Coaches

Craig Letourneau, Owner and Director

Craig is currently the head women's volleyball coach at Wheaton College. The 2024 season marked his 14th year at Wheaton. The program has seen its best 4 finishes in conference history (2014, 2017, 2018, 2019) under the tutelage of Coach Letourneau.

Previous to Wheaton, Coach Letourneau led Emerson College to its best 4 year run in the program's history, culminated by a 30-win season and conference championship (13-0 conference record). He also started the Men's volleyball program at Emerson and in its 2nd, season led them to the GNAC playoffs. He started his college career at Rhode Island College where he took the program to its first ever Little East Conference championship game. As a high school coach previous to that, Craig led 3 programs to State championship games, winning two of those state championships.

He spent a decade coaching high school girls' and boys' basketball, Women's College basketball and high school boys' volleyball.

Abigail Soutter, Head Coach

Abigail enters her 5th season at Lockdown VBC. Abby comes to us from Ohio, where she has had five years of experience coaching and training volleyball players. Abby is a former coach of 12U National Team out of Ohio Premier Volleyball Club. In her four years there, she coached her club teams to many victories on and off the court, finishing in gold at most tournaments. Abby has coached volleyball at all levels from regional to national. Abby is the Assistant Coach for Wheaton College Women's Volleyball team. Previously she coached one year as the JV Coach for ORR Girls Volleyball.

Sandra Soutter, Head Coach

Sandra enters her 5th season at Lockdown VBC. Sandra is head coach for the 12-1, 12-2 Teams. Sandra comes to us from Ohio, where she has had 14 years of experience coaching volleyball from recreational, CYO, Academy, clinics, private lessons and club volleyball from regional to national level teams. Sandra is a former coach for Lone Star VBC, Rally VBA, PC VBC, Cincy East VBC and Ohio Premier VBC. Her passion is working with the young players to develop their skills and ensure they find a love for the game.

Colleen Moore, Head Coach

Colleen enters her 3rd season at Lockdown VBC. Colleen comes to us with years of experience coaching and playing volleyball. She has in previous years been the Freshman and JV coach for Franklin HS as well as Asst. Coach for Johnson & Wales University and Asst. Coach at Northeastern University. Colleen was a D-1 Setter for Providence College and has received many accolades during her volleyball career. She still holds numerous records at PC including career service aces, single season assists and single season aces as well as an individual record for most assists in a match for the Big East.

Julie Letourneau, Head Coach

Julie enters her 2nd season at Lockdown VBC. Julie is a 2x All State volleyball selection and 3x All State basketball selection while at Ponagansett High School. While at Stonehill College, she was a 2x All American basketball selection and played professional basketball in Luxembourg. Julie is a member of the Ponagansett High School Athletics Hall of Fame as well as Stonehill College Hall of Fame. Previous to Lockdown Julie was the Head Coach Girls Basketball at Bishop Stang High School. In previous years been the Assistant Coach Girls Basketball at Ponagansett High School and Head Coach of Girls Volleyball at Ponagansett High School. Julie has coached at numerous camps and clinics throughout her coaching career.

Wendy Pires, Head Coach

Wendy enters her 5th season at Lockdown VBC. Wendy is the head coach for 13-2 and assistant coach for 18-1 Team. Wendy has years of experience coaching league and club clinics. Wendy played volleyball and other sports in HS and played v-ball leagues post HS.

Danielle St. Pierre, Head Coach

Danielle enters their 2nd season at Lockdown VBC. Danielle just completed their second year as the freshman coach at Norton High School. Danielle played volleyball in high school and continued on to play in their college volleyball league as a right-side hitter. Danielle has experience coaching players ranging from 4th to 12th grade in clinics and club volleyball.

Adam Oehmen, Head Coach

Adam is entering his 2nd season at Lockdown VBC. Adam played volleyball for Somerset Berkeley HS as well as played for Blast Volleyball Club. Post High School, he played for Colleges of Fenway in Boston, MA. Adam is currently the assistant coach for Somerset Berkeley High School.

Cary Clark, Head Coach

Cary enters his 1st season at Lockdown VBC. Cary is currently the Head Women's Volleyball Coach at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. He also has years of experience coaching high-school, in which he led his teams to 5 district championships and 2-runner up as well as 10 years of travel club. Cary will be coaching 16 National Team this season.

Jennifer Cabral, Head Coach

Jenn enters her 1st season at Lockdown VBC. She previously coached at Blast Volleyball for 10 years. Jenn is currently the head women's volleyball coach at Rhode Island College. Prior to becoming a coach, Jenn played vball for Joseph Case High School and continued on to play at Worcester State University.

Bob Elster, Head Coach

Bob enters his 2nd season at Lockdown VBC. Bob has years of experience coaching Varsity & JV high school girl's volleyball, as well as experience coaching collegiate level at Clark University. He also played volleyball for fun while in high school and then started playing more competitively at St. Anselm College. After college Bob played in many high level yankee tournaments and also was an open level doubles player for many years.

