Family

Notable volleyball coaches run in the Shondell family. His father, Dr. Don Shondell

Don Shondell

Dr. Don Shondell is the patriarch of one of the best known families in American volleyball. His career has been long and varied as a volleyball coach, author and program coordinator...

, was the head coach at Ball State University

Ball State University

Ball State University is a state-run research university located in Muncie, Indiana. It is also known as Ball State or simply BSU.Located on the northwest side of the city, Ball State's campus spans and includes 106 buildings...

 in Muncie for 34 seasons, and is a charter member of the AVCA Hall of Fame. Shondell played for his father at Ball State from 1974-77 before becoming head coach at Muncie Burris. Shondell's brother Dave Shondell

Dave Shondell

Dave Shondell is the head women's volleyball coach at Purdue University.Shondell was raised in Muncie, Indiana. He began his career at Daleville High School in Daleville, Indiana, just outside of Muncie. After his tenure there, he then moved to Muncie Central High School, in Muncie...

 is head Women's Volleyball coach at Purdue University

Purdue University

Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...

 and his other brother John is Dave's assistant at Purdue.

Ball State

Shondell was hired by Ball State University to be their next Head Women's Volleyball Coach on April 13, 2010.
In his first season as the Cardinals' head coach, Shondell was named the Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year after guiding the team to a 24-5 (14-2 MAC) record and the program's first MAC Regular Season title since 2002. The Cardinals also enjoyed national attention during the season, appearing on the front page of ESPN.com's College Sports section in a Nov. 18, 2010 story by Dave Reed.

1. ESPN.com Story http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5820204

Muncie Burris

Shondell has amassed 1,183 wins in 34 years as head coach at Burris Laboratory School

Burris Laboratory School

Burris Laboratory School is a kindergarten through twelfth grade public laboratory school located on the west side of Muncie, Indiana. The school is a division of Ball State University and provides University pre-service teachers an opportunity for classroom observation and practice...

 in Muncie, Indiana

Muncie, Indiana

Muncie is a city in Center Township, Delaware County in east central Indiana, best known as the home of Ball State University and the birthplace of the Ball Corporation. It is the principal city of the Muncie, Indiana, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of 118,769...

. According to the National Federation of High Schools Sports Record Book, Shondell’s win total ranks in the top ten nationally in the history of high school girls’ volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

. With only 95 losses in those 34 years, Shondell has an overall winning percentage of .926.

Shondell’s Owls have won four national championships (plus runners-up nationally four times), 21 Indiana State Volleyball Championships, including the current streak of 14 consecutive in 2A since the state went to class systems in 1997. He has been named Indiana coach of the year 10 times, and was a national coach of the year finalist many years in the past 25 years and was named PrepVolleyball.com's National Coach of the Year in 2009. In Shondell’s 34 years, Muncie Burris has gone undefeated seven times.

Shondell is a contributor to the Volleyball Coaching Bible.

Club Munciana

Shondell is a founding member of Munciana, a volleyball club for 12 through 18 year old girls. Steve coached the 14-year old open club (Chipmunks) until 1996, and now coaches the 12-year old club (Peppers). In addition to AAU titles, the Chipmunks won Junior Olympic National Championships in 1989, 1990, and 1996, and appeared in the finals in 1992. The Peppers won the Junior Olympic National Championship in 2006. The 1989 title was Munciana's first USAV National Championship. In 2008, the 18's Samurai finished as runners-up at the JVDA 18 Open Division National Championships in Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...

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Awards and honors

• 2010 – Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year
• 2009 – PrepVolleyball.com's National Coach of the Year
• 2007 – AVCA Hall of Fame
• 2005 – Ball State University Athletic Hall of Fame
• 1996 – Indiana Volleyball Hall of Fame