Coaches Bios - Antelope Valley College Marauder Athletics

Jane
CWAYNA
HIGHLIGHTS OF CWAYNA’S 32
YEARS AT AVC
1981 - Cwayna takes over the helm of Marauder
Volleyball. The Marauders win their
first match in her second as coach - 3-1 over
Oxnard.
Had Jane Cwayna (pronounced Qwhy-na) thought she
would have been volleyball coach at Antelope Valley
College, she probably wouldn’t have had a .559 winning
percentage, six conference championships and coach of 1982 - The Marauders win their first conference
title, winning the Mountain Valley
the year awards, nor have 316 career wins.
You see, Cwayna applied for the job as women’s
basketball coach (a position she also held at AVC until 1983 - Two in a row as AVC wins the Mountain
1990), and claims if the ad had listed volleyball as well, Valley title again. It also marks the first time
she wouldn’t have applied.
AVC gets into the playoffs, losing 3-0 to El
She took the job anyway, and has, over the past 32 Camino in the first round
seasons, consistently put her teams in the win column and
toward the top of the conference standings, compiling a 1990 - The Marauder Women’s Basketball
316-248 match record.
team, which Cwayna also coached, wins the
This season, the Marauders won their second Foothill Conference title - Cwayna’s only basketball
title. She stepped away from heading
straight Foothill Conference title - and their last, since
AVC is moving into the Western State next season. both Basketball and Volleyball that year to
Kystal Campos was named Foothill Conference Player concentrate on Volleyball.
of the Year that year and Cwayna was again Foothill
Conference Coach of the Year.
1993 - The 13th year is lucky for AVC as it
In 2011, Cwayna coached a phoenix, starting 1-8 fields the best team ever. The Marauders
and finishing 10-2 the rest of the way and winning the were a perfect 18-0 in the regular season and
Foothill Conference title. Allyson Lods was named hosted and won the first playoff game - 3-2
Foothill Conference Player of the Year that year and over SD Mesa. Their only loss was in the
Cwayna was Foothill Conference Coach of the Year. second round of the playoffs to eventual state
In 2009 she led the Marauders to their first Foothill champion Golden West.
Conference championship since 1993, setting a record
for most straight set wins and boasted the Foothill 2004 - Despite a third place finish in the Foothill
Conference, Cwayna is honor as Confer-
Conference Player of the Year in Ashley Marroquin.
The Marauders were 61-14 over the 1990 through ence coach of the year.
1993 seasons, the first time AVC has had four straight
double digit win seasons. In that 1993 season, the 2009 - Despite having some of her best players
from 1994 to 2008, the Marauders could
Marauders were perfect through conference, and won
their first-ever home playoff contest, with Cwayna being do no better than third until 2009 when the
named Foothill
Marauders broke the long string
Conference Coach
and won the Foothill Conference,
of the Year.
and in the process set a school
In addition to
record for most straight set
1993, her 1982
wins. In that season, AVC nearly
and 1983 teams
bounced the No. 1 seed - Pasadena
City - in the first round of
were conference
champions. She
the playoffs, losing 3-2.
was named Coach
of the Year in
2011 - AVC started starting 1-8
1982, 2004,
and finishing 10-2 the rest of the
2009 and 2011.
way to win the Foothill Conference
title and earn a rare set win
Cwayna has sent
18 players to fouryear
programs,
Pierce in the first round of the
against eventual state champion
including such
playoffs.
notables as Kim
Fairchild, who
2012 - Twelve straight wins give
started for the
the Marauders’ their second
1989 NCAA
straight conference title since the
Division II
1983 and 1984 double.
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volleyball
champions
Cal State
Bakersfield;
Heidi
Roarty, who
played on
scholarship
at the
University
of South
Florida;
Portola
George who
played on
scholarship
for Cal State
Bakersfield;
Jennifer Lee who played for Kansas
Weslyan; TaMesha Jefferson and Tiffany
Bull who played for Cal State Dominguez
Hills and Kristy Nua who played for Cal
State Northridge.
From 1981 to 1990, Cwayna led the
Marauder women’s basketball team. She
ended her tenure as coach with the school’s
first-ever conference championship and as
Foothill Conference Coach of the Year.
Cwayna began her athletic career
swimming the breaststroke and freestyle in
her hometown of Grand Rapids, MI. After
high school, she attended Grand Rapids
Junior College, where she was a setter in
volleyball and guard in basketball.
