Nahaku Brown is back to coaching women’s volleyball — returning for a second time to Chaminade University.

Brown has been named the school’s interim women's volleyball coach. She replaces Glennie Adams, who recently accepted the position of associate athletics director at Kamehameha Schools.
Brown has a wealth of experience. She served as graduate assistant at the University of Hawaii-Manoa in 1982 before becoming women’s volleyball head coach for Chaminade University from 1984-85. She then coached at Hawai‘i Pacific University from 1986-91, guiding the Sea Warriors to NAIA national rankings.
In 1990, she received the Russell NAIA Coach of the Year Award after leading HPU to the National NAIA Championship.
“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.
"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."