Girls Volleyball

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Team Championships

• 1989 - League Champions
• 1995 - League Champions
• 1996 - CIF Champions
• 1997 - CIF Champions
• 1998 - CIF Champions
• 1999 - CIF Champions
• 1999 - League Champions
• 1999 - State Champions
• 2003 - CIF Champions
• 2004 - CIF Champions
• 2005 - League Champions
• 2006 - League Champions
• 2008 - CIF Champions
• 2008 - League Champions
• 2009 - League Champions
• 2010 - League Champions
• 2011 - League Champions
• 2014 - League Champions
• 2015 - League Champions
• 2016 - League Champions
• 2016 - CIF Champions
• 2016 - Southern California Regional Champions
• 2017 - Southern California Regional Champions
• 2017 - State Champions

 

Katy (Daly) Gammon- Head Varsity Coach | email: dalyk@smhs.org

Coach Daly is entering her 10th year as the head coach of the girls' varsity volleyball team and her 14th year with SMCHS. She played collegiate volleyball at Pepperdine University under full scholarship where she was a team captain and named to the All-Conference First-Team three consecutive years. Before playing college volleyball, Daly was a member of the Laguna Beach Volleyball club where she was the MVP of the National Championship teams in 1998 and 2002. Daly played high school volleyball for the San Clemente Tritons where she was named CIF player of the year in 2001, helping to lead her team to a CIF title. Daly has been a health/fitness teacher at Santa Margarita Catholic High School since 2007 and has also taught cultural geography at the school. Daly has served as a head coach with the Laguna Beach Volleyball Club for 16 years, where her teams have been nationally-recognized. In 2020, Daly moved from Laguna Beach to 949, where she coaches the 14-1's. Daly has also worked with the Sports Shack Volleyball Club in Beverly Hills, CA as a head coach.

 

Monique (Gerlach) Harrison '00 -
Varsity Assistant Coach

Coach Harrison is in her 10th year with the volleyball program. She played volleyball at SMCHS from 1996-2000 and also played at the University of Colorado in 2000-2004. Harrison played middle blocker and won 1999 State Championship with SMCHS. She was awarded CIF player of the year and was an All-Conference, All-Region and All-American while at Colorado. Harrison is married with two boys and has lived overseas for five years while her husband played pro basketball in Europe. When not at the volleyball court, Harrison is also an Assistant Principal here at SMCHS.

 

Cassie Strickland- Head Junior Varsity Coach/ Varsity Assistant Coach

Cassie Strickland is entering her first season with SMCHS.  She has been coaching at the High School and club volleyball level for the last 5 years.  Prior to her coaching career she was a 4 year starter at the University of Washington.   While playing for the Huskies she was a 2X PAC-12 Champion,  a starting outside hitter on the 2013 Final Four Husky team, the 2014  PAC-12 Libero of the Year, and in 2015 she was named an NCAA DI All American.  Following the completion of her bachelor’s degree in Medical Anthropology in 2016, she earned a master’s degree in Sports Administration in 2017 while competing for the Huskies on the Beach Volleyball team.  She then competed in the professional leagues in Finland (2017-18) and Spain (2018-19).  Prior to her collegiate and professional career, Strickland was one of the top recruits in California.  She was a 4-year varsity player at Edison High School where she earned First Team All League, First Team All County, First Team All CIF, was named the Sunset league MVP in 2011, and was inducted into Edison High Schools Athletic Hall of Fame. Strickland is in her 5^th year coaching at A4 Volley where she is a Coach & Club Director.  

 

Peyton schirman - Head frosh/Soph coach​

This is going to be my 2nd season at Santa Margarita.  I went to Steele Canyon High School and was a quad sport athlete competing in Football, Baseball, Track & Field, and Volleyball.  Sadly I started my volleyball journey when I was a Junior in Highschool.  Upon graduation, I furthered my education and volleyball career at the University of Mount Olive in North Carolina where I received a full ride scholarship.  During my time at Mount Olive, I received NCAA National Player of the week multiple times as well as National Player of the Month.  I later transferred to Briar Cliff University and was a 1st Team All-American for two consecutive seasons.  After college I was fortunate enough to continue my playing career in Europe for two seasons.  When I returned home, I began coaching at Wave Volleyball club in Del Mar, California and was there for three years.  During my time in San Diego I had the opportunity to coach at both Westview and Torrey Pines Highschool.  I later moved to Laguna Hills and started coaching at A4 Volley where I coach the 14-1's and 16-2's on the girls side.  On the boys program I coach the 18-1's.  

 

Heather Washington- Head Frosh/ Soph Coach

Coach Washington comes to Santa Margarita after 14 years of coaching at Saint Francis High School in Mountain View, California.  During her tenure as an assistant for the Varsity Girls' volleyball team, Washington won 7 CIF State Volleyball titles from 1992 to 2003.  When Coach Washington stepped away from high school coaching to raise her children, she stayed active in the volleyball community as a long time board member for the Mountain View Volleyball Club.  During college, Coach Washington was a two year starting middle blocker for nationally-ranked San Jose State University from 1987 to 1990.  Excited to join the Santa Margarita community, Washington has three children and will be teaching Social Studies this year at SM.