Softball

The Rainbow Wahine softball team’s latest recruiting class began to take shape before the signees could drive. The adulation over UH’s Women’s College World Series appearance in 2010 was still bubbling when Jennifer Iseri and Heather Cameron first reached out to UH coach Bob Coolen — as eighth graders. “I was getting e-mails and messages from them and they were so excited,” Coolen recalled. Coolen said Naomi Monahan also started following the Rainbow Wahine in the eighth grade and, like Iseri and […]

Leisha Li’ili’i said Rainbow Wahine softball coach Bob Coolen is trying to get her to “step out of her comfort zone” in taking a more vocal role as a senior leader this season. There’s no questioning her comfort level when she steps into the batter’s box. Li’ili’i went 7-for-8 at the plate in three games in the Kama‘aina Tournament and launched the second of UH’s five homers in a 16-1 win over Chaminade in the tournament finale on Saturday at […]

Heavy droplets of rain chased the Rainbow Wahine softball team into the dugout for a few minutes Monday afternoon … just as Bob Coolen expected. The Hawaii head coach noted that a Manoa shower had accompanied opening day of fall practice for most of his 25 years in the program and the first on-field session leading into the 2015 season held to form. The rain accentuated the sense of renewal for a UH team looking to wash away a 22-28 […]

The college softball season is a little less than four months away, but Hawaii coach Bob Coolen has already scored a victory of sorts. Since returning to the Big West in 2013, the Rainbow Wahine played Friday-Saturday conference series at home and Saturday-Sunday series on the road. This season, all of UH’s Big West series will be on Fridays and Saturdays, home and away. Coolen had lobbied for the change and the adjustment is subtle yet significant for the Wahine […]

Seven Rainbow Wahine softball players were included on the National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-America Scholar-Athlete list released this week. Players with a grade-point average of 3.5 or higher for the 2013-14 academic year were eligible and UH was represented by Brittany Hitchcock, Jori Jasper, Krysta Kali, Sharla Kliebenstein, Loie Kesterson, Ula Reis-Moniz and Keiki Carlos. Jasper played her senior year as a graduate student and Kliebenstein completed her degree work in the spring. Kesterson and Carlos were sophomores and Hitchcock, […]

The annual Kama’aina Classic and the return of the alumnae game highlight the Rainbow Wahine softball team’s fall schedule. UH opens fall practice on Oct. 13 and hosts the Kama’aina Classic on Nov. 7 and 8 at Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium. The Wahine will be joined in the tournament by BYU-Hawaii, Chaminade and UH-Hilo, under new coach and former UH standout Peejay Brun. Each team will play three games in the two-day tournament. Friday, Nov 7. Chaminade vs. BYUH, 4 […]