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2022 Assist. Coach 2

Brandon Wiest - 15 Travel Assistant Coach - 2022

Metro VBC Brandon Wiest - 15 Travel Assistant Coach - 2022
"I am extremely excited to join the Metro family this season and for the opportunity to work with some of the most passionate, hard-working, and talented coaches and athletes on the East coast!"
 
 

Brandon is entering his first season of coaching with Metro. He is the head coach of the women's varsity volleyball team at Georgetown Day School, where the Mighty Grasshoppers have reached the final four of the DC State Tournament in each year since his taking over the program in 2015, also winning the ISL A Division championship in 2017 and, in the 2021 season, being ranked the #1 team in the state and one of the top 10 teams in the Mid-Atlantic region by USA Today and the AVCA. Brandon has also coached club volleyball in the CHRVA region for six years, qualifying a U18 team for USAV Nationals in 2019 and sending former players to play at the Division I, II, and III level and with the USA Youth A1 National Training Team.


In August 2019, Brandon shadowed UNC head coach Joe Sagula and his staff as the Tar Heels kicked off their 2019 season, being fully immersed in the planning and execution of practices and film review sessions throughout the preseason. Brandon has coached for several years at the UNC Chapel Hill, University of Tennessee, and American University volleyball camps. He has attended several Gold Medal Squared and Art of Coaching Volleyball clinics, as well as the AVCA Convention and NCAA Final Four every year since 2017. He is USAV IMPACT® and CAP II certified.

Brandon began his volleyball career as a pin hitter at Manheim Township High School in Lancaster, PA and continued playing for the men's club team at the University of Delaware as a setter/opposite, reaching the Sweet 16 of the NCVF National Championship in 2011 and 2012. He remains very active in the volleyball community in Washington, DC, regularly playing in both indoor and outdoor USAV A Division leagues and tournaments.

Brandon works as a civil engineer/project manager for Parsons Corporation in Washington, DC on large-scale rail and transit projects and enjoys spending weekends working on his family's organic farm in York, PA.