Dave Shoji
Dave Shoji
Dave Shojihas been the Head Coach of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Rainbow Wahine Volleyball team since 1975. Under his leadership, the Rainbow Wahine have won four national titles...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth4 December 1946
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I think they just wanted to get some confidence. I'm sure he wanted to see better play out of his starters.
fault felt team time
It just wasn't pretty for a long time and that's disturbing. It felt like our team just wasn't prepared, and that's the fault of the coach.
competition greater kids longer nowadays overnight situation won
It's not going to be an overnight situation with UOP. When you're down a little bit, it's going to take longer nowadays because the competition for kids is so much greater than when UOP won the championships.
almost approach candidates coaches coming fresh game seen
I thought he would give us a fresh and different approach to the game. Almost all the other candidates were women's coaches coming from the game the way I had seen it.
against balanced confused everybody few final finally four maybe nebraska needed offense rally running somebody troops
Maybe the final four a few years ago (2002 against Stanford). Just too many weapons. Nebraska was too balanced tonight. A lot of times we were confused because they were running an offense we really hadn't seen. We just finally got down. We needed to have somebody to rally the troops and no one did. Everybody was in a daze.
beat phase ready
They beat us in every phase of the game. It was not a match. We were just not ready to play at that level.