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 25 years. She is the Director of Volleyball, Varsity Head Coach at Bishop Verot High School. She is two time FACA Coach of the Year. She is Gold Medal Square trained and holds various coaching certifications. 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 head JV volleyball coach, assistant varsity volleyball coach, and the strength and conditioning coach at Bishop Verot High School. He is Gold Medal Squared trained. 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.
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. He has been coaching with Florida Conquer Volleyball since 2024.
Kennedy Allen
Associate Coach
Kennedy started playing volleyball in 2014 for both high school and travel club and continues to play as an adult. She moved down to Florida to attend FGCU from Illinois and graduated with a degree in psychology. She has been coaching with Florida Conquer Volleyball since 2023.
Maggie Wagnon
Associate Coach
Angel Jones
Associate Coach
Bio coming soon.
She has been coaching with Florida Conquer Volleyball since 2022.
Emma Kalbfleisch
Associate Coach
Emma has played volleyball her whole life and played at Covenant College from 2021 to 2024, where she was named an AVCA All-American Honorable Mention and AVCA All-Region Six First Team. After graduation, she played in Rome, Italy, for nine months. She is the assistant coach at SFCA, and she continues to play locally. This is his first year with Florida Conquer Volleyball.
Gracie Soza
Associate Coach
Gracie began playing volleyball in 2013 and played at Oklahoma Panhandle State University as a libero. During her senior season, she was named 2nd All-Conference after recording 488 digs and leading the SAC Conference in aces. This is her first year with Florida Conquer Volleyball.
Zach Lynne
Associate Coach
Bio coming soon.
This is his first year with Florida Conquer Volleyball.
Alyssa Jones
Associate Coach
Bio coming soon.
This is her 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.
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.
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
Operations
Leslee Malone
Director of Operations
Leslee has been coaching since 2015. She has previously 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.
