On December 30th, 2025 in our East Hanover location, CJVA will be hosting a special volleyball clinic featuring William Paterson University Head Coach Kevin Rodgers. The clinic is open to players aged 14 to 18, and will introduce CJVA players to various College volleyball coaches, and give insight into the world of college volleyball and recruiting. These clinics have filled up in less than two weeks in previous years, so sign up early!

During this clinic, you’ll have the opportunity to work with several successful collegiate coaches that have all been to the NCAA tournament during their career. The first part of the clinic will be positional training with multiple coaches and then we’ll ease in to playing 6v6 where the focus will be using the new skills you learned in a real game-like scenario. After that, we’ll have a 30 minute Q&A where you can ask questions to all the coaches.

Kevin Rodgers has been a successful head coach at the NCAA Women’s Division 1, 2 and 3 levels. He also coached for seven years as a well accomplished men’s collegiate coach. In the last five years, he has earned his conferences Coach of the Year award three times. He brought a conference championship to East Stroudsburg (DII) in 2019 for the first time in 32 years and did the same thing at William Paterson University (DIII) for the first time in 33 years during the 2024 season. Both of those schools earned the right to compete in the NCAA tournament, snapping a multiple decade drought. Coach Rodgers has also coached multiple All-Americans and over 40 All-Conference players in his 16 year career.

Rodgers has coached at the collegiate level since 2009 at NJCU (men’s and women’s), Ramapo College (men’s), FDU-Madison, FDU-Metro, Bucknell, East Stroudsburg and William Paterson. During his career he has amassed over 200 wins as a head coach. He has coached at high academic, public and private universities. During the Q&A portion of the clinic, he’ll articulate the differences between the various institutions that he has coached at and discuss how to get recruited to a university that fits your athletic and academic needs.

Coaches in attendance:

• Kevin Rodgers- Head Coach, William Paterson University Women’s Volleyball (Former men’s coach)
• Tyler Blank- Head Coach, Vassar College Women’s Volleyball (Former Men’s Coach)
• Matt Jessen- Head Coach, Manhattanville University Men’s and Women’s Volleyball
• Macon Frey- Head Coach, Stevens University Women’s Volleyball
• Shana Rayside- Head Coach, Georgian Court University (D2) Women’s Volleyball
• And more to come!