Loyalty, Family, Growth, Grit & Intention: The Values L2 Won't Compromise On With Sarah Lindstrom
In this episode of She Aced That, I sit down with Sarah Lindstrom — co-founder and executive director of L2 Volleyball Club out of the Legacy Center in Brighton, MI.
If you've been around the Michigan club scene, you've seen L2 at your tournaments. But before the club, Sarah has spent over a decade as a high school head coach at Divine Child, Walled Lake Central, and Northville. In this conversation she pulls back the curtain on what it actually takes to build an elite, open-level program from scratch — and what running a club really looks like behind the scenes.
We get into:→ How L2 was born and the gap in the Michigan club space that sparked it→ Building culture across an entire club, not just one team→ The five core values L2 won't compromise on: loyalty, family, growth, grit & intention→ Why she'd take the gritty kid over the six-foot-three recruit→ Her real talk on parents, playing time, and the "Josie doesn't know I'm emailing you" reality→ What actually separates players who make it to the next level (hint: it's mentality, not height)→ Running a club AND a marriage with her husband Eric
Whether you're a volleyball parent, a player, or a coach who's dreamed about building something of your own — this one's for you.
🏐 Find L2 Volleyball:Website: legacycentermichigan.comInstagram: @L2volleyball
Located in the arena at the Legacy Center, Brighton, MI
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15 Apr 2026
Inside Maya Winterhoff's Professional Volleyball Draft Day
In this episode of She Aced That, Alyxandra sits down with Maya Winterhoff — middle blocker for the Columbus Fury of Major League Volleyball and App State's first-ever professional volleyball draftee. Selected No. 20 overall in the 2025 MLV Draft, Maya was the only player from the Sun Belt Conference drafted that year, capping off one of the most decorated careers in App State history: four-time All-Sun Belt, AVCA East Coast First-Team All-Region, over 1,000 career kills, and three consecutive seasons leading the Sun Belt in hitting percentage.
In this conversation, Maya opens up about:
🏐 Falling in love with volleyball as a sixth grader🏐 Why she chose App State over Dayton and Delaware (and the Instagram bio trick that helped her decide)🏐 The wild regional championship story that involved a ref call, a curtain, and social distancing🏐 What draft day actually looked like — including the pimple patches, the packing, and seeing her name on the screen🏐 The reality of transitioning from college to professional volleyball and playing alongside Olympic-level talent🏐 Why middle blocker is the most underappreciated position on the court🏐 Her dream of becoming a college coach and the path she's building to get there
Maya's story is a masterclass in trusting your gut, committing to your decisions, and letting your game speak — no matter where you start.
Follow Maya and the Columbus Fury this MLV season.
1 Apr 2026
What It Actually Takes to Run a Volleyball Club with Al Patterson & Rob Conley
What does it actually take to run a volleyball club? Not the polished version — the real, behind-the-scenes, phone-calls-every-morning, budgeting-over-a-year-in-advance version.
In this episode, I sit down with Alan Patterson and Rob Conley, the Club Director and Assistant Club Director of Dynamite Volleyball Club out of South Lyon, Michigan. Al founded Dynamite — not because he set out to build a club, but because he wanted to give his daughter a better volleyball experience. What started as one local team has grown into a competitive club with nearly 170 athletes across national, premier, and local level teams.
We get into all of it — what it costs to run a club, how they find and keep great coaches, what goes into hosting tournaments, how they handle drama and conflict on teams, their approach to recruiting, their reasonings on maintaining a smaller club size, and what kept them afloat during COVID when so many clubs didn't make it.
Whether you're a volleyball parent trying to understand what actually goes on behind the scenes, a coach looking to grow, or someone who's ever thought about starting a club of your own — this conversation is for you!
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