Coach Clifford
Information: This will be Coach Clifford's third year as Varsity Coach at South Houston High School.
Coach Clifford grew up in Clear Lake, Texas. She began playing volleyball at the age of 11 at the YMCA. She begin playing club volleyball when she was 14 at Pearland Juniors Volleyball Club. She played volleyball at Clear Lake High School where she was a three year Varsity Player.
Coach Clifford passed up several volleyball scholarship offers to attend Texas A&M University. She played on the Aggie Club Volleyball team for three years. Her team won College Club Nationals in 2011.
Coach Clifford began her coaching career while she was in college. As a senior, she served as assistant coach to a 14s team at Brazos Valley Juniors. When she moved back to Houston and began coaching at Gulf Coast Volleyball Association. She assisted at the 13s and 14s level before taking over as 12s head coach for 2 years. In 2018, she moved to 18s where her team qualified for USAV Nationals, finished 4th in the Houston Shootout Series and placed 9th in a USAV Qualifier- USA Division.
Concurrently, when Coach Clifford moved back from college she coached JV volleyball at North Shore High School, finishing 2nd in District. In 2014 she moved to be JV and Varsity Assistant at Clear Springs High School where she won district with her JV team each year and assisted in bringing Varsity to the Regional Tournament in 2015 and 2018.
Coach Clifford is excited to continue to grow the volleyball program at SHHS. Go Trojans!
Contact: MClifford@pasadenaisd.org
Coach Young
Information: This will be Coach Young's third year as the Varsity Assistant at South Houston High School.
Coach Young grew up in Clear Lake, Texas. She began playing volleyball at 11 with South Shore Juniors. She played high school volleyball at Clear Brook High School where she was a 3 year Varsity player. She was awarded the district Co-Setter of Year Award her junior and senior year.
Coach Young went on to play college volleyball at Blinn College in Bryan, Texas. Her sophomore year her team won a Junior College National Championship and she was recognized as an All-American. Her junior year she transferred to Colorado State University, where she went on to win two Mountain West Conference championships and competed both her junior and senior year in the NCAA D1 College National Championship Tournament, reaching the Sweet 16 her junior season.
Coach Young began her coaching career while at Colorado State, coaching club teams at a club in Loveland, CO. After college she moved to Arizona for work, and two years later moved to Dallas to begin running the youth sports program at Waterview Wolves. From Dallas, in 2019, she went on to coach at the college level at the University of South Carolina-Upstate, where she aided the program in recording a record number of conference wins. In 2021 she moved back to Houston and accepted the position of Varsity Assistant at South Houston High School.
Contact: cyoung@pasadenaisd.org