Kolby Bentley
Kolby was born and raised in San Diego and began playing volleyball in middle school. She comes from a volleyball family, with her parents and extended family being involved with the sport at high levels since the 80s. She graduated from Westview High School and completed eight years of playing at San Diego Volleyball Club. This then led her to continue pursuing her volleyball career at the Division 1 Level at the University of Miami. She was an outside hitter and competed at Miami for four years. After graduating with her undergrad degree, she found her way back to Southern California in 2020 completing her Master's Degree from Vanguard University while playing a grad year of beach volleyball there. Kolby also found a love for coaching beginning in high school and has continued coaching consistently since then for the past 10 years. She has coached at almost every level including junior college, high school, club, boys/girls, and little ones! She knows God led her back to the FCA ministry in 2020 as she had been greatly impacted by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes since her middle school years. She joined staff with FCA in 2021 as one of San Diego's volleyball reps, and shortly after began the endeavor of FCA Volleyball Club, now in it's third season. Kolby is so excited to help provide an opportunity like this that is Christ centered for young athletes. She is also recently married to her husband, Connor Bentley.
Noelle Blankenship
Noelle Blankenship was born in Long Beach, California, and moved to Virginia at age 16. She grew up being coached by her dad, who shared the sport of volleyball with many athletes over the years through coaching sports days, clinics, and high school teams. Noelle has 5+ years of experience coaching girls club volleyball and enjoys teaching athletes to improve their skills. She has been on staff with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes since 2017, serving alongside coaches and athletes in Northern Virginia and now San Diego. From 2016-2018, Noelle served as FCA Character Coach to the volleyball program at Loudoun County High School, as they won State Title each year for Virginia Class 4 schools – an exciting adventure! Noelle enjoys playing outdoor grass and womens indoor. She recently moved to San Diego and is excited to be part of FCA Volleyball!
Erika Brown
Erika played at Illini Elite Volleyball club for 8 years prior to setting for 4 years at the University of Southern Indiana. When Erika was 17, her team placed second in the national open championship and post-college, was blessed to coach the same team she placed second with in nationals. Erika has coached various age groups at Illini Elite and Normal community high school the last 5 years before to moving out west to California. Erika’s passion is to use volleyball and coaching as a vessel for young athletes to grow as champions of Christ - on and off the court.
Christina Bumann
Christina is a great addition to FCAV as a Encinitas native girl who played in high school and competitive club. She is a professional photographer, works at her church, and is now joining our coaching staff after serving the Santa Fe Christian junior high girls volleyball program this past fall. We are so excited to have her!
Ella Fizzard
Ella is one of our high school helper coaches! She is a junior at Maranatha Christian School from their varsity squad. She is also on our FCAV 17s team and will be learning to coach volleyball while assisting coach Kolby with our 14s team this year! Welcome Ella!
Aarolyn Yi
Aarolyn is one of our high school helper coaches that has served with FCAV for two seasons now. She volunteer assisted with our 12s team last year and is now assisting with our 12s team again this year! She has a heart to serve the younger ages and to gain experience coaching volleyball.
Arielle Whetton
Arielle is joining FCAV as an assistant coach and we are so excited to have her. She has a lot of experience serving kids through churches, schools, and sports. She has a heart for Jesus and for others. She is excited to learn more about volleyball in her assistant role. She also coaches cheer at Santa Fe Christian.
Rachel Tafoya
Rachel joins us from a long connection with FCA, back to 2017 serving at camps. She has experience as a collegiate player from The University of Redlands and San Diego Christian College. She now resides in San Diego as a true Indio native and is very excited to join our staff. She has experience coaching from years of camps and just coached the JV team at Foothills Christian School.
Victoria Echegoyen
Victoria has been with FCAV for all three seasons we have existed. First, as a player and now coming into her second year as a coach. She has coached JV at Maranatha Christian for two years as well and is continuing to learn and grow as a coach. She has a huge heart for serving the younger generation and helping them find Christ!