2010 Volleyball Coaches
Billina Donaldson
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Head Coach - 3rd Season
Donaldson enters her third season as head coach of the RedStorm volleyball program.  She is no stranger to Rio Grande having starred on the volleyball court from 1992-96.  This was after a stellar career at Jackson High School.  Donaldson also participated in the Olympic Trials in 1996.
 
Prior to coming to Rio Grande, Coach Donaldson served as an assistant coach for one season (1996-97) at Shawnee State University before assuming the head coaching position at Hanover United High School in 1998.  Donaldson's teams had some amazing runs during the period of 1998-2003 in which she guided them to a State Final Four Appearance. 
 
Following her tenure at Hanover, Donaldson took over the Jackson High School program for four years from 2004-2007.
 
Donaldson has a plan in motion to bring Rio volleyball back to the glory days of the 1990's when it was at it's summit.   She took some initial steps last season, after a rocky first season, Donaldson guided the RedStorm to an 18-19 regular season in 2009 and an impressive third place finish in the Mid-South Conference, posting a 9-5 mark. 
 
Donaldson is married to former Rio standout basketball player Troy Donaldson.  Troy and Billina have three children, Kinnison (12), Cooper (9) and Caden (8), and currently reside in Jackson where Billina teaches at Jackson High School.
 
 

Holly Motheral
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Assistant Coach - 1st Season
Holly is in her first season as an assistant coach for the RedStorm program.  The native of Paris, Ontario Canada attended North Park Collegiate High School where she played volleyball, basketball, soccer and badminton.
 
Following high school career, she attended Houghton (NY) College and graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Education.  While at Houghton, Motheral played volleyball all four years as a middle blocker.  Twice she earned NAIA Scholar Athlete awards.  Motheral also played one year of basketball at Houghton.
 
She has coached at various camps throughout her career (three years at Houghton) and was an instructor at the Indian Head Volleyball Camp in Honesdale, PA. 
 
Motheral will assist in all facets of the program and will handle the majority of the office duties.
 
She is working toward her Masters in Intervention Specialist Mild/Moderate program. 
 
Holly is the daughter of Jamie and Sandra Motheral and has one sister, Erin.