SandBows 3 UCLA 0, advance to match with FSU
By Cindy Luis on May 6, 20165 a.m HST At the moment, only online at NCAA.com TruTV (OC119) coverage starts at 9 a.m. HST http://www.ncaa.com/liveschedule/2016/05/06
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Cindy Luis covers University of Hawaii volleyball for the Star-Advertiser. She began her career as a sports journalist in Hawaii in 1981 with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and was the sports editor, assistant sports editor, columnist and beat writer during a 31-year span before the paper became the Star-Advertiser. She graduated from UCLA in 1977 with a B.A. in Communication Studies.
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Congrats to Spieler on Bonham award, other H Award winners
By Cindy Luis on May 5, 2016H awards Tuesday night but didn’t get list until later. OC sports taped it for a delayed broadcast Spieler also won The Jenny (not sure what that is), was top-five Wahine academic with Clare-Marie Anderson and the Rainbow Wahine of the Year. Male rookie to van Tilburg Heart of the Team: Anderson Contributor to Jimbo Buccella Coach of the Year: Ah Mow-Santos. University of Hawaii beach volleyball player Katie Spieler and men’s swimmer Kacy Johnson were the recipients of the […]
SandBows sweep all-Big West awards
By Cindy Luis on May 3, 2016Hall named Coach of the Year Spieler-Maglio Pair of the Year Maglio Freshman of the Year Spieler-Maglio & Taylor-Schreiber first team Homayun-Zalopany, Long-Tucker, Rooks-Schucht second team http://www.bigwest.org//story.asp?story_id=19137
Congrats to Zarkovic, Kanetake AA 2nd team; SandBows stay at 5
By Cindy Luis on May 2, 2016Zarkovic, Kanetake named 2nd team All-Americans Stanford’s Enriques (Kamehameha-Hawaii) and UCLA’s Ma’a (Punahou) named to the first team https://www.avca.org/awards/all-regional-all-america-awards/mens-all-america-awards.html not much movement in the poll. Hawaii stays at 5, SC at 1, UCLA at 4 Florida State and Pepperdine flop at 3-4. https://www.avca.org/polls/beach.html
SandBows seeded fifth in NCAA tournament, play UCLA
By Cindy Luis on May 1, 2016Today 4 pm HST NCAA.com Hawaii plays UCLA
SandBows defeat 49ers for Big West championship
By Cindy Luis on April 30, 2016Hawaii wins 3-2 this morning. 1. Spieler-Maglio win 22-20, 21-16 2. Taylor-Schucht win 21-19, 21-10 3. Schreiber-Zalopany lose, 17-21, 21-16, 17-15 4. Long-Tucker win 21-14, 21-8 5. Homayun-Rooks lose 21-17, 21-19 Last loss came at No. 3 in 3 after UH had clinched the dual
SandBows sweep Cal Poly, will play 49ers in semis
By Cindy Luis on April 29, 2016Cal Poly survives 3-2 vs Bakersfield Will play Hawaii @ 9 am HST
Thursday check in, BWC beach schedule, Ross
By Cindy Luis on April 28, 2016Following up on previous thread, thought I had mentioned it in my comments about Skyler Williams but maybe not. McKenna Ross, 5-10, OH/L Aliso Niguel HS She has shown up on various sites as a 2016 commit. Thought I had mentioned that the OC Register listed her last week as a UH commit Daughter of former Warrior Jason. She is a walk-on. if you are interested in Friday’s opening rounds, no game tracker but twitter available from both the BWC […]