentice coach in 2003 working with the USA National Team, the USA National Training Team and the USA Youth National Training Team.
Hogan served as the head coach of the Miami University (Ohio) women's volleyball club team, which won the national championship in 2002 and was a national championship finalist in 2001. He also served as a student assistant with the Miami University women's varsity team.
Hogan graduated from Miami University (Ohio) in 2002 with a bachelor's of arts degree in management information systems and a minor in marketing. He graduated summa cum laude from Xavier University's (Ohio) sports management graduate program in 2004. Hogan married Lindsay DeWall Hogan on July 4, 2009. DeWall Hogan currently works at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs in the media relations department.
Three-time Olympian and Beach Star Jeff Nygaard joins the Iowa HP Camp Staff!
JEFF NYGAARD
University of Southern California Assistant Coach
Jeff Nygaard, has played on the AVP beach tour since 2001, earning AVP MVP honors in 2003 when he and Dain Blanton were named AVP Team of the Year. He has won 7 AVP tourneys and an FIVB event while earning more than $470,000. He captured a beach tourney for 4 consecutive years (2002-05), including an AVP-best 3 victories in 2003.
The 6-8 Nygaard was a middle blocker on the U.S. National Team from 1993 to 2000 and represented the U.S. in 3 Olympics. He was a member of the indoor team at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics and teamed with Blanton on the beach in the 2004 Olympics. He also helped the U.S. win a bronze medal at the 1994 World Championships.
He played on the 1999 and 2001 Los Angeles Athletic Club teams coached by Ferguson that won the U.S. Men's Open national titles.
As a 4-year (1992-95) starter at UCLA, Nygaard was the first collegiate men's player to be named National Player of the Year in 2 consecutive seasons when he did so in 1994 and 1995. He was also the National and Conference Freshman of the Year in 1992. He was a 3-time (1993-95) All-American and All-Conference first teamer. He helped the Bruins to the 1993 NCAA title, setting an NCAA tourney record by hitting .867 in the semifinals and earning NCAA All-Tournament co-MVP honors. In 1994, he set UCLA season records with 650 kills while averaging 6.98 kills per match as the Bruins advanced to the NCAA championship match, where he made the NCAA All-Tourney team. The 1995 UCLA team won the NCAA title while posting a 31-1 record (going undefeated in league play) and he was named NCAA All-Tournament MVP. His 123 career aces set a school record.
He helped La Follette High in Madison (Wisc.) to the 1987 and 1989 state championships and a runner-up finish in 1988.
Nygaard was a volunteer assistant coach with the UCLA men's team for 3 seasons (2002-04). He spent 2009 as an assistant women's coach at Whittier.
He was born on Aug. 3, 1972. He and his wife, Renee, have 2 daughters, Sophia and Elena. 2011 Boy's HP Camp Coach
Sam Shweisky
Princeton University Men's Volleyball Head Coach
Sam Shweisky, whose coaching experience has brought him both throughout the country and overseas, didn't waste any time making an immediate impact as the head coach of the Princeton men's volleyball program. In his first year at the helm, he guided Princeton to its first EIVA final since 1998 and earned the EIVA Bob Sweeney Head Coach of the Year honor during an impressive 2010 season.
Shweisky, who also serves as the assistant coach to Jolie Ward during the women’s season, helped a men's team that lost four starters to graduation to a second-place record in the EIVA regular season, which included four 3-2 home victories. After a victory over Sacred Heart in the quarterfinal, Princeton earned its first semifinal win in 13 years with a 3-1 victory over George Mason. Princeton led eventual NCAA championship finalist Penn State by five points in the opening set before falling to the Eastern power.
Shweisky is only the second head men’s volleyball coach in Princeton history. He replaced the legendary Glenn Nelson, who coached the Tigers as both a club team and, starting in 1997, a varsity program. Nelson took Princeton to the NCAA semifinals in 1998 and won the EIVA championship; in 22 years, it remains the only Eastern crown not won by Penn State.
Shweisky came from Central Florida, where he spent one season as the women’s volleyball assistant. That Knight squad won 15 games and had its best season since 2003.
Prior to his season at UCF, Shweisky was an assistant with UNLV. During his time, the Rebels enjoyed their most successful season in program history in 2007. The team had a program-best 24-6 overall record along with its first Mountain West Conference championship. With the MWC title came the school's first trip the 2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament as well as the program's first national ranking in the CSTV/AVCA Division I Coaches Top 25 Poll. Including the Rebels 20-10 record in 2006, Shweisky was a part of UNLV's only back-to-back 20-win campaigns.
Shweisky also worked as an assistant coach for the USA Red Youth National Team that won the silver medal at the 2008 USA Volleyball High Performance National Championships in Tucson, Ariz. During the summer of 2010, Shweisky was invited to coach at the USA High Performance training camp in Wisconsin Dells with the USA Junior National Boys training group as well as coach in the USA High Performance Championships in Wisconsin Dells with a USA-Continental girls team.
Shweisky also served as an assistant coach for the USA Open women's team that won the silver medal at the Pan-American Maccabiah games in Argentina this past December. After the 2006 collegiate season, he was invited to coach the USA High Performance Select A2 Team at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
A member of the American Volleyball Coaches Association since 2003, Shweisky has received Level I and Level II accreditation through the USA Volleyball Coaching Accreditation Program.
Prior to UNLV, Shweisky was a graduate assistant coach at Miami (Ohio) University for long-time head coach Carolyn Condit. The RedHawks owned a 27-31 record in his two seasons in Oxford. In 2005, the RedHawks posted an 18-13 overall mark and finished Mid-American Conference play with a 9-7 record.
While in Oxford, he was the head coach from 2004-06 for the Borderline VBC 18-under open girls' club team. Shweisky was also the USA's 18-under girls' team head coach at the Maccabiah Games in Israel, in which his squad won the silver medal. From 2003-04, he held the head coaching position for the NYC Juniors 17-under girls' club team and at Friends Seminary High School for the varsity and junior varsity girls' teams.
Shweisky has served as an assistant for the Hudson Valley boys' scholastic team in the Empire State Games (N.Y.) during the summers of 1997-05. From 2001-02, he was an assistant coach at the University of New Haven.
Prior to and during his coaching, Shweisky played for Miami's men's club team (2004-06) and for Vassar College (1998-01). He has played internationally, as well, with The Hajraa Volleyball Club in Holland (2002-03) and for USA in the Maccabiah Games in 2001, 2005 and 2008.
Shweisky was a four-year letterwinner at Vassar College, where he helped his team to the Division III National Championship as a senior. He finished his collegiate career ranked fourth in single-season digs at Vassar, fifth in single-season digs per game and seventh in all-time digs.
A native of New York City, Shweisky earned his bachelor's degree in Hispanic studies and psychology from Vassar in 2001. At Miami, he gained a master's of science degree in sports psychology in 2006. |
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