Staff

Brad Keller | Head Coach

Brad Keller is in his fourth season (2023) as the head coach of the USC women’s volleyball team. He was hired as the seventh coach in program history on February 20, 2020.

The Trojans are 44-34 (.564) overall in three seasons under Keller. In Keller’s first official season as a head coach, the Trojans played the 2020 season during the spring of 2021 due to COVID-19 precautions. USC went 7-8 amidst a slew of cancellations and delays but won its final four matches of the spring. The Trojans went 15-15 in the fall of 2021 and were 10-10 in Pac-12 matches to finish seventh in the league standings.

USC broke through and earned an at-large postseason berth into the NCAA tournament in 2022. The Trojans finished fourth in the Pac-12 standings with a 13-7 mark in league matches and were 22-11 overall. USC reached the second round of the tournament where it fell to 10th-ranked Ohio State. Outside hitter Skylar Fields was named to the AVCA All-America first team, the first USC All-American student-athlete under Keller’s tutelage.

Prior to USC, Keller was the associate women’s head coach at UCLA in 2019 and helped the Bruins to a 19-12 overall record. UCLA took fourth place in the Pac-12 with a 13-7 record and advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament where the Bruins fell to eventual NCAA national runner-up Wisconsin.

Prior to the 2019 season with the women’s team, Keller served six years (2013-18) as an assistant coach for the UCLA men’s volleyball program. While on staff, Keller coached 10 All-Americans and helped the Bruins reach the NCAA national semifinals in 2016 and a national runner-up finish in 2018. According to Volleyball Magazine rankings, Keller helped bring in four top-ranked recruiting classes at UCLA: in 2013, ’14, ’17, and ’18.

On the national level, Keller has served as a coach for the U.S. Youth National Team programs. He was the head coach of the A1 U.S. Boys’ Youth Team that won silver at the 2018 NORCECA U19 Continental Championship. Keller was also the U.S. Youth National Team’s associate head coach in 2016 and 2017; and served as an assistant coach in 2014 and 2015.

Keller’s collegiate coaching career began at USC where he served as an assistant coach for the Trojans for four seasons (2007-10). In 2009, USC won the MPSF Tournament and finished as the NCAA runner-up. Among the outstanding Trojan men that he coached were Murphy Troy, Tony Ciarelli, Tri Bourne, and brothers Riley and Maddison McKibbin.

Keller joined the UC Irvine men’s program for the 2011 season as an assistant coach where he helped the Anteaters to a No. 3 national ranking and a semifinal appearance in the MPSF tournament. In the fall of 2011, Keller moved to the women’s side of the sport and spent that season as an assistant coach a UConn. In the spring of 2012, Keller was named an assistant coach for the Santa Clara women’s volleyball program. He helped the Broncos through the spring season before he was hired by the UCLA men’s program that summer.

Prior to joining the collegiate coaching ranks, Keller was the owner, director, and a coach of Bay to Bay, a boys’ volleyball club in Northern California, from 2000-06. His club won a pair of silver medals at the Junior Olympics and produced numerous NCAA Division I student-athletes. In the summer of 2006, he served as an assistant coach with the U.S. Men’s Junior National Team.

Keller’s other coaching experience includes two seasons (1995-96) as an assistant with the girls’ team at Del Mar High School in San Jose, Calif.; and as head coach in 1999 of the girls’ junior high team at Harvard-Westlake High School in North Hollywood, Calif.

As a student-athlete, Keller played outside hitter and defensive specialist at Loyola Marymount for two seasons (1999-2000) before the school stopped sponsoring the sport. He received his bachelor’s degree in graphic design with a minor in marketing from LMU in 2002.

Keller attended Bellarmine Prep in San Jose, Calif., where he was the CIF Central Coast Section MVP in 1998. His younger brother Jarod played libero for the Stanford men’s volleyball program. Keller was born Dec. 30, 1979.

Spencer McLachlin | Associate Head Coach

Spencer McLachlin is in his first season (2023) as associate head coach for the USC women's volleyball program.

Previously, McLachlin served as the associate head coach at Indiana in 2022 where he was responsible for coordinating the defense and blocking. The Hoosiers were 16-16 and went 9-11 in the Big Ten to finish eighth in the conference standings. IU’s nine conference victories were its most since 2010 and the team had its highest finish since the Big Ten expanded to 14 teams.

While with IU, McLachlin helped coach the Hoosiers to wins over a fifth-ranked Ohio State and No. 25 Michigan on the road; the first time in program history that IU had multiple road victories over ranked opponents. Under his guidance, middle blocker Savannah Kjolhede produced 118 blocks and had 14 matches with five or more blocks. Five different Hoosiers had more than 40 blocks in 2022 and as a team, IU had 250 blocks with a season-high 18 in a victory over Northwestern.

Prior to Indiana, McLachlin was an assistant coach for the UCLA men’s volleyball program for four years (2018-21). He also has international experience with the U.S. men’s national team where he was on staffs for teams that competed in the Pan American Cup and NORCECA Champions cup.

Before he joined UCLA, he spent two seasons (2016-17) as an assistant coach at California. In 2017, he was named to the American Volleyball Coach Association (AVCA) Thirty Under 30 list, an honor presented to up-and-coming coaching talents across volleyball. McLachlin got his start in coaching as an assistant for the men’s volleyball program at Hawai’i. During his time with the Warriors, the team earned a bid to the NCAA tournament for the first time in 13 seasons.

