Mike Wilton is an American

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coach.

Career

Wilton served in the

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after high school. He played basketball at

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, surfed and worked in construction. In 1969 he played volleyball with Church College of Hawaii (now

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. In 1970 he became an assistant at

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(BYU), Provo, Utah. In 1973 he became Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo's men volleyball coach. In 1974 Wilton also served as an assistant UC Santa Barbara men's volleyball, and 1976 BYU's men's volleyball coach. From 1978 to 1989 he was Cal Poly's women's volleyball head coach. In 1993 he took over as Warrior Volleyball as head coach. On April 11, 2009 Wilton announced that he was resigning from his Hawaii head coaching job. He accepted a position as a women's assistant coach at

External links

Hawaii athletics profile
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