Saint Mary's Cardinals head volleyball coach Mike Lester and members of his staff will instruct each day at the camp. The remainder of the staff will be made up of USA National Development Staff coaches and other collegiate coaches.

Mike Lester
SMU head volleyball coach and camp director

• 14 years of college-level coaching experience
• Nationally recognized volleyball clinician
• Coach and assistant director of USA National Development Camps
• 2000 M.I.A.C Coach of the Year
• NCAA national tournament coaching experience
• Two-time All-American player at Graceland College
• Four-time All-Conference player at Graceland College

Tessa Stranik
Assistant Volleyball Coach

Tessa Stranik is the assistant women’s volleyball coach at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, a position she has held since the beginning of the 2008 season.

Stranik completed her undergraduate degree at Saint Mary’s, majoring in Biology and Biophysics. During her volleyball playing days at SMU, Stranik was twice named to the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference First Team, and was the 2003-2004 SMU female scholar athlete of the year. She was also named to the 2004 CoSIDA Academic All-District V Second Team and was a 2004 honorable-mention All-Central Region selection as named by the American Volleyball Coaches Association.

Stranik also holds a Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Minnesota.