Expanded coverage of all things volleyball, including notes, observations and analysis on the Rainbow Wahine, Rainbow Warriors, SandBows and Team USA.
About the blog host
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.
Nikki Taylor-Ka’iwi Schucht earned the Wahine’s seventh Big West weekly honor in beach volleyball. From the Big West: Taylor-Schucht went 2-2, with both losses to USC at No. 2 They swept Long Beach State and Grand Canyon NCAA beach selection show on NCAA.com at 4 p.m. Sunday HST
No real surprises here BYU seeded 1 2. UCLA. 3. Ohio State. 4. Long beach State. 5. Erskine. 6. George Mason BYU plays the winner of 4-5 (The Beach-Erskine) UCLA plays winner of 3-6 (Ohio State-George Mason) Tournament at Penn State Play-in matches Tuesday, May 3 Semifinals May 5. Final May 7 Semis streamed on NCAA.com Final on ESPN2 Bracket released for this week’s Big West tournament 1. Hawaii and 2. Long Beach State with byes into Friday’s second round. […]
MPSF BYU def. UCLA 25-20, 25-19, 18-25, 25-15 EIVA George Mason def. St. Francis, 25-14, 17-25, 25-18, 25-19 MIVA Ohio State def. Lewis, 25-18, 25-17, 23-25, 17-25, 15-12 We’ll see what happens with the two at-large bids. Guessing UCLA gets one and it likely comes down between Long Beach State and Stanford. As for today at Queen’s Championship USC 3, Hawaii 0 Flight 1: Sara Hughes/Kelly Claes (USC) def. Katie Spieler/Emily Maglio (UH), 21-14, 21-14. Flight 2: Sophie Bukovec/Alexa Strange […]
Wahine win dual Loss came at No. 1 Maglio and spieler 15-13 in set 3 couple of switches Taylor with schucht at 2 Zalopany and schreiber at 3 Also, Skyler Williams (Mayfair High/Seal Beach VC) has orally committed to the Wahine. She’s a 6-2 MB. Might have been buried on an earlier thread. UH also got an ’18 commit from Liliana Light, a 6-foot setter from Pleasant Grove HS. Believe her sister Alex is a UCLA commit. and McKenna Ross […]
Penn State hosting the final four and after being ousted in the EIVA tournament, will be just playing hosts. Thursday at BYU MPSF UCLA def. Long Beach State, 26-24, 28-26, 25-18 UCSB at BYU, Cougars up 1-0 EIVA at Penn State George Mason def. harvard, 25-11, 25-21, 25-21 St. Francis def. Penn State, 27-29, 28-26, 25-22, 25-23 Saturday George Mason vs. St. Francis Wednesday MIVA Ohio State def. McKendree 3-1 Lewis def. Loyola, 3-1 Saturday Lewis at Ohio State
Huff announced it on her instagram last night “I’ll always have love for the islands but I know the decision to pursue my dreams at a different university will help me blossom to the player I aspire to be. I have to follow God’s path for my future and have faith that he is leading the way! Thank you for all the support in my journey, Mahalo.” On previous thread someone thought it was because her volleyball career didn’t work […]
Still a bit of conflicting info on this. Schedule has Florida International competition but FIU schedule has them playing at their conference tournament. Someone asked about why UH doesn’t have a schedule. This is not a UH event. the website AlohaInvitational.com doesn’t have a schedule yet but this is what I got from Organizer. Someone on earlier thread said the didn’t want to spend all day at Queen’s wanting to watch the Wahine. This won’t be much help since no […]
No men’s poll until after the NCAA tournament SandBows have the Aloha Invitational at Queens’ Beach Friday and Saturday. play starts at 9 a.m. Hawaii remained at No. 5 in today’s AVCA Collegiate Beach Volleyball Top 10. The Rainbow Wahine (11-6) next will compete in the Outrigger Resorts Aloha Invitational at Queens Beach. The field also includes No. 1 USC, No. 6 Long Beach State, No. 10 Florida international, Grand Canyon, Louisiana-Monroe and Washington. The Women of Troy (23-2) solidified […]