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Maureen Cole

Overall Conf.
Year Win Loss Win Loss Place Postseason
2012 10 15 0 7 8th
2013 22 11 6 1  1st NCAA
2014 19 10 3 2 3rd
2015 19 10 3 2 T2nd NCAA
2016 20 8 3 2 T2nd
2017 15 11 4 1 2nd
2018 21 5 5 0 1st
2019 18 6 4 1 T1st NCAA
2020* 11 2 *COVID-19
2021 11 2 3 1 1st NCAA
2022 16 6 6 0 1st
2023 21 6 6 1 2nd
2024 23 4 7 0 1st    NCAA
TOTAL 226 96 50 18
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Maureen Cole has been the head coach at the University of Hawai'i for 13 seasons. She is the longest-tenured as well as the all-time winningest coach in program history. Cole previously served as Hawai‘i’s assistant coach for five seasons.

YEARS COACHING
Hawai'i, 13 seasons at HC; 18 overall
Overall, 20 seasons

COACHING EXPERIENCE
Hawai'i, Head coach (2012-present)
Hawai'i, Assistant coach (2007-11)
UCLA, Student Assistant (2005-06)

COACHING HIGHLIGHTS
  • NCAA Tournament trips (2013, '15, '19, '21, '24).
  • Big West Coach of the Year (2013, '19, '21, '24).
  • Six Big West regular-season championships (2013, '15, '18, '19, '22, '24)
  • Five Big West tournament titles (2013, '15, '19, '21, '24)
  • Five 20-win seasons.
  • Mentored 30 ACWPC All-Americans as an assistant and head coach.
  • Five Big West Player of the Year winners.
  • Five Big West Freshmen of the Year award winners.
  • Had 61 all-conference selections.
  • Six Big West All-Rookie team selections.
  • Led 57 Rainbow Wahine to ACWPC All-Academic awards and 44 Big West All-Academic awards.
PLAYING CAREER
USA National Team, 2000-04
UCLA, 2000-03

PLAYING HIGHLIGHTS
  • Won three national titles at UCLA (2000-01, '03).
  • 2003 All-American.
  • Four-time Academic All-American.
  • Led the junior national team to the Pan-American and Junior World championships from 2000-02.
  • Spent the 2003-04 seasons as a part of the senior national team and made it to the final selections for the 2004 U.S. Olympic team in Athens.
  • 1997 and '99 recipient of the Leslie Kerfoot Award presented to the Most Valuable Hawaiian Female in the Hawaiian Invitational Water Polo Tournament.
ALMA MATER
UCLA, 2005
Punahou, 1999

PERSONAL
  • Resides in Honolulu with her husband, Doug, son, Van Zandt and daughter, Clover.