PORTLAND, Ore. --- The Portland Pilots volleyball program will add Dylan Hamilton to the coaching staff as the head Beach Volleyball coach and additional indoor volleyball assistant coach, announced head coach Jeff Baxter. Hamilton was previously the interim head coach at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
 
Before his time as head coach at the Academy of Art, Hamilton was the assistant coach during the 2016-17 season with his responsibilities being team floor defense and serving, as well as compiling scouting reports, video coordination, and statistics.
 
"We are very excited welcome Dylan to the UP family," said head coach Jeff Baxter "He has a wealth of knowledge to bring to our indoor and beach programs. Dylan is a student of the game and will play a major role in data analysis as well as teaching our student athletes."

Hamilton also served as the volunteer assistant coach for the Huskies in 2015-16 and the assistant coach of Washington's Beach Volleyball program, after spending the previous three seasons as a student manager for the program. While at Washington, he helped the Huskies earn two Pac-12 Championships (2013, 2015), one Pac-12 Beach Volleyball Beach Championship Final Four, one trip to the NCAA Elite 8 (2015), and one trip to the Final Four (2013).

Originally from Ulupalakua, Maui in Hawaii, Hamilton began coaching club and high school volleyball while still in high school himself. He was an outside hitter who led his high school to the Division II state title as a senior in 2010, becoming the first team from Maui to win a Hawaii state volleyball title. He has since played beach volleyball on the AVP, competing in the Manhattan Beach Open in 2014 and taking fourth in the CBVA Long Beach Open in 2015.

Hamilton has also coached at the Aloha Volleyball Club (2009-12), Keegan Cook Summer Volleyball Camps (2013-16), Sudden Impact Volleyball Club in Bellevue, Wash. (2014-16), and City Beach Volleyball Club (2016-17).

Hamilton graduated from Post University in 2016 with a B.A in Psychology.