No. 6 BYU men’s volleyball will travel to Honolulu this week for two matches against No. 3 Hawai’i, scheduled for Wednesday and Friday.
BYU enters the matchups on a nine-game winning streak, having also won 27 consecutive sets. This marks their longest set-winning streak since the 2016 season. Last weekend, BYU recorded two straight-set victories over Fort Valley State at Smith Fieldhouse. Their only defeats this season were close five-set matches at home against No. 5 UC Irvine.
Offensively, Trent Moser leads BYU with a .375 hitting percentage and an average of 3.39 kills per set. Setter Tyler Herget is providing 10.30 assists per set, ranking ninth in the NCAA, while middle blocker Gavin Chambers averages 1.34 blocks per set, placing him fifth nationally.
Head coach Shawn Olmstead recently reached his 200th career win last weekend. In his eleven seasons leading the program, Olmstead is now five wins away from matching Carl McGown for the most wins in BYU history and is currently ranked as the ninth-winningest active coach in the NCAA.
Hawai’i also comes into these games with a nine-match winning streak—the eighth straight season they have achieved such a run. The Warriors’ only loss was to Loyola Chicago earlier in the year when Loyola was ranked seventh nationally. Most recently, Hawai’i swept No. 18 Stanford in back-to-back road games.
Kainoa Wade leads Hawai’i with an average of 3.51 kills per set and holds the third-best hitting percentage nationally at .464. Libero Quintin Greenidge tops the Big West Conference with 2.08 digs per set, while setter Tread Rosenthal provides 11.06 assists per set—third-best in the country.
Charlie Wade coaches Hawai’i and has accumulated 331 career wins over seventeen seasons, making him the fourth-winningest active coach in college men’s volleyball.
In terms of historical performance between these teams, BYU leads the all-time series with a record of 42-25; however, Hawai’i has won five of their last six meetings since 2019, including both matches last season held in Provo. While BYU holds a dominant record at home (25-6), games played in Honolulu are evenly split (15-15). The two programs previously faced off in the 2021 NCAA championship match.
Both upcoming matches will be streamed live on ESPN+.
