TREVOR JULIAN
Long-time girls club volleyball coach Trevor Julian has an impeccable reputation locally and nationally for producing excellent and competitive teams, training and developing top athletes, and working with parents and families in an honest and caring way. Trevor is also one of the most recognizable and respected club volleyball figures in Southern California, advising and counseling myriad other club directors and volleyball-based organizations, and indeed the Southern California Volleyball Association itself, through the challenges of the pandemic and these post-pandemic years.
As a Player . . . Trevor is a former award-winning volleyball player himself — captain and four-year starter for the often #1 ranked University of Southern California Men's Volleyball Program, member and captain of the USA Men’s Olympic Youth and Junior National Teams — who transitioned degrees in English-Creative Writing and Business at USC into a successful post-graduate career in commercial multi-residential real estate, before launching the Los Angeles Volleyball Academy (LAVA) and moving into club sports full-time; his fifteen years in the real estate business saw him work the acquisition, disposition, exchange, or evaluation of more than one billion dollars of southland property, and the marketing/brokerage skills he developed during time spent in the business trenches gives him a unique perspective on growing the LAVA brand.
As a Head Coach . . . Trevor is easily the most decorated and successful girls club coach in the area, racking up a multitude of wins, bids, and medals over his tenure as the most successful club coach in the history of the Conejo Valley.
A consistent presence in the SCVA’s Gold Divisions, Trevor’s teams have also triumphed repeatedly and to significant degree on the national stage, boasting a multitude of Top Five finishes at national travel tournaments, several qualification bids to the Junior Nationals, an 18’s National Championship, a Volleyball Festival title, and multiple medals at national competitions for both girls and boys. Not an exhaustive list by any means, highlights include:
– Gold Medal, SoCal Cup 15's Showcase 2024
– Bronze Medal, Pacific Northwest 13's Junior National Qualifier 2023
– Bronze Medal, SCVA 13's Coastal Combine 2023
– Bronze Medal, Pacific Northwest 16’s Junior National Qualifier 2021
– Silver Medal, USAV 16’s Junior National Championships 2019
– Gold Medal, USAV 18’s Junior National Championships 2017
– Bronze Medal, MidEast 16’s Junior National Qualifier 2017
– Gold Medal, Pacific Northwest 16’s Junior National Qualifier 2016
– Gold Medal, SoCal 16’s Junior National Qualifier 2015
– Bronze Medal, SoCal 16’s Junior National Qualifier 2014
– Bronze Medal, Show Me 16’s Junior National Qualifier 2014
– Bronze Medal, Fiesta Classic 16’s Championship 2012
– Gold Medal, Volleyball Festival 16’s National Championship 2010
Additional highlights include: more than thirty Top Five finishes at national tournament competitions; dozens of additional Top 10 national tournament finishes; eight years of qualifying bids to higher divisions at Junior Nationals since 2014; and three teams finishing Top Five in the SCVA year-end rankings.
As Director of Lava West . . . Trevor has orchestrated the rise of Lava West from a quality local club to a regionally and nationally known entity; indeed, Lava West is the premier volleyball club of the Conejo Valley and has proven the most successful club in the history of Ventura County -- and owes much of its success to Trevor’s stewardship. In recent seasons, West teams have won more than 25 medals in national competition and more than 20 qualification bids to Junior Nationals. Each season of his tenure, LAVA West has placed multiple teams in the Gold Divisions of the SCVA.
Trevor oversees the entirety of the program from its youth program to the success of its top oldest teams: coaches, players, and families. He has head coached the 13’s, 14’s, 15's, 16’s, and 18’s age groups with tremendous success in recent years, not to mention spends an exorbitant amount of time in the gym running youth clinics, middle school clinics, camps, and workshops, forming a connection with every kid that comes through the Lava West doors. He also is a Consulting Director with the SMBC West boys club program, the brother club of Lava West, putting him in total contact with more than five hundred athletes each year.
Please feel free to contact Trevor with any questions about the LAVA West program. His contact information is below and he is eager to speak with you. His full bio is also online here, along with the rest of his Lava West coaching staff.
Trevor Julian - Director, LAVA West
(email) trevorjulian@gmail.com
(cell) 818-631-7785