Kellen Takatsuka was promoted WOU volleyball associate head coach in 2025, and enters his fourth year overall with the program.
Takatsuka was a volunteer assistant in 2022 and assistant coach from 2023-24 with the volleyball program while serving as a graduate assistant for the WOU women's basketball program for two seasons (2021-23).
On the volleyball side, he helped WOU to the most wins for the program since 2012 in 2024 - going 15-12 overall.
Prior to WOU, Takatsuka was a women's basketball volunteer assistant at Hawaii Pacific where the team was ranked as high as No. 3 in the country, won its third-straight PacWest title and went on a 38-game win streak.
Takatsuka also coached the boys club volleyball program at Ku'ikahi Volleyball Club - a team he also played for.
Takatsuka was born and raised in Kailua, Hawaii, and attended Hawaii Baptist Academy, where he was part of a volleyball program that won four consecutive state championships. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Hawaii Pacific in 2021 with a bachelor of science in business administration (minor in communication studies) and graduated from WOU in 2023 with his master of arts degree in organizational leadership.
