Warriors to 6, DPOW for Gasman, Martin-Monkhouse POW for No. 3 SandBows

Congrats to Gasman. He is a beast!

Looks like she has a younger sister Emma who also plays.

Beach team had the most successful road trip in UH history in any sport. Two titles, one on the East Coast and on the West Coast. 10 and 0 in matches. Wow congratulations.

Lexi Sun will join Nebraska woman volleyball team next season She will be able to play next year

Aww shucks on Lexi Sun, wishful thinking she may land over here.
Thought she mayb thinking like “Big fish, small pond” if she thought bout coming here. Guess she likes the COLD…
will unfortunately unfollow her now

RAMS- no news yet!?! This is getting a little disheartening …..

It’s easier to recruit for the beach team they are one of the only five power teams there no stanford to worry about yet, or psu’s nebraska, minnesots, florida and wisconsin who are recruiting juggernauts but yes Hall is doing good on the beach side , I love that he is embracing Canadians too bad he lost out on Tia Miric to Cal Poly though.

Still hopeful coach Ronyn can land Scoles and Gaskins.

I’m actually excited and intrigued that we do not have a spring match scheduled. Do people realize who we have coming back? EVERYONE (expected to be) returning needs TONS of more reps at their respective positions for us to be successful this coming season. Our 2018 season is not going to be defined by playing any spring match, it is going to be defined by how much work and DETAIL that is put into the practice gym during spring. Even our “best”, and I use that term extremely loosely, players are not where they need to be in order for us to even now be Big West champs.

Our setters have expressed how much of a privilege it is to play under an Olympian and a master of their craft. Now it is time to put their money where their mouth is. Both setters have aspirations to play at the next level, so it will be awesome to see their growth under a coach who is not afraid to tell them, “NO. I want it done this way. You need to work harder.” Too many prep/club kids skate on by either by YES-coaches or by family-coaches that their relative can do no wrong. Not to say, that this is either setter’s particular case, as I am familiar with their family base and do know that they are held to a high standard. It is more of a generalization of this generation of athlete.

Our outsides will benefit from tons and tons of reps of serve and pass. Baxter did wonders with Hartong, helping her transition from middle to a 6-ro passing OH. They need to find a way to get Lee out of a non-coaching role, as I believe she is a DOVO with non-coaching limitations. She was one, if not, the best juniors training coaches Hawaii had before she left to coach at the collegiates. Sure, playing in actual matches may help improving untimely serving errors during pressure moments that our OHs were prone to, but that can be simulated in a practice gym to a lesser extent. Either way, it would really help our pin trio and our work-in-progress middles to have an improved first touch. That will help keep opponent’s defenses a little more honest.

Also excited to see how transfer, Akiu, does at libero. IIRC, this young women stopped hitting at a younger age to focus on playing libero at the next level. If you watched her play during club/high school, you would know that her ball control is impeccable. Diving and diming digs came natural to her. Maybe playing under the big spotlight in the spring could have better prepared her for this coming season, maybe not. Either way, I feel like it could be an extremely short transition phase for Akiu and from there she will take off sprinting and Hawaii fans will be extremely impressed.

Like some previous poster may have mentioned, I am also not concerned that we aren’t getting flooded with player commitment announcements. Dave Shoji was in a tough predicament not being able to give any recruits any certainty, but I am glad Ah Mow-Santos isn’t handing out candy to every Tina, Dick, and Harrietta who has aspirations to play for a school where they realistically do not match. Crush those big dreams. Scour the continent for those diamonds. She is doing a service to the state, the program, her former teammates, and athletes that came before and after her, as well as herself, to find young women that will best exemplify a Rainbow Wahine.

One thing as a lifetime fan of the program, it would be great if our program could secure some legacy talent, as we haven’t had much success in that department. However, if I am a former Rainbow Wahine, which I will not confirm or deny that I am not, I am definitely looking back at UH and putting a bigger bug in my darling daughter’s ear about playing for Ah Mow-Santos and the UH Wahine VB program. If we cannot, then we are definitely putting ourselves in position to have some fine young female athletes that will be just fine carrying on a proud tradition.

H-man, she has verbal commitment from a girl from Texas who is a setter. Texas is almost a foreign country killing two birds with one stone.

They’ve had a year to recruit. If they can’t get at least one foreign recruit or hell just a OH that’s a terminator you might as well write off this season as well.

We some new weapons fast.

Ron, thanks for the heads-up.

We need a couple of 6-2 six rotations bombers. Two Emily Hartong clones will do.