collEdge Volleyball Camps
About Our D3 Level Training
OUR PHILOSOPHY:
collEdge camps were founded in 2010 with the primary goal of providing a unique camp experience that is beneficial for both coaches and student-athletes in a welcoming, enthusiastic and educational environment. Most camp sessions consist of full regulation games/matches in order to give the athlete plenty of playing time. Off the court, our campers will have the chance to learn more about the college admission process from a college Admission officer.
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Read more Coach Chwastyk reached the 200 win mark early in the 2015 season and has the most in school history, and the eighth-most wins in the Centennial Conference. The 2012 season was highlighted by a program-first win over a nationally-ranked opponent, #10 Eastern University, and received votes in the AVCA top 25 national poll. In just the last five seasons, Chwastyk’s charges set new program watermarks for best conference finish and five postseason ECAC tournament appearances. Her peers within the conference recognized Chwastyk by naming her the Centennial Coach of the Year in consecutive seasons (2009, 2010) and again in 2014. Through dedicated recruiting efforts, Chwastyk has brought players from 18 states to campus. Twenty-nine of her players have landed on the all-conference list and Sarah Wallace ’18 is a two-time AVCA All-America honorable mention recipient. The 2015 season marked the first time three Garnet players - Sam DuBois '16, Sarah Girard '19 and Wallace - were All-Centennial First Team selections. The student-athletes at a demanding academic setting have responded, earning the AVCA Team Academic Award (team grade point average is above 3.3) 11 times, including seven consecutively, while accumulating 55 academic all-conference selections, seven CoSIDA Academic All-District selections, and three Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area Performer of the Year awards. Chwastyk is the current chair of the Centennial Conference volleyball coaches’ committee and represents the 11-member Division III conference in several aspects: ECAC championship selection committee, an AVCA national poll voter, and most recently chaired the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Division III All-America Awards committee. At Swarthmore, one of the top private liberal arts colleges in the country, Chwastyk is an active participant in the College community. She is the coordinator of the Physical Education program within the Athletics Department and, as an instructor, introduced to the student body Pilates and Orienteering classes. Her committee work on campus is extensive, serving on the steering committee in the Physical Education & Athletics’ department review, the Swarthmore Foundation, Garnet Hall of Fame Nominating Committee and the Physical Education & Athletics Advisory Committee. Prior to Swarthmore, Coach Chwastyk was an assistant at Smith (Mass.) College from 2000-02 for two years while she completed a Master of Science degree in exercise and sport studies. Her head coaching resume includes stints with the men’s club program at Swarthmore, the Liberty Belles Volleyball Club 17-under team and the boys’ junior varsity program at Conard (Conn.) High School. Her summer technician docket sees Chwastyk as camp director of the Chwastyk Volleyball Camps at Swarthmore (http://www.chwastykvolleyballcamps.com) and the Cape Cod Volleyball Camp run by legendary Barnstable (Mass.) High School two-time national coach of the year Tom Turco. Chwastyk’s collegiate playing career saw her serve as the two-year captain of the Trinity (Conn.) College volleyball team, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 2000. An All-NESCAC performer in 1999, Chwastyk still holds three blocking records at Trinity. A two-sport athlete, Chwastyk was a forward on the Bantams’ women’s basketball team that captured the ECAC New England Championship in 2000. Over the years, Chwastyk also captained the Adirondack team in the Empire State Games and made the adult club circuit with various USA Volleyball teams. An ardent believer in community and service, Chwastyk’s most recent endeavor is serving as co-director of the Snell-Shillingford Coaching Symposium (http://www.centennial.org/Symposium/about), an opportunity for undergraduate female student-athletes to explore career and leadership opportunities in athletics. After serving as a participant and a coach in the Cathy D’Apice Memorial Volleyball tournament in an effort to aid breast cancer research, Chwastyk started a similar effort within the Centennial Conference in 2006 with the Dig for a Cure service project. To date, the now-conference wide effort has raised over $50,000. Chwastyk resides in nearby Rutledge, Pa. with her husband, David, and their son, Logan, and daughter, Calleigh. |
Harleigh Chwastyk,
 Cecily ScavicchioAssistant Camp Director
Cecily Scavicchio was hired as the head coach of the Ursinus College volleyball program in 2017. A former two-sport standout at Neumann University, Scavicchio spent the previous four season as an assistant at Swarthmore College.
