Our Team
Chris Thompson
Coach Chris has played volleyball since he was 15 years old, starting out as a sophomore at Pattonville High School under Coaches Terry Funderburk and Johnny Chittakhone. His love for the game grew while being stationed in California, Japan, and South Carolina serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was representing multiple bases and command teams playing both indoor and beach volleyball.
When leaving the Corps, he took a job in Atlanta where he quickly found the volleyball community and started playing in multiple leagues around the city. Like a lot of Atlanta volleyballers, he felt the pull of coaching the next generation of athletes. He had heard of a little club in Douglasville where he lived named Push 1, and they were gracious enough to give him a shot at coaching. After coaching there for 2 years, he decided that he wanted to go out further west and come on board with West Georgia Volleyball Academy. The rest is history. From then, the club went from 5 teams to 10 to 16 teams, from practicing in elementary and high schools to purchasing his own building to house a practice facility; then later adding in beach/grass volleyball to help athletes round out their skills in the off season.
In his off time, when he is not traveling around the world with his “real job” as a mechanical integrity inspector, he loves to spend time with his family at the lake, as well as hunting and fishing with his kids and his father, and working on his classic cars. This will be Coach Chris’s 11th season with WGVA Chaos Volleyball, and he is excited to see the club become stronger with each season, as he continues with his philosophy of bringing effective training at affordable cost to the local community and hopes to make this club the premier club in our area.
Club Director / Master Coach / 16 Black Head Coach / 13 Black Head Coach
Sheri Almond
Coach Sheri brings thirty years of coaching and officiating to the club. She's from Iowa where she played Middle Blocker for a private DII school. Coach Sheri has coached everyone from middle school to college. She moved to GA on 2004 and started a new volleyball program at Lee County High School. This program hasn't missed making it to sub-state since 2004! Volleyball is an addicting game and is changing all the time. Although she wears many hats at WGVA CHAOS, her coaching and mentoring hats are her favorites!
Master coach / Administration
Shaun Martin
Coach Shaun started playing volleyball in his freshman year of high school when he found his love for the game. Growing up in South Florida, men’s volleyball wasn’t as evolved as it is now but that didn’t slow him down.
After graduating high school, he went on to join the United States Air Force where he spent the next 11 years. During that time in the service, he continued to play and grow his passion for the sport. He played for various base teams to include playing overseas while deployed against local native teams.
After service, Coach Shaun arrived in Douglasville, GA and started playing in local leagues and pick-up games. In 2017, he began his coaching career and coached at both the high school and club level coaching athletes from ages 14-18. This year will be Coach Shaun’s fourth year with WGVA. He is excited to train the next level of athletes to hopefully one day replace him in the sport he loves so much.
Training Director / Master Coach / 15 and 17 Black Head Coach / 16 Red Assistant
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Aimee Richard - 12 Black Head Coach
Aimee has been playing volleyball for over a decade now. Upon graduation, Aimee knew she wasn’t ready to leave the sport behind, so she took the role of the 12s head coach at WGVA. That was over 5 years ago, and she hasn’t looked back since.
During her tenure at the club, she has not only stuck with the 12s but has also been an assistant coach for several other age groups.
Aimee says that she loves breaking down one of the most complex sports and making it seem easy. When an athlete finally masters the skills they have been working on, there is no better feeling to her. She is excited to continue her coaching and mentoring career with the WGVA youth this year!
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Ashlee Peek 12 Black Assistant Coach
Ashlee played volleyball for 5 years at Central High School and 4 years WGVA. She played for a private college in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. This will be her first year coaching. She is looking forward to sharing the love of the sport.
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Kaitlin Drobisch - 13 Black Assistant Coach
Kaitlin has been playing at west for 4 years but has been playing volleyball for 6. She played at South Paulding High School for three years and this will be her first year coaching! She’s so excited to be working with the girls this year.
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Mike Matteson - 14 Red Head Coach
Mike Matteson has been the head varsity volleyball coach at Heirway Christian Academy since 2008. His teams have won 3 region championships and qualified for the state tournament 8 times during his tenure, including the Elite 8 in GISA in 2011, the Elite 8 in GICAA in 2014 and 2015, and the Final 4 in GISA in 2012. His two favorite things about coaching volleyball are seeing his athletes develop a love for the game and having players take their game on to the college level. He has been coaching at WGVA since 2015.
