Nahaku Brown is back to coaching women's volleyball — returning for a second time to Chaminade University.

Brown has been named the school's interim women's volleyball coach. She replaces Glennie Adams, who recently accepted the position of associate athletics director at Kamehameha Schools.

Brown has a wealth of volleyball experience. She served as graduate assistant at the University of Hawai'i in 1982 before becoming women's head coach for Chaminade from 1984-85. She then coached at Hawai'i Pacific University from 1986-91, guiding the Sea Warriors to NAIA national rankings.

In 1990, she received the Russell NAIA Coach of the Year Award after leading HPU to the NAIA National Championship.

"I am excited on returning to collegiate athletics and the prospects of empowering student-athletes to excel on and off the court and their being positive contributing community leaders," Brown said.

"We are excited to have someone of Nahaku's stature with us on this new beginning in women's volleyball for the university," said Bill Villa, athletics director for Chaminade. "We were looking for someone with college head coaching experience so that the transition would be as smooth as possible for the players. I believe that we have an experienced and talented team, and the new players that Adams recruited will make us that much better. With our players reporting for practice in a week, Nahaku's coaching experience and talents makes her a great fit for our interim women's volleyball coach."

TRACK & FIELD

'BOW PLACES FIFTH

University of Hawai'i sophomore Emma MacCorquodale placed fourth in the hammer throw at the 2009 Pan American Junior Championships over the weekend at Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago.

Representing Canada, MacCorquodale threw a personal-best 174 feet, 5 inches (53.18 meters) on her fifth of six attempts. Cuba's Yenislei Fors Carnonell won the event with a throw of 209-8, followed by Brazil's Andressa Morais 180-5 and the United States' Elizabeth Rohl 177-11.

MacCorquodale, from Nanaimo, British Columbia, qualified for the Pan American Junior Championships after throwing 168-7 and winning the Canadian Junior Championships.