Alfred Agcaoili (pronounced ah-ka-WEE-LEE), founder and president of Vertical Volleyball, LLC; principal of Volleyball Et Cetera, LLC; founder and principal executive director of Club Vertical Volleyball, LLC; owner of HawaiKi® (pronounced ha-va-ee-kee) Hawaiian Restaurant & Bar; and the president and chief executive officer of Vertical Sports Et Cetera, LLC (VSE), LLC brings a fresh outlook and vision to grow boys volleyball and promote the sport with 18 years of coaching, administrative, and professional management skills and experience to his position as the president and chief executive officer of Club Vertical Volleyball junior national girls and boys volleyball club.

As President & CEO of CV, Agcaoili will facilitate parternships between the Club program and local, state, national, and international governing bodies of the sport.  His management-style reflects a decision-making process that includes all staff members to contribute and ultimately speak with one voice. 

With 13 years of professional management experience beginning in 1989 with the food and beverage industry as a restaurant manager of sports pub, fine dining, and private athletic clubs, Agcaoili will be instrumental in developing the organization’s Strategic Plan in areas to increase enrollment and provide professional training and development resources for its coaching and administrative staffs.  In addition, he will work to secure unprecedented local and external resources to promote boys volleyball; provide hands-on support and guidance to all staff coaches and administrators; implement an expansion plan to provide a developmental youth girl’s program and junior boy’s Club in Chicago; oversee growth and development of girl's Club programs; and develop an academy-wide training curriculum that will place Club teams in position to compete consistently on a national level. 

Agcaoili will serve on multiple organizations and community committees to ensure the continued growth and exposure of boys volleyball and to promote the sport. Part of his responsibility is to oversee an Executive Staff, Club Administrative Staff, Team Parent Manager Council, Club Committees, The Academy and The Junior School coaching staff and students in Missouri, Illinois, and Ohio and beyond in the Continental United States; and will join parents and coaches to celebrate the achievements of all Club Vertical Volleyball teams.

Agcaoili is spearheading a “Building for a Bright Future” campaign.  It is created with four goals: (1) expand offerings to upgrade resources that grows boys volleyball on a local and regional level; (2) improve the co-curricular programs of The Academy and The Junior School to develop volleyball and life enhancement skills; (3) respond to the needs of a growing student-population for The Academy and The Junior School; and (4) augment the heart of the Vertical Volleyball organization. In addition, he is coordinating with other regional programs to help market and expose male volleyball student-athletes on a national level to college coaches and educate parents on the college recruiting process.

Major projects under his leadership include all-Club fundraising campaigns in the fall, winter, and spring seasons.  Each provides vital funding in support of training and curricular programs.  Agcaoili will spearhead a "Food For Thought" fundraising luncheon to provide opportunities to increase participation in boys junior club volleyball at the regional level.  The luncheon will feature a notable keynote speaker.  Individual and table sponsorships will go towards the CV tuition assistance program.  

As Principal Club Director, Agcaoili coordinates an academy-wide training curriculum and practice design and implementation, to ensure consistency of skill development for teams in the Club from the youth to junior levels. He works very closely with each staff coach and will be a presence at all practice sessions and tournaments. Notable training opportunities for players and coaches in a highly structured, organized, focused, and enjoyable practice environment has been provided under his leadership.

As a coach, his resume is filled with numerous accomplishments during a noteworthy 18-year coaching career at the high school, junior national club, and college levels. Agcaoili has coached six USA and AAU national championship medal teams (boys: 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002 and girls: 1998, 2001), trained and coached 15 USA JO and AAU All Americans, 15 Volleyball magazine Boys “Fab 50” honorees, three USA Youth National Team members, two USA Junior National Team members, one Gatorade® national player of the year honoree, 43 all-League and all-State award winners, and six Hawaii State Player of the Year recipients (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002).  

His coaching philosophy is to coach teams that display consistent effort, are enthusiastic, smart, show respect, respect others and themselves, and embrace the spirit of togetherness and family. 

At the collegiate level, he has trained and coached NAIA and NCAA All Americans, and AVCA all-Conference, AVCA all-Region, MAMVIC all-Conference, and conference Player of the Year award recipients in men's and women's volleyball, and has been part of NAIA and NCAA conference championship teams in men's and women's volleyball as an assistant coach.  He has coached and trained athletes that have excelled at the junior level and competed for top NCAA Division I volleyball programs.  During his tenure from 1995-2004 with one of the top junior volleyball clubs in his native-Hawaii, several former players have gone on to assist at top men's and women's NCAA Division I volleyball programs, including one who has had a successful career as an NCAA Division I head coach.  Several players he has trained and coached at the junior club or collegiate levels have enjoyed successful professional playing careers in the top-tier European and Puerto Rican professional leagues.

