OVC | STAFF

Damien Evans - 14s Coach and Co-Director

Damien is the current Varsity Boys coach at Cedarburg High School. He is USAV CAP Level 1 certified and has been involved in competitive volleyball for over 30 years. He started his career playing at Madison East High School and continued into his 20s and 30s at UW-Milwaukee and later with men's USAV teams. He has continued to play and mentor younger players since then in all formats from the beach to the hard court. He resides in Cedarburg with his wife Paula and their three children, and is committed to growing the game for boys in Southeast Wisconsin. At OVC, Coach Damien is actively engaged with all teams.

Tom Scherrer - 15s Head Coach and Co-Director

Coach Tom is the current head coach at the new boys volleyball program at Port Washington High School. This will be his 4th year coaching with OVC, having led last year's 17s to qualify for Nationals! He has been involved in coaching volleyball since 2008, when he began his coaching career with the Trojan Volleyball Club (now Spike), and JV boys at Shorewood. Previous to that, he played libero on several highly successful Wauwatosa West Boys’ volleyball teams as well as the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee club team, with highlights including a state semifinal run his senior year of high school. He resides in Port Washington with his wife Ashley and 3 sons. Coach Tom is extremely passionate about assisting aspiring athletes to reach their full potential while finding enjoyment and pride in the process.

Antonio Evans - 16-1s Head Coach

Antonio is a former All-State outside hitter, and 4 year varsity starter at Cedarburg. His club playing experience includes Spike, MVC, and OVC (where his team won the first Nationals bid ever received by the club!). This will be his third year coaching with OVC! Antonio currently plays on the brand new men's volleyball team at Bryant & Stratton and will be running our 16-1 team.

Ryan Hoefs - 18s Head Coach

Coach Ryan's playing career includes Concordia University men's volleyball, Greendale HS, and Muskego Stars VBC. This will be his first year coaching for OVC! Previous to OVC, he was a 4-year varsity member at Greendale HS playing right-side initially, then transitioning to mostly setter and a bit of outside. He was then recruited to CUW by Head Coach Curtis Madson where he played as a DS/serving sub for 2 years, then as the starting libero his final 2 years. Accolades include being selected to the FrogJump Team of the week for (3/28-4/3/22) for his exceptional work as a libero with 40 digs, averaging 3.07 digs/set. Ryan is also top 10 in categories at CUW in assists, service attempts, serve percentage, reception percentage, including #3 all time in digs, #2 all time in sets played, and #3 all time in matches played. He is currently finishing up his degree in Educational Studies at CUW.

Brian Rushmer- Summer Program Coach

Brian is the head boys coach at Germantown High School, and head men's coach at Lakeland University. Brian has been running the summer coed sand volleyball program with OVC for the past 5 years.

Kelly Swope - Summer Program Coach

Kelly is an outside hitter for the Lakeland University Women's Volleyball Team and Student Assistant Coach for the Men's program as well. She also coached middle school volleyball in her hometown of Heyworth where she played high school volleyball. She'll be bringing her energy and knowledge to the sand this summer for our sand camp!