Carrie Wright is the Oaks Volleyball Club club director and head coach. She directs and monitors the basic skill instructions for every Oaks VBC team. Each team will be coached to learn a strong base and foundation of volleyball skills that will be refined, improved and built on with each year of experience and instruction. 

Carrie brings extensive coaching and playing experience to Oaks VBC. Carrie was a 4 year starter as a middle blocker at Pepperdine University from 1993-1997. Carrie still holds multiple records and allocates at Pepperdine, including

• ALL-WCC: 1994, 1995, 1996
• WCC All-Freshman Team 1993
• WCC Player of the Week 1995, 11/20
• WCC All-Academic 1996
• #3 in career Solo Blocks with 89
• #4 in career Total Blocks with 392
• #5 in career Block Assists with 303
• #6 in single season Total Blocks with 126 in 1995
• #9 in single season Blocks Per Set with 1.14 in 1996
• #9 in single season Hitting Percentage with .323 in 1995
• #10 in single season Points with 482 in 1995
• #17 in career Kills with 1,018
• Holds the individual record for Blocks in a Single Game with 14 vs. Colorado St. on 9/14/96
• Led the team in Hitting Percentage: 1994, 1995, 1996
• Led the team in Total Blocks: 1995, 1996

She continued her indoor career playing professionally in Beziers, France during the ’97-98’ season. After college Carrie also began playing professionally on the beach competing on the AVP, WPVA, and the EVP tours over the last 21 years. In 1999 Carrie was selected to be a member of “The USPV Dream Team” to inaugurate a women’s professional indoor league in the United States.

Carrie has coached for the past 25 years, guiding her teams to great success along the way. Currently, Carrie is assistant women's volleyball coach at L.A. Pierce College.  She has coached at Oaks Christian middle school as well as Newbury Park High School, and she has coached high school programs in Oregon and Westlake Village. Carrie was a volunteer assistant coach at the University of Oregon in 1998 and was the head women’s volleyball coach at Christian Heritage College in San Diego from 2000-2002.

You may be asking yourself, "what's a football player doing with a bunch of volleyball players?" When it comes building core strength, explosive movements, and quickness - who better than an All-American, Heisman Trophy candidate, & NFL running back?

Brian "Skip" Hicks hails from Texas. Prior to his NFL career he was a High School Football All-American and a 4-year letter winner in 4 different sports. At one time Skip held the high school state record in the long jump at 26'. Skip went on to receive a full scholarship in track and field and football from UCLA.

At UCLA Skip was a 1st Team All-American, a Hesisman Award candidate as a freshman, sophomore and senior, finishing 4th in the 1998 voting. He was a 4-year starter at tailback and led the NCAA in TD's in 1996 and 1997. While at UCLA, Skip broke Marcus Allen and OJ Simpson's PAC 10 all time touchdown record and became the 3rd all time leading rusher for the Bruins.

In 1998 Skip was the top draft pick for the Washington Redskins. In his rookie season he made the NFL All-Pro Rookie Team. Skip went onto play five years in the NFL.

Skip has been coached and has learned from the best coaches in football, track & field and strength & conditioning. He brings a lifetime of sports experience and years of professional and collegiate experience to our program. Oaks VBC is very excited to have Coach Hicks develop our players power, explosiveness and strength through a comprehensive strength & conditioning program.

Kevin Wright is Oaks VBC's sports medicine guru, assistant coach, administrative manager, and Carrie's husband. Kevin is also the Assistant Director of Athletics for Sports Medicine at Pepperdine University. Kevin was the head athletic trainer for Pepperdine when the Women's Sand Volleyball team won the AVCA Championships in 2012 & 2014.

At Oaks VBC, Kevin is instrumental in our team's fitness and conditioning programs as well as implementing injury prevention programs. Having Kevin's knowledge as part of our program helps our girls play safely as they compete at an intense level.

Kevin was a member of the Pepperdine Men’s Volleyball Team from 1992-1994. Kevin has been an assistant volleyball coach at the college level and has coached summer volleyball camps.

Coach Edison joins us from Suzhou, China and is a former Chinese National Team member.  He is an impressive 6' 7" setter that brings to Oaks Volleyball a lot of knowledge and experience at the highest levels of competition.

