Mid-Valley Monarchs

Program Co-Founder and Director
Ron served as the women's head coach at Blanchet Catholic High School from 2013-2019, where the Cavaliers had consecutive state tournament finishes of 1st, 2nd and 3rd, and he was named State Coach of the Year in both 2017 and 2019. He has long been involved in youth basketball within the Willamette Valley. 

After playing collegiate basketball at Willamette University, Ron began his coaching career at Parrish Middle School before becoming involved with the Keizer Youth Basketball Association.  Ron served KYBA for many years as a coach for the recreational league, as well as the tournament team.  During this time, Ron also joined the KYBA board and was elected for several terms as board president.  In 2007, Ron joined the Corban University Women's Basketball coaching staff as an assistant under Terry Williams.  It was during this time that the idea of the Monarchs was born.  Ron and Terry coached together at Corban until Terry's retirement in 2013.  Shortly after, Ron was hired as the women's head coach at Blanchet. 

He is an active member of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association and the National Federation of High School Coaches, and frequently speaks at coaching clinics around the nation, including the Nike/OACA Clinic.  He was named the PacWest Coach of the Year for the 2015-2016 season after leading the Cavaliers to the regular season league championship, and the Oregon 3A State Basketball Coach of the Year in 2017 after leading Blanchet to its first ever girls basketball state championship.   In 2017-2018, the Blanchet girls followed up their previous year's state championship with a 3rd place finish at the 3A State Tournament.  And in 2018-2019, Blanchet finished as state runnerup and Ron was named Co-State Coach of the Year.

Program Co-Founder and Director
A person who has touched the lives of more young athletes in Salem-Keizer than just about any other coach, Terry Williams continues his mission of serving our youth by coaching our top teams with Coach Hittner.

Following a successful college athletic career in both basketball and baseball, Terry has dedicated himself to positively affecting young lives by coaching at all levels of basketball for the past 30+.  Included in this is the formation of Keizer Youth Basketball Association (KYBA) in the late 1980's and assistance with the creation of Salem-Keizer Youth Basketball (SKYBall) in the early 1990's.  Terry was hired as head women's coach at Western Baptist College in the mid-1990's and became the school's all-time winningest women's basketball coach (as it transitioned to its current name of Corban University) and coached the women's basketball team to its only national championship.  Following his retirement from Corban in the spring of 2013, Terry continued coaching basketball in KYBA, Upward, and the Monarchs.

In the fall of 2014, Coach Williams was named the head girls' coach at West Salem High School, where served for three years, leading the Titans into the state play-offs each year.

Coach
Coach V is back for his fifth year coaching in the Monarchs program.    He will be starting his first year as an assistant coach for the Women's program at Linfield College for the 2020-2021 season.

Previously, he was the head women's coach at Mt. Hood Community College where he guided the Saints to three state appearances in the NWACC post-season tournament, after having been absent for eight years prior to his arrival.

Coach V has twenty years of coaching experience at both the collegiate and high school level, a career that began while he was still a student at Walla Walla College (now University).

Coach V is also an instructor in the online Oregon Connections Academy.

Coach
Kylie begins her first season with the Monarchs in 2020. She just completed her first year as an assistant coach for women’s basketball at Willamette University. Her coaching career started at University of Idaho as a graduate assistant from 2018-2019. Kylie joined the University of Idaho’s staff after playing for five years at Willamette University.

While at Willamette, Kylie set many game, season and career records, includng finishing as the all-time scoring leader for the Bearcats.

Coach
Bailey enters her second year coaching in the Monarchs program in 2020 following a storied career at Blanchet Catholic School.  A four-year basketball starter and two-year captain, Bailey earned All-State honors her junior and senior years in addition to three All-League years.

In 2017 as a sophomore, she led the Cavaliers to their first-ever basketball State Championship and followed that up with State finshes of 3rd and 2nd in her final two years.

In addition to her basketball success at Blanchet, Bailey also was a three-time participant in the State track meet, earning All-State honors each of those years, as well as leading the school to its first ever Track & Field championship.

Coach
Kevin joined the Monarchs in 2018.  He just completed his fifth year as an assistant coach with the women's program at Corban University after many years of basketball success as a player and as a coach. Most recently, he served as a player and coach at the NBC Camps for the past six years and has been a trainer at Shoot 360 for the past 2 years.

Coach Stanley's collegiate playing experience includes two successful years each at Grays Harbor College and William Jessup University.

Coach
Tori begins her second season coaching in the Monarchs program.  Following a highly decorated career at Blanchet Catholic School, Tori continued her educaton at Oregon State University.  During her time at OSU, coached multiple youth basketball teams.  

Following her graduation from OSU, Tori joined the Blanchet coaching staff where she helped the Cavaliers win the State Championship in 2017 and a third place in 2018.  

Coach

Emily Cope begins her fifth season with the Monarchs after completing six years as assistant varsity and head junior varsity coach at Blanchet Catholic School, where she helped lead the Cavaliers to the 2017 Oregon Class 3A State Championship. She joined the staff at Salem Academy for the 2019-2020 season as a varsity assistant.

Emily joined the Blanchet coaching staff following a stellar career at Corban University where she was a starter each of her four years.    During her time as Warrior, Emily was in the top ten nationally in multiple statistical categores and finished her career as one of the most decorated basketball players ever to come out of Corban.

Coach
Elvis is back with the Monarchs for his ninth year.  He has been a coach of youth and high school basketball for eleven years, most recently serving as a hgh school assistant at South Salem High School for four years, helping to lead them to back-to-back state championships in 2015 and 2016.