Butler Volleyball Camp staff  is made up of current and past Butler University Volleyball Players, other collegiate volleyball players and highly qualified and respected university,high school, youth, and club coaches.

Lenika Vasquez
Assistant Coach

Lenika Vazquez was hired as an assistant coach at Butler in the winter of 2012. Vazquez, who was most recently the head coach at South Suburban College in Illinois, came to Butler with 10 years of high school and collegiate volleyball coaching experience.

Her responsibilities at Butler include recruiting, fundraising and she will coordinate BU's defense.

"Lenika is a wonderful addition to our program,” head coach Sharon Clark said when hiring Vazquez. "She is tremendously competitive and loves to train players. She comes to us with good experience having been a D-I head coach."

Vazquez was named head coach at SSC in South Holland, Ill., in the fall of 2010. At South Suburban, Vazquez was charged with recruiting and developing players. Vazquez also co-founded Illiana Explosive Volleyball Club in Crete, Ill., a south suburb of Chicago. In addition to coaching in the Chicago area, Vazquez work as a Personal Training Director at an LA Fitness in Oakbrook, Ill.
 
Prior to her time at South Suburban, Vazquez was the head coach at Chicago State University for three seasons. While at CSU, Vazquez proved to be a talented and relentless recruiter and coach. She had three players break school records for kills, blocks, assists and digs and had several players earn various academic honors.
 
After coaching two season as a head coach at the high school level in Illinois, Vazquez began her coaching career in 2002 as an assistant coach at her alma mater, Southern Illinois. While at SIU, Vazquez was involved with recruiting, travel, training, game management and community service projects. In her first season at SIU, she helped the Salukis to a 23-10 season and a first-ever appearance in the Missouri Valley Conference final.

As a player, Vazquez was a defensive specialist at SIU from 1996-99. She was an integral part of Southern Illinois' 1998 squad that went 19-12 and 12-6 in the MVC. She played in college for Sonya (Locke) Hopkins, who is coordinator of academic support for Butler.
 
A native of Buffalo, N.Y., Vazquez earned a degree in business management from Southern Illinois in 2001.

Camille Gutierrez
Assistant Coach

Camille Gutierrez joined the Butler volleyball staff in January of 2012. Gutierrez, a former assistant at Indiana State, Pacific and West Virginia, assists in recruiting, on-court training and additional duties to assist the program.

Gutierrez came to Butler University after three seasons at Indiana State University. Her duties involved developing and providing individual and group training for position players, primarily setters and defense, coordinating student-athlete recruitment, assisting with the development of practice planning and coordinating opponent scouting activities.

During Gutierrez’s time at ISU, three players were named All-Missouri Valley Conference. Also, three Sycamore players climbed into ISU’s top 10 individual career and single-season record books.  As a team, ISU finished sixth in the Missouri Valley Conference in 2011, the team's best finish since the 2004 season.

Prior to coming to ISU, Gutierrez worked at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif. At Pacific, she was the Director of Volleyball Operations from 2008-2009. Prior to Pacific, she served as the first assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Kennesaw State University from July 2006 through April 2008, assistant coach at West Virginia University from 2004-2006 and the first assistant at American River Junior College in California from 1998-2003.

In addition, Gutierrez has also worked on the club volleyball level and been involved in numerous camps. On the club level, she has been a head coach for the Sacramento Town Volleyball Club and an assistant coach for the 16U and 18U teams at Davis Volleyball Club in Davis, Calif. She has worked camps at Butler for several summers and has also served as the head coach for high-school age athletes at the USAV Developmental & High Performance Camp in Iowa and a promotional assistant for UC-Davis in 1997.

Gutierrez was a standout college player at American River Junior College from 1993-95, where she led the team to two straight conference championships. Gutierrez was named a Junior College All-American, two-time team MVP, conference player of the year and American River College Female Athlete of the Year.  She spent one season as the starting setter at Alabama and finished her collegiate career at UC-Davis where she was an integral part of the Northern California Athletic Conference (NCAC) Championship team and was named an AVCA All-American, All-Southwest Region, NCAC Newcomer of the Year, first team All-Conference and two-time all-tournament selection.

Gutierrez is a member of the American Volleyball Coaches Association and has participated in the American Volleyball Coaches Association’s Minority Coaches Workshop in 2003. She worked the clinic’s workshop for underprivileged children in 2007.

She is a 2004 graduate of California State University-Sacramento with a bachelor’s in kinesiology and she earned a Master’s in athletic coaching education from West Virginia University in 2006.

 Butler Volleyball Camps are open to any and all applicants.