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Forrest Medcalf - Director

Forrest serves as Club Director and Head Coach of 15 National. He has coached 45 teams since 1987. He has a career record of 1,022-386 (0.726) as a head volleyball coach. He has coached everyone from eight year-old campers to NCAA Division I Women. He has authored articles regarding tactics and young player development in Coaching Volleyball .  He has taken six teams to Junior Olympic Nationals.

Forrest graduated from Lewisville High School and went to the University of Oklahoma. In Norman, he learned to play volleyball and made the Men’s Club Team his sophomore year as a defensive specialist and right side player. He became active as a coach in the Junior Olympics program. He transferred to the University of Texas to play for the Men’s Volleyball Team. The men’s team placed ninth in the National Tournament in Colorado Springs that year.

Forrest graduated and started teaching math and Physics in Lewisville ISD. He was the faculty sponsor of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and was very active in the North Texas Volleyball Region. He pursued his CAP I, II, and III coaching accreditation through USA Volleyball. He has coached at the middle school, high school, and college levels. He was the First Assistant Coach at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Forrest took a team to Barcelona, Spain that placed second in an international tournament. He has coached for Oklahoma City Juniors, Austin Juniors, Outlaw VBC (Austin), Victory VBC, Coppell VBC, TNT VBC, Texas Heat VBC (Dallas), and Birmingham VBC (Alabama).

He has been a clinician under well-known coaches Mick Haley (Southern California, former Texas and former US Nat'l Team), Terry Liskevych (former US Nat'l Team), John Dunning (Stanford and former University of the Pacific), and Miles Pabst (Oklahoma). He has also been a clinician at several Fellowship of Christian Athletes Volleyball Camps in Texas.

Forrest has been married to Kim for fourteen years.  They had their first child, Allison, August 28, 2008. They have been to baseball games in all thirty major league baseball parks and over fifty minor league parks in the US and Canada.  He is an avid golfer.