Bump Set Chat! The place to hear from your favorite volleyball personalities!

Meet  @gocreighton  volleyball head coach Kirsten Bernthal Booth. She shares her amazing journey to Creighton and offers some amazing insight on how she built a successful volleyball program in the Big East.

Three-time National Coach of the Year Kirsten Bernthal Booth continues to lead one of the nation’s best programs at Creighton.

Her influence on the sport has never been more prominent, as she’s currently the President of the American Volleyball Coaches Association and is one of 17 members on the AVCA’s Board of Directors.

Booth has steadily built a program that has appeared in the AVCA’s Top 25 poll each of the last 12 years. CU has reached 13 of the last 14 NCAA Tournaments and earned six national seeds, including a 2016 postseason run to the Elite Eight, Sweet Sixteen trips in 2015, 2016 and 2023, and an unprecedented 10 straight BIG EAST regular-season titles. Since the start of 2014, CU is 176-13 against league foes.

Last year’s team battled a myriad of injuries to finish 29-5, won five different tournaments, and boasted a pair of Academic All-Americans in Kendra Wait and Kiana Schmitt. Wait was named BIG EAST Player of the Year and Setter of the Year, while Schmitt claimed MVP honors at the BIG EAST Tournament. CU finished a perfect 15-0 at home, including 3-0 sweeps over Colgate and Minnesota en route to a return to the Sweet 16.

Meet Hardworking American Libero (USA National Team) Norceca Continental Championship Gold Medal ~ Austrian Cup Champion & Austrian League Champion, Tim McIntosh.

Originally from Florida, played at Sacred Heart in Connecticut, coached at North East Volleyball club in CT prior to going overseas to play professionally

U.S. Men's National Team debut in 2023 Pan Am Cup

2020 U.S. Men's Collegiate National Team

Spent two years at Alderson Broaddus before Sacred Heart

Played professionally in Austria and with Northeast Force in the VLA

Meet Steve Wasik, CEO of VKTRY Gear and hear the story behind the insole!

VKTRY Performance Insoles are the first-ever high-performance athlete insoles designed to return the energy an athlete generates as explosive power, speed and agility. Its patented carbon-fiber design is scientifically proven to help athletes of all ability levels to run faster and jump higher, while helping in injury prevention and recovery. RUN FASTER. JUMP HIGHER. TRAIN SMARTER.

Meet Matt Ulmer here his volleyball journey along with coaching advice and advice for young players!

Through seven seasons as head coach of the Oregon volleyball program, Matt Ulmer has led the Ducks to six NCAA Tournament appearances including runs to the Elite 8 in 2018, 2022 and 2023, and an additional trip to the Sweet 16 during the 2021 spring season. Ulmer is 142-69 overall (.673 winning percentage) with an 88-50 record in Pac-12 play.

Meet Amber Igiede, a professional volleyball player that just wrapped up her first pro season in Italy.

Amber stopped by the podcast to share her journey from starting to play volleyball in Louisiana.

From there she landed at University of Hawaii and talks about that amazing experience.

@hawaiiathletics

Meet Jojo Persico, caoch of the St John's volleyball team for the last 20 years! Jojo shares her amazing, inciteful volleyball journey. A St. Francis Prep High School graduate and volleyball standout at the Queens school, Persico was selected as an inaugural member of the Catholic High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 1991. In 2004, she was inducted into her third New York State Hall of Fame, the St. Francis Prep High School Hall of Fame, which also includes former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre and NFL coaching legend Vince Lombardi. She was awarded a seat on the St. Francis Prep Board of Trustees and served as President of the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) for Brooklyn and Queens from 2007-09. In 2013, she was selected as an inaugural member of the St. Francis Prep Ring of Honor Award. Located in Queens, St. Francis Prep is the largest private catholic high school in the country. In 2014, Persico was inducted into the St. Francis Prep Inaugural Ring Of Honor.

Still active on the court today, Persico also competed in the U.S. Volleyball Nationals in 2009, the top level of open volleyball in the country, teaming up with former Olympians and AVCA All-Americans, as well as standout NCAA student-athletes, on the Exterminators Volleyball Club. She is a 30-year veteran and one of the most decorated players in Empire State Games history. In 2008, the New York City women’s team became the first team in the open division to win five consecutive gold medals, as it defeated Long Island in a one-set playoff, 25-17. Persico led teams to the gold medal in 1998 and 2004-08, the silver in 2002-03 and the bronze medal in 1999.

Meet @hawaiiathletics Men's volleyball player, Guilherme Voss.

He share his story how he came to Hawaii and his time playing for the Rainbow Warriors

Born Guilherme Voss Messias dos Santos in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Played beach volleyball at 10 and transitioned to indoor volleyball at 14

Lived in Sugarland, Texas from 2006-10

Has one older brother

Parents are Luiz Santos and Denise Carvalho of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

National Team:

Played for the Brazil Junior National team from 2016-19

Helped Brazil to a third place finish at the U21 World Championship and was selected as the Best Middle Blocker

Also led Brazil to a title at the U21 South American Championship

Prep:

A 2017 graduate of Colegio Teresiano in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Played club volleyball for C.R. Flamengo from 2014-17 and SADA Cruzeiro in 2018

Helped C.R. Flamengo to the National Championship from 2015-17 and earned Best Hitter in 2015 and ’16

Received offers from BYU, UC Irvine, NJIT, and British Columbia

Meet Cody Kessel

Team USA and professional volleyball athlete.

8 seasons abroad in the Swiss and German professional leagues.

German Champion 2021, 2022, 2023.

German Cup 2020, 2023.

Volleyball Nations League 2nd Place 2022 with U.S Men’s National Team. 2022 World Championships.

Olympic hopeful.

Volleyball coach with extensive domestic and international experience.

Sharing my journey and all the best lessons learned with you as I go.

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Meet Shainah Joseph a member of Team Canada women's volleyball team. She shares her volleyball journey from Ottawa to the college days as a Florida Gator and then over seas to play pro. This past season she was a part of PVF's Orlando Valkryies.

Pro Career

Joseph has played for VC Maritza in Bulgaria (2017–18), Top Speed in Taipei (18–19), Sta. Lucia Lady Realtors in the Philippines (2019–20), Ageo Medics in Japan (2020–21), Vandœuvre Nancy Volley-Ball in France (2021–22), and Marcq-en-Barœul Volley Club in France (2022–23). Beginning in 2023, she played for the Orlando Valkyries in the United States.

Team Canada

Joseph was selected to play for the Canadian Junior National Women's Volleyball team in 2012, then played for the women's national team from 2015 to 2017. All three years, she competed in the Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup. She also competed in the FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix in 2016 and 2018. In 2023, she competed at the FIVB Volleyball Women's Olympic Qualification Tournaments, where Canada came in third, just short of qualifying for the 2024 Summer Olympics.