She moved on to Western Michigan
University, where she received her
bachelor’s and master’s in physical
education, in addition to playing basketball,
volleyball and swimming for the Broncos.
She began her coaching career at West
Middle School in Grand Rapids, where she
coached volleyball, basketball and track
and was in charge of intramurals. She
then transferred to Union High School and
started the girls’ basketball and volleyball
programs. She spent nine years at the
school, and in her last two seasons, her
basketball teams went 40-9 and moved on
to the quarterfinals.
Cwayna coached basketball at Central
Michigan University for one year before
taking the Marauder position in 1981.
On the personal side, if Cwayna had
known about the volleyball assignment,
and thus not taken the AVC job, she also
probably wouldn’t have met her husband,
Joe Kern. Joe is the father of former
Marauder assistant coach Karen Valencia.
Jane and Joe were married in 1998 in her
hometown of Grand Rapids, MI.
The Cwayna Era
32nd and Final Season - 314-248
YR W L PCT GW GL
1981 6 9 .400 25 31
1982 11 3 .786 37 16 Mtn Val Champs
1983 12 6 .667 41 28 Mtn Val Co-Champs
1984 8 9 .471 35 30
1985 11 7 .611 36 27 WSC -- Fourth
1986 9 7 .562 27 26 SCAC -- Second
1987 8 5 .615 28 19 SCAC -- Third
1988 9 5 .643 30 20 Foothill -- Third
1989 8 7 .533 28 24 Foothill -- Third
1990 12 5 .706 37 22 Foothill -- Third
1991 14 5 .737 46 21 Foothill -- Second
1992 16 3 .842 53 15 Foothill -- Third
1993 19 1 .950 57 11 Foothill -- Champs
1994 7 8 .467 25 29 Foothill -- Third
1995 4 9 .308 20 29 Foothill N -- Third
1996 8 9 .471 31 31 Foothill N -- Fourth
1997 5 12 .294 21 40 Foothill N -- Fourth
1998 10 8 .556 35 26 Foothill N -- Fourth
1999 13 5 .722 41 17 Foothill -- Third
2000 6 13 .316 29 45 Foothill -- Seventh
2001 7 11 .389 26 42 Foothill -- Sixth
2002 4 15 .211 24 50 Foothill -- Eighth
2003 9 9 .500 35 37 Foothill -- T. Third
2004 11 7 .611 36 29 Foothill -- Third
2005 12 6 .667 42 21 Foothill -- Third
2006 11 9 .550 39 35 Foothill -- Fourth
2007 7 11 .389 31 39 Foothill -- Sixth
2008 9 10 .474 34 35 Foothill -- Fourth
2009 14 5 .737 48 21 Foothill -- Champs
2010 5 15 .250 26 53 Foothill -- Fifth
2011 11 11 .500 42 40 Foothill -- Champs
2012 17 5 .773 Foothill -- Champs
TOT 316 248 .562

Mark
CRUZ
Mark Cruz became
a Marauder Assistant
to the head coach in
2008 and became the
Marauders assistant
coach in 2011.
A former player
under Turhan Douglas,
Cruz has high school
and club coaching
experience, including
four years with the
University of Southern
California men’s
volleyball program.
He spent two years
as a team manager after
spending the previous two seasons (2003-04) as an assistant
coach.
Cruz went to USC in 2002 from Wm. S. Hart High
where he coached the girls’ varsity in 2002, the boys’
freshmen in 2002 and the girls’ freshmen in 2000 and 2001.
The Indians were Foothill League champions both of those
seasons.
Before that, he was at Highland High School --his alma
mater--where he was an assistant with the girls’ varsity for
4 seasons (1996-99). They won the Golden League title
each year. He also assisted with the boys’ varsity in 2000.
In 1995, he guided Palmdale’s Juniper Intermediate
School boys’ team to the league crown.
On the club level, he was the head coach of the girls’
14 team for the Synergy Volleyball Club in 2003-04 and
its girls’ 16 team in 2002, the girls’ 14 squads for the Santa
Clarita Athletic Club in 2000 and 2001 and the boys’ 16
team for the Santa Monica Beach Club in 2000.
He played for Douglas at Pierce for two seasons
(1998-99), leading the team in aces and digs as a defensive
specialist. The Brahmas were the state runner-up in 1999.
He played volleyball for four years (1992-95) at
Highland High. The 1994 Bulldog team was the CIF
runner-up in 1994.
