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Our Club Directors
Cape Coast Volleyball Club is led by experienced directors who bring decades of coaching, club leadership, and collegiate volleyball experience to the program. The club is run by Co-Directors Connie Denaburg and Mitch Jacobs, supported by a Board of Directors that helps guide the club's operations, athlete development, and long-term growth.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Indoor Co- Director, Beach Director, President & Board Member
Indoor Co-Director, Vice President & Board Member
Board Member
14 Challenger Head Coach & Board Member
Cape Coast is run by our two Co-Director's Connie Denaburg & Mitch Jacobs
Connie Denaburg
Connie Denaburg has been the director of Cape Coast Volleyball Club for 29 years. Connie began her coaching career at Merritt Island High School in 1995 as the varsity coach and led them to 5 straight Cape Coast Conference titles in the late 1990's and early 2000's. The Merritt Island Lady Mustangs were District champs her last 5 years through 2001. She led them to a state finalist appearance in 2001 and finished in the top 8 in the state for another 3 years.
Connie has been coaching club volleyball for approximately 29 years along with her director duties. She has coached 18's, 16's, 15's, 13's, 10's, and now concentrates her efforts on getting the younger ages involved in local leagues, camps and clinics year round.
In 2010, her Cape Coast 12 NIKE team was ranked 2nd in the state and won the USAV Florida Region Bid tournament to qualify for the Junior National tournament held in Reno, NV where the team placed 19th overall in the nation.
Since the year 2000, Cape Coast Volleyball club has assisted over 100 athletes in playing at the next level in college at Division 1, 2 & 3 programs as well as NAIA schools.
In 2010 Connie was recognized by the USAV Florida Region on behalf of Cape Coast Volleyball Club as "Club Director of the Year".
In 2018 Connie was inducted into the Space Coast Hall of Fame.
Connie graduated from Carson-Newman College in Tennessee with a B.S. in Accounting and Recreation while playing four years of collegiate volleyball and tennis for the Lady Eagles. She later earned an MBA from Nova University and spent ten years working as an accountant at Kennedy Space Center. Connie has received her IMPACT training and is CAP II certified with the USAV Florida Region.
Connie and her husband Dan have 4 children, Karly, Mason, Lexy, and Brady.
Mitch Jacobs
Mitch Jacobs is a retired Division 1 head volleyball coach who has returned to Brevard County after almost 20 years. Coach Jacobs has a total 28 years of collegiate coaching, with 26 of those years being at the collegiate Head Coach level. He was the head coach at Marshall University for 17 years and is the school's all-time leader in coaching victories. Coach Jacobs was the director of River Cities Thunder Volleyball Club, the most successful Juniors program in the region and in the state of West Virginia. This club was the first from West Virginia to qualify for USA Nationals back in 2013. In 2018, River Cities 18's team captured another bid to USAVs; however, this time they went on to win the USA 18 - American National Championship. River Cities Volleyball has placed over 40 players through its 17 years at Universities from NCAA Division 1 to NAIA powerhouses and everywhere in between.
Before heading to Marshall, Coach Jacobs was the Head Coach at Fairfield University. He coached the team from 1999-2001 taking home 3 straight MAAC Championships, 3 straight NCAA DI tournament appearances and holds the school’s highest career winning percentage (.757).
Coach Jacobs started his collegiate Head Coaching experience right here in Brevard County at Florida Tech. He was the Head Coach for 6 seasons, where he holds the all-time wins mark in the program’s history. Coinciding with being the Head Coach at Florida Tech, Coach Jacobs also ran a club named Harbor City Juniors.
Coach Jacobs has always taken great pride in working within the youth volleyball community at each of his stops. He has worked within the USA Volleyball youth programs over his 28 years of collegiate coaching. In the Huntington area, Coach Jacobs and the River Cities program had been the force behind a major increase in USA Volleyball participation over the past 17 years. Junior club volleyball in the Huntington/Charleston area has increased from 35 members in 2002 to over 300 members and 7 clubs between Ashland, KY and Charleston, WV.
Mitch and his wife Laura have two children, Jayden and Lucas.