KC Power Volleyball
Club

KC POWER Volleyball Club is a USA Volleyball sanctioned club that entered its 25th year of existencein 2022. We provide a healthy, structured and supportive environment for growth and development of young women athletes. KC POWER is a volleyball organization that is well known for preparing athletes to compete and play at the next level. Hundreds of KC POWER alumni players are now playing collegiately at various universities across the country as well as many playing professionally overseas.

KC POWER is recognized throughout the national volleyball community as a club with great integrity and high level coaches. While they compete against much larger clubs fielding hundreds of teams, KC POWER offers only two teams per age group in effort to prioritize having high level coaches while maintaining close relationships with our families and athletes in order to provide the most rewarding training opportunity. KC POWER teams compete at the highest level nationally in USA Volleyball events, and have placed top 10 nationally in the Open Division consistently since our 1997 inception. Our two Open Gold Medal Championship teams were our 16-1 in 2009 and our 18-1 in 2017. The 2009 16-1 team still holds the record for winning an astounding 7 National Open Qualifiers in a row! KC POWER has consistently been ranked the highest rated club in the KC Metro area through the Triple Crown Organization yearly rankings, reaching as high as #12 (in 2019) in the United States. Currently ranked nationally at #26, KC POWER has maintained as the highest ranked volleyball club in Kansas City since the inception of those rankings in 2014. The club has quickly grown to be one of the most respected volleyball organizations in the country.

Our mission is to empower athletes of all ages and abilities through the sport of volleyball.

KC Power believes in individual excellence and enriching human character. Our goal is to guide our athletes through their development process, shaping their character with a positive attitude and determination. KC Power expects athletes to work to the best of their abilities with integrity and teamwork to effectively lead themselves and others to achieve their highest goals.

KC Power’s mission is to train and develop young athletes to play at the collegiate level, while installing invaluable life lessons that can be applied in all facets of life. We ask our athletes to show up with a good attitude and willingness to work hard for their teammates and coaches, while treating each other with kindness and respect.

We Support Our Athletes-Strive to make decisions based on what is best for the athletes.

Training Develops Athletes-Train young athletes to excel at higher levels of competition.

Individual focus on athletes-Limit the number of teams we carry, so they do not exceed the number of quality coaches we have.

Relationship based environment-Pride ourselves on forming relationships with our athletes and families in order to establish the trusting relationship required to push the athlete to be their best.

Mentor athletes through recruiting-Advise and mentor our athletes in order to timely and effectively market themselves to college volleyball programs

KC POWER Volleyball Club was created in 1997 when former club director Gwenn Pike started a single club team for her daughter Ashley. Coach Pike was the long time coach at Bishop Miege High School and on June 28, 2006, Coach Pike was inducted in to the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Coach Pike holds the record for the most wins as a high school coach in the State of Kansas posting a historic record of 1224 wins and 239 loss record (10/16/15) and won 22 State Championship titles. In 2016, after 36 years, Coach Pike announced her retirement as the head coach at Bishop Miege. In July of 2022, Coach Pike retired from coaching and as Director from KC POWER.

In the year 2000 Danielle Stowell came on board as a coach and now has her own daughters playing for KC Power (Brynn 17 Red and Ella 16 Black). Danielle played collegiately and was an All-American setter at University of Nebraska-Kearney. As the club grew into one of the premier clubs in the country Danielle managed as the Recruiting Coordinator and eventually became Co-Club Director alongside Coach Pike. In January of 2022 KC POWER partnered with League One Volleyball (LOVB). LOVB is an organization that is working to create a new home for women's professional volleyball so that female volleyball athletes can continue to play in the United States and compete in front of their friends/families. Keeping our athletes home allows them to provide inspiration to all the female athletes that we push to pursue excellence.