As a student-athlete, McLachlin played at Stanford (2008-11) as an outside hitter. He won a national championship with the Cardinal in 2010 and finished his career among the program’s all-time leaders in kills with 1,288. McLachlin was a senior captain, an All-MPSF second team choice, and received MPSF all-academic team recognition three times.

He graduated from Stanford with a degree in political science in 2011 and completed a Master of Education in 2012 while serving as a club coach for the Bay-to-Bay Volleyball Club.

As a professional athlete, McLachlin was an outside hitter for Mas NIKI Aiginio in Greece for three years (2012-14).

McLachlin is married to former USC volleyball standout opposite hitter Diane Copenhagen (2004-07), a 2004 Pac-10 All-Freshman Team selection. The McLachlins have a daughter named Leila and are expecting a second child in May of 2023.

Megan Moenoa | Assistant Coach

Megan Moenoa is in her first year (2023) as an assistant coach for the Women of Troy. She was initially brought on as the volunteer assistant in March of 2023 but was elevated to a full-time role in July.

Previously, Moenoa served as an assistant coach at UC Irvine for five years, including four as a full-time assistant (2016-19). The Anteaters went 71-77 and made two appearances in the NIVC postseason tournament while Moenoa was on the bench. Moenoa also has experience as a coach with Mizuno Long Beach Volleyball Club and as the director of the Long Beach Volleyball Club Girl's program.

She is a 2015 graduate of UCLA where she earned a bachelor's degree in sociology. As a setter, she was a part of the Bruins’ 2011 NCAA national championship team and averaged 8.42 assists per set over her four-year career.

Moenoa prepped at Lakewood High School where she was named an ESPN Rise All-American and was an All-CIF first-team selection and the two-time Moore League Co-Player of the Year. She was the 10th-ranked recruit on PrepVolleyball’s Senior Aces list and was a three-time Press-Telegram Dream Team selection. Moenoa was twice chosen as the Lakewood High School Athlete of the Year where she helped the Lancers win the 2007 State Championship and advance to the CIF state semifinals in 2010.

Moenoa was selected to the U.S. Women’s Junior National Training Team in 2010 and played for the Mizuno Long Beach Volleyball Club where she won gold at the 2009 Junior National Championships and silver in 2008, where she earned all-tournament team honors.

Virginia Pham | Technical Coordinator

Virginia Pham is in her fourth season (2023) as the technical coordinator for the USC men’s and women’s volleyball programs.

Pham also serves as the director of operations for the men’s team and is a performance analyst for USA Volleyball’s Women’s U21 program.

Pham previously served two seasons (2018-19) as the director of operations with the Penn State women’s volleyball team. While there, Pham was also the program’s technical and video coordinator as the Nittany Lions amassed a 53-14 record and made two trips to the NCAA regional championship match.

Prior to Penn State, Pham was the director of operations at Oklahoma, where she managed budget and team travel. Pham also served in roles as the Sooners’ technical and video coordinator; and was the team’s resident DataVolley and VolleyMetrics expert. Pham took over the Oklahoma Elite Volleyball Club while she lived in Norman and was the club’s owner and director for the 2017 and 2018 seasons.

In 2015, Pham was the graduate assistant at VCU (Virginia Commonwealth University) and served as the director of operations. She earned her Master of Education in sports leadership from VCU in 2016. She also holds a position as the technical coordinator for the U.S. Sitting Volleyball national team.

Pham received a Bachelor of Science in computer science from UCLA in 2015 where she served as a student assistant for the Bruins’ men’s, women’s, and beach volleyball programs from 2012-15.

Julian Welsh-White | Director of Operations

Julian Welsh-White is in his second season (2022) as the director of operations for the USC women’s volleyball program.

Welsh-White joined the Women of Troy following a three-season run (2018-21) as an assistant coach at Howard University out of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). With Welsh-White on staff, the Bison won 43 matches, claimed back-to-back MEAC tournament crowns, and earned consecutive berths into the NCAA tournament (2018-19). During the shortened 2020-21 spring season, he helped coach Bison Jessica Bolden and Amari Patterson to All-MEAC Rookie honors.

In his first season at Howard, Welsh-White was instrumental in recruiting and developing the core of HU’s championship roster. The Bison went 20-10 that year and won a fourth consecutive MEAC title. In 2019, he was part of a Howard staff that guided the Bison to a 20-13 mark (14-1 MEAC) when HU won its fifth straight MEAC championship. Welsh-White and the Bison played a non-conference match at Galen Center that fall during the Trojan Invitational.

Prior to his time in Washington, D.C., Welsh-White served as the volunteer assistant coach at South Carolina for the 2017 season. There, he had scout duties and assisted in the training of the Gamecocks’ middle blockers.

Before South Carolina, Welsh-White was a volunteer assistant coach for the men’s volleyball team at his alma mater Springfield College and helped the Pride win the 2017 NCAA Division III national championship. While on staff with the Pride, he compiled and analyzed practice statistics, scouted opponents, and was an on-court skills coach.

For two years (2012-14), Welsh-White was a volunteer assistant junior varsity coach at Cowan High School (Muncie, Ind.) where he helped coach the team to several top sectional, regional and state finishes, including the team’s first appearance in the Indiana state championship.

As a collegian, Welsh-White spent four years at Ball State (2012-15) and played three seasons, with one redshirt year due to injury. He then transferred to Springfield College for his final year and helped the Pride to an NCAA Division III runner-up finish in 2016. In May 2017, he received his Bachelor of Science in sport management with a minor in business from Springfield.

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