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(Accomplishments while at Pacific)
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- 10th season as Head Coach of the Boxers volleyball program
- Led team to second place finish in the NWC in 2019 (Top 4 finish or better in 6 of 8 seasons)
- Four-straight winning seasons with 17+ wins & 10+ NWC victories for three-straight years
- School record for single season wins with 18 in 2018
- Won 100th match as Head Coach of Boxers on Nov. 8th, 2019 vs Linfield in five set contest
- Coached 17 All-NWC honorees (four first-team; six second-team; 12 honorable mention)
- Two AVCA West All-Region honorees
- 81 All-NWC scholar-athletes; including pair of 1st Team All-NWC scholar-athletes
- Four-straight years team earned AVCA All-Academic Team honors
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Kip Yoshimura enters his 10th season as Pacific’s head volleyball coach in the fall of 2022, amassing over 100 wins. In nine seasons Yoshimura has a 109-108 record at Pacific with a 73-71 mark in Northwest Conference play.
In 2019, Yoshimura led the Boxers to their fourth-straight winning record under his guidance as the team went 17-9 overall and 10-6 in the Northwest Conference which helped Pacific finish tied for second in the Conference. The second place finish marks the third-straight year the Boxers have finished third in better in the Conference and third-straight year with 17+ wins and 10+ NWC victories. He also picked up his 100th win as Boxer Head Coach coming in a five set win over Linfield on November 8th, 2019.
It was a record setting season in 2018 for Yoshimura and the Boxers as he led the team to the most wins in a single season in school history as the Boxers posted an 18-8 record and 11-5 mark in the NWC, which resulted in a third place finish in the Conference; the 11 conference wins set a school record for single season. In 2017 Yoshimura coached the team to a 17-7 record and 10-6 effort in NWC action, while the team put together an 11-match win streak during the season. The 2016 season saw the programs most wins since 2007 as the team went 14-12, while his 2015 squad finished tied for fourth place in the NWC (7-9 record). In his first season leading the Boxers (2012) Yoshimura led the program to 11 wins and a third place finish in the NWC (10-6 record), their best record since 1994.
Several athletes have earned honors under the guidance of Yoshimura during his time at Pacific including 14 All-NWC honorees, two West All-Region AVCA honorees and 81 All-NWC scholar-athletes which include two first-team All-NWC scholar-athletes (Jordan Zweifel (2019-20) & Anna Vanderweyst (2017-18)). While for four-straight years the Boxer volleyball team has earned All-Academic Team honors from the AVCA.
Prior to being named the head coach at Pacific, Yoshimura has been a well traveled coach serving as a head coach at Gonzaga, Lewis-Clark State and Rancho Santiago College, and has served as an assistant at Vanguard, Weber State, Long Beach State, UC Davis and Gonzaga. Additionally, he has a coached at a number of club volleyball programs in southern California. He has nearly 30 years of volleyball coaching experience, amassing a college coaching record of 410-318.
Yoshimura experienced his best success in his nine seasons leading the powerful Lewis-Clark State program in Lewiston, Idaho totaling a record of 251-72 becoming the winningest coach in program history. From 1993 to 2001, Yoshimura led the Warriors to five NAIA National Tournament appearances, including a national semifinals berth in 1998, as well six conference or regional championships. A six-time AVCA Pacific Northwest Region Coach of the Year and a six-time conference coach of the year, Yoshimura coached 16 NAIA All-Americans, 25 all-region performers, 40 all-conference selections and 13 NAIA All-America Scholar-Athletes.
His 1996 team at Lewis & Clark went 35-4, notching the best record in Warrior archives. Yoshimura was inducted into the Lewis-Clark State Hall of Fame in the spring of 2017, becoming one of the first volleyball inductees into the school's Hall of Fame. His 1998 team and one of his former standouts Kelli Harris were also selected for induction.
His success at Lewis-Clark State led Yoshimura to Gonzaga, where he led the Bulldogs’ Division I program for seven seasons (2002-08). During his tenure, Yoshimura coached 10 All-West Coast Conference performers and eight WCC all-academic honorees. His best season was in 2007 when Gonzaga went 17-13, which at the time was the best mark for a Bulldog volleyball team in 14 seasons.
Before his arrival in Forest Grove in 2012 he spent one season as an assistant coach at Vanguard University, a NAIA school in Costa Mesa, Calif., where helped lead the Lions to an appearance in the 2011 NAIA National Tournament.
At the club level, Yoshimura has served as head coach of the 951 Elite Volleyball Club, the Snake River Juniors Volleyball Club, Ogden Juniors Volleyball Club, Huntington Beach Boys’ Volleyball Club, California Junior Volleyball Club and Inland Empire Volleyball.
He played junior college volleyball at West Valley College in Saratoga, CA, where he was a two-year starting setter and an all-conference performer in 1985. Yoshimura went on to play one season for the men’s club program at San Jose State University.
Yoshimura graduated from Long Beach State in 1990 with a degree in mechanical engineering.
