OVC | STAFF

Damien Evans: Founder/Director

Damien is the current Varsity Boys coach at Cedarburg High School, where he helped found the program in 2014 along with Tim Hagen. He is USAV CAP Level 1 certified and has been involved in competitive volleyball for over 35 years. He started his career playing at Madison East High School and continued into his 20s at UW-Milwaukee and later with men's USAV teams. He has continued to play and mentor younger players since then in all formats from the beach to the hard court. He resides in Cedarburg with his wife Paula and their three children, and is committed to growing the game for boys in Southeast Wisconsin which is why he founded OVC in 2016.

Tom Scherrer: Co-Director

Tom is the current Varsity Boys coach at Homestead High School. This will be his 6th year coaching at OVC, 3rd year as Co-Director, with 4 successful trips to Nationals, including helping the 16s team win AAU Nationals in Orlando this past summer! His coaching career started with Trojan Volleyball Club (now Spike) in 2008 and includes 4 years (JV) with Shorewood HS. In 2022, he helped start the Port Washington HS Boys Volleyball Club in Port Washington, WI, where he currently resides with his wife, Ashley and their three boys. Before coaching, he enjoyed success playing libero for Wauwatosa West / UW-Milwaukee. At Ozaukee Volleyball Club, Coach Tom is actively engaged with all coaches / teams.

Antonio Evans - Treasurer

Antonio is a former All-State outside hitter, and 4 year varsity starter at Cedarburg where he is currently the varsity assistant coach. His club playing experience includes Spike, MVC, and OVC (where his team won the first Nationals bid ever received by the club!). Antonio is in the accounting program and plays on the men's volleyball team at Concordia University, and just coached our 16s team to a National Championship at AAU Nationals! This will be his fifth year coaching with OVC.

Joey Karcher

Coach Joey is the JV head coach at Greenfield High School, where he played his own high school career, and is taking season 2 for OVC head on. He started with OVC in 2022 and comes back more ready than ever to coach again. With an All Conference Honorable Mention award and team MVP under his belt from playing in his high school career, he's ready to help improve players game with what he knows and is committed to learning everyday. With going to UW-Milwaukee for civil engineering, he is uses his statistic skills, and awesome energy to make the best improvements to the team and players.

Thomas Martin (TMart)

This will be Tom’s first year coaching at OVC. Tom grew up in the Mequon-Thiensville School District, starting his volleyball career at Lake Shore middle school and continued to play 4 years at Homestead high school and Power Alley Volleyball Club. After high school, he went on to play club at UW-Milwaukee. Throughout his playing career, he spent time starting at each position on the court which gives him well rounded knowledge of the game. Most of his coaching experience comes from various teams in the MTSD including at 1 year at Lakeshore and 5 years at Homestead where he currently holds the Varsity Assistant position. Coach Tom currently lives in downtown Milwaukee with his fiancée Carlie and two dogs, Billie and Gus.

Adam Lopata

This will be Adam’s second year coaching an indoor team at OVC. Adam played high school volleyball at Germantown High School where he was an All-Conference libero and played in 2 State Championship matches, winning the title in 2018. He played his college career at the University of Jamestown where he was GPAC All-Conference, and also named Libero of the Year in 2023. Adam's endless energy and enthusiasm has been a mainstay of our summer sand camp where he worked for 4 years. Last season he coached the 15s team to a 2nd place finish at USAV Nationals in Dallas, TX, along with helping out the Concordia University men's team as their Graduate Assistant. This season he will move up with the boys from last season and coach our 16s!

Mike Radtke

Mike Radtke has been playing and coaching volleyball for over 30 Years. Starting his playing years at UW Platteville and Earning 2 WVC MVP and 2 1st team all-conference awards. He Finished his career at UW-Oshkosh Helping the team finish 5th at the NIRSA National Championship. Ending his College career he was honored and inducted into the WVC Hall of Fame. While at UW-Platteville he was able to coach the women's JV volleyball team and assisted at multiple college/high school camps around the Midwest. Since that time he has organized and assisted in developmental camps for middle school and high school athletes. Both of his sons are actively involved in OVC teams, further fueling his passion for the sport. This season at OVC he will be head coach of the 15s team!

Ernesto Matus

Ernesto is the current Varsity Boys Coach at Sheboygan North High School, where he started the program in 2022. An unconventional journey to discover his love for volleyball began in 2009 by way of watching his close friend compete for the UW-Oshkosh Mens Club Team while in college together. Year by year, Ernesto continued to pick up skills, knowledge, and above all his passion for the game through tournaments, leagues, and the relationships developed along the way. Although he does not come from a traditional playing career, Ernesto loves learning the X's and O's of the game, the ins and outs of running a high school program, and most of all the relationships with his players and the entire volleyball community. Upon his hiring at Sheboygan North as a School Counselor in 2015, Ernesto was driven to bring Boys Volleyball to his new school. What started as a six-team Quads Intramural League in 2017 is now a full Varsity and JV program. He is proud of what he has built since the Raiders' inaugural season in 2022 and is determined to continue growing the sport in the Sheboygan Area. Ernesto is excited to be part of the OVC staff as he aims to continue learning and competing alongside the OVC family.

Marcus Johnson

This will be the second year for Marcus coaching at OVC. He is currently a sophomore playing at Bryant & Stratton College in Wauwatosa. He comes to us from Illinois where he played middle and rightside for Belleville East high school and Blue Steel volleyball club.

Brian Rushmer- Summer Program Coach

Brian is the head boys coach at Germantown High School, and head men's coach at Lakeland University. Brian has been running the summer coed sand volleyball program with OVC for the past 5 years.

Autumn Daute - Summer Program Coach

Autumn has been coaching the sand camp for 2 years. She was an all-conference setter at Cedarburg High School and 3 year varsity starter. Autumn continues to play competitively at Xavier University on the women's club team, and coaches at the Greater Cincinnati Volleyball Club. During the summer when she's not coaching at our sand camp, she plays the Wisconsin grass volleyball circuit.

Kelly Swope - Summer Program Coach

Kelly is an outside hitter for the Lakeland University Women's Volleyball Team and Student Assistant Coach for the Men's program as well. She also coached middle school volleyball in her hometown of Heyworth where she played high school volleyball.