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Full name | Robyn Mokihana Ah Mow-Santos | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. |
September 15, 1975 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Setter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current club | Volero Zurich | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Robyn Mokihana Ah Mow-Santos (perf, born September 15, 1975) is the head coach of the Hawaii Rainbow Wahine volleyball team and a former American indoor volleyball player. She is a setter on the USA national team and played at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the 2004 Athens Olympics, and also played at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, helping Team USA to a silver medal. She worked as an assistant coach at the University of Hawaii Rainbow Wahine volleyball team until 2016.
Ah Mow was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Talmage and Lovina Ah Mow, and has two brothers, Kekoa and Tyson, and two sisters, Dara and Arlene. She is married to Niobel Rafael Santos, former amateur athlete who is now a member of the U.S. Armed Forces and has served three tours in Iraq. They have a son Jordan Nohili, who was born on February 2, 2003, and a daughter, Jream Puanani Maria, who was born August 1, 2010.
Ah Mow-Santos attended college at the University of Hawai'i from 1993-1996 where she was a two-time AVCA First Team all-American. As a setter, she helped Hawai'i to the 1996 NCAA Championship match, losing to Stanford. She attended Mckinley High School in Honolulu, Hawaii.
She started to do some international competition with the USA national team in 1999, setting in seven games at the NORCECA championships and playing in 13 sets at the World Cup. In 2000, she played in four sets of the Nike Americas’ Volleyball Challenge, helping Team USA qualify for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She set the team to victories over no. 4 China, no. 5 Korea and no. 7 Japan at the Grand Prix. At the 2000 Olympic Games, she started all seven matches and led the team to a .263 hitting percentage and a fourth-place finish.