
2026 IGNITE Coaches
Tyler Price
CAP 1, Concussion, IMPACT, and
SafeSport certified.
Tyler has been coaching at IGNITE since 2011, Co-Owner with his beautiful wife Brittney since 2020.
Tyler has coached all ages from 11's through 18's. Tyler spent 7 years as Varsity H.C. at Aurora H.S. and 1 year as Varsity H.C. at Woodridge H.S. and is the current Varsity Asst. Coach at Stow H.S.
Tyler is a Navy Veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom 2010-2011.

Owner/Director
15 Blue Head Coach
Brittney Price
Brittney is married to our fearless leader, Tyler. Brittney does a little bit of everything at IGNITE. She is also the Payroll Coordinator for the Akron Area YMCA.
Brittney and Tyler have a 4 year old daughter and toddler boy.
Dogs Daisey and Pumpkin and cat, C.B.
Brittney teaches various dance classes in the area.

Co-Owner
Miguel Ramirez
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
This is Miguel's third season at IGNITE and brings a high level of experience with him.
Miguel has JO coaching experiece with natiomal teams at Maverick, Ohio Xtreme and NOVA. His teams routinely attended Nationals and produced multiple collegiate players.
Miguel is the current Head Coach for both the girls and boys program at Stow H.S

Recruiting Coordinator
Jessica Stevens
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
Jessica has been a part of IGNITE volleyball for many seasons.
She has coached at a variety of ages and levels at IGNITE. Jessica has spent prior seasons as Junior Varsity coach for Chagrin Falls High School.

17 Black Head Coach
Taylor Reynolds
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
Taylor has been at IGNITE for many seasons. Taylor joins the many IGNITE alum who have returned to coach here.
Taylor was a multi-year letter winner while attending Streetsboro High School.

Practice Coach
Brooke Norris
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
Brooke has been at IGNITE for many seasons.
Brooke played volleyball at Hiram College.
Brooke played her high school ball at Walsh H.S. She is also a former IGNITE player and a summer intern.

Practice Coach
Regina Alvarez
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
Regina in entering her 2nd year coaching at IGNITE.
She is a former multi year letter winner at Hudson HS, and IGNITE Alumni!
Regina also coaches our year round youth programs.

Practice Coach
Olivia Yee
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
Olivia is entering her 3rd season at IGNITE.
She is a former AVC and Twinsburg HS athlete.

15 Black Head Coach
Valerie Thomas
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
This is Valerie's 1st season at IGNITE. She is currently the Woodridge JV coach after running the CYO program at IHM in Cuyahoga Falls.

13 Red Head Coach
Marissa Harris
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
Marissa is a multi year letter winner from Shaker Hights HS, and played one year at Tri-C prior to Covid-19.
Marissa teaches sunday school at her church.

16 Red Asst. Coach
Carly Parker
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
Carly is in her 1st year at IGNITE.
Carly is a former L/DS for HS and Club, and also played on the Case Western Club team.
Carly also spent time working at her local YMCA coaching their youth volleyball program.

Practice Coach
Lucie Thomas
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
Lucie is entering her 2nd season at IGNITE .
Lucie is a fomer National player at AVC.

13 Red Asst. Coach
Hope Donnelly
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
Hope is entering her 1st season at IGNITE after finishing her first season at Grove City College.
Hope is a former National player at ClePrime, and attended Woodridge HS.
Hope is also one of the IGNITE summer interns.

12 Black Co-Head Coach
Karrington Green
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
Karrington is entering her first season at IGNITE. She is entering her senior year at Ursuline College.
Karrington previously played at Elite Sports on their National teams and Lima Shawnee HS

17 Blue Co-Head Coach
Sharri Durdel
CAP 1, Concussion, IMPACT, and
SafeSport certified.
Sharri has been with IGNITE since 2011, She has coached various boys and girls teams.
Sharri is currently the Asst. Dir. and Outside Programs Coordinator for Sparks, IGNITE Lite, and Summer Programs.
Sharri spent 7 seasons at Aurora H.S. and 1 season at Woodridge as J.V. coach. Sharri is currently the boys and girls head J.V. coach at Stow H.S.

Assistant Director
Rachele Kelly
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
Rachele has been with IGNITE since the 2019 season. She is the current head coach of the 17 Black team. Rachele played at Pittsburgh Elite, Edinboro University and Kent State University club volleyball teams.
Rachele is one of the current Varsity assistants at Stow H.S.

Chalk Talk and Social Media Director
Nicole Welsh
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
Nicole has been a part of IGNITE volleyball for many years. After becoming a parent Nicole decided to enter coaching. She was formely the head coach at Ursuline H.S. Nicole works many of our youth programs throughout the summer. Both of her children play volleyball. One is going to be a Senior at Stow H.S this fall and the other is a sophomore at Hiram on the mens team.
Nicole is also a certified OHSAA,
USAV, and NCAA official.

13 Black Head Coach
18 Black Head Coach
Hallie Forrai
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
Hallie is one of IGNITE's longest tenured coaches. Hallie previously coached 11's - 15's.
Hallie spent a couple seasons at Chagrin H.S. as freshman coach with Jessica Stevens.
You can find Hallie working IGNITE youth programs throughout the year.

16 Blue Head Coach
Jenna Schadle
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
Jenna enters her 3rd year at IGNITE, and brings a lot of coaching experience with her. Jenna was head coach at Aurora H.S. for 4 years. She is currently one of the middle school coach for Aurora.
Last season, her 12 Black team won the gold championship at regionals!

14 Blue Head Coach
David Liese
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
David is in his 4th season at IGNITE. He priviously coached American and National level teams at AVC and Maverick.
Currently the JV coach at Archbishop Hoban H.S. David also spent time coaching JV girls at Walsh H.S.

Assistant Coach
Bella Howard
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
Bella is entering her 4th year at IGNITE.
She is a former IGNITE player, and spent time playing at Stow HS.
Bella also assits the 17 Red team and coaches our year round youth programs.

14 Red Head Coach
Dakotah Welsh
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
Dak is the son of Nicole Welsh.
Dak played at Stow HS and is currently playing at Hiram University.
Dak also helps with the 13 Black team and coaches our year round programs.

14 Blue Asst. Coach
17 Black Asst. Coach
Ciera Crawford
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
Ciera is entering her 1st year at IGNITE.
Ciera is a fomer player at Streetsboro HS where she was a temmate of Coach Taylor.

16 Red Head Coach
Haley Sims
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
Haley is entering her first season at IGNITE. She previously coached at Pitt United Volleyball Club.
Haley is a 4 year athlete at Case Western University.

14 Blue Asst. Coach
Amanda Moore
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
Amanda is entering her 1st season at IGNITE.
She is a former Twinsburg HS player with Coach Olivia, as well as a former IGNITE player.
Amanda is also a certified OVR official.

15 Black Asst. Coach
Catie Patterson
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
Catie is entering her 1st season at IGNITE.
Catie graduated early and just wrapped up her first semester at KSU as a member of their team.
Catie played at NOVA, and Southwest. Catie is also one of our Summer Interns

11 Black Head Coach
Audrey Donnelly
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
Audrey is entering her 1st season at IGNITE. She is Hope's older sister. She previously played at SVSM and Woodridge.
Audrey played at NOVA and Grove City for 3 seasons.

12 Black Co-Head Coac
Hannah Laurich
Concussion, IMPACT, & SafeSport certified.
Hannah is entering her 1st season at IGNITE. She is entering her senior season at Ursuline College. Hannah was an assistant coach at Eastside on their 17 National team the past couple of seasons.
Hannah previously played at AVC on the National teams, and West Geauga HS.
