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SMBC SHACK - WEST LOS ANGELES, CA

Established in 1982, SMBC Boys is one of the oldest and most successful boys volleyball clubs in the country.
We have earned 36 medals - and counting - at Junior Nationals over the years, including those below.

SMBC Shack Volleyball Club is based in West Los Angeles, CA.

SMBC Shack offers excellent training and competitive teams for boys club volleyball to the athletes and families of West Los Angeles and its adjacent communities. The program fields two to four teams annually, as well as offers a youth boys non-travel training program.

Our primary practice facility is Marymount School, located at 10643 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, out of which we run our travel teams, as well as our youth programs. The Director for SMBC Shack is Ryan Van Loo, who has infused the club with his passion and energy and is an excellent advocate for boys club volleyball. Ryan is bolstered by an excellent coaching staff with strong ties to the volleyball community.

We encourage you to speak to our Directors or any of our coaches about what it means to be part of SMBC Shack. We look forward to seeing you in the gym with us soon.

 

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    SUMMER PROGRAMS @ SMBC SHACK ... CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!

    - We will be offering Open Gyms for rising high school athletes as well as Clinics for youth and junior age groups. Register now!

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    CLUB TRYOUTS @ SMBC SHACK ... CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!

    -  Pre-register for club tryouts for the boys '23-'24 club volleyball season. SMBC Shack tryouts will be on August 26th, 2023 @ Marymount HS. 

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    UCLA MVB BRINGS HOME ITS 20TH NCAA TITLE!

    - Check out our coaches' historic end to their season. Click here for more info. 

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    MERRICK MCHENRY NAMED RYAN MILLAR AWARD WINNER!

    - Awarded to the nation's top middle attacker, check out Coach Merrick's journey this past NCAA season.

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    NCAA FINALS MVP ALEX KNIGHT!

    - Coach Alex was awarded Finals MVP and UCLA Student-Athlete of the Week. For more info, click here.

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LEARN MORE ABOUT SMBC SHACK

RYAN VAN LOO
DIRECTOR - SMBC SHACK

Please feel free to contact Ryan with any questions about the SMBC South program. His contact information is below and he is eager to speak with you.

Ryan Van Loo - Director, SMBC South
(email) rvanloo9@gmail.com
(cell) 818-795-2276

FULL NAME: Ryan Van Loo

MY HOMETOWN: Burbank, CA

BEFORE LAVA: I recently graduated from Lewis University with a B.S. in Finance and Business Administration. Academically, I was a part of Delta Mu Delta Honor Society, Delta Epsilon Sigma National Scholastic Honor Society, and graduated summa cum laude.

COACHING BACKGROUND: This is my first full year as head coach of a club volleyball team. As a college student, I would come home for the summer and assist both SMBC and High School volleyball teams. I also have experience running camps, clinics, and private lessons for all age groups.

PLAYING EXPERIENCE: I chose to pursue volleyball my freshman year of high school playing for the John Burroughs Varsity team and SMBC South from 2012-2016. During those four years, I earned various athletic accolades including 2016 State Champion, All-CIF Southern Section, and a USAV Junior National Championship Gold Medalist. At Lewis University, I played four years traveling/competing all across the country, Canada, and a summer trip to Europe playing professional and National teams. I was awarded the Male Senior Student-Athlete of the Year (2020) and the NCAA ADA Academic Achievement Award (2017-2019). Team accolades include NCAA DI-II Semi-Finalists (2019), MIVA Conference Champions (2019), and MIVA Conference Regular Season Champions (2019).

FUN FACT: I love the outdoors whether it be hiking, backpacking, fishing, snowboarding/skiing, or mountain biking.

GUILTY PLEASURE: Calamari, Rock concerts, and film photography.

SMBC Shack will once again be welcoming athletes from the University of California Los Angeles for our 23'-24' season. Players from both of UCLA's top-ranked volleyball programs will be coaching youth/junior programs and teams throughout the boys' season. This is a great opportunity for your son to come learn from players with high-level club, collegiate, and national team experience. Sign-up for summer programs and tryouts today!

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR SUMMER PROGRAMS

THE HISTORY OF SMBC BOYS

Established in 1982, SMBC Boys Volleyball Club is one of the longest-running, highly decorated, and most respected boys volleyball clubs in the country. SMBC Boys -- which began in Santa Monica, moved to the San Fernando Valley in the 1990's, and in recent years has expanded to multiple locations -- has left an indelible mark on the boys volleyball community.

