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 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.
Mindie Mabry
Assistant Coach
Mindie has been playing volleyball since 2010. She played high school volleyball at Bishop Verot. She then continued her career as an outside hitter for the Harvard Women’s Volleyball Team. While at Harvard, she achieved a career high of 24 kills, 25 digs, and 5 aces. She was also named to the All-Ivy League Honorable Mention Team. 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
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.
Kailee Rictor
Associate Coach
Kailee has been playing volleyball since 2012, coaching since 2020, and currently plays club volleyball at FGCU. She is also the Assistant Varsity Coach at Aubrey Rogers High School. All these experiences have allowed her to gain experience with the sport inside and out. She has been coaching with Florida Conquer Volleyball since 2022.
Dovile Gorys
Associate Coach
Dovile started playing volleyball in 2013, for both school and club teams. She also played for the USA Volleyball High-Performance team. She moved from Illinois to Florida and continued playing club indoor & beach volleyball at FGCU. She has been coaching with Florida Conquer Volleyball since 2023.
Meghan Needham
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.
Tatiana McFadzean
Associate Coach
Maggie Wagnon
Associate Coach
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.
Cameron Estep
Associate Coach
Bio coming soon.
This is her first year with Florida Conquer Vollelyball.
Developmental League Coaches
Danielle Bender
Developmental League Head Coach
Danielle has 8 years of volleyball playing experience. She has 4 years of Division I athletic experience. She has been coaching with Florida Conquer Volleyball since 2019.
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.
Angel Jones
Associate Coach
Bio coming soon.
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.
