Boys Club Director, Lead Tier Trainer & National Coach

Coach Salomon currently serves as Advancement Academy Boys (Columbus) and Advancement Academy West (Dayton) Club Director as well as the club's full-time boys director of recruiting overseeing 21 boys' teams. He also serves as the Head Coach for 18 Red and is the lead tier trainer for our 16+ age groups. This season marks coach Salomon's 5th year at A2. 

Coach Salomon is an Executive Board member of the nationally recognized Junior Volleyball Recruiting Association and also serves as the Men's Advisory Board chair.  Coach Salomon  was a USAV High Performance coach and USAV NDTP coach for the older age groups. He is currently the varsity assistant coach for Olentangy High School. 

Originally form Caracas Venezuela, Coach Salomon grew up playing competitive beach volleyball. He moved to Florida during his young teens where he continued playing before making his way to Washington DC for university studies. While at American University he assisted with the DI Women's program under the direction of Berry Goldberg. While living in DC, Coach Salomon also coached for Metro Volleyball Club as well as high school, ranging a wide variety of ages on both the boys and girl's side. Before moving to Ohio to attend Law School, Coach Salomon lived and played oversees in Israel. Outside of volleyball, Salomon is a full-time prosecutor in Franklin County.

Boys Associate Director & Lead Trainer

Dublin, Ohio native Emi Holsclaw has 19 years of coaching experience that includes boys and girls sand and indoor volleyball spanning open/national club, varsity, and collegiate levels. As an athlete, she was mainly a setter, outside hitter, and libero but also competed in the middle. She was a 2-time All-Ohio and All-Star selection and was recently inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame at Dublin Coffman High School. She played DI at the University of Toledo, where she was a 3 year starter, holds 3 career records, and was a student assistant coach in her final year.

Emi has always loved studying and training the game, since she was a player, herself. As a coach, she has traveled all over the country working for collegiate programs and attending workshops by recognized collegiate, national, and international coaches. She specializes in skills training and development, progressing dedicated athletes to more advanced concepts at the highest level, cultivating IQ and mental toughness, and improving on-court agility and athletic ability.

Emi has worked with USAV for boys and girls and with the NDTP program, volunteers with OYAA, and gives regular clinics, private and group lessons at A2. In 4 years, her Boys 17's teams at A2 have qualified for nationals 5 times, had 12 top 3 finishes at tournaments, and finished 5th and 11th at Boys Junior National Championships in 2022 and 2021. At A2 Boys, Emi is the club setting coach, boys marketing manager, lead tier trainer, and the Associate Director of A2 West. Emi was previously the Head Coach of Boys Volleyball at Olentangy High School, where her team finished State Runner-Up, Regional Champions, and District Champions in her first year in 2021. She is in her 5th season with A2 Boys and loves being a part of this tight-knit family and its' growth!

Fun Fact:  Emi pursued a professional singing career in opera for 11 years and has 3 degrees in music from world renowned universities!