Pacific coaching staff is loaded with local flavor

By Ann Miller

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Oct 20, 2012

~~<p>Pacific libero Koala Matsuoka sucked up a quarter of her team's 103 digs last week against UC Santa Barbara, and the Kamehameha graduate is not even the most imposing part of the Tigers' Hawaii volleyball ohana.</p>
<p>On the bench next to third-year head coach Greg Gibbons are associate coach Ray Batalon and assistant Aven Lee, born and mostly raised on Oahu. They are almost as eager to eat local food as they are to play ninth-ranked Hawaii tonight.</p>
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Pacific libero Koala Matsuoka sucked up a quarter of her team's 103 digs last week against UC Santa Barbara, and the Kamehameha graduate is not even the most imposing part of the Tigers' Hawaii volleyball ohana.

On the bench next to third-year head coach Greg Gibbons are associate coach Ray Batalon and assistant Aven Lee, born and mostly raised on Oahu. They are almost as eager to eat local food as they are to play ninth-ranked Hawaii tonight. Login for more...