Loading ...Tom Shoji hired at Willamette
By Cindy Luis
Posted On: February 27th, 2008 2:28PM
From the Statesman-Journal
Willamette University has hired Tom Shoji as its women’s volleyball coach.
Shoji, younger brother of Hawaii coach Dave Shoji, has a long career as a collegiate volleyball coach. His head coaching experience in women’s volleyball totals 24 seasons, including six years each at New Mexico State and Indiana, plus 11 years at Colorado State-Pueblo and one year at Westmar (Iowa) University.
“Tom’s nationally respected teaching skills and his proven track record of success will provide our program with a boost almost immediately,” Willamette athletic director Mark Majeski said.
“I’m kind of excited about it,” said Shoji, currently the associate athletic director-compliance and student services at UC San Diego. “I’m coming into a conference with a lot of experienced coaches. It’s going to be a challenge getting Willamette competing for that conference title in the future. That’s our ultimate goal for now.”
Willamette has been 4-22 each of the past two seasons and has lost 43 Northwest Conference matches in a row.
Dave has a brother who coaches Women’s Vollyball too? Am I the only one thinking it would pretty cool to see a Shoji vs Shoji coached match?
You missed it. ;-( Tom used to be at New Mexico State (1981-86) and the Wahine played them several times in the 80s. And since Willamette is a DIII college, it won’t happen now.
Willamette is not a junior college. It is a university with specializations in education, business, and law.
www.willamette.edu
thanks Not sure what i was thinking on the original post. it is division III. It used to be NAIA, no?
She totally forgot to mention that at the time this article was written, Shoji was the head coach of San Diego Mesa Men’s Volleyball.
He’s a great coach.
Thanks. the info I was given only mentioned UCSD. And I covered the UH-NMSU matches when Tom was coaching there.