Coach Andor Gyulai.
Two-time NCAA national champion at UCLA. Thirty-four years coaching. Co-founder of Volleyball1on1, the coaching library, since 2009.
He runs every program at St. Johns Volleyball Club, places every player himself, and the phone number on this site is his.
On the court
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If you touch the ball more, you get better at volleyball.Coach Andor, on the youth classes
Slow down. Give the player a chance.Coach Andor, to coaches, on tryouts
“If we’re looking stupid, we’re learning.”
Coach Andor GyulaiTo his players, on mistakes
The systems he built, by name.
He wrote them with Vanessa Summers-Gyulai for high school and club coaches around the country. At SJVC he runs them himself, on every court.
- What Great Looks Like®The standard, in detail: what a great pass, approach, serve and teammate look like, so she can see it, repeat it back and hold herself to it.
- It’s Bigger Than Volleyball®A life lesson at the end of every practice, by design: communication, goal-setting, learning from mistakes, asking for what you want.
- Superior Coaching Systems®The name for how practice is run: written standards and systems, the same on every court every night, so every coach coaches the same way.
- VPT – Volleyball Pattern Training®Strength and mobility work shaped like volleyball: the squat she passes from and the throw she hits with, trained under load.
- Read The Game, Slow The Game, And Eliminate Pressure®Seeing the play before it happens, so the game feels slower and the pressure comes off.
- Whole Person Growth®Confidence built from self-image, self-ideal and self-concept, not from a scoreboard.
- Here Is Only We®The words over the front door. On this team there is no “I”.
- S.O.S. – Stress Output Score®, C.A.R.E.®, Do Your Share®, Bump Up®, Team Love Bank®The rest of the toolkit, for pressure, connection, effort and team culture.
Eight episodes from the strength room.
The whole VPT® series, filmed in the club’s own strength room and posted in October 2026: from shoulder mobility to the full spiking chain. Press play and the eight run in order.
- Scapular mobility with linked hands
- Shoulder mobility arm swing
- Wrist snap speed
- Band drill for arm speed
- The volleyball squat
- The side lunge
- Load and throw
- The two-step approach and the full chain
Thousands of instructional videos, filmed with Olympians, NCAA MVPs and AVP winners.
In 2009 he and Vanessa Summers-Gyulai, the club’s co-founder, launched Volleyball1on1.com, a video coaching library of indoor and beach instruction from Olympic gold medalists, NCAA MVPs, AVP and FIVB winners. He filmed thousands of the videos himself.
Among the coaches and players he has filmed and worked with: Al Scates, Alan Knipe, Bill Ferguson, Brian Gimmillaro, Gary Sato, Sinjin Smith and Logan Tom. His videos have more than ten million views across his YouTube channels; the passing lesson alone has passed two million.
From one high school team to three courts
- As a teenagerStarts coaching, and soon becomes head coach of his own high school team.
- UCLAPlays for Al Scates and wins two NCAA national championships.
- 2009Co-founds Volleyball1on1 with Vanessa: the first volleyball video coaching website, Coach Andor teaching at the board. He films more than 3,000 videos.
- 2014Starts running camps around the country: high school camps, and camps for coaches.
- 2015Builds the first franchise coaching system in volleyball, so a club or camp anywhere can run his practices the same way. Turns the OODA Loop (observe, orient, decide, act) into how a player reads the game.
- 2017Writes down What Great Looks Like®: the standard for every skill, in detail. The rest of the named systems follow.
- 2022Opens St. Johns Volleyball Club on the grass in Nocatee, to train other kids alongside his own.
- 2026The club’s own building opens at 6940 US-1 North: three courts, a strength room and a mindset room.
What families wrote.
“He pushes me to do better he definitely says things that help me Improve he is a good coach”
Ask him where your player fits.