Head Coach/Technical Coach- Michael Rainbow

Michael Rainbow has been coaching for 20 years in college, high school and USAV club Volleyball. He is currently the Head Coach/Technical Director & Recruiting Coordinator for Columbia Volleyball Academy in Columbia, Maryland. Previously he was coaching with Virginia Elite as the Setting Technical Lead & 17U National Head Coach. He is also currently the Assistant Coach at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. 

Michael hails from Wilmington, Delaware and was a High School & Collegiate Volleyball player. He began coaching in 2000 at the club level, and continued on to coach in high school and collegiately. Michael has coached players to All-American accolades at the college level, and numerous recognitions within the state, conference & county levels. He has had his players recruited to colleges such as Towson, Lafayette, Tennessee, UMBC, Quinnipiac, Bucknell, UMES, University of Delaware, Liberty, Loyola, Morgan State, Holy Family, and many more! Currently he teaches and lives in Carroll County Maryland where he also served as the Head Coach at Liberty High School in Eldersburg, MD from 2013-2018 where he was named 2014 & 2015 Carroll County Times Coach of the Year while winning back to back conference championships and a Regional Championship in 2015, and before that at Mount de Sales Academy in Catonsville. 

He is also the founder and Head Coach of M2 Volleyball Training based in Columbia, Maryland (www.m2volleyballmd.com), and continues to be a guest coach at collegiate camps and clinics around the country. Michael is an AVCA member, CAP 1 Certified, IMPACT, and First Aid & CPR/AED certified. 

Guest Clinician- Ross Bickelmaier 

Originally from Alamonte Springs, Florida, Brickelmaier began his playing career as a setter at Longwood Volleyball Club and for Lyman High School, where he captained his team to an FHSAA state title in his senior year. Brickelmaier then went on to play four years of club volleyball at the University of Central Florida, contributing as both as a libero and middle blocker. He has been an active player on the PVL CHRVA roster since the team’s initial inception and he travels along the east coast to play in competitive sand tournaments during the summer months. Brickelmaier spent a year playing indoor and sand for Bournemouth University and indoor for Wessex Volleyball England. While living in England, he trained with some of Europe’s most elite players, including members of England’s National Beach Team.

Ross currently resides in Washington, D.C. and continues to play on a men’s USAV team. He earned a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Central Florida and a Master of Business Administration from Bournemouth University.

Technical Coach- Ashley WEik

Ashley is a native of Cape Cod, Massachusetts where she began her volleyball career under the tutelage of coach Tom Turco, the 2008 AVCA and 2012 NHSCA National Volleyball Coach of the Year. During her high school career, Ashley was a member of the team that earned accolades as the 2008 and 2009 Old Colony Champions, 2008 South Sectional Champions, and the 2008 Division I State Champions. During her club years, Ashley played multiple seasons for Cape Cod Juniors in addition to playing for Pilgrim Volleyball Club. After high school, Ashley continued her volleyball career playing for Bridgewater College, a Division III school in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference, where she was a Defensive Specialist. Ashley has experience coaching numerous high school level skills camps and has coached at the 15s, 16s, and 17s levels for club – most recently serving as the Head Coach for CVA 15 Red in the 20222 season. Ashley is excited to begin her second year with M2!

Technical Coach- Autumn Jenkins

Autumn Jenkins attended and graduated from the University of Delaware in 2017. She was a four year starter for the University of Delaware Volleyball where she garnered not only CAA Player of the Week Honors multiple times, but was also named to the CAA All-Conference Team twice during her collegiate career.  While at UD she also coached and worked with athletes at Delaware Juniors as a Head and Assistant Coach. She then went overseas to London to study for her Masters in Business at the University of East London. During her time there she played for the University and Semi-Professionally. Following graduation she came back home to the states where she decided to keep pursuing a volleyball career. The next 2 years she played professionally in Copenhagen, Denmark and Limassol, Cyprus. In her off seasons over the summer she fills her time with coaching summer camps through All American Volleyball which spends 3 days at various high-schools along the East coast designing and running individualized camps. Volleyball has been so much more than a sport for Autumn, and she wants to be able to share and help create those same opportunities for athletes in the future!

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