Volleyshots

Radio on at 350 p.m. HST espn1420am.com http://pac-12.com/live/ucla if you want to follow the other matches UCI at BYU http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=130795 UCSB at Stanford http://www.gostanford.com/liveStats/v2/volleyball/index.dbml?GAME_STAT_ID=2709166&db_oem_id=30600 Pepperdine at The Beach http://www.longbeachstate.com/gametracker/launch/gt_mvolley.html?event=1493204&school=lbst&sport=mvolley&camefrom=&startschool=&

Warriors having a spirited practice in Pauley Friday evening. They had a short film session then took the court. Former UH setter Cayley Thurlby, who has several positions the UCLA athletic office, stayed to help the Warriors get settled in, taking them from film to the pavilion. She is doing well, one year away from getting a pension through UC. Also ran into Mike Sealy and had a nice chat with Micah Ma’a. The UCLA student manager is from Kauai, […]

Siki Zarkovic named first team, Kanetake second, van Tilburg honorable mention as well as all-freshmen team Stanford’s Shaw POY and the Beach’s DeFalco FOY. http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/mpsf/sports/m-volley/auto_pdf/2015-16/misc_non_event/mvb-all-mpsf.pdf to recap the ‘rumor’ about IVC coach Tom Pestolesi joining the UH staff. Since it’s out there. He has always said he’d like to come out for a season before Shoji retires. It should happen this fall. But a lot has to happen before it does. My understanding is he would take a sabbatical from […]

Spoke with Nikki Taylor today. Said she’ll be going up to the OTC in June to work out and try out for the Pan Am team. USAV had told me last month that all the teams hadn’t been announced. Pan Am is one of those. Brooke Sedore is in town for a few days, said he had to get into the gym and be back with ‘the boys.’said he’ll go back home, run some camps and then hopefully get an […]

Nice chat with Howling yesterday, had a short in today’s paper. She’s very excited about playing for Hawaii. Think she’ll be a good fit Asked her about her height. HS has her at 6-2, someone said she was 6-3. She said somewhere in between Greeley was her host and said she enjoyed showing her around. Very similar hair. Someone asked about Manu-Olevao and Beach on previous thread. She left the team, think around the Haili tournament which was around Easter. […]

Hope everyone had a good Sunday As for today’s polls, Hawaii heads into the postseason with a new ranking, moving up a spot to No. 8 in Monday’s AVCA Coaches Men’s Volleyball Top 15. The Rainbow Warriors (16-11, 11-11), seeded seventh in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation tournament, are at second-seeded UCLA on Saturday. The Bruins (23-5, 17-5) moved up a spot to No. 3 in the poll. Top-seeded Brigham Young (23-3, 19-3) remained at No. 1, receiving 13 of […]

Hawaii, seeded seventh, heads to UCLA, seeded 2, on Saturday normal links OCSports 1420-AM espn1420am.com Gametracker at http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=113614

BYU sweeps USC UCSB leading Stanford 2-1 Long Beach State leading UCI 2-1 UCLA leads Pepperdine 2-1 A bunch of scenarios, Long Beach has the tiebreaker on Stanford UCLA holds the tiebreaker on Long Beach but Stanford has the tiebreaker on UCLA We’ll see how it plays out Learned late last night of Sophia Howling (Venice, Calif., High/Actyve VBC) committing for 2017. 6-2/6-3 MB was on the AVCA Haven’t been able to chat with her yet Was on the AVCA […]