Metro American Volleyball

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Dawn Barnes is in her second year coaching with Metro American Volleyball Club.  Dawn is also in her second season with the Howard University Women's Volleyball team. Coach Barnes finished third in the 2011 MEAC Conference polls (5-5). As a first year Head Coach, Barnes had her first 2011 conference MEAC Conference appearance. She produced one First Team All-Conference Player, Tosin Elebute. 

Dawn served as a volunteer assistant coach at University of Pittsburgh 2010-2011, an assistant coach at Tennessee State(1998), an assistant coach at Vassar M&W Volleyball team, and a graduate assistant at Eastern Kentucky(1996-1997), Indiana State (1995) and Augustana College (1993-1995).  She also served as the Head Coach and Recruiting Coordinator for the highly-successful Williamson County Select Volleyball team (Nashville, Tenn.), which earned a Big South tournament championship during her tenure there. In three seasons with Williamson County Select (2005-08), Barnes had 13 women go on to play collegiate volleyball. Four players have gone on to NCAA Division I teams, two to DII teams, four to DIII teams and three to NAIA teams. She also spent three seasons with the Impact Volleyball Club under USA Volleyball (USAV).

Barnes is also very active with the USA High Performance tryouts, developmental camps and clinics at various locations throughout the nation.  In 2010 she was selected as the Assistant Coach to the Select Team at the USA HP Nationals in Wisconsin Dells. 

Dawn is a native of Moline, Illinois.  She graduated from Teikyo Marycrest University with a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology with concentration in Nursing.  She was a standout hitter for the Eagles, earning All-Conference and Regional honors. In addition, Barnes was invited to Colorado Springs, CO for the 1992 Summer Olympics tryouts.  Dawn is also a member of the AVCA and Black Coaches Associations.  

Owen Ranger is in his second year with the Central region of Metro American Volleyball Club.  Last year, he was the assistant coach for 14 Central.  Owen comes with a variety of coaching experience.  He was an assistant coach at National Cathedral School in 2007 and 2008, and head coach in 2009 and 2010.   He is now the head coach at Connelly School of the Holy Child. Outside of volleyball, he was an assistant basketball and softball coach at NCS from 2006 to 2011, an assistant baseball and football coach at Valdez High School in Valdez, Alaska from 2001 to 2006 (baseball)/2003-2006 (football), head girls’ basketball coach at Lumen Christi High School in Anchorage, Alaska (2001-2002), and interim head coach of the Valdez Torpedoes Swim Club (2001).  For four years at NCS, Owen coached the 2010-2011 Gatorade DC Player of the Year Izzi Eberstadt, also a former Metro player.  

Owen attended boarding school in Virginia where they didn’t offer volleyball, so he grew up playing beach volleyball during his summers at home in Long Beach, California.  

Owen then went on to attend Pepperdine University  where he earned his B.A. in Spanish and History.   While there, he studied under the men’s head coach, Dr. Mary Dunphy, one of the greatest winners in the sport’s history.  Owen also completed his MBA studies at George Washington University.  

Currently, when Owen is not coaching he serves as a substitute teacher at Beauvoir Elementary School and also works at the Friendship Ambulatory Surgery Center.