Coaches
Head Coach: Ernest Rittenhouse
As a coach of high schoolers, he has coached more than 65 players to college scholarships, including 9 to the relatively new collegiate beach game. Some have gone to become collegiate All-Americans, NCAA National Champions, and even professionals. For both beach and indoor, boys and girls, in 28 years of coaching, he has a record of 618 wins versus 190 losses for interscholastic contests, coaching at the large school division high school level in both California and Florida.
After playing volleyball at Point Loma Nazarene University, returned to coach at alma mater, Camarillo High in 1996. At first, it was just a hobby, getting paid to enjoy volleyball. Winning seasons started to turn into championship seasons, with a California Interscholastic Federation Championship in 2003 and a final 4 appearance in 2004.
In 2004, he moved to coach the girls varsity team at Westlake High in Southern California. There were 315 wins in 16 years of indoor coaching with Westlake High. It was the fastest trip to 300 wins in Ventura County history. It required averaging 20-win seasons (vs single digit losses) against large school competition in a hotbed of volleyball, Southern California, for more than a decade and a half. Westlake was the Marmonte League champions 8 straight years in beach and indoor volleyball before he left to move to Florida. For the beach team (started in 2013), there was an overall win/loss record was 86-9.
He is certified through the CIF/American Sport Education Program and a Double Goal Certified coach through the AAU and the Positive Coaching Alliance Program. He is a long-time member of the American Volleyball Coaches Association.
Upon moving to Florida in 2021, he took over coaching for the Horizon varsity girls team. The team has gone 66-23 in the first four years of the indoor program/school existence. There were District Championships in 2022 and 2023, along with a Metro West Championship in 2024. They have gone 33-9 in beach interscholastic volleyball for the first 3 years of the beach program.
Coach Rittenhouse worked as a corporate manager in Los Angeles, coaching in the evening and weekend hours. In Florida, he is teaching at Horizon High School. Back in the day, as a player, he was the first MVP for the inaugural boys’ team in 1989 at Camarillo High. He was a team captain in high school and in college at Point Loma. Many beach tournaments in college also helped to pay some bills. He has been married to Teresa for 32 years and has 3 grown children.
Coach: Jadyn Pike
Coach Jadyn Pike started playing volleyball at the age of 10. She played at various smaller clubs around Orlando before joining OTVA for 16U. She made Varsity as a freshman playing the Libero position at Olympia High School. As a Senior, she was co-captain and earned the award for “most digs” in her district. She continued her athletic career on a full scholarship to Eastern Florida State College, but ultimately left to focus on her academics at the University of Central Florida from which she recently graduated with a Bachelors of Science degree in Biomedical Science. Jadyn currently works as a nursing assistant. She is also the Junior Varsity coach at Horizon High. We are excited to have her coaching at WOVC.
Coach: Gabrielle Quinones
Coach Quinones is the freshman team coach of the Horizon Hawks Girls Volleyball Team. She is currently a 7th grade Civics teacher and is also the head coach of Girls Volleyball at Water Spring Middle School. She is going on her 3rd year of teaching and coaching at Water Spring.
Coach Quinones has a strong passion for coaching volleyball. She grew up in Tampa, Florida where she gained her 12 years of volleyball experience. In college, she pursued degrees in Psychology and Behavioral Health Care in her hometown University of South Florida. Upon graduating, she moved to Orlando, FL and started her journey as an educator and coach at Water Spring Middle.
