Behind All-Americans Angie Andrade, Terry Malterre, Diane Sebastian and Waynette Mitchell, Hawaii stuffs the Trojans to win the NIT at UCLA, giving up just four points in the opening game. The Wahine would win the university’s first national team championship a month later with a record of 36-5. Shoji’s salary, in his fifth season, would average out to $55.56 a win.
AIAW THIRD PLACE / INDEPENDENT
NCAA REGIONAL FINALIST / INDEPENDENT
NCAA CHAMP / INDEPENDENT / NATIONAL COACH OF THE YEAR (200 WINS) OCT. 29, 1982 OVER UCLA
At Pacific’s Spanos Center, the Wahine overtake the Bruins in a Wendy’s Classic semifinal. Seven weeks later, they return to Spanos to win their second national championship — in Shoji’s first season as a full-time coach. The seniors who were the core of that team — Joyce Ka‘apuni, Deitre Collins, Sista Palakiko, Marcie Wurts, Missy Yomes and Kris and Kori Pulaski — would win another title a year later and amass a 104-5 career record.
NCAA CHAMP / INDEPENDENT
NCAA FIRST ROUND / INDEPENDENT
NCAA REGIONAL SEMIFINALIST / PCAA THIRD (300 WINS) OCT. 10, 1985 OVER PEPPERDINE
In its first year as a conference member (Pacific Coast Athletic Association, now the Big West), Hawaii gets No. 300 for Shoji at the UCLA/NIVT. It lost six conference matches but reached the tournament final before falling to Pacific in Stockton. Twelve days later, UOP swept the Wahine in the Northwest Regional, giving up just 17 points on its way to the first of two straight titles.
NCAA REGIONAL FINALIST / PCAA SECOND
NCAA CHAMP / PCAA CHAMP
NCAA RUNNER-UP / BIG WEST CHAMP (400 WINS) OCT. 21, 1988 OVER WYOMING
A rare midseason nonconference trip to Wyoming and Colorado State gives UH two of its 33 wins and takes Shoji over 400. The Wahine would go unbeaten in the Big West behind national player of the year Teee Williams and setter Martina Cincerova — the only returning starters from 1987’s NCAA championship team. But Texas beat them in the final to become the first team outside Hawaii and California to win a title.
NCAA REGIONAL FINALIST / BIG WEST CHAMP
NCAA REGIONAL SEMIFINALIST / BIG WEST CHAMP
NCAA REGIONAL FINALIST / BIG WEST SECOND
NO POSTSEASON / BIG WEST FOURTH (500 WINS) SEPT. 3, 1992 OVER HOUSTON
Before the school reconfigured Shoji’s win total, this was the year when BYU-Hawaii shocked the Wahine on the night he thought he was going for his 500th victory. The big win actually came a month earlier in the season opener, but the “500 Win” cake was dumped in the garbage after the BYUH match. The season was also tough to digest. It was the only time in history the Wahine did not qualify for the postseason.
NCAA REGIONAL FINALIST / BIG WEST THIRD
NCAA REGIONAL SEMIFINALIST / BIG WEST SECOND
NCAA REGIONAL FINALIST / BIG WEST CHAMP
NCAA RUNNER-UP / WAC CHAMP
NCAA FIRST ROUND / WAC CHAMP
NCAA REGIONAL FINALIST / WAC CHAMP
NCAA REGIONAL SEMIFINALIST / WAC CHAMP (700 WINS) OCT. 30, 1999 OVER FRESNO STATE
Before the school reconfigured Shoji’s win total, this was the year when BYU-Hawaii shocked the Wahine on the night he thought he was going for his 500th victory. The big win actually came a month earlier in the season opener, but the “500 Win” cake was dumped in the garbage after the BYUH match. The season was also tough to digest. It was the only time in history the Wahine did not qualify for the postseason.
NCAA NATIONAL SEMIFINALIST / WAC CHAMP
NCAA REGIONAL SEMIFINALIST / WAC CHAMP
NCAA NATIONAL SEMIFINALIST / WAC CHAMP (800 WINS) NOV. 27, 2002 OVER UTAH
Shoji guides his team to its 14th 30-win season on a frigid night in Salt Lake City. Three weeks later, the Wahine play in their eighth final four, and third in four years. There, Stanford beats them for the second time that season — UH’s only two losses. Kim Willoughby would be the program’s fourth national player of the year and ‘Iolani graduate Kanoe Kamana‘o the only Wahine to earn national freshman of the year honors. Shoji was the fourth women’s coach to reach 800 wins.
Hawaii opens the season with two exhausting five-game wins over Pepperdine, but is swept by Florida the next week in Shoji’s first attempt at No. 900. The Buffaloes become the victims and the Wahine get on a blocking roll in the NCAA tournament, taking out Oregon, Long Beach State and USC before falling to UCLA in a regional final.
NCAA SECOND ROUND / WAC CHAMP
NCAA REGIONAL FINALIST / WAC CHAMP
NCAA NATIONAL SEMIFINALIST / NATIONAL COACH OF THE YEAR / WAC CHAMP (1,000 WINS) OCT. 17, 2009 OVER NEW MEXICO STATE
Before the largest crowd of the season (8,199), Shoji and his team celebrate with their 12th straight win. The team would go on to its ninth NCAA final four, beating USC in a second-round match at Los Angeles and taking out two Big Ten teams in a Stanford regional. Shoji would be named national coach of the year a second time.
NCAA SECOND ROUND / WAC REGULAR-SEASON CHAMP
NCAA REGIONAL SEMIFINALIST / WAC CHAMP
NCAA SECOND ROUND / BIG WEST CHAMP (1,100 WINS) NOV. 17, 2012 OVER UC DAVIS
UCD coach Jamie Holmes: “I couldn’t get that many wins in my grave … I tried to add it up and, oh my gosh. I always had the opportunity to play for legend coaches. … So I look at him and wonder how many times Dave has had to recreate his coaching style.”
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