Read more Scavicchio played an integral role on a highly successful program at Swarthmore, helping to lead the Garnet to three Centennial Conference playoff appearances and a pair of ECAC championships. While at Swarthmore, Scavicchio coached a CC player of the year, two CC rookies of the year, and eight first team all-conference selections in addition to three AVCA honorable mention All-Americans. The Garnet also garnered an AVCA Team Academic Award all four seasons. A graduate of Garnet Valley High School, Scavicchio started all four years at setter for Neumann, where she was a three-year captain and member of both the 1,000 dig and 4,000 assist clubs. Scavicchio, who was recognized with Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) academic and athletic honors every year, led the Knights to a conference championship and NCAA Tournament berth in 2012. Additionally, she was a member of a women’s basketball program that won back-to-back CSAC crowns in 2010 and 2011. At Neumann, Scavicchio was a member of the Delta Epsilon Sigma honor society and the recipient of the Neumann University Academic Achievement Grant and Presidential Scholarship for Academic Achievement. Scavicchio has coached with Mystique Volleyball Club for the past seven years, and her camp resume includes stops at the Garnet Volleyball Camps, Neumann University Volleyball Camps, City Beach Volleyball Camp, and as a counselor for CollEdge. A Dean’s List honoree every semester at Neumann, Scavicchio earned her degree in Elementary and Special Education and graduated summa cum laude in 2012. She will attain a master’s degree in Education with an emphasis in Social Emotional Learning in June. Scavicchio teaches Autistic Support at Hilltop Elementary School in the Chichester School District and resides in Wallingford, Pa. |
The 2016 season saw the Quakers finish 5-5-6, including a 3-3-1 mark in Ivy League play. Five different players earned All-Ivy recognition, including Alec Neumann and Matt Poplawski on the first team. Neumann became just the fourth player in Penn history to earn All-Ivy honors all four years.
The 2013 season saw Fuller's team do something no Penn club had done since 1972 -- win an outright Ivy League championship. Just one season after winning one League match, Penn went 5-1-1 in Ivy contests, including a 2-0 win at Harvard in the season's final weekend, to claim sole possession of the program's eighth Ivy League title and third under Fuller's charge.
Duke Lacroix was named Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year, leading seven All-Ivy selections for the Quakers in 2013. Lacroix also earned NSCAA second-team All-Region honors.
In 2014, Fuller had four players named All-Ivy. Duke Lacroix was a first-team All-Ivy selection for the second year in a row, capping his career with four All-Ivy selections -- just the fourth player in progam history to do so. Lacroix was also named second-team All-Region for the second season in a row. At the conclusion of the 2015 season, Fuller saw Alec Neumann and Sam Wancowicz named All-Ivy.
Fuller had four players named All-Ivy in 2012, led by second-team selections Travis Cantrell and Duke Lacroix.
2011 saw Fuller become the fourth coach in program history to reach the 100-win mark as he did so in the season-opener at La Salle. Duke Lacroix was named Ivy League Rookie of the Year, while seniors Thomas Brandt and Christian Barreiro were named first-team All-Ivy to go with NSCAA All-Region honors. Senior defender Jake Levin was a second-team All-Ivy selection, becoming just the second player in program history to earn All-Ivy honors all four years. Following the campaign, Major League Soccer came calling to Penn as both Brandt (Philadelphia Union) and Barreiro (New York Red Bulls) were selected in the MLS Supplemental Draft.
In 2010, Fuller guided the Red and Blue to the NCAA Tournament following a 13-6-0 record and a 5-2-0 performance inside the Ivy League. The 13 wins tied the 2010 club with the 1971 and 1973 teams for second-most wins in a season and set a record for Fuller-lead teams. The Quakers won their first round game in the national tournament -- defeating Bucknell in overtime, 1-0, in front of a packed Rhodes Field -- before bowing out at the hands of Maryland in the second round. Defense was once again the hallmark of Fuller's club in 2010, with goalkeeper Ben Berg recording nine shotouts and the defensive corps holding opposing teams off the scoreboard for 549:40 of game play over parts of six consecutive matches. At the end of the season, three players were named first-team All-Ivy and seven total players received All-Ivy honors. Thomas Brandt was also named NSCAA first-team All-Region and an ECAC All-Star.