• 2001-2016
  • Five times national championships (Gold Medal)
  • Two times national grand slam (Gold Medal)
  • National tournament (Silver Medal)
  • Chinese Men’s Volleyball League (two times Silver and Bronze Medal)
• 1999 – Jiang Su providence Beach Volleyball Championships (Gold Medal)

As a member of the Chinese National Team, he took the Gold Medal in the Asian Final Four and was in the top 10 in the World Cup.

Jen is a Master Coach and Club Director. She has coached at all levels of volleyball from Little Spikers, to 3 high school programs, 5 different clubs, 3 different Division 1 college programs and loves to share her passion and knowledge for the game that has been her life’s work. Most recently Jen was club director at Island Thunder Volleyball Club in the Seattle area. Jen contributes at the USA VB Regional level both as the High Performance Head Beach Coach, and has coached High Performance indoor camps as well.  She was asked in 2014 to help the University of Washington get the sand program off the ground as they started their first beach season and helped lead them to an 8-0 2015 season and served as their assistant coach for the 2017 season. She is IMPACT certified in both beach and indoor and is Beach CAP certified.  

She played and coached at the University of San Diego, where she was named the West Coast Conference Player of the Year. She has played professionally both indoors and on the beach on the following tours: WPVA, 4’s BL Pro Beach Tour, NVA, MPVA, and the USPV, as well as being the captain for the Puget Sound Region’s PVL team in 2012. She was on the Gold Medal teams for the East team at the Olympic Festival and the 2000 USPV Millennium Cup. Jen was the tour MVP for the MPVA and the team captain of the USPV team.

As a senior in high school she was named to the Volleyball Monthly Magazine “Fab 50 Seniors” and the U.S.A. Junior National Team among other local honors. Carrie played middle blocker throughout high school and club and moved to Outside Hitter for the Arizona Wildcats from 1994-1997. As a 3 year starter for the team she was part of the team her senior year that climbed the national rankings to #8.  She finished her senior year leading the PAC-10 conference in Aces and was named to the all PAC-10 team.  

After her senior season, she accepted an invitation join the Junior National team in Colorado Springs at the Olympic Training Center where she trained and traveled with the team for a short time before returning to finish her college degree.  

Carrie has coached camps at many top University programs, coached club teams in Arizona, Nevada and California.  She was a volunteer assistant coach at The University of Arizona and an assistant coach at UNLV.  For the last 3 years Carrie has run the developmental ”Acorns” program for Oaks VBC.

The former Carrie Penfield is a graduate of Thousand Oaks High School and a volleyball product of Ron Beick’s Zuma Bay Volleyball Club and The University of Arizona.  Her claim to fame is being a wife to Ryan, a mother to 5 of the greatest kids and an identical twin.

Left-Handed, 6’3” Coach Jennifer Robinson grew up in Thousand Oaks, and has been playing volleyball since the 8th grade, where she played Middle Blocker for Zuma Bay Volleyball Club and Westlake High School. During that time, she made the All-Marmonte League, All-Ventura County All Star, and Daily News All-Area Teams, while earning multiple Scholar-Athlete Awards. She took a Full Scholarship to play at the University of California, Irvine, as Middle Blocker & then Opposite, where she was a Double Major in Chemistry & Applied Ecology. A 3-time Big West Conference Scholar-Athlete, Jennifer coached at Youth & Middle School Clinics and helped run & played in Adult Grass League Tournaments. She also spent a summer playing in South Africa, for Athletes in Action, on a mission trip.

After college, she came back home to work at Amgen, and enjoyed playing beach and court volleyball, while coaching at Royal High School. Coach Jennifer helped her husband, Aaron, start 2 businesses, which brought them out of state, while having 2 children - Jonah, now 17, and Kayla, now 13. Her family moved back to Newbury Park in 2010, where her kids have been involved in just about every sport. She’s coached USYVL, Refereed AYSO, and played in Corporate Games & multiple UCI Volleyball Alumni matches. Coach Jennifer recently trained for her first obstacle course race & marathon - 26.2 Miles!

Jennifer resumed coaching volleyball at the High School level for Hillcrest Christian. She has coached all levels at club volleyball, as well as beach. She continues to enjoy trail running, Plyometric training, and tries to get as much court and beach volleyball time as she can.