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Shaked Haimi Biography

Shaked Haimi was born in Ra’anana and at the age three moved to Kokhav Ya’ir. Starting in the 8th grade is where Shaked first started playing indoor volleyball on the club team. At 14 years old he was invited to the Israel high performance team. In 9th grade Shaked was invited to train with Maccabi Petach Tikva. In the 10th grade he moved to play on the youth team of Hapoel Kfar Saba. Age 15 he decided to enroll in a volleyball coaching course during his summer vacation for one month. Shaked noticed the current head coach happen to leave the program which lead to Shaked approaching the sports manager of Kokhav Ya’ir to be the the head volleyball coach. The sports manager said to Shaked you are too young and not allowed to be the head coach at 15. Then September came around and there was no coach for 1 month and Shaked asked again if he can be the coach, and was given the job at 15 years old under one condition, until the sports manager could find a full time coach to replace him. Shaked was starting with a program which lost every game and during Shaked first season he made it to semi-finals of Israeli cup and finished 5th in the league. This proved to the sports manager that Shaked age was no longer a problem. During high school he played volleyball and coached volleyball. After high school Shaked joined the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) serving in an elite military unit focused on protecting national security. After being released for 3 years of required army service he went back to Kokhav Ya’ir. Playing for fun and semi professional but mainly focused on beach volleyball which was under developed in Israel. He started developing the indoor volleyball program in kokhav yair which resulted in an Israeli record, earning 3 state championships in 3 different age categories, ages 13-14 male / female & 9th grade women. In 4 years Shaked brought the female team in Kokhav Ya’ir which was in the 3rd league, up to the 1st league and achieved 5th overall. After successfully years the Israel Volleyball federation took notice and invited Shaked to be an assistant coach for the youth national indoor female team which lasted 2 years. During this same time period, he was also the high performance central district manager for women volleyball ages 12-15. In 2005 Israel decided to host the European youth under 20 championship and did not have any beach volleyball program at the time. A new job was opened to the public for an Israel national team beach volleyball coach. Shaked was selected as the National team beach volleyball head coach in 2005 while being mentored by a Swedish Coach named Simon Dahl who was an Olympic beach volleyball player. Every year Israel now started to participate in every youth age for beach volleyball, u18, u20, & u22. Each year a new foreign coach would join the Israel beach volleyball program to help improve the program. A Spanish coach named Hagi Sherf joined in 2006. In 2007/2008 a Brazilian coach named Robson Costa joined. In 2009 a major announcement went public stating Shaked being Israel head coach of Men and women youth teams. In 2010 Israel hosted the u20 European championships placing 13th out of 32 teams. In 2012 Israel started developing their athletes to compete in the Olympics and was ranked 1000. During the World championships u23 in 2014 Shaked coached his team to 9th place with Sanderovich and Ohana. During 2014 Israel entered the continental cup which includes multiple stages, Stage 1 in Azerbaijan 2014, Stage 2 in Malta 2014, Stage 3 in Cyprus 2015, Stage 5 in Israel 2015, Final stage in Norway 2016. In 2015 Shaked built the program up to be ranked #43 in the world. The names of the 4 olympic athletes he trained were Sean Faiga, Ariel Hilman, Netanel Ohana, and Alon Sanderovich. Resulting in 3 quarter finals in the 4 star open events, Finishing 5th in the European games in 2015, and making it to the final event in the Norway continental cup. In 2016 Shaked resigned as Head Coach. Presently Shaked is developing beach volleyball players all over Israel with his beach volleyball schools across Israel named Match Point Volleyball. His vision is to help bring Israel to become a leading beach volleyball country.