Coaching Staff


Jeff Reavis – Jeff Reavis enters his fifth season with Gainesville Juniors and fourth as Executive Director. Coach Reavis has guided 3 Gainesville Juniors teams to the USAV Nationals earning one top ten finish. Previous to joining Gainesville Juniors, Coach Reavis was a premier coach with Tampa Bay Juniors and the University of Tampa. He also was the director of the Florida High Performance Program in 2005. In 2007 his 18 Black team finished 13th in the American Division. Coach Reavis is the head varsity coach at Buchholz High School, where they just recently won the Class 6A 2007 State Championship.


Chad Davis – Chad Davis enters his seventh season with Gainesville Juniors and his second as the Director of Coaching. Coach Davis has guided five teams to the USAV Nationals with two teams earning top ten in the nation. His 2001 15 National team finished 9th in the Open Division, the highest finish for any Gainesville Juniors team. In 2007 his 14 Black-National team finished 13th in the American Division. Coach Davis is the varsity assistant coach at Gainesville High School. During his time at GHS, Gainesville reached four consecutive State Final Fours and won the Class 5A State Championship in 2000. Coach Davis is CAP 1 certified.


Josh Crow
Josh completed his second year as Head Volleyball Coach at Bradford High School, and is beginning his third year with Gainesville Juniors. Prior to returning to Gainesville, Josh coached for Phoenix North Valley Volleyball Club in Phoenix Arizona for four seasons and served as the JV coach at North Canyon High School for one season. Josh began his coaching career with a four year run at Naples High School, during which he spent one season with USA South and two with Naples Juniors. Josh has spent each summer of his career coaching various camps and clinics, including UF Gator Camp, and is CAP I certified. Prior to coaching, Josh played club volleyball for The University of Florida.


Joe DeGance

Joe enters his second year of coaching for Gainesville Juniors, after successfully leading the 10U team to the finals of the silver bracket in the 2007 AAU Nationals finishing 10th overall. This is Joe’s third year coaching, he learned to play volleyball on the beaches of South Florida for over ten years. He is a married father of three, two girls and a boy.


Joe Deluca

Joe is the Varsity Head Coach at St Francis Catholic High School. He is entering his fifth year of coaching club volleyball and this is his second year with Gainesville Juniors. Joe has led two teams to USAV Nationals earning two top ten finishes in 12 Club and 13 Club. Joe has also won the Big South National Qualifier in 2006 and 2007. Joe is CAP 1 certified and was named the 2007 Gainesville Sun Coach of the Year for 1A through 3A classifications.


Mary Kate Flynn
Mary Kate played four years at Gainesville High School and was an all-state selection in 2000 helping lead GHS to the State Championship. Mary Kate is in her second year of coaching for Gainesville Juniors, in 2007 she help lead the 14 Black Team to a 13th place finish at USAV Nationals.


Ellie Elliot
This will be Coach Elliott's 8th Season coaching with Gainesville Juniors Volleyball Club. Her coaching career began at P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School in 1999 and through the six seasons she was there she helped to bring about two FHSAA Class 2A State Titles (2000 and 2002) as an Assistant Varsity Coach, and also as a JV and Middle School Coach. Currently, Coach Elliott is pursuing acceptance into Graduate School.


Donald Guynn

This is Donald’s third year with Gainesville juniors and second year head coaching. Donald has also have been the assistant varsity coach for Santa Fe High School for six seasons bringing them four back to back district championship and two elite eight appearances.


Seth Jacobs
Seth is entering his second year of coaching for Gainesville Juniors and first as webmaster. In 2007 he helped lead the 14 Black Team to a 13th place finish at USAV Nationals.


Elyse Cusack
Elyse went to P.K. Yonge High school and played Gainesville Juniors for 6 years, before continuing on to U.F. She is now entering her junior year as a member of the Florida Gator volleyball team. This is Elyse’s first year as a Gainesville Juniors coach.


Paqui Peon
Paqui was born and raised in Miami, Florida. He played and coached volleyball at Miami Sunset Senior High. Paqui has been the Head coach for Gainesville Juniors 17-1 since 2005.


Jenny Neelands
This is Jenny's second season coaching with Gainesville Juniors. Prior to this she spent four years playing volleyball for the University of Connecticut. In her senior season she was a 2nd team All Big East Conference selection. While in Connecticut she spent a year coaching for Husky Juniors volleyball club and spent her summers coaching numerous volleyball camps. Jenny is originally from Gainesville and spent 7 years playing for Gainesville Juniors and 4 years playing at Buchholz High School. In her senior season at Buchholz she was named the Gainesville Sun's big school player of the year, and was a 1st team all-state selection.


Betsy Markham

This will be Betsy’s third year with Gainesville Juniors. Prior to coming to Gainesville to attend UF, she attended UCF and coached with OVA in Orlando. Betsy played 2 yrs of club for OVA along with her high school team and now has been coaching at Buchholz High School for the past 2 years. Currently she will be finishing out her degree in Building Construction in December and then her Master’s degree in the following summer.


Lisa Scott
Lisa spent four years playing as a libero at the collegiate level. She played at Lees McRae College in Banner Elk, NC where she won consecutive conference titles and was ranked nationally for digs per game. She also has experience coaching at several college summer camps. Lisa is the mother of two, Leah 3, Caedance 5 months.


Rochelle Rubeis
This is Rochelle's third year coaching club and her first year coaching with Gainesville Juniors. She is a Gainesville Juniors alum and continued her volleyball career playing for Rollins College before transferring to UCF. Rochelle recently received her B.S. in Psychology and is looking forward to a career in nursing.


Perry McDonald

Perry is originally from Arlington, Virginia. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with Phi Beta Kappa honors from Randolph-Macon College in 1993 and has a Masters degree from the University of Florida in 1995. He has been coaching with Gainesville Juniors since 1998. His teams have qualified for the USAV National Championships four separate times including twice in the Open Division. He is currently the Varsity Head Coach at P.K. Yonge and was named the Gainesville Area Coach of the Year in 1998 and 2003.


Pam Wackel
Pam is a 2001 graduate of the University of Nebraska Lincoln where she played volleyball for four years. She was part of the 2000 National Championship team. She has also coached several high school State Championship volleyball teams. Pam and her husband, Phil live in Gainesville. Phil is employed with Shands Hospital, and Pam teaches 6th grade at Kanapaha Middle School.


April Bass
April is currently a senior at the University of Florida. She graduated from Williston High School in 1997. April played volleyball in high school and continues to play in tournaments all throughout the year. This is her second year as a coach for Gainesville Juniors.


Amanda Robinson
Amanda played club volleyball for OVA and graduated from Timber Creek High School. Her first two years of college she was a setter at Gulf Coast Community College, before transferring to the University of Florida to be a student. Amanda is now a fourth year student at UF and is finishing up her degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders. This is her third year coaching club and second with Gainesville Juniors.


Jackie Viren
Jackie is currently a Biomedical Engineering graduate student at University of Florida. She grew up in Minnesota and played for Minnesota One (M-1). Jackie played college volleyball at Mercer University in Macon, Ga. for 4 years and is currently a member of UF Women's Club Volleyball team. Jackie is the assistant coach at PK Yonge and this is her first year coaching at Gainesville Juniors.

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