Rainbow Forecast

Forecasting Rainbow Warrior and Rainbow Wahine sporting events for the upcoming week.

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Rainbow Forecast: Hawaii football off, volleyball and soccer home for Big West

By Brian McInnis on September 30, 2019

Its duties accomplished for the moment, the Hawaii football team exits stage left to make way for the Rainbow Wahine volleyball and soccer squads in this week’s Rainbow Forecast. The Rainbow Warriors (4-1, 1-0 Mountain West) and newly minted Big West Offensive Player of the Week Cole McDonald get a well-deserved break this week coming off their emphatic 54-3 win over Nevada in Reno — and ensuing travel difficulties getting home. The bye could serve the Warriors well heading into […]

Rainbow Forecast: Hawaii football, volleyball begin conference play on mainland

By Brian McInnis on September 23, 2019

Hawaii’s football and volleyball teams have synched up and will begin their respective Mountain West and Big West conference schedules on the mainland this week. The Rainbow Warriors, off to a 3-1 start, seek to win at Nevada for the first time since the Sugar Bowl squad of 2007 pulled it off on Dan Kelly’s field goal. The Rainbow Wahine, meanwhile, open up league play at Long Beach State and Cal State Northridge after moving up to No. 11 in […]

Rainbow Forecast: Hawaii football heads to Washington, volleyball hosts third tournament

By Brian McInnis on September 9, 2019

In this week’s edition of the Rainbow Forecast, the Hawaii football and women’s volleyball teams look to build off some exceptional starts to their seasons. UH football is off to a third straight 2-0 start under Nick Rolovich, but has a very tough test this weekend in its first road game of the season at No. 23 Washington. Can the Rainbow Warriors pull off a stunner in Seattle? Meanwhile, Robyn Ah Mow’s Rainbow Wahine (6-0) are off to the program’s […]

Rainbow Forecast: Football faces Oregon State, volleyball hosts another tourney, soccer heads to Dakotas

By Brian McInnis on September 2, 2019

Is it Monday already? Well, if it is — and we think it is, because it’s Labor Day — that means a fresh installment of the Rainbow Forecast. For the first time in the athletic calendar, all three fall sports teams are in action this week. UH football is coming off a bye week, UH women’s volleyball hosts the Heineken Rainbow Wahine Invitational (fresh off winning the Hawaiian Airlines Classic), and UH soccer hits the road for the first time this […]

Rainbow Forecast: Hawaii women’s volleyball opens up; soccer hosts 3

By Brian McInnis on August 26, 2019

Welcome back to the follow-up edition to last week’s inaugural Rainbow Forecast. Here, we’ll lay out what’s to come in UH sports through the weekend. Soccer and football opened things up last week — soccer losing 3-0 to No. 5 USC and football earning a thrilling 45-38 win over Arizona — and this week women’s volleyball joins the bunch with the Hawaiian Airlines Rainbow Wahine Classic (Friday, Saturday, Sunday). Robyn Ah Mow begins her third season as head coach with a […]

Rainbow Forecast: Hawaii hosts Arizona football, USC soccer

By Brian McInnis on August 19, 2019

Welcome to the very first Rainbow Forecast, your weekly primer for upcoming University of Hawaii sporting events. Check back on Mondays, from now through the spring, for a breakdown on upcoming Rainbow Warrior and Rainbow Wahine games and other notables spanning that Monday through Sunday. So, here we go. To begin the 2019-20 athletic calendar, a couple of Pac-12 opponents — USC and Arizona — come to town for the respective openers of the Hawaii soccer and football teams. UH’s […]