{"id":146657,"date":"2021-08-18T13:41:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T23:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=146657"},"modified":"2025-03-13T16:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T02:08:53","slug":"moniz-kahoohanohano-avca-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/08\/18\/moniz-kahoohanohano-avca-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Moniz-Kaho\u02bbohanohano selected to national volleyball Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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University of Â鶹´«Ã½\u2019s<\/span> Marilyn Moniz-Kahoʻohanohano<\/span> has been inducted into the American Volleyball Coaches Association\u2019s<\/a> (AVCA<\/abbr>) Hall of Fame. The class of 2021 inductees will be formally recognized during the Jostens Coaches Honors Luncheon on December 16.<\/p>\n

Moniz-Kahoʻohanohano<\/span> was selected in the administrator category. The former Rainbow Wahine volleyball<\/a> player served as UH<\/abbr>\u2019s senior woman administrator and associate athletics director for nearly three decades and was an instrumental figure in collegiate indoor and beach volleyball on both a local and national scale.<\/p>\n

When she took the court in 1972 as part of the first Rainbow Wahine women\u2019s volleyball team, Moniz-Kahoʻohanohano<\/span> began what has been a decade\u2019s-long love affair with both the sport and her school. After her playing days were over she returned to UH<\/abbr> in 1989, performing groundbreaking work until her retirement in 2017.<\/p>\n

She helped elevate Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> volleyball on the national stage, not only in terms of competitiveness and attendance, but also facilities and media coverage. The Rainbow Wahine program consistently ranked atop Division I<\/abbr> schools in attendance, and Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> was the first school to have its home matches televised. During that period, UH<\/abbr> began charging admission, and women\u2019s volleyball became a revenue-generating sport. Moniz-Kahoʻohanohano<\/span>\u2019s tireless efforts helped the beach volleyball gain NCAA<\/abbr> championship status.<\/p>\n

“Beach volleyball would not exist at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> without Marilyn Moniz-Kahoʻohanohano<\/span>; in fact, it is easy to argue the sport would not exist in the NCAA<\/abbr> without her,” said UH<\/abbr> Athletics Director David Matlin. “As a prominent member of the NCAA<\/abbr> Committee on Women\u2019s Athletics, Marilyn helped jump-start beach volleyball, then known as sand volleyball, from an emerging sport to the NCAA<\/abbr>‘s 90th championship sport within a record four years.”<\/p>\n

Moniz-Kahoʻohanohano<\/span> is the third member of the UH<\/abbr> ʻohana<\/span> to gain the distinction, joining Deitre Collins-Parker (2008) and Dave Shoji (2010).<\/p>\n

The other three inductees in the AVCA<\/abbr> class of 2021 are coaches Jim McLaughlin, Jim Stone and Beverly Williams.<\/p>\n

Read more at the UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s Marilyn Moniz-Kahoʻohanohano<\/span> has been inducted into the American Volleyball Coaches Association\u2019s 2021 Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[58,698,9,550,1626],"class_list":["post-146657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-athletics","tag-staff-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-women-of-uh","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t