Warrior Gymnasium, the home of the Warriors, has been good to Yoshimura’s Warrior teams. LCSC is 52-6 at home over the last six seasons, a winning percentage of .896

His players have earned a total of nine All-America, including NAIA First Team and Pacific Northwest Region Players of the Year Kelli Harris (1996) and Kymm Lingnaw (1997), six Scholar-Athlete All-America, 16 All-Region, and 25 All-Conference honors. Individually, Yoshimura has been selected as the Pacific Northwest Athletic Conference Coach of the Year three times, and as the AVCA/Tachikara Pacific Northwest Region Coach of the Year in 1994, 1996, 1997 and 1998.

A native of San Jose, Calif., he has coached at some of the highest levels in the sport. Starting as a student assistant in the 1983 for the women’s team at West Valley College in Saratoga, Calif., Yoshimura has worked his way through the ranks of the volleyball coaching profession. During the 1988 and 1989 seasons he coached as an assistant with the Cal State Long Beach women’s program that compiled a 58-12 record and won the 1989 NCAA Division I National Championship. In 1991 he spent the year as first assistant at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, and for the 1992 season held the same position at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash.

During the spring of 1991, Yoshimura was selected as an assistant coach to train in Kobe, Japan with former U.S.A. National Team head coach, Arie Selinger, and a select group of collegiate coaches and athletes. He has also spent the last fourteen seasons working as a coach and director of a variety of elite United States Volleyball Association Junior Olympic developmental programs which over time has produced more than 65 collegiate volleyball scholarship athletes. Currently, Yoshimura coaches the Snake River Juniors.

Yoshimura, a graduate of Cal State University, Long Beach (B.S., Mechanical Engineering), also enjoyed a successful playing career. As a starting setter for West Valley College men’s team, he helped guide the program to a 31-5 record during the 1983 and 1984 seasons, gaining All-Northern California honors his sophomore year. At San Jose State University, Yoshimura spent two years as the starting setter for the SJSU Men’s Intercollegiate Club team.