{"id":139158,"date":"2026-01-27T00:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T00:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/139158\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T00:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T00:45:17","slug":"volleyball-hired-norene-iosia-texas-tech-red-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/139158\/","title":{"rendered":"Volleyball hired Norene Iosia &#8211; Texas Tech Red Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 Texas Tech volleyball announced the hiring of new assistant coach <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/staff-directory\/norene-iosia\/4373\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4373\" target=\"_blank\">Norene Iosia<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Iosia spent three seasons with Nevada as an assistant coach after a strong playing career at Hawaii and then the pro level. She was a setter\/outside hitter for Hawaii and finished her career there ranked ninth in career assists (3,148), eighth in career digs (1,175) and tied for second in service aces (139).<\/p>\n<p>Iosia earned Big West Player of the Year honors, was first team all-conference all four years and an AVCA All-American honorable mention in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>After college, Iosia went overseas and played professional in Greece, Hungary and Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our goal was to find an offensive minded coach to take the lead with our setters and Norene is going to be great in this role,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/coaches\/tony-graystone\/4169\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4169\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Graystone<\/a>. &#8220;There was a tremendous amount of interest in this position, but it quickly became clear that Norene would be a terrific fit with the team and coaching staff and I&#8217;m very excited for her to get started.&#8221;<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 Texas Tech volleyball announced the hiring of new assistant coach Norene Iosia on Monday. Iosia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-139158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}