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An informal poll among Hawaii men's volleyball players reveals that Coach Charlie is considered the most competitive member of the second-ranked Rainbow Warriors team.
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IRVINE, Calif. â In an informal poll of Hawaii menâs volleyball players, the most competitive person for the second-ranked Rainbow Warriors is a coach.
âCharlie.â
âDefinitely, Charlie.â
âDo you mean a player or a coach? Either? Charlie.â
Only Louis Sakanoko, unsurprisingly, picked himself with his first answer before thinking a little longer.
âIâd say me honestly, I hate losing,â Sakanoko started. âBut Iâll say Charlie first. If you count everyone the same, itâs Charlie.â
That certainly was the case Wednesday afternoon as the team took time after practice to enjoy themselves ahead of Fridayâs semifinal in the Outrigger Big West Menâs Volleyball Championship against the winner of todayâs match between No. 5 seed UC San Diego and fourth-seeded UC Santa Barbara at Bren Events Center.
The team spent over an hour at Boomers, an entertainment venue, including a theme park, batting cages, an arcade, and most importantly, go-karts.
When it was time to leave for dinner at junior Kai Taylorâs house, a roughly 10-minute drive from the venue, all of the players were ready to go.
The only people missing were two coaches.
Head coach Charlie Wade and associate coach Kupono Fey were still speeding around the track.
Sakanoko, who finally gave up when Wade asked him to go again for a fourth consecutive run, was long gone when the two coaches finally got off the track during the middle of a race.
Charlie Wadeâs competitive nature goes all the way back to when he was a child growing up in the Midwest.
It has continued as a father of three sons and a head volleyball coach, first at Pacific for three seasons for the womenâs team, and then at UH, where he is now the winningest coach in program history with 345 in his 17th season.
âI hope itâs infectious, right?â Wade said before he boarded the bus. âI mean, look, I never let my kids win in anything. Whether it was cards or Monopoly or baseball, kickball, bowling, whatever, thatâs how itâs always been and thatâs how I was raised. We compete. If youâre good enough to win, you win. If youâre not, youâre not.â
That mentality is a big part of the DNA that makes up this Rainbow Warriors volleyball team gunning for its fourth conference title in the last five seasons.
Hawaii has won more Big West championships (four) than the rest of the league (three) since the conference started playing menâs volleyball in 2018.
Three of those four wins came in Hawaii at the Stan Sheriff Center. The only one secured on the road was here at the same arena of this weekâs tournament in 2022, when UH went on to win a second consecutive national championship.
That remains the ultimate goal for this yearâs team that put a conference-best five players on the All-Big West first team on Wednesday.
Setter Tread Rosenthal was joined by libero Quintin Greenidge and all three starting pin hitters, including sophomores Kristian Titriyski at opposite and Adrien Roure at opposite who made it for the second time.
Coach Charlie is regarded as the most competitive person by the players in an informal poll.
Charlie is the head coach of the second-ranked Hawaii men's volleyball team.
Most players unanimously identified Coach Charlie as the most competitive, with only one player, Louis Sakanoko, initially choosing himself.
The Hawaii men's volleyball team is currently ranked second.
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Roure, who was one of the first players in the batting cage, struggled to hit a single ball, but kept going back in as Wade gave him some pointers, including to keep his weight on his back foot.
âIâd say I have the better improvement of the day because I had never swung before,â Roure said.
âIâd say Adrien might have the worst swing,â Greenidge joked standing next to Roure.
âYeah but I improved the most,â Roure shot back.
The competition continued all afternoon, similar to what it is like in the practice gym every day.
For Roure, thatâs what it takes to succeed.
âI think you have to have that to play at a high level here or in any sports or in anything in life,â Roure said. âYouâve got to be better than everyone else at everything. If you allow the people in front of you to be better, you will never go far.â
âThatâs what makes our practices unique,â Greenidge added. âThatâs what allows guys to come in and out during games without anything changing. Itâs because everyone is going to compete.â
Wade got in the batting cage and took some hacks as did most of the team. Sophomore Finn Kearney, whose go-kart broke down on the first lap of his first race, was one of the few players who decided to give hitting off a machine throwing 80 miles per hour a try.
There wasnât a lot of success in the cages, but it didnât stop the players from trying until they ran out of credits on their play cards.
They were all too competitive to give up, and thatâs not a trait Wade takes any credit for.
âThey all come in with that. You donât get to this level of performance without being competitive and without knowing how to flip the switch,â Wade said. âMe growing up, I wasnât the most talented, so I was more of a grinder. These guys are uber talented, and they definitely have the ability to modulate a little more than I ever did.â
OUTRIGGER BIG WEST MENâS VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
At Bren Events Center; Irvine, Calif.
Today
(5) UC San Diego (12-13) vs. (4) UC Santa Barbara (14-11), 2 p.m.
(6) Cal State Northridge (12-14) vs. (3) UC Irvine (17-7), 4:30 p.m.
Friday
(1) Hawaii (26-4) vs. UCSD/UCSB winner, 2 p.m.
(2) Long Beach State (22-4) vs. CSUN/UCI winner, 4:30 p.m.
Saturday
Championship, 2 p.m.
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