Volleyshots

The last thread went crazy. to answer a few things First practice now moved to the 9th. It was the 8th but changed yesterday. starts at 6:30 a.m. don’t know what was up with MyTake complaining about Shoji going to the Olympics to watch his sons and missing 12 3-hour practices. The coaching staff will be having meetings before he goes and they know what he wants to have done. Not sure if there will be Skype involved As for […]

He was on for about 10 minutes, talked a lot about going to the Olympics, will be going to beach volleyball, track, maybe fencing in addition to mens and women’s volleyball. Asked about TV work. he said maybe in retirement he’d get picked up locally but he didn’t want to do what Kevin Wong does, which is a lot of travel and being on planes. Talked a little about this coming year, having to replace Magill and Manu-Olevao. said he […]

Former Wahine Nohea Tano opening a new shop in Kailua, 131 Hekili St. on Saturday Bee and Tea, a franchise, specializes in boba tea, and also will have kalua pig bao, smoothies and milk shakes Grand opening and blessing at 11 a.m.

Book went live on Amazon Wednesday night. Will have more info later but this is what I got tonight Shoji was selected the top coach of the 1980s, the 1983 Rainbow Wahine NCAA championship team No. 5 in the pre-rally scoring era (1981-2000). Voting done by current and former coaches, players and media. Named to the all-decade team for the 80s were Wahine Deitre Collins, Kori Pulaski and Teee Williams. UH’s Yuval Katz selected to the all-90s men’s team. Others […]

Spieler has made the Top 10 finalists Voting open through 2 p.m. Thursday HST Announcement on Friday www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/honoring-achievement-and-field sorry, looks like you’ll have to cut and past URL Very sad to hear about Mark Takai’s passing today. A really good guy. Do you remember him wanting a UH mascot so badly that he dressed up as the ‘Marshmallow Man” at one football game?

Dropped by camp today. Looks like Kaleo Baxter will be the DOVO for women’s indoor and beach. Announcement pending on finalizing paperwork. as mentioned earlier, Faith Ma’aflala (Kamehameha) has transferred home from Southern Utah, will walk on. That will bring the roster number to 19. would not be surprised if one of the walk-ons redshirt. Spiler has moved on to the semifinals. Voting still open to get her into the finals http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/honoring-achievement-and-field Amber Kaufman new assistant at Duquesne. spent last […]

Men lose to Brazil in five. they needed to win either 3-0 or 3-1. So they are out. Had several match points in Set 3, the first on an ace by Christenson at 24-23. E. Shoji with 21 digs. Spieler moves on to Fan Favorite Elite 90 semifinals.

www.teamusa.org/USA-Volleyball/Features/2016/July/14/Little-Things-Mean-a-Lot-in-US-Loss-to-Italy Not a good loss for the Americans. Have to beat Brazil Friday either 3-0 or 3-1 to remain alive in the tournament. Setter Micah Christenson had 43 assists and libero Erik Shoji 16 digs but it was not enough as the U.S. men’s national volleyball team was upset by Italy 3-1 in ab FIVB World League final round pool-play match on Thursday in Krakow, Poland. Christensen (Kamehameha) added four kills and an ace and was in on three blocks […]