He received his Bachelor of Arts in liberal studies from
The Master’s College in 2005.
He is the co-owner of the Revolution Volleyball Club
and Athletic Director at Bethel Christian High School
Janalee
MAYS-ROBINSON
Janalee Mays-
Robinson joined the
Marauder staff as an
assistant - her first
coaching position in in
2011.
Mays-Robinson
played two years on
scholarship at Northern
Arizona University and
as a junior was second in
the Big Sky Conference
in assists per set.
Named to the Fiesta
Bowl All-Tournament
team that same season,
she earned the Golden
Eagle Award both years, which is given to any NAU athlete
who earns a 3.0 gpa or high each semester.
Before NAU, Mays-Robinson played at Golden West
College, where the Rustlers were the state runners-up in her
sophomore season - 2007. In that season she was ranked
first in the state in assists, and was named to the State All-
Tournament team.
Twice she was atop the Orange Empire Conference
for assists per set, she was second in the state for sets as a
freshman.
Mays-Robinson graduated from Canyon High School
where she played four years for the Cowboys, and as a
junior and senior was named first team All-Foothill League.
She was second team All-Foothill League as a sophomore.
As a senior, she was named the Cowboys’ MVP.
She also played two years of club ball for the
Revolution Volleyball Club, which Marauder Assistant
Mark Cruz co-owns.
Mays-Robinson received her bachelor’s degree in
Public Relations with a minor in sociology in 2010 from
Northern Arizona.
Assistant Coach
Assistant Coach
5th year
2nd year
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Noel
CRUZ
Mark Cruz became
a Marauder Assistant
this season.
He comes to the
Marauders after assisting
the men’s volleyball
team at California
Baptist University.
Previously he was
first assistant coach at
for the Quartz Hill Boys
Volleyball team that won
the Golden League in
2006. In 2004 he headed
the Highland boys junior
varsity to a league title
and the year before
coached the boys junior varsity at Wm. S. Hart High.
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In 2003 he was assistant coach at Canyons.
At the club level, he was he head coach for SMBC,
now LAVA for four years, three years at Synergy Volleyball
Club, two for Antelope Valley Volleyball Club and five
years for Revolution Volleyball Club.
Cruz graduated from Highland High School where
he played three years of varsity boys volleyball for the
Bulldogs, receiving MVP honors in 1997. In 2000, he led
the Golden League with assists in 2000.
He then played for Santa Monica Beach Club and in the
2000 Junior Olympics was named Best Defensive Player
Award.
He played for Cal Baptist and the NAIA 2011 National
Champion.
He is currently pursuing my bachelor’s degree in
business administration concentrating on anagement at Cal
Baptist.
He is a hairstylist and owns a volleyball referee
business for all of the junior highs in the Antelope Valley.
Assistant Coach
1st year
2012 ANTELOPE VALLEY COLLEGE MARAUDER VOLLEYBALL ROSTER
No Name Pos Hgt Yr Hometown (High School)
1 Allyson Lods L 5-4 SO Lancaster (Lancaster ’11)
First team All-Foothill Conference
2 Kristal Campos OH 5-7 SO Lancaster (Eastside ’11)
Foothill Conference Player of the Year; SoCal All-Regional
3 Mariah Moseley OH 5-6 SO Lancaster (Quartz Hill ’11)
5 Tarynn Schultze S 5-4 SO Lancaster (Bethel Christian ’11)
Second team All-Foothill Conference
7 Shannel Sims OPP 5-9 SO Pearblossom (Littlerock ’11)
9 Sam Spiegel OH 5-9 SO Acton (Paraclete ’11)
12 Cherise Austin MB 5-10 SO Palmdale (Palmdale ’11)
First team All-Foothill Conference
13 Danielle Tracy S 5-7 SO Palmdale (Quartz Hill ’11)
Second team All-Foothill Conference
14 Marissa Gonzalez DS 5-6 SO Lancaster (Quartz Hill ’09)
20 Marisa Heyne OH/OPP 6-2 FR Lancaster (Desert Christian ’10)
21 McKenzie Pantana OH 5-7 FR Lancaster (Desert ’12)
24 Victoria Munz MB 5-11 SO Quartz Hill (Quartz Hill ’11)
First team All-Foothill Conference
Head Coach: Jane Cwayna - Foothill Conference Coach of the Year
Asst. Coaches: Mark Cruz, Janalee Mays-Robinson, Noel Cruz
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