Our guest this week is Micah Langston, he’s a head volleyball coach, and a teacher as well at United Christian Academy in Rancho Cucamonga. He’s been coach of the year in the Arrowhead League for a very successful girl’s volleyball program in the Inland Empire. He’s a former college basketball player, but then, found volleyball – and that’s the road he’s gone down as a coach, teacher, and mentor.
Show Highlights
- United Christian’s annual summer volleyball camp will restart in June 1, 2021
- Though their season was limited, they found ways to train outdoors
- The frustration of lost potential during the pandemic
- His mythical views of volleyball and how his respect for the game grew
- Confessions of a basketball player
- The transition from club team coaching to high school athletics
- The power of a niece’s ask
- The mentorship one gains as an assistant coach
- CSUSB head volleyball coach Kim Cherniss and the Rancho Valley Volleyball Club
- How a generation gap made it hard for him to consider coaching
- Why his late love for the game of volleyball led to coaching
- Why an assistant pastor and Bible teacher chose to pursue a Master’s in Coaching
- How his Master’s wasn’t easy, but it was fun