About the Coaches

Rob Ridenour

Club Director, Head Coach - 18 Quiksilver

Rob comes to Pipeline after serving as the director of Rolling Thunder boys program for 4 seasons. At Rolling Thunder, Rob had been a head coach at the 14’s, 15’s, 16’s, 17’s and 18’s age level. He has led his team to the open division for the past six seasons and has three national top 8 finishes including a second place finish at the 18 club level in 2005.

As a player, Rob played high school volleyball at Naperville North, winning a state title his senior season while earning All Conference, All Area and All State honors.

He played club volleyball at University of Illinois. While at Illinois, the team had three national top 5 finishes with Rob gaining All Big Ten and All MIVA accolades one season.

Rob has a degree in Social Science Education from the University of Illinois. He works at Barrington High School and is the head boys coach and assistant girls coach. While coaching at Barrington, Rob has been the part of two state trophies.

In his free time, Rob likes to think about volleyball and occasionally spend time with his very understanding wife.

Randy Bergstedt

Club Director, Head Coach - 16 Quiksilver

Randy’s experience with USA Volleyball spans 10 years. He has coached both girls and boys teams at all levels. After spending two years as the Boys director for Rolling Thunder he turned the reins over to Rob Ridenour. During his coaching tenure he has coached 4 teams to the Open division including an 11th place overall with an 18’s team.

His greatest pride is seeing the development of players from their first experiences with volleyball through high school years and beyond.

Although starting his playing career later he continues to play adult volleyball at competitive levels.

Randy is currently employed by 7–Eleven, Inc. where he is a Project Manager for the Accounting Department’s Mergers and Acquisitions. Whatever free time is left he enjoys travelling and is an avid golfer, holding the lowest handicap on the coaching staff.

Peter King

Master Coach, Head Coach - 17 Quiksilver

Peter has 6 seasons of club coaching experience, leading his team to an open division bid 3 times. His 17 blue team earned a top 15 finish at nationals.

Peter has also coached at Maine South High School for the last 4 years, earning a 2nd place finish at the state tournament in 2009 and a 3rd place finish at the state tournament in 2010.

Peter has coached the 2010 Illinois player of the year, Eric Butch, for 3 years along with another 1st team all–state player Matt Butch.

Peter Played club volleyball at Eastern Illinois University and was part of the 2003 MIVA D–II Championship team.

Peter has a bachelor’s degree in special education from Eastern Illinois University and has worked the previous four years as a special education teacher at Maine South High School.

Ashley Novak

Head Coach - 17 Black

Ashley is in his 6th season coaching boy’s club volleyball. He has spent four years with the 17’s age level and one year with the 15’s. Three of his teams have earned a bid to the open division at nationals: a 17 white team at the 2007 Boys Junior Olympics; a 15 blue team at the 2010 Boys Junior National Championships which also won the 2010 Great Lakes Regional Qualifier; and last year, Pipeline's 17 Quiksilver team, finishing 17th at the 2011 Boys Junior National Championships.

He has coached several all–area athletes including: Jason Giecek (Stevenson), Scott Pickle (Prospect), and Nick Baronti (Buffalo Grove).

Ashley has a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University where he played Libero. His senior year, the Syracuse Orange finished 11th in Division I–AA at the Collegiate Volleyball National Championships. He attended Libertyville High School, playing volleyball each of his four years; as well as playing one year of club volleyball.

For his day job, Ashley creates future television experiences for the Experiences Research group within the Applied Research Center at Motorola.

Danny Scheck

Head Coach - 15 Quiksilver

Danny played 4 years of high school volleyball at Warren Township High School earning 1st team All–Conference and 2nd team All area recognition his senior season. While in high school, Danny also played two years of club volleyball with Adversity volleyball club.

Danny attended Eastern Illinois University, participating on their club team while earning a B.S. degree in Recreation Administration and a Masters of Science in Training and Development.

He currently works for All State in Northbrook as a project manager.

As a coach, Danny has coached at the 17’s and 18’s level for Rolling Thunder Volleyball Club, leading a 17 white team to qualify for the open division at USAV junior nationals.

Danny has coached 1 conference player of the year, 5 all area players, and 5 all conference players.

Cal Nolan

Head Coach - 14 Quiksilver

Cal played 5 years of club volleyball with Rolling Thunder VBC and qualified for the Open division at Nationals with his 16’s, 17’s and 18’s age team’s.

Cal played 2 years of Varsity at Fremd High School helping lead his team the Regional Championships both seasons. As a senior he was selected as an All Area/All Conference player, won a Mid–Suburban League Championship and set a school record for most wins in a season, as the team went 30–7.

Cal has experience as a head coach at both the 14’s and 15’s level. We look forward to his experience on the court and positive energy to be a big help this year at Pipeline Volleyball Club.

Kayla Olson

Head Coach - 16 Black

Head Coach - 18 Black

Dominic played varsity for 3 years at Fremd high school was all area captain senior year.  He went on to start for Division I Men's Ball State Volleyball Team.  Playing rightside and leftside, his best accomplishment there was earning all tournament team in the Hawaii Outrigger Invitational during his senior year.  He also currently holds the record for aces in one game (8) at Ball State.  While at school, Dominic began his coaching career by leading a 14 year old club girls vball team.  

Dominic graduated Cum Laude with a degree in finance and currenlty works at Libertyville Bank and Trust as a Credit Analyst. In his spare time he likes to play golf and watch movies.

Jason Ambrose

Assistant Coach - 18 Quiksilver

Jason played Varsity volleyball at Barrington High School for 4 years, while also playing for clubs such as Sky High, Sports Performance, and Rolling Thunder. During this time he was voted Conference Player of the Year, to the Illinois All-State team, and one of Volleyball Magazine’s “Fab 50” high school volleyball players in the country. He went on to play at Penn State University where he won 4 consecutive conference championships, thus earning 4 trips to the NCAA Final Four. In addition, he also won a Division I National Championship with the Penn State team in 2008 while picking up Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and Big Ten All-Academic Conference Honoree awards.

Jason graduated from Penn State with a B.S. in Business Management as well as having minors in Psychology and International Business. He currently works as Management Consultant for Allstate in Northbrook.

Matt Hehn

Assistant Coach - 16 Quiksilver

Matt played 4 years of high school volleyball at Wheeling High School as a setter and defensive specialist. In his two years as a varsity player Matt made it to the regional finals and lead the team in serving aces. Matt also set a school record for most consecutive jump serves in a row at 17. Matt was given the nickname “The Professor” from the coaches at Wheeling High School.

Matt played 2 years of club volleyball at Circus VBC.

During his free time Matt enjoys playing beach volleyball and playing at open gyms.