Mapu Sekona begins her third year as an assistant coach for WVC ondoor and beach volleyball. As a player and assistant coach for four years under Armen Zakarian at West Valley, Sekona has contributed to unprecedented success for the Viking Volley program. Considered one of the CCCAA's finest combo (indoor/beach) players ever, she looks to help lead new generations of WVC players to similar success from the sidelines.  

Sekona came to Saratoga in 2017 after a stellar prep career at Mid-Pacific Institute in Honolulu, Oahu, HI. A four-sport star for the Owls - she was a paddler, and played soccer, indoor and beach volleyball - Sekona quickly established herself as one of the top indoor/beach athletes in the CCCAA.Indoors, she led the state in total kills and kills-per-set in 2017 in and was an All-Region and All-Coast 1st Team selection. She led Viking beach to an 18-4 overall record, 5-3 in the ultra-competitive Coast. She was, appropriately, named to the beach All-Coast squad.

The Vikings were even better in 2018-19, thanks to one of Zakarian's best indoor/beach teams and a year from Sekona that rocked the CCCAA volleyball world. She again led the CCCAA in kills and kills-per-set and led WVC indoor to the CCCAA state tournament and WVC beach to its first-ever Coast Conference championship. Sekona teamed with Kaylin Henderson to win the Coast and NorCal beach pairs titles, also a first for a Viking tandem, and then finished second in the CCCAA State Pairs Championship.

The awards piled up for Sekona after the 2018-19 season. In indoor, she was an AVCA All-American, All-State 1st Team, All-NorCal 1st Team, All- Coast 1st Team, and the NorCal Player of the Year. In beach, she grabbed her second straight All-Coast honor. She was named the 2019 West Valley College Female Athlete of the Year and recieved a full athletic scholarship to CSU Bakersfield.

Injuries prevented her from a full two-year playing career for the Roadrunners but didn't derail her academics, as she received her degree in Business in 2021. She joined Zakarian's staff in fall 2021.

The Vikings were a combined 37-15 overall and 20-1 indoors, including an unbeaten 8-0 in 2022, in the Coast in Sekona's first two seasons as an assistant. Both teams were Coast champions, but the 2021 squad stormed through NorCal to a memorable 2nd place finish in the 2021 CCCAA State Championships in Fresno. The 2022 team reached the NorCal finals, where it fell at eventual state champion Feather River. West Valley captured a large share of the Coast post-season awards both years, including MVPs Taylor Tullo (2021) and Flor Porras (2022) and a combined 13 All-Coast selections. Seven 2021 Vikings went on to play at four-year colleges.

In the sand in 2022 and 2023, the Vikings were a combined 29-16 overall, 21-5 in the Coast. In 2022, much as Sekona had done in 2019, Katie Kishton and Porras rolled through the Coast and NorCals to finish second in the CCCAA State Pairs Championship. Under Sekona's tutelage, a program-high three pairs advanced to the 2023 CCCAA Pairs State Championship tournament at West Valley, with Porras and Kiana Manson finishing fifth.

Sekona lives in the San Jose area, travels back to her native Hawaii as often as possible and is working on her Master's Degree.