Mark Zalin is the girls' varsity volleyball coach here at Thacher. He grew up in southern California as an all-around athlete and helped to launch the volleyball program at Laguna Blanca School as an undergraduate at UCSB. He has been a teacher, coach, and administrator at a number of independent schools, including Harvard-Westlake School where he was a CIF Championship volleyball coach. He also coached volleyball for the University of California at Berkeley and earned an NCAA Collegiate club national championship. Mark has traveled extensively to select cities throughout the US as a coach and member of the Elite Development Staff for USA Volleyball, based at The Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs and at National Team Headquarters in southern California. He has also worked at NCAA sponsored seminars and clinics and at skills camps throughout the country, both as a clinician and speaker, as well as offering his own camps, clinics, and summer training programs. Mark and his wife, Stephanie, have two grown children, Mack, an instructor at Duke University and Anjelica, a corporate project manager in Los Angeles. Mark will be living on campus and looks forward to getting to know everyone and becoming a part of the community.