Marilyn Moniz-Kaho‘ohanohano, a member of Hawaii’s first women’s volleyball team and long-time administrator, will be the school’s third inductee into the American Volleyball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

The AVCA announced its 2021 Hall of Fame class on Tuesday, with Moniz-Kaho‘ohanohano among the four honorees. She will join former UH All-American Deitre Collins-Parker and coach Dave Shoji in the AVCA Hall of Fame.

Moniz-Kaho‘ohanohano played for the first Rainbow Wahine volleyball team in 1972 and returned to the UH athletic department in 1989. She served as UH’s senior woman administrator and associate athletics director until her retirement in 2017.

During her tenure, the women’s volleyball program continued its growth as one of the nation’s leaders in attendance and oversaw the additions of five women’s sports at UH. Her efforts included the addition of beach volleyball at UH and as an NCAA championship sport.

“Beach volleyball would not exist at the University of Hawai‘i without Marilyn Moniz-Kaho‘ohanohano; in fact, it is easy to argue the sport would not exist in the NCAA without her,” UH athletic director David Matlin said in a release from the school. “As a prominent member of the NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics, Marilyn helped jump-start beach volleyball, then known as sand volleyball, from an emerging sport to the NCAA’s 90th championship sport within a record four years.”

Moniz-Kaho‘ohanohanoo will be formally inducted on Dec. 16 at the AVCA Convention in Columbus, Ohio.