The 2008 season was reminiscent of Penn's golden age of soccer. The squad shattered both team and individual records and captured the school's seventh Ivy League title. Fuller's commitment to team defense was evident as the Red and Blue shut out opponents in the first 673:25 minutes of the season. Unbeaten through the first 10 games, Penn registered a program-best 11 shutouts on the season.
Fuller boasts five former players drafted to Major League Soccer. In 2009, midfielder Alex Grendi was taken by the Columbus Crew. Two years prior, goalkeeper Daniel Cepero was called to the New York Red Bulls. Fellow keeper Matthew Haefner was drafted by the Crew in 2004, with Brandt and Barriero earning selections in 2011.
In 2005, the Quakers finished 9-6-1, were ranked as high as No. 18 nationally and won the Philadelphia Soccer Seven (PS7) title with Fuller being named the PS7 Coach of the Year.
The Quakers have set the standard for soccer success in Philadelphia during Fuller's tenure. He has been named Philadelphia's Coach of the Year seven times as coach of the Quakers, his clubs earning six Team of the Year awards.
At the beginning of the decade, the program went from the basement of the Ivy League to champions in two seasons. The 2002 Penn squad finished with a 12-4-1 record, captured its first Ivy League championship in 22 years, earned its first NCAA Tournament bid in 25 years and its first NCAA Tournament win in 29 years.
Penn was ranked as high as 14th in the nation during the 2002 season and spent much of the year in the Top 25. Penn goalkeeper Haefner was named third-team NSCAA All-America, becoming Penn’s first All-America since 1984. Haefner also became Penn’s first men’s soccer player to be named Ivy League Player of the Year.
Following the season, Fuller was named the 2002 Mid-Atlantic Region Coach of the Year by the NSCAA and 2002 Men’s Soccer Coach of the Year by the SEPSCA.
The Quakers set three program records in 2002 — shutouts in a season (10, a mark bested by the 2008 squad with 11), lowest goals-against average (0.45) and highest save percentage in a season (.923). The 2002 squad also allowed the second-fewest goals in the program’s history in a single season with seven. Haefner also set individual goalkeeping records that reflected the team marks from 2002.
In the category of individual honors, Fuller has coached 73 All-Ivy honorees, 16 NSCAA All-Mid Atlantic Region players and 26 PS7 All-Stars.
Fuller’s student-athletes have also excelled in the classroom during his tenure. Penn has found itself among the best and brightest and has been honored with the National Soccer Coaches Association of America’s Team Academic Award for the past 17 seasons and the team's GPA has been in the top-10 nationwide the same span -- in 2000, they earned the highest GPA of any Division I men’s soccer program. In 2008, Omid Shokoufandeh was named a third team Academic All-America selection. He is the first Penn men's soccer student-athlete to earn that status. In 2010, Steven Schlaefer was named Academic All-District by CoSIDA.
Penn is one of just 14 institutions—and the only Ivy League school—to have both its men’s and women’s soccer teams honored by the NSCAA for its academics, and it has happened 15 times.
Prior to Penn, Fuller played a major role as a student-athlete and coach in building a successful program at Georgetown University. While coaching at Georgetown, Fuller helped guide the Hoyas to the first two NCAA tournaments in their history and the NCAA Round of 16 in 1997.
Fuller has served on the staff of the Region I Olympic Development Program (ODP) and the Eastern Pennsylvania (EPa) ODP. In 2002, Fuller helped lead the EPa 1984 Boys ODP team to the National Championship, and his EPa 1987 Boys ODP team was a Region I ODP Championship finalist. Fuller has led six ODP teams to the Region I finals and has captured four titles. Prior to joining the Region I and Eastern Pennsylvania staffs, Fuller was a part of the Maryland ODP for 13 years, four as a player and nine as a coach.
Fuller served on the NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Committee and was chair of the NCAA Division I Middle Atlantic Regional Advisory Committee. He also sat on the NSCAA/adidas College Ranking Committee for the Mid-Atlantic Region and is a member of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.
Most recently, Fuller began serving as a scout for U.S. Soccer in the inaugural season of the Development Academy. In addition, he served as an assistant coach at the 2008 and 2009 U-15 National team camps.
Fuller, a USSF "A" Licensed coached, graduated from Georgetown with a bachelor of science in business administration in 1993 and earned his MBA degree at Villanova in 2003. He founded and currently serves as the director of the Elite 300 Soccer Academy.
Fuller and his wife, Kate; sons Reilly and Liam; and daughter Fiona reside in Philadelphia.