John Frederick
VARSITY HEAD COACH
This will be Coach Frederick's eighth year at St. Pius X as Head of the Volleyball program. His teams have been 224-148 in his tenure at St. Pius X.  After leading the team to the final four for the third time in school history last year, Coach Frederick was named DeKalb County Coach of the Year for the second time.  Coach Frederick was 292-74 in 12 years as the Junior Varsity coach at Westminster. Westminster won five state championships (1987, 1989, 1992, 1995 & 2000) during Coach Frederick's time in the program.  He began his volleyball carrer as a player where he was a middle blocker and setter at Bucknell University from 1980-83. Coach Frederick also coached Track and Cross Country at Westminster assisting with another 5 state championship teams. In addition to his Volleyball duties at St. Pius X, Coach Frederick teaches Chemistry. He is married to Ann Frederick and they have three children, David (17), Allison (13) and Kelsey (11).

dun hahn

Varsity associate head coach

Returning for a fourth season with the Golden Lions is Coach Dun.  He has been instrumental in changing the culture of Pius Volleyball.  In his first three years with the Golden Lions the teams accumulated 120 wins (19 more than in any prior three years in school history).  Coach Dun comes to us from Woodward Academy's where he assisted with their 2004 state championship.  He also has spent the last six years coaching with the Tsunami club program.  An IMPACT certified volleyball coach he led his 15-1 team to a 3rd place finish in the Southern region.  An outstanding player in his own right, Coach Hahn won a national championship as a player in BB Reverse Coed in 2004.  He is a graduate of Parkview High School and Georgia Tech where he has a degree in Biology.

Amanda mahoney

Junior Varsity coach

Among the strongest players in St. Pius X history Amanda continues to move up through the coaching ranks.  In her fifth year of coaching following an oustanding playing carrer for the Golden Lions, she led the JV to their first tournament championship in many years when they won the Darlington Invitational last fall. Previously she coached our freshmen and middle school teams.  More importantly she has done a fantasitic job of building the confidence of our young players with her positive outlook.  She also is coaching in the Tsunami club program.  This follows after playing a year of college volleyball at West Georgia State University.  One of the captains of the 2002 St. Pius X Golden Lions, Amanda will lend her expertise and positive attitude to our junior varsity program this year.  She has finished her associates degree in english and is currently in her senior year at West Georgia.

beth tarasawa

middle school coach

Looking forward to her third year as middle school coach is Beth Tarasawa.  Her first two middle school teams continued Amanda's strong tradition and have absorbed her positive outlook on the game and life.  In addition, last year Beth helped the Varsity team to its final four birth and is held in high regard throughtout the program.  Beth has spent time as a club coach with the Tsunami program coaching 14's and younger.  She went to high school in Portland, Oregon where she played primarily as a defensive specialist.  Beth is a graduate of Portland State University.  She has a PhD from Emory University in Sociology where she is currently teaching.

Kari Sans

freshman coach

Kari joined the freshman program mid season of 2007.  She played volleyball at Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California and made first team all league as a defensive specialist.  Kari graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a bachelor's degree in Physical Education and Health.  Additionally, she was commissioned in the US Army and complete her service with the 7th Infantry Division (Light) in Fort Ord, California as a Captain.  She has assisted with the IHM Volleyball developmental program for years and currently assists with Team One -13's.  Kari is married to Juan, and has two boys; Sebastian who attends St. Pius X and Addison who attends IHM.

lindsey gray

Varsity assistant coach

The new coach in the program has just completed her eligibility at Georgia Tech.  At Tech she was a special player.  She played for the Jacket's Volleyball team all four years.  She was an all-ACC selection as an outside hitter her Junior and Senior seasons.  In high school she was the Olathe Player of the Year at Olathe High School where she was twice named all-state in Kansas.  Lindsey will help with the varsity team this year as she finishes up a Management major at Georgia Tech.