Kaylie Martin, Head Coach

Kaylie enters her 1st season at Lockdown VBC. In addition to playing 6 years of club volleyball in Northern Virginia, she was a 4-year Varsity starter in high school and earned multiple All-Conference honors. Kaylie attended Clemson University where she was a libero for the Women's Club Volleyball Team. She has coached for multiple clubs in Virginia and Massachusetts including SYAVBC, Cape Cod Juniors and Beantown Volleyball Club.

Brett Gould, Head Coach

Brett enters his 1st season at Lockdown VBC. Prior he was a coach at Blast Volleyball for 3 years. Brett himself played club and high school volleyball in RI. He has assisted his club team to a USA National Championship and in Highschool he was a 3x All-State and Player of the Year. His team was semi-finalists 3 years in a row and won the RI D1 championship in 2018.

Along with indoors, Brett plays beach volleyball and plans to move to CA in the next few years to pursue his dream of being a pro player. He brings a plethora of knowledge from the beach game and is enthusiastic about sports psychology.

Jessica Albin, Head Coach

Jessica enters her 1st season at Lockdown VBC. Jessica is currently the head freshman coach and asst. varsity coach for Somerset Berkeley Regional High School and has been for 2 seasons. Jessica played collegiate volleyball at Bridgewater State University as an outside hitter, and was a multiple sport athlete in high school. Prior to coming to Lockdown VBC, Jessica was a coach for Max Performance.

Prior to coming to Lockdown, Jessica

Stella Bailey, Head Coach

Stella enters her first year at Lockdown VBC. Prior to Lockdown, Stella coached at Slam Volleyball Club for 3 yrs, as well as working clinics and leagues at Lockdown, CMASS, Slam, and King Philip Regional Highschool. Stella is currently a student athlete Framingham State University Women's Volleyball. As a high school volleyball players Stella was selected for all star teams as well as named to the all academic teams and was names a Boston Globe All Star. Prior to coming to Lockdown, Jessica

Jamiee Lowe, Coach

Jamiee enters her first year at Lockdown VBC. Jamiee is currently a student athlete at Framingham State University Women's Volleyball. Jamiee has played club volleyball since she was 11 years old and school volleyball since 7th grade. She was named in the Suburban Council Second Team All Stars. Academically, and a part of the National Honor Society and is currently on the Deans List.

Courtney Nappa, Coach

Courtney enters her 2nd season at Lockdown VBC. Courtney has coached for Franklin Volleyball Club the past 2 years and assists with LVBC clinics during the off season. Courtney was a DII scholarship athlete at Bentley University. She holds an NCAA record for number of aces in a single game (15). Prior to college she was a 5 year varsity starter for Holliston High School. Captain, MVP, Boston Globe all scholastic, Boston Herald All scholastic, Tri-Valley league all star, MetroWest Daily News All Star. Courtney also competed 6 years of elite club teams competing nationally. Courtney has spent the last 20 years developing and operating companies which includes 4 health clubs. Courtney also proudly holds the title of Mrs. Massachusetts 2011.

Ari Tanksley, Coach

Ari is a current student athlete on Wheaton College Volleyball Team. Ari is in her 2nd season with Lockdown as the assistant coach for 13 Elite Team and has previous experience assisting with 14 team at Southeastern Regional Club in Virginia. Ari was a four year high school varsity player in VA, where her team won the State Championship in 2021.

Arthur Felicio, Coach

Arthur enters his 2nd season at Lockdown VBC. Arthur is a member of Dean College Men's Volleyball program. He is currently the Medfield High School Girls JV volleyball coach. He is also the head coach of the Baystate games and has coached numerous clinics and camps. Arthur was recognized by the Boston Globe for 2024 Coach of the Year.

Abbey Barber, Coach

Abbey enters her 2nd season at Lockdown VBC. Abbey is the current JV Boys and Girls coach at Dighton-Rehoboth Regional and has been since 2021. She was also previously the Freshman Coach from 2016-2018 at Old Rochester Regional.

Liz Pedro, Coach

Liz began her volleyball career at Brockton High School and moved on to play as a starting setter for Framingham State University. During college, Liz played competitively in Yankee Volleyball and continued to do so for 10 years, as well as begun competing in beach volleyball. Post college, Liz played two seasons as a DS/Setter in the Professional Volleyball League for team New England. In addition to her indoor-career, Liz took to the beach to compete in women's open Volley America. As a sponsored athlete she competed in tournaments around the country.

Not only is Liz bringing 24 years of play knowledge to our club, but she also has 19 years of coaching experience. Liz has vacillated skills and drills and élite programs at Mass Premier in Foxboro, MA and has coached for various Junior clubs in MA & Illinois. Liz has worked at UNH camp, Cape Cod Volleyball camps, MPC camps, and Joust summer camps. She was also previously the assistant coach for Stonehill Women's Volleyball. Currently in addition to being a teacher, Liz owns "All Angles Volleyball Training in Taunton, MA, where she hosts beach volleyball teams and offers clinics and private lessons.

Alanna Solitro, Coach

Alanna enters her 1st season at Lockdown VBC. Alanna previously coached at Coastal VBC. She is currently entering her 3rd season as the coach of Case Jr. High girls volleyball, which she helped create and since 2022. Alanna has had years of experience coaching multiple teams, running clinics for league and club level play. Prior to coaching Alanna played collegiate ball at Quinnipiac University and 5 years of Club Volleyball.