Riptides Volleyball Club

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Branden Smeltzer is entering his seventh year with the Riptides Volleyball Club and has been the Varsity Coach at West High School for the past four years. As a coach he has earned A gold medal at the 2007 Junior Olympics, a bronze medal at the 2009 Junior Olympics and was the Daily Breeze coach of the year in the Bay League in 2007.

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Aaron is co-coaching the 13's team with Collin Cooper this year. Aaron played volleyball at North High all 4 years, 3 on varsitya. He made 2nd Team All-League as middle blocker his senior year in 2004. He played 2 years at El Camino College and made the 2nd team all-conference his 1st season as a middle blocker. Aaron transfer to Long Beach State CSULB graduating with a B.A. in Sociology. Aaron works for the City of Torrance at the Plunge, a local pool, for 10 years now; where co-coach Collin works as well. Aaron has been coaching for Riptides at the 13-14 year old age level since 2004 and enjoys every team and player that he has had an opportunity to coach. Aaron is currently assisting the varsity team this season at North High.  Aaron has coached along side and learned from many different coaches with a variety of different backgrounds in all levels. On his free time Aaron loves to shoot hoops in his backyard, listen to music, and play Xbox. His Xbox Gamertag: "Rusty Orchard" and he accepts all challenges!  Aaron's favorite food right now is Ramen.

• Quincy University Mens Volleyball Team Libero 2005-2009

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