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Sophie Kreft - 13 Red Assistant
Bio Coming Soon!
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Britney Mount - 14 Black Head Coach & Boys Assistant
Brittany Mount is entering her 9th year of coaching. She has been playing volleyball since the 9th grade. She played outside hitter at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California and for the Santa Barbara Volleyball Club. She later played at the collegiate level at California Lutheran University and soon after, went to play one year of volleyball in the Portuguese professional league with her husband, Cameron.
Britney transitioned into coaching after having her 4 children. She has coached various teams at the club and high school level. She is currently coaching at Central High School and is looking forward to her second season at WGVA.
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Kaitlyn Bradley - 14 Black Assitant
Bio Coming Soon!
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Kaleigh Bickers - 14 Red Head Coach & 17 Black Assistant
Kaleigh Bickers, AKA Coach Bick, is entering her third year coaching at WGVA. Prior to joining WGVA as a coach, she played four years at South Paulding High School, two years at WGVA. Coach Bick also played at the collegiate level at Southern Union State Community College. She was also the assistant coach at South Paulding High School for 1 year.
She is looking forward to coaching the girls and watching them grow this year.
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Kelli Hornberger - 16 Black Assistant
Kelli Hornberger is in her 3rd year of coaching volleyball. She has coached at the highschool level and is the current JV Head Coach at Douglas County High School.
This will be her first year at WGVA and she is excited to continue her coaching journey here!
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Jamie Moon - 15 Red Head Coach & 16 Black Assistant
Coach Jamie Moon is excited to enter her 4th season coaching at WGVA. Prior to coaching, she played for WGVA and South Paulding High School. After high school, she received a scholarship to play at Salem University in West Virginia.
She is so excited to share her love and knowledge of the game with young athletes this season. She says it is so rewarding to make an impact on her young players and to watch them grow and improve in the sport. She loves being a part of the WGVA family and is looking forward to this season!
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Nana Pearson - 16 Red Head Coach / 15 Black Assistant / Social Media and Marketing
Coach Nana played Volleyball at Douglas County High School for three years and played club for one. After high school, she began assistant coaching for a club team while in college and is now the Head Volleyball coach at Douglas County High School.
This is her 2nd year at WGVA and she will be Coaching the 16 Red team and assisting on the 15 Black team.
You can also find her running around taking pictures and videos for the club’s socials.
She is looking forward to helping these young women reach their full potential and pursue their goals on and off the court.
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Cameron Mount - Boys Head Coach
Coach Cameron has been playing/coaching volleyball since he was in the 6th grade. He played High School Volleyball at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California before playing on the Men's team at UCLA from 1996-2002. Cameron was a member of the 2000 NAA Championship team for Al Scates at UCLA. He remains in the UCLA record books in the top 10 "Career Aces" category in the team's history.
After college, Cameron and his wife Britney moved to Guimaraes, Portugal where they played one season in a professional league there, Vitoria Sporting Club, was the runner up in the Portuguese National Cup in 2004.
Cameron has coached at high schools in Los Angeles, Temple, and Carrollton and has coached at numerous camps over the years. He and Britney coached together for 3 years and are very excited to be entering their 2nd year at WGVA with an established group of coaches and players.
Lee Spoor
Lee Spoor is the tournament director at WGVA Chaos. Coach Spoor is in his 9th year at WGVA and has been coaching volleyball for 17 years, the past 5 years as the head coach at Chapel Hill HS. He is in his 6th season as tournament director after coaching several years and age groups at WGVA. As tournament director, he enjoys the challenge of organizing and multi-tasking to make our tournaments run smoothly and to make everyone have an enjoyable day at WGVA! If there are any tournament questions, please contact Coach Spoor at td.wgva@gmail.com.
Tournament Director
Elizabeth Gilliam
Coach Liz is entering her third season at WGVA. She has played volleyball for the last 16 years where she started in Texas and received a scholarship to play at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa. After college, she coached at two different high schools before moving to Georgia with her husband and taking over as head coach at Alexander High School for 2 years. every minute and every group of girls she has had the opportunity to coach.
This year, Coach Liz, has decided to take on the role of assistant tournament director under Coach Spoor.