Girls Volleyball

Please check the TeamSnap page for all up to date practice and game times. 

For PDF schedule click here. (updated 8/3/23)

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.

 

Tuan Nguyen - Head Freshmen Coach / Varsity Assitant Coach​

This is Coach Tuan's 10th year at SMCHS. Nguyen has coached 15 years at Laguna Beach Volleyball Club and in 2020 made the switch to Momentous Volleyball Club. Nguyen also was an assistant coach at Biola and Concordia for ten years. In 2009, he earned a medal at the 18’s JO’s. He works in the medical industry and was born in Vietnam. In his previous years he coached at El Dorado, Mater Dei, and Rosary.

 

 

 

 

Samie Senske- Head Junior Varsity Coach

Coach Senske enters her 2nd year coaching with the Santa Margarita volleyball program. She played volleyball at JSerra from 2013-2017 and at Johnson & Wales University (JWU) from 2019-2021 as an OH/DS. During her time at JWU, she was the captain of her team (2022) and helped lead them to three conference championships and NCAA tournament appearances. Senske has coached at 949 Volleyball Club for 2 years, most recently as the girls 16-1s and 13-2s coach. She is also the Frosh/Soph Boys Volleyball coach at the school. In addition to her coaching duties, she is a member of the Communications Department at Santa Margarita.

 

 

Peyton schirman - Head frosh/Soph coach​

Bio coming soon.