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CHAMINADE NAMES INTERIM WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL COACH
- NAHAKU BROWN RETURNS TO COLLEGIATE COACHING-


HONOLULU - Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - Chaminade University has selected Nahaku Brown for its interim women's volleyball coach. No stranger to coaching on the collegiate level for women's volleyball, Brown has previously served as head women's volleyball coach for Hawaii Pacific University from 1986 to 1991, spearheading its NAIA nationally ranked program for successive years. In 1990, she received the Russell NAIA Coach of the Year Award after HPU won the 1990 National NAIA Championship. Before that, she had also served as graduate assistant coach for the University of Hawaii Manoa (1982) and as head women's volleyball coach for Chaminade University (1984-85).

"I am excited on returning to collegiate athletics and the prospects of empowering student-athletes to excel on and off the court and their being positive contributing community leaders," said Brown.

Brown takes over the interim position of women's volleyball head coach for Chaminade, which had opened up when Glennie Adams recently accepted Kamehameha Schools offer to become the associate athletics director for its Kapalama campus. "We are excited to have someone of Nahaku's stature with us on this new beginning in women's volleyball for the university," said Bill Villa, athletics director for Chaminade. "We were looking for someone with college head coaching experience so that the transition would be as smooth as possible for the players. I believe that we have an experienced and talented team, and the new players that Adams recruited will make us that much better. With our players reporting for practice in a week, Nahaku's coaching experience and talents makes her a great fit for our interim women's volleyball coach."

Brown earned her bachelors degree in anthropology at University of Hawaii-Manoa, where she played wahine volleyball for four years. During her time at UH-Manoa, she was an AIAW Championship team member in 1979 and a NCAA All American First Team member in 1981. A graduate of Kamehameha Schools, she also played four years of varsity volleyball there. During that period, her team was ILH Champions (1976-77), and she was a HHSAA State Champion member (1977).

Chaminade competes at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II level as a member of the Pacific West Conference. The University fields teams in basketball, cross country, golf, and soccer for men, and basketball, cross country, soccer, softball, tennis, and volleyball for women.

The mission of the Chaminade University Intercollegiate Athletics Department is to provide an opportunity for all qualified students to participate in competitive sports while developing leadership and team skills.

Celebrating more than 50 years of educating students for life, service and successful careers, Chaminade University offers programs of study grounded in the liberal arts with day, evening, online and accelerated courses. The main campus is located in Ka'imuki at 3140 Waialae Ave., Honolulu, HI 96816, with 10 satellite locations around Oahu. For more information, visit the Chaminade Web site at www.chaminade.edu or call (808) 735-4711.

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