Welcome to the Beach co, Western Canada’s most elite beach volleyball training program. Formed by Canadian National Team beach volleyball coach Kyra Iannone and Team Canada Athlete Devon May, the Beach co will prepare youth beach athletes for the highest level of competition in the USA, Canada and Internationally. The company is run by Kyra Iannone alongside Devon May Former NCAA athlete, NCAA assistant Coach and current International Professional Player. They will be joined by other professional players, college coaches, and highly experienced staff to offer a training experience previously only available to National Team players.
The Beach Co will offer a beach volleyball training experience that will adequately prepare athletes for professional domestic competitions, NCAA competition, National Team selection, and FIVB (International) competition. It will expose developing youth beach volleyball players to the best available technical, tactical, physical and mental training techniques that are currently used by National Team athletes.
The Beach Co will provide year-round access to structured beach volleyball training, as well as increase the yearly hours of exposure to beach volleyball training in an effort to develop athletes with International caliber skills. The Beach co difference is based on training methods that have previously led to National gold medals and FIVB International victories, and will be introducing Western Canada to the following:
Extensive individual assessment and goal setting in the areas of:
o Technical skill
o Physical fitness
o Sport Psychology
o Sport Nutrition
o Year-round beach volleyball training scheduled to complement regular indoor volleyball participation (school & club)
o Coaching at pro beach and youth beach events during the season
o Video analysis during training and competition and advanced scouting during competition
Meet Our Team
Co-founders
Kyra Iannone
After a 13 year run as the founder and director of Canada’s first high performance beach volleyball club, a one-year stint as the assistant coach at national power Arizona, three years as UAB Women’s Beach Volleyball Head Coach and Current Head Coach of some of Canada’s Best Professional Beach Athletes. Iannone is bringing Professional Beach Volleyball training with an international emphasis back to BC. Iannone brings a wealth of beach volleyball knowledge, having served time coaching both Team BC and Team Canada Beach Volleyball. Her breadth of experience on the international scene will serve her players well, as she has been the head coach of teams that competed and brought home Gold from the World Championships, Canada Summer Games, Western Canada Games, and the BC Summer Games. A native of White Rock, British Columbia, Iannone started Sideout Beach Volleyball Club in 2004 and has seen it rise to levels of unprecedented international accomplishments. Her Sideout Club’s rise to prominence included coaching both male and female athletes to multiple national Canadian titles. Additionally, she constructed a footprint on the international beach volleyball scene with her Canadian athletes. In 2016 at the FIVB World Championships in Switzerland, Iannone led Nicole and Megan McNamara to a Bronze Medal. The McNamara’s carried that success over to their sophomore seasons at UCLA by earning All-America honors, with a 28-7 record earned on court one. Again in 2018 Kyra Iannone and Nicole and Megan McNamara brought home Gold to Canada at the FISU world Championships. Kyra is looking forward to being back in Canada, representing her country, and building into western Canada beach volleyball again.
Devon May
Devon grew up on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia and spent her indoor club experience playing for BCO volleyball Club in North Vancouver. Devon started playing beach volleyball for Iannone’s Sideout beach club in grade 11, along with Thunder Beach winning gold for BC Summer Games that summer. Devon completed her indoor volleyball career for SFU, taking the program to its first ever NCAA National tournament appearance in 2016. May then continued on to complete her NCAA eligibility at UAB playing for coach Iannone, continuing on to assistant coach for SFU and UAB, until being selected for the Beach Volleyball National Team in 2019 in Toronto, Ontario. Devon completed her Bachelor of Education at SFU with a minor in Kinesiology, and a Masters of Human Communications Management from UAB. May’s first international beach volleyball season was in 2019, as she continues to train and pursue the dream of being a fulltime professional athlete and development coach here in Vancouver, BC. Devon has coached full time since 2013, beach and indoor, for all ages ranging from elementary to professional. She was a coach for fellow National Team athletes in 2021, and will continue to travel and coach national team athletes as well as developing a high level of beach volleyball here in British Columbia. As May’s journey has been unique in the fact she has had to grow up with the challenges of limited high level beach offered here in BC, she is passionate about growing a program to help athletes have access to the highest standard of training, knowledge, and recruitment to pursue their dreams in also becoming a professional, NCAA or National Team level beach volleyball athlete.
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