Nick Toth

vice president - operations director

E-mail: ntoth@ncvf.org

Nick is the NCVF Vice President and Director of Operations. He is also the Chairperson of the NCVF Compliance Committee, overseeing the administration of NCVF Governance Rules, Sportsmanship and Ethical standards.  Nick began his collegiate club career as a player and coach at the University of Dayton and was elected as the Dayton Men’s Volleyball Club President in 2011.   As a former club volleyball president, he respectfully distinguished himself with university administrators and members of the national club volleyball community by advocating for student-directed club opportunities at his school.  Nick continues coaching at the boys’ and girls’ high school and women’s collegiate club levels.  Nick is a graduate of the University of Dayton and University of Cincinnati College of Law.

Tom matzen

Vice president - information and ethics

Tom Matzen, a former men’s volleyball club president, became a member of the NCVF Board of Directors in 2019 and was elected as NCVF Vice President, Information and Ethics. Tom is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh Law School (2000) and President of Matzen Consulting Group, an Austin TX based firm specializing in data security, breach response, and data privacy best practices.  Tom also has broad experience with laws that protect against domestic and international predatory corporate practices.  Tom successfully litigated a precedent-setting Title IX case to the U.S. Supreme Court involving the application of institutional equal opportunity and access laws in sport.  In his role with the NCVF, he provides guidance on student data collection, storage and use, IT internal controls, and non-profit ethics practices and procedures.  As a former club volleyball president, Tom lead his university club team to a 5th place finish at the 2000 collegiate club championships and has stayed with the sport as a volunteer boys volleyball coach in Austin, TX.  

Anne GANAKAS

TReasurer

Anne Ganakas joined the NCVF Board of Directors and was elected Treasurer in 2019.  Anne has solid business and non-profit experience, having served in various board of director and officer positions with local chapters of Big Brothers and Big Sisters and the United Way.   Her work with these organizations opened doors of opportunity for underprivileged youth, and complimented her successful operation of several national franchise businesses.  Her professional work experience also includes service to the Kansas City Kings and Kansas City Comets professional sports teams, and work with collegiate intramural programs.  Anne’s ability to team-build, coupled with her extensive business supervisory experience and passion for club sports, will help the NCVF grow its corporate structure while remaining accountable to those it serves.  Anne’s family background includes university sports contributors who have helped cut across barriers and made broad-based opportunities an institutional programming priority.  She serves as the NCVF’s second Treasurer, succeeding NCVF co-founder and current board member, Dan Kitchel. 

DAN KITCHEL

Assistant TREASURER

Dan is NCVF Treasurer and a member of the NCVF Board of Directors.  Dan chairs the NCVF Finance Committee, and, among other appointments, is a member of the NCVF Rules and IT committees.  He has been the Director of Competition for the MIVA, an NCVF recognized league, for over 20 years, overseeing scheduling and play for over 50 Midwest collegiate club teams.    For nearly three decades, he has served as the Director of Competition for the 60 team club volleyball Spartan Back to the Hardwood Tournament, and has acted as Director of Competition for the 40 team Hoosier-Illini Tournament for over a decade.  Dan played club volleyball at Michigan State University in the 1970’s, and has remained actively involved in various roles with the MIVA and many other volleyball organizations since that time.  He is an accomplished official where he has achieved the status of USAV National Referee and USA National Scorekeeper.  Dan is a co-founder and Treasurer of Lakeshore Region Volleyball Association (USAV).  Dan is a graduate of Michigan State University and is retired from the State of Michigan where he worked as an Economist for over 20 years.  Dan is a NCVF co-founder and resides in Lansing, Michigan.

Doug Hinton

Doug is an NCVF Board Member and chairs the NCVF National Championship Tournament, IT and Registration committees.  Doug plays critical NCVF administrative roles by operating VBReg, the organization’s on-line registration system, and serving as the NCVF National Championship Tournament Director.  Doug’s work with these NCVF initiates has empowered unprecedented participant growth for clubs at both small and large schools.  Doug has long been involved in various aspects of collegiate club volleyball -- as player, coach, official, commissioner, and administrator.  As a player, he led his Texas A&M team to national prominence, earning four conference championships in five years.  Taking the reigns as the club’s head coach from 1995-1997 and 2001-2003, he directed the Aggies to three national top ten finishes.  He is one of the founders of the SIVA collegiate club conference, a NCVF recognized club league, serving as its Commissioner for nearly two decades.  Doug also rehabilitated a struggling Ohio State Men's club team during a three-year coaching term, helping the Buckeye club to gain a national spotlight while assisting in the organization and administration of the MIVA.  Doug holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Texas A&M University, and is employed by Mercer as a Senior IT Manager.   Doug is a NCVF co-founder and resides in Houston, Texas.

Gary Colberg

Board member emeritus

Gary was a former NCVF Board Member, NCVF co-founder and served club volleyball for over four decades.  He began his coaching involvement in 1967 at UC Davis, and in 1979, he coached Sacramento State.  He was the founder of the Northern Collegiate Club Volleyball League, an NCVF recognized collegiate club league where he acted as its Commissioner from 1967-2000.  Gary's vision of an organized national level collegiate club tournament was born in 1985 when he independently created and administered the first ever national collegiate men's club championship tournament in 1985.  He led the growth and development of the tournament through to the formation of the NCVF in 2008.

Gary served 31 years as a national and international certified referee, an esteemed member of the USA Volleyball Board of Directors and an administrative mainstay for several USA Volleyball initiatives.

Gary was a graduate of the University of Minnesota, and retired from UC Davis where he was employed as the Associate Athletic Director in charge of Intramural Sports & Sport Clubs and Special Assignments.  He passed away in 2016 and will be long remembered for his NCVF vision, mentorship and leadership, and for the historic contributions he made to the sport of volleyball.