Lehi hires a new girls volleyball coach

The Lehi High School administration has announced the appointment of Alise Bowles to the position of head girls volleyball coach.

“We are very pleased to have Coach Bowles join us as our new girls volleyball coach,” said Athletic Director Quincy Lewis. “Coach Bowles brings a great background and level of success as a coach and player. She is a great fit for Lehi with her vision for the program.”

Bowles has played volleyball since she was 10 years old and became interested in the sport because of the example of extended family members.

Her cousin Jeremiah Larsen was part of the BYU men’s team that won the national championship in 2001. He is entering his tenth season as head coach of the Weber State women’s volleyball team and has the second-most wins and second-highest winning percentage in history. school history.

Bowles said she learned to play volleyball on her uncle Cory Solomon’s Twin Peaks club boys team, which placed seventh at the U.S. Junior Olympic Volleyball Championships (18 and under division) in June 1996 in San Jose, California.

She began playing for Club Utah Volleyball when she was 16 and went on to a collegiate career at Western Wyoming Community College, where she was selected as a member of an NJCAA All-Tournament team.

Bowles brings 10 years of coaching experience to her new position, most recently at Club 801 Volleyball in Lehi, where she is the Boys Director and coaches the 14s National Girls team. She has been a staff member there since 2015.

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She began her coaching career with the Granger High School program in 2014 and later became head coach at Summit Academy High School and 6A Fremont High School, where her team finished tied for third in the 2020 COVID season.

Bowles said community ties were the main reason she applied for the job. “I have a lot of club kids who go to Lehi who asked me about it, and Lehi has a rich history of competitive athletes,” she said. She also lives in the city.

She added that she and her staff are “delighted to bring our own competitive spirit to match Purple Nation. We are some of the most competitive people you will meet. We create this spirit in our team to create a family,” Bowles continued.

“We go all in for our athletes and show them what it means to run through a brick wall, what it means to play for each other and what it looks like to apply sports lessons to real life lessons,” she said.

“We really appreciate and believe in the statement that ‘Volleyball is 90 percent mental and 10 percent physical,’” the coach said.

“We incorporate mindset into everything we do. Physically, we can be as prepared and ready as the best of the best. However, if we do not strengthen our mental side and mentality, the physical will be lost,” she added.

Finally, Bowles said, “I love coaching and teaching. Dealing with teenagers and helping them get the best out of themselves is my favorite job, besides being a mother to my children.”

Girls volleyball tryouts at Lehi begin Aug. 5 with the first match scheduled for Aug. 20.

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