The shoe brand is decidedly marked with an “H” logo.

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The Rainbow Wahine staff may be inexperienced in terms of working together. Only Kaleo Baxter has been on staff prior to this season, but that doesn’t mean there is a lack of Manoa Green running through the veins of those in the third-floor offices of the athletic complex.

No other staff in the country has four members who aren’t just working at their alma mater but understand the history and tradition of volleyball at UH. Only Baxter didn’t graduate from Manoa, but his DNA is infused with island volleyball, having been all-state and all-league at Kauai High before playing at Irvine Valley and Cal State Northridge.

Robyn Ah Mow-Santos’ first hire laid the foundation. Angelica Ljungqvist, the Wahine’s first four-time All-America honoree and 1996 AVCA National Player of the Year, helped Hawaii go 66-4 in the middle blocker’s final two seasons and, with Ah Mow-Santos as her setter, had Hawaii in its most recent national title match appearance (’96).

Baxter, a Wahine volunteer assistant from 2011 to 2014, was the director of volleyball operations last season. That job is now held by former Wahine Aven Lee, a freshman on the 1996 NCAA runner-up squad. Prior to being hired as DOVO, she coached at various USA Volleyball levels, as well as Pacific and Sacramento State collegiately, and junior clubs both on the mainland and in Hawaii.

First-year volunteer assistant Nick Castello was a two-year starting libero for the Rainbow Warriors (2011-12). The Assets High graduate went on to play professionally in Europe five seasons before deciding “it was time to come home.

“The timing is perfect for this and it’s a great opportunity,” Castello said. “Robyn knows what she’s doing and is someone who can push you to become a better player and a better person.”

The hardest working staff members may be the ones who have been involved the longest. James “Jimbo” Buccella has been the volunteer equipment manager since 1994 and Renae Shigemura the athletic trainer since 2001.