{"id":99630,"date":"2019-07-09T10:27:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T20:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=99630"},"modified":"2019-07-09T10:27:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T20:27:12","slug":"leonard-to-lead-vulcan-volleyball-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/07\/09\/leonard-to-lead-vulcan-volleyball-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard to lead Vulcan volleyball program"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> volleyball assistant coach Chris Leonard<\/strong> was named interim head coach for 2019.<\/p>\n

Leonard becomes the seventh volleyball coach in the Vulcan program. The Oʻahu<\/span> native, who will serve in the position on an interim basis in 2019, replaces Gene Krieger<\/strong> who left UH<\/abbr> Hilo in the spring.<\/p>\n

“I am excited to work with a really strong returning group of players, along with a great recruiting class,” Leonard said. “I am looking forward to building the foundation for what is already a very strong volleyball program. I firmly believe that we have the talent it takes to be in the hunt again for a conference championship and regional playoff berth.”<\/p>\n

Leonard has served as the lead Vulcan assistant coach for the past five seasons. He has more than 20 years of experience at the high school and club level.<\/p>\n

“Chris is a great fit because of his established connection with our players and the program,” said Athletics Director Patrick Guillen<\/strong>. “We are very fortunate to have someone so passionate and committed to UH<\/abbr> Hilo, local volleyball and to our community overall. He is widely respected and I have no doubt that he will do a very good job for us this season.”<\/p>\n

Read more at UH<\/abbr> Hilo athletics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Leonard has served as the lead UH<\/abbr> Hilo assistant coach for the past five seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,14,151,80],"class_list":["post-99630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","tag-volleyball","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99652,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99630\/revisions\/99652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}