Tusalava Kuaea was named the Head Volleyball Coach at South Puget Sound Community College, in March 2018.  Kuaea will also serve as a full-time Outreach Specialist working on campus. Kuaea’s main goal is to not only be a key recruiter for the college but also bring in diversity to the staff and student population. 

Prior to SPSCC, Kuaea served as a long term substitute algebra teacher and head volleyball and discus coach at Lakes High School. Kuaea served there for three years and took the team to post season for the first time in six years. Kuaea was raised in Lakewood and grew up in the Clover Park School District and attended Tacoma Community College on an athletics scholarship after high school to complete her first two years. She then was recruited and received an athletic scholarship to become a Cotton Blossom at the University of Arkansas at Monticello where she finished her student-athlete career and attained a BS in Health and Physical Education, while minoring in Coaching. Kuaea also coaches club volleyball for South Sound VBC for the past nine years and has ran multiple camps and clinics offered to all ages. Currently, Kuaea is earning her Master’s in Coaching and Athletic Administration at Concordia University- Irvine and will finish in fall 2021.