Former Bows Land Coaching Jobs

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Former Rainbow Wahine middle blocker Amber Kaufman (2006-09), outside hitter or libero Tara Hittle (2005-08) and Warrior outside hitter Scott Hartley (2011-15) each landed coaching positions at different universities. Kaufman who spent the spring season as a volunteer assistant at the University of Pittsburgh will move on to be an Assistant Coach at Duquesne University. Hittle has done coaching at the prep level back in her home state of Colorado and has now landed an Assistant Coach spot at Dartmouth. Hartley is coming off a season playing professional volleyball and will be a Volunteer Assistant Coach at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. All are Division I programs with UNC having a Top 25 ranked team.

In the beginning of spring, the Pittsburgh Athletic Department announced that Kaufman will be the new volunteer assistant coach for their volleyball program. Recently she took a higher position not to far from her new school in Duquesne. Before Pittsburgh, Kaufman continued her volleyball career playing professionally in Finland. During that time she earned a spot to the league All-Star team. At the University of Hawaii she was a five-time All-American in track and field for the high jump event while being an all-WAC performer for the volleyball team. She was part of the 2009 Wahine team that made a run to the NCAA Final Four and earned AVCA All-American Honorable Mention after ranking second in the nation in hitting percentage.

Tara Hittle | Photo Credit: Dartmouth Athletics

Hittle has spent past years in Colorado coaching for a top club in Colorado Juniors. She coached at Valor Christian along with Doherty HS which is where she was the Colorado Coach of the Year. Also at Doherty HS she coached the Top Ranked recruit according to PrepVolleyball in the class of 2013 in Haleigh Washington who is now an AVCA First Team All-American at Penn State. Her most recent playing times were her professional season in Switzerland in 2011. At Hawaii she was a four time letter winner for the volleyball while also playing on the basketball team. She holds the third highest dig count in the record books as she spent her last season as a libero after sharing time as an outside hitter the seasons before.

Hartley returns to the United States as he spent one season playing in Greece along with playing in the Annual Asian Pacific Cup. He recently came home to California where he spent the 2016 spring helping Santa Margarita Catholic HS and 949 Athletic Club as a coach. Previous coaching experience has had is in Hawaii with Spike and Serve. During his career at Hawaii he was inserted as a reserve for over half his career but excelled when he was given opportunities. Making impacts his freshman season off the bench and earned a starting spot the last half of his senior year. He was a member of the team that was second in the MPSF and made it to the NCAAs Tournament.