Lena Chan

Lena Chan runs Athena Volleyball Academy, a large junior volleyball club in Beaverton, OR for both boys and girls, in hopes to positively affect kids lives.

Lena Chan was born and raised in Hawaii and then attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas where she played Division I volleyball and met her husband, Alex, of the past 20 years. After college, Lena was a high school Math and Engineering teacher and coached at Mt. Hood Community College for 6 years where they won three NWAACC Championships and where she received multiple NWAACC Coach of the Year awards. Then Lena coached at Pacific University where they recorded one of the biggest turn arounds in NCAA history in 2011. For the past 6 years Lena has lived in Germany with her husband and two daughters, Malia and Maile. There, Lena played and coached professionally with the VfL Nürnberg Bundesliga team and received Coach of the Year in 2015-16.