Why Molten Camps

Molten Volleyball Camps have enjoyed 9 years of providing athletes in Wisconsin, Illinois and Missouri the camp opportunity that best fits their needs.

We offer three summer opportunities for your teams!

We host a very popular TEAM CAMP at Chula Vista Resort in Wisconsin Dells. The coaches of this camp are brought in from top high schools, clubs and colleges from around the United States. Your players will attend sessions that include position work and team practices. They live in a condo as a team, which is great for bonding. The team eats the best food the resort has to offer. This is a very unique opportunity compared to sweltering dorm rooms, cafeteria food and often college players as coaches. As the head coach of your program, you are encouraged to attend – your room and board is complementary and the nightly round tables with college coaches from all over the country cannot be beat!

Some coaches find that the best camp opportunity for their team is to sleep in their own beds, eat their own food and attend camp without missing work in the summer. The answer to that is to host a Molten Satellite Camps. If you book a Molten Satellite Camp a lead coach and enough support staff to provide a 10/1 player/coach ratio, the lowest in the industry, will come to your school. Coaches who book a camp and have at least 20 players paid on the first day receive 2 Molten NFHS approved game volleyballs.

Our SATELLITE CAMPS are being offered at the same per player cost since 2008!

Book your camp now! E-mail molten.camps@gmail.com or call Erika Candler at 920-246-1410.

We also host the SUMMER SLAM Tournament in August; this is a great "Captain's tournament". It is in August, so Wisconsin coaches cannot coach their teams, but it is a great opportunity to watch your team and find out who your leaders are and what your strengths are before the season starts on the following Monday.

What to expect at camp

Molten Volleyball Camps (MVC) are designed to teach players the fundamentals of power volleyball. They are a great way for your team to bond and compete before the fall season begins, and for individuals to work on skills needed in that first try-out period of your high school season.

Founders

Wayne King is the co-founder of Molten Volleyball Camps (formerly Nike PoWered Camps). As the owner/director of Club Fusion and WI PoWer, King has prided himself in bringing top level training to athletes all over Illinois and Wisconsin. Molten Volleyball Camps are simply an extension of that vision. King has been named Coach of the Year by the NJCAA and the AVCA. In 2006 he was honored by USAV as an Outstanding Clinician. He has coached three teams to a National Championship including Kishwaukee College and his Club Fusion team. King has coached 100's of DI and DII college athletes.

Ruth Leitzke is the co-founder of Molten Volleyball Camps. Having previously traveled the state doing summer camps for coaching friends Leitzke gladly partnered with King to bring the same opportunity to more schools. Leitzke has a varied and successful coaching career. In her 13 years as Hustisford High School Head Coach her teams won nine conference championships, four sectional titles, two state runner-up titles and one state championship. She is credited with building Wisconsin PoWer to its present state of six sites and over 50 teams. As President of the Wisconsin Volleyball Coaches Association she is best known for her dedication to athletes and teaching them the sport she loves.

Lead Coaches

Erika Candler is the lead coach at Power Sauk County and Power Dodge County. She is the former head coach at Iowa Wesleyan College and a former Division I College setter at Troy University (AL) and Indiana-Purdue - Fort Wayne (IN). This is Candler's 6th summer with the program.

Laine Leitzke returns to Molten Camps following a summer hiatus. He is the head coach at Horicon High School and coaches at WI PoWer Dodge County, WI PoWer Sauk County and Fusao VC. Leitzke has been coaching Molten Camps since 2006.

Rod Wilde is an international champion as both a player and a coach. Wilde, was an alternate for the United States volleyball team that won Olympic gold in 1984. He was a member of the U.S. National Team from 1982-1984, and from 1989- 1991. Wilde also served as an assistant coach with the U.S. Men's National Team from 1993-2000. He was selected as an assistant coach to both the 1996 and 2000 Olympic teams. He also aided the U.S. to a bronze medal at the 1994 World Championships. In, 1999 Wilde was the head coach of the U.S. Pan-American team.

Past Satellite Host Schools

Adams-Friendship • Appleton West • Beaver Dam • Black River Falls • Fall River • Fox Valley Lutheran • Freedom
Green Bay Southwest • Highland • Horicon • Hustisford • Hurley • Lake Mills • Lancaster • Lena • Little Chute
Luxemburg-Casco • Kiel • Marinette • Mauston • Medford • Merrill • Mount Horeb • Neenah • New Lisbon
Oakfield • Princeton • Pulaski • Reedsburg • Shiocton • Waterloo • Waukesha North • Waunakee
Wisconsin Dells • Wisconsin Rapids Assumption • Wrightstown • Xavier