Head Coach LaToya Harris

lrharris@lcsc.edu

LaToya Harris enters her second year as head coach at Lewis-Clark State College after a very successful opening campaign.

Last season she led the Warriors to their fifth straight Frontier Conference regular season title and an overall record of 23-6, including a 13-1 mark in conference play. Harris garnered the Frontier's Coach of the Year Award, five of her players earned all-conference honors, and seven earned all-conference academic honors.

The team also made its fifth consecutive appearance at the national tournament where it went 2-1 to advance past pool play before falling in five sets to No. 6 Azusa Pacific in the first round of bracket play. The team received a ranking of No. 10 in the NAIA postseason poll.

Harris was a standout player at Washington State University during 1999-2002. During her freshman season, WSU’s graduate assistant coach was Jen Greeny (nee Stinson), who Harris replaced at the Warrior helm. Greeny is now head coach at WSU.

Prior to LCSC, Harris had been head volleyball coach at Sam Barlow High School in Gresham, Ore., since 2006 and also had been coach of the Alpine Volleyball Club team since 2007. She came highly recommended, by both Greeny and her old coach at WSU, Cindy Fredrick.

In her five years at Sam Barlow, Harris has led the team to a 55-28 mark in conference play with second-place finishes in each of the past two seasons. The team made the playoffs all five seasons and advanced to the Oregon state tournament twice where it finished seventh in 2008 and again in ’09.

During the five years, she had players earn 10 first-team all-conference honors, four second-team honors, and 18 receive honorable mention selection. Her players have gone on to sign at one NCAA Division I school, four at NCAA D-II, two at NCAA Division III, one at the NAIA, and four at community colleges.

Harris’ Alpine Club also has been very successful, especially during the past two seasons. She’s also had 17 players from the club team sign to play college volleyball.

Harris was a standout volleyball, basketball and softball player at Parkrose High School in Portland where she earned 12 letters and was a starter in all four sports for four seasons. She was the KATU Athlete of the Week during her senior year in an area that covered both Washington and Oregon prep athletes and also was the TV station’s Athlete of the Year for that season. Parkrose retired her high school volleyball jersey that season and the jersey was re-retired in 2010 with a new banner.

She signed to play volleyball at WSU where she was a starter all four seasons and earned All-Freshman Pac-10 Conference honors her first season and first-team All-Pac-10 her final three seasons. She also was the team MVP her sophomore and senior seasons and earned Pac-10 Player of the Week both seasons as well.

She was named the MVP at seven tournaments during her Cougar career, including the Las Vegas Invitational (2001), Cougar Challenge (2000-02), Fresno State Invitational (2001), Alaska Invitational (2002), and San Francisco Invitational (2002).

Harris also helped WSU to the NCAA tournament her final three seasons with an Elite Eight appearance in 2002.

She became the third player in WSU history to record at least 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs during her career and finished fourth in school history in both categories. She also held the record for most career service aces with 143.

While at WSU, she also competed in track for one season as a higher jumper.

Following her playing career, she served as an undergraduate assistant coach for Fredrick at WSU in the 2003 season, and then became head coach at San Leandro High in California for two seasons before taking over at Sam Barlow.

Harris has a Bachelor of Arts degrees in Humanities with an emphasis in Communication and in Women Studies with a minor in Sport Management.

Harris and her fiancé Renaldo Alexander Sr., have a 6-year-old son Renaldo Alexander Jr. 

Assistant Coach Keo Millan

Keo Millan is in his first year as an assistant coach at Lewis-Clark State College.   

Millan is a highly-competitive and lifelong volleyball player whose passion for and experience with the sport spans nearly 25 years.  His volleyball roots are in Southern California where he earned team MVP and All-Metro League honors in high school as a starting setter.

He played collegiately for four years at Washington State University.  As the team’s starting setter and co-captain, Millan earned Tournament MVP and All-Tournament Team honors while helping lead the Cougars to the top of the Pacific Intercollegiate Volleyball Association and two consecutive top-five finishes at Division I Collegiate Club Nationals.  During that time, he also worked as an IHSAA certified volleyball referee and coached Pullman High School’s junior varsity and the University of Idaho women’s club volleyball teams.

Millan then served as a police officer prior to moving to Clarkston in 2011.  His decision to return to coaching volleyball has made an immediate impact on the Lewis-Clark Valley’s volleyball scene.  He was the 2011 junior varsity volleyball coach at Clarkston High School.  He is the Co-Director of Snake River Juniors Volleyball Club and the head coach of the U16 team.  He guided the U16 team to a 2012 top 10 final ranking out of 87 teams in the Evergreen Region.   He has also coached for Clarkston High School’s Junior Bantams Camp, LCSC’s Warrior Volleyball Club, and provides private individual training.

Millan is IMPACT and CAP 1 certified through USA Volleyball.  He specializes in developing the setter position as well as game tactics and strategy, team mindset training, and strength and conditioning.  Millan has been married for 14 years to Kimberly, a native of Lewiston who is also an avid volleyball player.  They have two children, Eva and Ikaika.