Chris has been active with the Elemisha program since 2011, which is where he started playing volleyball. After developing his outdoor volleyball fundamentals, he transitioned to indoor volleyball in 2014 and played for MVVC, Academy Volleyball Club, and Carlmont High School. As an outside hitter, Chris loves to play grass and beach doubles because of the wide range of skills needed to excel in outdoor volleyball. He has won multiple Elemisha end-of-the-year tournaments, and is looking forward to coaching the young players coming through our program. Chris’ involvement in the program has grown over the last few years, and his responsibilities now include training and development planning in addition to coaching.

Chris played outside hitter for the UC Berkeley Men’s club volleyball team from 2018-2021, and graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Data Science and Economics.

In his daily life, he is a data analyst for a tech company on the peninsula. In his free time, he also enjoys playing volleyball at local gyms, playing basketball, gaming, and listening to music.

Bryan Ding started playing volleyball with our Volleykids program in 2009. He has been with us every year both as a student and then an instructor. He is a student of the game and a natural born libero, but excels in all phases of the game.  He has become an integral part of the Elemisha scenery and has been involved since its inception in 2009.  

In his daily life, Bryan is a graduate of UCSD Environmental Engineering program and works in the factory automation and robotics space as a support engineer. He is also an avid chef and gamer.

Jesse began playing volleyball in 2020 during the pandemic after being introduced to the sport through the very popular manga series Haikyuu, and leveraged his competitive tennis experience to become an outstanding setter and libero. While he is recent to volleyball, Jesse has 6 years experience coaching/teaching High Performance USTA Tennis and also works with developmentally disabled youth.

In his spare time, Jesse runs a very popular east bay volleyball meetup, and coaches at both the middle school and club levels on the peninsula.

Cydney has been playing volleyball for over a decade - it all started when she was a tiny freshman trying out for her high school's JV team. She was immediately picked up and trained as a setter and played three years on the varsity squad.

In college, Cydney mainly played casually, participating in UCLA's IM tournaments and going to open gym practice. Nowadays, you can often find her playing outdoors at various volleyball meetup events.

Off the court, Cydney works as a UX designer and product manager for View, a smart glass company, and enjoys drinking copious amounts of boba.

Jane has been involved in our program in various ways since 2011. She started playing volleyball with the Elemisha program in 7th grade, where she and her best friend Nika made a splash by winning their pool in our first tournament as the absolute YOUNGEST players by 2-3 years. Through our program she fell in love with the sport and continued to play club volleyball for four years as an outside hitter/defense specialist. At Amador Valley high school, she played on varsity for three years. She is excited to share her enthusiasm and passion for volleyball with this year’s players.

Jane graduated from UCLA with a degree in neuroscience, and is currently enrolled in medical school at Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University.

Jorja started playing volleyball in 8th Grade. She was exposed to outdoor volleyball in high school, and fell in love with the sport even more. Jorja played as a libero/DS for Granada High School and enjoyed her senior season in 2022. She plans to continue playing volleyball in college at USF!

In her daily life, Jorja enjoys playing volleyball, karaoke, reading lots of books, and metalworking.

Shashank has been playing for the Elemisha volleyball program since his freshman year of high school, and played for four years on the men's Volleyball team for Dublin High School. As a setter, he enjoys playing grass as it rounds out his game and helps him get to balls quicker when he makes the transition to indoor volleyball.

Shashank is studying engineering at Cal Poly SLO, and continuing to pursue his passion for volleyball.

Moses started playing volleyball when he first attended Elemisha while in middle school. He quickly became hooked on the extremely competitive nature of volleyball, and has always relished every battle for every point. In high school, Moses played for Dublin High team as an outside hitter. His hobbies include playing video games, playing various musical instruments, and playing volleyball with every chance he gets.

Moses is attending UC Riverside for Mechanical Engineering.