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Evan Silberstein

Evan Silberstein was officially named full-time head coach of the Rainbow Wahine beach volleyball program in July 2022. Silberstein, who has coached at UH for the last eight years, served as the interim head coach this past season, leading the BeachBows back to the NCAA Tournament after a one-year absence. At season's end, he was awarded 2022 Big West Co-Coach of the Year. 

Since first joining the Rainbow Wahine program in 2015 as an assistant coach, UH has won  three Big West titles and earned six postseason bids, highlighted by a pair of NCAA semifinal appearances. Silberstein has also developed 10 All-American players during his tenure.  

Also during Silberstein's tenure, UH attained the school’s first-ever No. 1 ranking (2015) and recorded a school-record 37 wins (2018). The BeachBows came within one match of playing for the national title in consecutive years (2017, '18). Aside from the 10 All-Americans, he has helped develop more than two dozen all-conference players, including the school's all-time wins leader (118) Ari Homayun.

Prior to joining UH, Silberstein was an assistant at the University of San Francisco, where he also co-founded a successful junior beach club. He's been a head coach for USAV in the Aloha Region and on the Men's Junior National Team, as well as a stint as an indoor coach at Punahou School and several other schools in his native New York. He is currently a head coach in the junior girls beach program at Outrigger Canoe Club. 
 
As a player, Silberstein competed professionally on the AVP and internationally in North America, the Caribbean and throughout the Pacific Islands. He won a gold medal in the 2001 Macabiah Games in Israel.

Silberstein earned his undergraduate degree from Arizona State University, where he was the starting setter. and captain for the Sun Devils’ nationally-ranked collegiate club program. He also holds a J.D. from UH's William S. Richardson School of Law with certificates in Environmental Law and Native Hawaiian Rights.

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