Stewart said he owes almost everything he knows about volleyball to Tait , who accepted him onto the team as a walk - on .
Ironically , the manager of the national team was Stewart Russell 's head coach at Penn State in the 1980s , Tom Tait .
Stewart Russell said Stewart Russell owes almost everything Stewart Russell knows about volleyball to Tom Tait , who accepted him onto the team as a walk - on .
Ironically , the manager of the national team was Stewart Russell 's head coach at Penn State in the 1980s , Tom Tait .