LEXINGTON, Ky. – University of Hawai'i men's volleyball head coach Charlie Wade was tabbed as the 2019 AVCA Division I-II Men's National Head Coach of the Year.
 
With the announcement, Hawai'i garnered both Coach of the Year honors as assistant Josh Walker was earlier named the AVCA National Assistant Coach of the Year. In addition, Wade's award marks the third time a UH head coach was honored along with Mike Wilton in 1995 and 2002
 
Last season, Wade led the Rainbow Warriors to a 28-3 overall record and national runner-up finish. UH set a new NCAA-record with a 74-set win streak while also setting a new program-record with a 25-match win streak, which is the sixth-longest in NCAA history.
 
UH also captured the program's first conference title – winning the Big West Tournament – and was the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Championship for the first time in program history. Four Warriors were picked to the AVCA All-America first team.
 
Wade completed his 10^th season as head coach in 2019. He has guided the Warriors to three NCAA Tournament appearances in the last five years and is the program's second-winningest coach with 186 victories. He has directed three of the program's five winningest teams all-time. Fourteen of his players went on to earn All-America honors.