Ventura College Women's Volleyball

Lyans enters his fourth season at the helm of the Pirate volleyball team in 2016.  He has guided the Pirates to steady improvement throughout his tenure, culminating in an 18-8 season a year ago and a third place finish in the Western State Conference North Division behind SoCal's top two playoff seeds.  Last year was the team's best since the Pirates won the WSC title in 2005.  In 2014, he led VC to its best record in seven seasons, breaking a seven-year playoff drought in the process. On April 16, 2013, Ventura College announced the hiring of Brad Lyans as the new head coach of the Pirates womens volleyball program. The long-time Southern California coach has an extensive coaching resume, coupled with an excellent understanding of the two-year college volleyball community in California. Coach Lyans is no stranger to success on the junior college stage: he spent multiple years as first assistant coach for both the mens and womens volleyball programs at Los Angeles Pierce College, reaching the CCCAA Final Four with the former (2006) and winning three Western State Conference titles (2006-2008) and reaching another CCCAA Final Four with the latter.  He was mentored by two-time American Volleyball Coaches Association National Coach of the Year and Pierce womens head coach Nabil Mardini. He has also logged two seasons with the NCAA Division I Cal State Northridge womens volleyball team under the direction of head coach and World Volleyball Hall of Famer Jeff Stork, helping that squad to a pair of third place finishes in the competitive Big West Conference. As a teacher and trainer at the high school level, Lyans has one of the most impeccable backgrounds one is likely to find. A Gold Medal Squared Certified Coach, he is a fixture on the GMS summer coaching circuit and one of the senior clinicians with the organization. Brad is also Head Clinician and one of the highest ranking coaches for the Los Angeles Volleyball Academy, one of the premier junior club volleyball organizations in the country with ten locations in Southern California and over 150 coaches. His club coaching experience is vast, with nearly a decade on the sidelines as his teams at the 15s and 18s levels went on to find great success, including a Volleyball Festival Championship in 2007 and a Junior National Championships appearance in 2012. Lyans was a two-sport high school athlete for Crescenta Valley High School Class of 1996 in the La Crescenta area of Southern California.  He went on to earn All-Conference honors as a celebrated player for the 1999 CCCAA state runner-up Pierce College mens volleyball team. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies from the College of Humanities at Cal State University, Northridge. Coach Brad Lyans enters his fourth season at the helm of the Pirate volleyball team in 2016.  He has guided the Pirates to steady improvement throughout his tenure, culminating in an 18-8 season a year ago and a third place finish in the Western State Conference North Division behind SoCal's top two playoff seeds.  Last year was the team's best since the Pirates won the WSC title in 2005.  In 2014, he led VC to its best record in seven seasons, breaking a seven-year playoff drought in the process. On April 16, 2013, Ventura College announced the hiring of Brad Lyans as the new head coach of the Pirates womens volleyball program. The long-time Southern California coach has an extensive coaching resume, coupled with an excellent understanding of the two-year college volleyball community in California. Coach Lyans is no stranger to success on the junior college stage: he spent multiple years as first assistant coach for both the mens and womens volleyball programs at Los Angeles Pierce College, reaching the CCCAA Final Four with the former (2006) and winning three Western State Conference titles (2006-2008) and reaching another CCCAA Final Four with the latter.  He was mentored by two-time American Volleyball Coaches Association National Coach of the Year and Pierce womens head coach Nabil Mardini. He has also logged two seasons with the NCAA Division I Cal State Northridge womens volleyball team under the direction of head coach and World Volleyball Hall of Famer Jeff Stork, helping that squad to a pair of third place finishes in the competitive Big West Conference. As a teacher and trainer at the high school level, Lyans has one of the most impeccable backgrounds one is likely to find. A Gold Medal Squared Certified Coach, he is a fixture on the GMS summer coaching circuit and one of the senior clinicians with the organization. Brad is also Head Clinician and one of the highest ranking coaches for the Los Angeles Volleyball Academy, one of the premier junior club volleyball organizations in the country with ten locations in Southern California and over 150 coaches. His club coaching experience is vast, with nearly a decade on the sidelines as his teams at the 15s and 18s levels went on to find great success, including a Volleyball Festival Championship in 2007 and a Junior National Championships appearance in 2012. Lyans was a two-sport high school athlete for Crescenta Valley High School Class of 1996 in the La Crescenta area of Southern California.  He went on to earn All-Conference honors as a celebrated player for the 1999 CCCAA state runner-up Pierce College mens volleyball team. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies from the College of Humanities at Cal State University, Northridge.