I love to coach volleyball, a sport I took to like fish to water at a very early age. I've been fortunate to have played and won on some of the biggest stages of the game, all over the world. I have won four championship MVPs -NCAA, -Puerto Rico's Superior League - and am the only back-to-back 18s JO's MVP. I have been on five USAVB national teams starting at age 14.

 

All of this exposed me to some of the very finest coaches in the world, paramount is the renowned Al Scates of UCLA, winner of 19 NCAA Championships where I was honored to have been on his winning 19th NCAA Championship team in 2006, and was a two-time All American and four-year starter. I also played under current USA National Team Head Coach John Speraw as a member of the USA Jr. National Team. I also trained for half a year under then Olympic USAV head coach Hugh McCutcheon. I've also played internationally for an eight-year professional career that took me to Paris France, The Czech Republic, Toulouse France, Dubai, Finland, Qatar, Puerto Rico, and even Vietnam and Egypt. All of these experiences have provided a wealth of coaching knowledge that proves invaluable to me in my coaching career today. I've studied under some of the very best in the sport.

 

I have coached nearly all levels of the sport and both genders. Before joining the staff at Hofstra I was on the coaching staff at Loyola of Chicago Women. I have also coached collegiately at UCLA Men. I have coached club teams for over twelve years in elite club programs in both hotbeds of the sport in Southern California and in Chicago, and here at Hofstra's club program in Long Island. I have also been a head coach at three high schools.

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I am a player's coach. I consider myself to be an excellent technical skills coaches. As a player my position was Opposite, usually considered the most athletic position due to the need to fly through the air to get to back sets. I teach individual and team technique that's often missed by many. I've been labeled a strategic coach who is a VB perfectionist when it comes to understanding the game's strategic nuances. 

 

As a teen, my club teams won an unprecedented three JO's Golden Open National Championships in a row, as a 17, and two as an 18. My first professional team was the renowned Naranjito Changos of the Puerto Rican Superior League, where we won it all and I was honored to be named the MVP of the Championships in my rookie year. I find that players at all levels respect and relate to these accomplishments, and vice verse. It's invaluable in my abilities to communicate with them, and with their families.

 

These experiences have given me unique recruiting and coaching exposure that I love to share with players and watch as they reach their true potentials. 

 

 

 

 

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Testimonials

 

"Steve Klosterman has a long list of accomplishments in the sport of volleyball both as a player and as a coach.  While he was only with us for one year at Loyola University of Chicago, he had a huge impact on the team earning the respect of the players and providing strong leadership during a difficult season.  Steve will be a great addition to whatever coaching staff he joins next year.”

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Steve Watson

Director of Athletics

Loyola University of Chicago

 

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"Steve helped coach our UCLA Team as a volunteer coach in 2008 after his last season as a player in our program. He did a great job of working with our student-athletes and is an outstanding coach. He has always studied video of the best players in the world and has played against many of them and has the teaching ability to train athletes to learn the correct techniques.”

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Al Scates

UCLA Head Coach - Retired 

19 NCAA Championships

 

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"First and foremost I consider Steve to be my good friend.  He is a great guy with a great heart.  In my entire career as a coach I have not run into anyone that has studied the mechanics, techniques, and systems as thoroughly as Steve has.  His passion and love for volleyball, and making athletes better volleyball players, is up there with the best in the business.  He is truly an innovator of our sport and we are lucky to have him."
 

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Tyler Hildebrand

Head Coach, Long Beach State Women

Former Director of Coaching, USA Volleyball

Former Asst. Head Coach of National Champion Nebraska

 

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“Steve makes me a better coach. Steve makes all our coaches better coaches.”

 

Blake Orlov

Director

Chicago Bounce Volleyball Club

- For the first time ever the only club in the entire Midwest sending 14, 15, 16 and 17 teams to this year’s annual USAV Junior Olympics.