SMBC Boys is the official Boys Program of LAVA and has multiple locations. The five SMBC Boys locations are: SMBC South (Encino), SMBC West (Thousand Oaks), SMBC VC (Camarillo), SMBC Shack (West Los Angeles), and SMBC North (Santa Clarita). Each location brings everything to the table one would expect given the historic successes of SMBC Boys — top coaching, structured training, and the superior values and ethics that are so very deeply LAVA.

With more than 50 medals won in national competition -- more than half of which have come at Junior Nationals -- SMBC Boys is a well-respected juggernaut with alumni scattered throughout the upper echelons of the collegiate men's volleyball ranks (125+ seniors over the past decade, playing at USC, Pepperdine, UCLA, UCSB, Irvine, Ohio State, Pacific, UCSD, CSUN, among others), including LAVA Co-Founder Trevor Julian who played for the club back in his playing days.

For nearly four decades SMBC Boys has been coaching the young male athletes of Los Angeles to exceptional heights.

SMBC Shack Volleyball Club for Boys is the brother club of the LAVA Shack girls program. Many of our families have daughters playing for LAVA Shack and sons playing for SMBC Shack.

LAVA Shack fields several teams a year for girls grades 4th-12th, as well as offers an excellent youth program for 3rd-8th grade girls not ready to play club volleyball just yet.

Have questions? Please contact our LAVA Shack Girls Catarina Marbach at catarina.emerson2@gmail.com. You can also click here read more about LAVA Shack.

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4 / Sean Saunders / OH / 5' 10" / Lincoln MS

7 / Elliot Traversone-Brunet / S / 5' 7" / Beverly Hills

8 / Cole Whitaker / MB / 5' 11" / Paul Revere MS

10 / Parker Murphy / OPP / 5' 5" / Oakwood MS

11 / Henry Levin / OH / 5' 6" / Paul Revere MS

13 / Jacob Roshan-Kashani / MB / 6' 1" / Beverly Hills

22 / Andrew Hom / L / 5' 4" / Paul Revere MS

28 / Hunter Potts / OH / 5' 9" / Beverly Hills

30 / Jaden Javid / MB / 6' 1" / Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy

34 / Payton Song / S / 5' 4" / Paul Revere MS

99 / Cash Conner / OPP / 5' 9" / St. Martin of Tours MS

1 / Josh Rubin / MB-OPP / 5' 10.5" / Beverly Hills HS

2 / Bradley Chang / L / 5' 8" / Palisades Charter HS

6 / KiOh Yi / OH / 5' 10" / Hamilton HS

8 / Kiarash Vazirnezami / OH / 6' 1" / Palisades Charter HS

10 / Antonio Vinzoni / S / 5' 8" / Palisades Charter HS

12 / Noah Hahn / OH / 5' 10" / Palisades Charter HS

13 / Nate Josephson / OPP / 5' 7" / Culver City HS

15 / Aaron Popal / MB / 6' 3" / Taft HS

23 / Elliot Newman / L / 5' 2" / Harvard-Westlake HS

24 / AJ Lee / OH / 5' 8" / New West Charter HS

96 / Jonah Bucatinsky / MB / 6'2" / TREE Academy

OUR LOCATIONS

SMBC Shack is based primarily out of Marymount High School, located at 10643 Sunset Boulevard, West Los Angeles. Marymount has a safe and secure campus with ample parking and a spacious gym. SMBC Shack has also utilized the gym at Palisades ("Pali") High School, located at 15777 Bowdoin St, Los Angeles.

OUR GRADUATES @ SMBC BOYS

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Lauren Russ  '18

UC Irvine - LAVA North

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Sydney Richardson  '18

Lewis & Clark College - LAVA North

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Kelsey Shea  '20

San Diego State University - LAVA North

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Miranda Raitt  '20

Masters University - LAVA North

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Aliyah Phippen  '20

Lakeland University - LAVA North

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Eleya Avery-Ault  '20

University of Delaware - LAVA North

OUR COACHING STAFF

SMBC Boys houses one of the finest coaching staffs you will find, a tremendous coaching staff full of men and women of great character and experience. Our staff has multiple past or present high school and college coaches, international athletes, collegiate All-Americans, and Junior National and National Team players. We strive to train our athletes to become the best volleyball players, and finest people, they can be. In addition, our coaches understand the volleyball of this area and the volleyball of Southern California, and understand the strategies and systems required to be successful in a competitive environment. They also understand what it means to cultivate a team and strive to ensure the experience of our athletes is a positive one they will take with them, a rare trait in today’s club environment.

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