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2025 Men's Volleyball Roster

Josh Gales

5 ‘Eleu Choy

5 ‘Eleu Choy

  • Position:
    Libero/Defensive Specialist
  • Height:
    5-7
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Honolulu, O‘ahu

Summary

Biography

2025 (Senior):
AVCA All-America Honorable Mention
College Sports Communicators All-District
All-Big West Honorable Mention
Academic All-Big West
Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll
  • Only player to start all 33 matches on the year
  • Averaged 1.69 digs per set
  • Finished his career with 446 career digs (1.68 avg.)
  • Selected to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District team for the second straight season
  • AVCA All-America honorable mention and all-Big West honorable mention
  • Big West Defensive Player of the Week (Feb. 24, March 3)
  • Season-high 11 digs at Queens (Feb. 22)
  • Also had 10 digs vs. UC Irvine (Feb. 28) and followed with nine in the rematch (March 2)
  • Posted three matches of 10+ digs
  • Named academic all-Big West
  • Named to the Big West Commissioners Honor Roll
 
2024 (Junior):
Academic All-Big West
Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll
  • Started all 30 matches
  • Finished the season with a 1.86 digs per set average and .943 reception percentage
  • Ranked third in the Big West and 33rd nationally in digs per set
  • Career-high 15 digs in straight set sweep of Loyola Chicago (Jan. 3) in season-opener
  • Recorded 10 digs each against Stanford (Feb. 7), Sacred Heart (March 3), UC Irvine (March 10), CSUN (March 22), and UC Santa Barbara (March 30)
  • Five matches with 10+ digs
  • Named to the Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll

2023 (Sophomore):
Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll
  • Appeared in 11 matches
  • Started at libero in five matches, including first career start against Barton (Jan. 28)
  • Career-high 11 digs in win over CUI (Feb. 17)
  • Averaged 1.13 digs per set and had 16 assists
  • Named to the Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll.

2022 (Redshirt Freshman):
  • Appeared in three matches at libero
  • Sparked the team off the bench in a win over CSUN (Mar. 25) with four digs in two sets
  • Also played in one set in the CSUN rematch (Mar. 26)

2021:
  • Redshirted
 
2020:
  • Appeared in five matches and seven sets as a backup libero
  • Made UH debut versus Charleston (Jan. 4)
  • Tallied only dig of the season against Harvard (Jan. 10)
  • Appeared in all three matches of the Raising Cane’s Rainbow Warrior Classic
  • Earned UH Scholar-Athlete Award
 
Prep:
  • A 2019 graduate of Farrington High School in Honolulu, O‘ahu
  • Lettered twice each in volleyball and soccer
  • Helped volleyball team to a state tournament appearance
  • Played goalkeeper for the soccer team
  • Named all-O‘ahu Interscholastic Association East first team as an outside hitter in 2019 and second team as a setter in 2018
  • School’s valedictorian
  • Played club volleyball for Ku‘ikahi for five years
 
Personal:
  • Born in Honolulu, O‘ahu
  • First name means energetic in Hawaiian
  • Has one sister, Bailey who was a member of the Rainbow Wahine volleyball team
  • Parents are Barney and Terri-Ann Choy of Honolulu, O‘ahu
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Historical Player Information

  • 5

    2020Freshman

    Libero
    5'7"
    5
  • 5

    2021Freshman

    Libero
    5'7"
    5
  • 5

    2022Redshirt Freshman

    Libero/Defensive Specialist
    5'7"
    5
  • 5

    2023Sophomore

    Libero/Defensive Specialist
    5'7"
    5
  • 5

    2024Junior

    Libero/Defensive Specialist
    5'7"
    5
  • 5

    2025Senior

    Libero/Defensive Specialist
    5'7"
    5