Agcaoili has been mentored by world-class coaches and has collaborated with former USA Olympic and Australian Olympic coaches and athletes. He served as a staff coach at USA Volleyball Boys High Performance national development camps for several years beginning in 2002 in Southern California and Hawaii as part of the USAV National Team pipeline feeder program.  In addition, Agcaoili also served on staff with the USA Volleyball Girls High Performance national development hosted in Honolulu to assist with the tryout and talent identification process to select players onto junior and youth national teams to represent the United States in international competition.  During this time, Agcaoili collaborated with top junior national Club, high school, and NCAA Division I collegiate and international coaches.

Family members have competed in the sport – both indoor and professional beach – and are enshrined in their college Hall of Fame, have won Hawaii high school state championships, high school prep and collegiate national titles, and All America honors. Team oriented, Agcaoili believes in building a strong family unit that embodies the culture of CV.

Agcaoili has taught Polynesian dances at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa (pronounced MAH-no-ah) in honor of his Polynesian-ancestry, serving as the Chief of Staff to the President and Senior Advisor from 1993-96, and his alma mater, Waipahu (pronounced why-PAH-hoo) High School, 1995 Hawaii State Polynesian Dance champion, held at the Polynesian Cultural Center in La`ie (pronounced lah-EE-yay). Agcaoili has served as Community Liaison Chairman with Shriner’s Hospital for Children Honolulu from 1992-1993, and a Leadership Camp Facilitator in the summers of 1992-1994 at BYU Hawaii.  He was one of several honored in a ceremony as an academic scholarship recipient to the University of Hawai`i at Manoa by the Mayor of Honolulu and has been recognized for his commitment to academics and community service by civic groups in Hawai`i, American Samoa, and California.   

A contributing author of articles to Coaching Volleyball, a monthly national periodical of the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA), Agcaoili is also a member of the Stanford University-based Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA), and recieved his ASEP national coach certification in 2005.  He has been invited as a guest speaker to national coaches clinics and conventions and speaks on skill development, practice planning and organization, and team building.  His on-going project is a book he has written entitiled VB SETS (Volleyball Situation Execution Training Systems) featuring skill development and training methodology based on sound educational teaching and learning theory.  He is authoring a second book on volleyball that provides insights on his belief as a coach, teacher, and student of the game and part memoire.  Agcaoili plans on writing children's books and a cook book on healthy versions of local-island cuisine from his home state of Hawaii partly inspired by his family's long history of diabetes.  He has done extensive research and wrote his thesis on Title IX gender equity, the landmark 1972 U.S. legislation that has had a profound impact on sports and female athletics in the last century.

He successfully directs his summer volleyball camps and clinics series in Columbus, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois; and St. Louis, Missouri featuring a staff of current and former collegiate athletes and All Americans, Olympians and beach professionals, and top high school, college, and Club coaches.  Agcaoili annually contributes as a guest summer camp coach at top collegiate volleyball programs in the country.  

Agcaoili continues to travel the world to conduct volleyball clinics or coach overseas visiting family in New Zealand and American Samoa with stops in Guam, Fiji, and during the summer of 2009 a trip to coach in Italy with return visits to Kelowna, British Columbia (Canada) and Vancouver, British Columbia.  He plans on future volleyball ambassador trips with travel teams as head of delegation to Australia, Ireland, China and Japan in upcoming summers and a return trip to Italy.  

Agcaoili applied his professional management skills as a restaurant manager for award-winning restaurants on the West Coast and his home state of Hawai`i.  Among the guests he has served are numerous sports celebrities and notable dignataries including a former United States First Lady, former Vice President of the United States, and President of the United States.  Agcaoili has been mentored by notable people in the volleyball community and his second passion in the food and beverage industry.  One former mentor who Agcaoili worked under at a prestigious private athletic club has the distinction of serving five sitting Presidents of the United States. 

Agcaoili enjoys the company of friends, reading, writing volleyball-related articles, cooking Hawaiian and local-island cuisine for family and friends, listening to good music (Soul R&B, Reggae, Classic, Hawaiian, Samoan, Jawaiian) and traveling the world.  A native of Hawai`i, he was born in Kailua (pronouned ky-LOO-ah) on the island of O`ahu (procounced oh-AH-hoo), and raised in Kailua and Waipahu.  Agcaoili is single and splits time between his home state of Hawai`i throughout the year, on the West Coast in Portland, Oregon and Anchorage, Alaska and in the Midwest in St. Louis, Missouri.
  

                     
                                             Agcaoili with his former Food & Beverage boss and mentor 
                             now the General Manager at the prestigious The Minneapolis Club (MN).

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