Valley Christian High School alumna, Alaina (Bergsma) Coble ’08, has joined the Grand Canyon University Volleyball coaching staff as the team’s graduate assistant.
Alaina was a four-year starter while at Valley Christian and earned All-League, All-Metro Region and All-State Tournament team honors in her sophomore to senior years. She will also be earning her MBA from GCU.
Alaina played for Loyola Marymount University one year before moving to the University of Oregon, where she became Oregon’s first AVCA National and Pac-12 Player of the Year in 2012. At the University of Oregon she ranked third all-time in career points, fifth in career hitting and fifth in career kills, leading her team to their best-ever finish as a NCAA runner-up.
In 2011 Alaina played for the USA Volleyball A2 National Team. She joined the US Women’s National Volleyball team in 2013 and 2014. She also played for the Minas Tenis Clube in Brazil. Alaina also represented Oregon as Miss Oregon USA 2012.