This year, she stands above them all.
She is 5-foot-5 and looks as though she weighs about a buck-twenty. She works in a department with 10 others at her level, all of them men, all of them with more experience coaching college athletes.
All the other coaches work in offices in the athletic department quad, while she is sequestered in an eight-by-eight portable, out by the tennis courts.
The office is bigger than a closet, smaller than what you might assume would be the working space for the most successful coach all year at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.