Meet the Coaches
JD Malone
Club Director & Head Coach
JD has been playing volleyball since 1994 and coaching since 2005.
He has a number of professional certifications including: NASM Certified Personal Trainer, NASM Corrective Exercise Specialist, NASM Fitness Nutrition Specialist, NASM Mental Toughness Coach, USA Volleyball CAP I, USA Volleyball Impact Certification, USA Volleyball Safe Sport Certification and Positive Coaching Alliance Level 2 Double Goal Coach.
Professional Experience
- Assistant Coach at Warner University
- Gold Medal Squared Volleyball Camp Coach since 2014
- Apprentice Coach for 2012 NORCECA Gold Medal USA Men's Junior National Team
- USA Volleyball High Performance Camp Coach & Tryout Evaluator
- USA Sitting Volleyball Program Coach
- U.S. Military Sitting Volleyball Clinician
- Nike Volleyball Camp Organizer and Coach
- No Limits Volleyball Strength and Conditioning Coach
- Rocky Mountain State Games Indoor Volleyball Tournament Assistant Director
- Lead Coach for Big House Intramural Program (skill development program)
- National Ability Center International Education Staff Lead Coach Sitting Volleyball
- Head Coach of skills development for Sundance Mountain Athletic Center
- Florida Region Indoor High Performance Select Team First Assistant Coach
Christy Curtis
Assistant Club Director & Associate Coach
Christy has been coaching for over 20 years. She is the Director of Volleyball, Varsity Head Coach at Bishop Verot High School. She was also a collegiate volleyball player and has been coaching with Florida Conquer Volleyball since 2016.
Mike Curtis
Associate Coach
Mike has over 25 years of athletic coaching experience in a variety of sports. He is the JV Head Coach at Bishop Verot High School. He also runs a college recruiting service called MC Recruits. He has been coaching with Florida Conquer Volleyball since 2017.
Meghan Camerata
Associate Coach
Meghan started playing volleyball in 2010, for both school and club teams. She moved from Ohio to Florida and continued playing club volleyball at FGCU. She has been coaching with Florida Conquer Volleyball since 2022.
Roxanne Miniuk
Associate Coach
Roxanne started playing volleyball in 2003 and continues to play as an adult. She started coaching in 2020 and has coached JV volleyball at Gateway High School. Currently, she is the JV Head Coach at Southwest Florida Christian Academy. She has been coaching with Florida Conquer Volleyball since 2022.
Greg Aydelotte
Associate Coach
Greg has played volleyball since 2005. He went on to play volleyball in college and, shortly after graduation, became the head coach for a high school varsity volleyball team in NJ where he is from. He is the Freshman Volleyball Team Head Coach at Bishop Verot High School. He has been coaching with Florida Conquer Volleyball since 2022.
Brad Bender
Associate Coach & Developmental League Head Coach
Brad has been coaching for over 30 years and had a playing career that started at Fort Wayne Volleyball Club. Over his coaching tenure, he has qualified 6 teams for USA Volleyball Nationals. He also coached for USA Volleyball Florida Region High Performance. He has been coaching with Florida Conquer Volleyball since 2021.
Katlynn Costello
Associate Coach
Katlynn has been playing volleyball since 2012. She is the high school volleyball team Assistant Coach at Evangelical Christian School. She played high school volleyball at Saint Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale. She played club volleyball and also still enjoys playing beach and grass volleyball. She has been coaching with Florida Conquer Volleyball since 2022.
Kennedy Allen
Associate Coach
Kennedy started playing volleyball in 2014 for both high school and travel club. She moved down to Florida to attend FGCU from Illinois. She currently plays recreationally and in inter murals at FGCU. She has been coaching with Florida Conquer Volleyball since 2023.
Maggie Wagnon
Associate Coach
Darin Danelski
Associate Coach
Darin has been coaching volleyball since 1996, and has accumulated thousands of hours of coaching all levels of volleyball from 5-year-olds to high school. He has completed multiple coaching courses through USAV (CAP1), JVA, and AAU. He is the head varsity coach of a D1 High School girls program in Wisconsin that has taken 1st or 2nd in the state every season for the last 5 years. He is also a certified USAV volleyball official. This is his first year with Florida Conquer Volleyball.
Angel Jones
Associate Coach
Bio coming soon.
She has been coaching with Florida Conquer Volleyball since 2022.
Lauren Fessler Mathews
Associate Coach
Lauren played 6 years of indoor club volleyball in middle and high school and on her school team in Victor, NY. She played on her college club team at Cornell University for 4 years, acting as a player-coach her senior year. In 2019, she began coaching club volleyball for girls and boys. This is her first year with Florida Conquer Volleyball.
Jayda Travers
Associate Coach
Jayda has been playing volleyball since 2012, starting at 8 years old and continuing until her senior year of high school. She played both club and school volleyball in Boynton Beach, Florida. She has volunteered many hours coaching little leagues in her hometown and assisted her high school's boys' varsity team. She attends FGCU and continues to play recreationally. This is her first year with Florida Conquer Volleyball.
Hannah Young
Associate Coach
Hannah is from Winter Springs. She played volleyball at Lake Howell High School and served three years as captain. After high school, she attended Stetson University and played 4 years of club volleyball. She has 8 years of coaching experience including roles as head coach for various clubs and 4 years as a JV head coach at the high school level. This is his first year with Florida Conquer Volleyball.
Caden Irvine
Associate Coach
Caden is originally from Miami, FL, but currently lives in Fort Myers and attends FGCU. He has played volleyball since 2015 for both his school and club teams and has experience as an assistant coach at the JV/Varsity level at Florida Christian School. He continues playing in college for the travel club team and his intramurals. This is his first year with Florida Conquer Volleyball.
Developmental League Coaches
Brad Bender
Associate Coach & Developmental League Head Coach
Brad has been coaching for over 30 years and had a playing career that started at Fort Wayne Volleyball Club. Over his coaching tenure, he has qualified 6 teams for USA Volleyball Nationals. He also coached for USA Volleyball Florida Region High Performance. He has been coaching with Florida Conquer Volleyball since 2021.
Maddy Logan
Associate Coach
She started playing volleyball in 2014. She played all throughout high school as well as club volleyball. She was a player at Florida Conquer Volleyball for 5 years and has experience playing at the collegiate level. She has been coaching with Florida Conquer Volleyball since 2022.
Madi Moore
Associate Coach
Bio coming soon.
She is a Florida Conquer alumni and she has been coaching with Florida Conquer Volleyball since 2023.
Operations
Leslee Malone
Director of Operations
Leslee has been coaching since 2015. Also, she worked for USA Volleyball HQ in Sport Development for 3 years. She is USA Volleyball CAP 1, USA Volleyball IMPACT, and USA Volleyball SafeSport certified. She has been with Florida Conquer since 2016.
