Milwaukee Rally Coaching Staff
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Staff Bios
Dennis Casey
Dennis formed the Milwaukee Rally years ago on the premise that High School athletes should not be penalized for pursuing their High School sports while also playing Club Volleyball. Over the past 20 years Dennis has successfully applied his coaching style and philosophy to his teams having coached hundreds of female athletes over this time. Past players would tell you that the time they spent on his teams were the "best" times they had in their athletic career. Casey believes that playing club volleyball should be one of the most rewarding parts of young adulthood, forming friendships and experiences that will last a lifetime.
Tim Makal
Tim has been coaching volleyball for 12 years. In addition to volleyball Tim has coached youth soccer and basketball. During his career he has had a tremendous positive impact on those he has coached. Players often stop by just to say hello representing the positive impact Tim has had in their life.
Dana Fry
This is Dana's third year of coaching for the Milwaukee Rally. Dana has previous coaching experience having coached for a club in southwestern Wisconsin. Dana played high school volleyball for Dodgeville High School where she was a setter. Along with playing in high school, Dana played club for three years.
Currently, Dana is a supervisor in the social work field. Dana works with children and families in Milwaukee County. Dana is pursuing her master's degree in counseling through Mount Mary college.
Ryan Roessler
This will be Ryan's third year coaching volleyball with the Rally. This year he successfully led the Shorewood Greyhounds girls volleyball team to their best conference record in years in his first year at the helm. Ryan has been in and around volleyball for many years, four of which were spent playing for Wauwatosa West HS. Ryan was the captain and an outside hitter for the Trojans and he received all conference and MVP nominations in 2002-2003. Despite having opportunity to play college ball Ryan chose to pursue a business degree at UWM which he received in 2007.
The desire to help players improve their game to allow them to play at a higher level is what motivates Ryan to coach. Knowledge, preparation, and passion for the game are the keys to any good team, and this is what Ryan looks for in a player as well as himself as a coach.
Kendra Casey
Kendra has been playing competitive volleyball for over 10 years. She is a 2007 graduate of Lake Forest College (Lake Forest, Illinois) and as their setter she lettered all 4 years, and was named Team Captain as well as selected Second Team All Midwest Conference in 2006. She still ranks third in Lake Forest Volleyball team history in career assists.
Kendra has 5 years of club coaching experience. She is USVA CAP Level I certified. Kendra graduated from Lake Forest College with a Bachelor's Degree in Communication, and a minor in Music. Kendra and Janelle's teams have consistently performed well with their players enjoying great success in their HS careers.
Janelle Grochowski
Janelle has been playing competitive volleyball for over fifteen years, most recently as the middle blocker for Lake Forest College. Janelle lettered all four years and was a team captain along with Kendra Casey. She was selected first team all-conference in 2005 and 2006. She ranks in Lake Forest Volleyball Team history in career kills and first in career aces.
Currently, Janelle is a 2nd Grade teacher at a grade school in Milwaukee. Janelle has five years of coaching experience at the high school level, most recently as the New Berlin Eisenhower Freshmen Volleyball Coach. This is also her fifth year coaching for Milwaukee Rally. She enjoys coaching, watching and playing volleyball and is excited to be back again this year coaching with Kendra!
Katie Roessler
As one of the original players of Milwaukee Rally, Katie has been around the club, either coaching or playing, since 2004. This season will be her 6th as a coach for the club, and her 4th year at the 17's level. She also took on the responsibility of the club conditioning coach last season and ran a very successful summer condition camp for Rally players.
Katie graduated from Concordia University in 2010 with a degree in physical education, health, coaching, and adaptive physical education. During her years at Concordia she earned many volleyball awards including; Concordia's 2010 female athlete of the year, freshman player of the year, two time team MVP, four time all conference, two time conference player of the year, first team all-region, and honorable mention all-American. Katie is now the varsity volleyball coach at Waukesha South high school as well as the K4-5 physical education teacher at St. Mary's and St. William's of Waukesha.
Robin Mueller
Robin is starting her 11th year coaching girls volleyball and 7th. year as a Rally coach. The past five years, she has been the head coach for the 8th grade girls A team at Hales Corners Lutheran School. Prior to that she coached 5th through 7th grade girls. Her teams have won both division and tournament championships. Robin is CAP I certified.
Robin and her husband, Jeff, have one daughter.
Megan Mueller
Megan is off to Montana to gain her Master's degree. We all miss her and cannot wait for her to finish and return to the Rally.
