Keone Coronado - Beach Volleyball Coach - Grand Canyon University Athletics

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Keone Coronado

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
keone.coronado@gcu.edu

Coronado enters his fourth year with the Lopes in the 2025-26 season.

In his second season as the lead assistant, Coronado helped lead the GCU squad to finish the season 23-11 with eight wins over ranked opponents and a No. 13 national AVCA ranking. The Lopes earned two All-Conference honors and six AVCA Top Flight All-American awards across multiple pairs. GCU also went 7-0 at home during the season

The Lopes opened the season with four straight wins as well as two CCSA All-Academic athletes, two CCSA All-Tournament team members, two All-CCSA athletes, and two CCSA All-Freshman team members. The Lopes also took down No. 6 LSU in a neutral site match.

Keone Coronado was hired as an assistant coach in July of 2023.

Coronado joined the GCU Beach Volleyball staff as a Volunteer Coach in the fall of 2022; in his first year on the staff the Lopes posted a 26-8 record, finished second in the Coastal Collegiate Sports Associataion (CCSA), and earned their second at-large bid to the NCAA tournament.

Coronado has coached at the high school and club level since 2018, and has even played at the highest level in the United States, competing within the Volleyball League of America (VLA) and the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP).

Born in Hawaii, but raised in Arizona, Coronado attended Mountain Pointe High School before competing on the court with the Graceland Yellowjackets from 2015-2019.

Coronado earned his bachelor's degree in Corrective Exercise and Performance Enhancement from Graceland University.