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Mike Wilton
Current position
TitleVolunteer assistant
TeamUtah State
ConferenceMountain West
Biographical details
Born1943/1944 (age 79–81)
Alma materBYU–Hawaii (1972)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Men's volleyball
1973–1975Cal Poly
1974UC Santa Barbara (volunteer asst.)
1976BYU (volunteer asst.)
1976BYU–Hawaii
1993–2009Hawaii
2011–2015BYU (asst.)
Women's volleyball
1978–1989Cal Poly
2009BYU (asst.)
2010Hawaii–Hilo (asst.)
2015–2016Southern Utah (asst.)
2017–2018Utah Valley (volunteer asst.)
2019–presentUtah State (volunteer asst.)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
MPSF Pacific Division (1995, 1996, 1998, 2001)
Awards
AVCA Coach of the Year (2002)

Mike Wilton is an American volleyball coach.

Career

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Wilton served in the United States Marine Corps after high school. He played basketball at Santa Barbara City College, surfed and worked in construction. In 1969 he played volleyball with Church College of Hawaii (now Brigham Young University Hawaii. In 1970 he became an assistant at Brigham Young University (BYU), Provo, Utah. In 1973 he became Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo's men volleyball coach. In 1974 Wilton also served as an assistant UC Santa Barbara men's volleyball, and 1976 BYU's men's volleyball coach. From 1978 to 1989 he was Cal Poly's women's volleyball head coach. In 1993 he took over as Warrior Volleyball as head coach.

On April 11, 2009 Wilton announced that he was resigning from his Hawaii head coaching job. He accepted a position as a women's assistant coach at Brigham Young University.

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