Volleyshots

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.

Latest news

Friday: MPSF results, Hawaii 3, CBU 2

By Cindy Luis on April 8, 2016

Usual links 1420-AM espn1420am.com http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=113613 OCSports Friday result BYU def. USC, 21-15, 21-13, 21-15 Long Beach State def. UC San Diego, 25-18, 25-16, 25-17 Standings heading into Hawaii-Cal Baptist match xy-BYU 18 3 .857 — 22-3 x-Stanford 17 4 .809 1 19-4 x-UCLA 16 5 .762 2 22-5 x-Long Beach St 16 5 .762 2 21-5 x-UC Santa Barbara 13 8 .619 5 15-9 x-Pepperdine 12 9 .571 6 13-9 x-Hawaii 9 11 .450 8 1/2 14-9 UC Irvine 7 […]

UCLA sweeps Stanford, happy 20th to van Tilburg

By Cindy Luis on April 7, 2016

Van Tilburg turns 20 today. There might be cake at practice. If not, he said he’ll bring one tomorrow. UCSB beating Pepperdine 3-2 Wednesday means the Gauchos have the 5th seed and Waves the 6th. Of interest tonight Stanford at UCLA Warriors likely hoping for a win by the Bruins which would go a long way to having the Cardinal finish as the second seed. Think Hawaii would prefer going to Stanford than BYU. Cal Baptist’s playoff hopes hinge in […]

Wahine ’16 schedule released

By Cindy Luis on April 5, 2016

UH released this today, schedule still says tentative. As we know, very subject to change if football needs to move Aug 26 Arizona-Kansas State, Hawaii Wisconsin Aug 27. Wisconsin-Arizona, Hawaii-K State Aug. 28: K State-Wisconsin, Hawaii-Arizona Sept. 1 UCLA Pacific, Hawaii-Missouri State Sept. 2. Missouri St-UCLA, Hawaii UOP Sept. 3. UOP-Missouri State, Hawaii-UCLA Sept 8: Hawaii-Utah Valley Sept. 9 Washington-Utah Valley, Hawaii-No. Illinois Sept. 10 (football Saturday), Utah Valley-No. Illinois, No. Illinois-Washington Sets 11: Hawaii-UW Sept. 16-17: Pepperdine at Hawaii […]

Long-Tucker earn honor, Warriors, SandBows drop in polls

By Cindy Luis on April 4, 2016

The Hawaii beach volleyball team earned its fifth consecutive Pairs Team of the Week on Monday when Ginger Long and Mikayla Tucker were honored by the Big West. The duo went 5-0 in last week’s Outrigger Beach Challenge, a tournament that included both pairs and team competition. Long-Tucker won the Makai Bracket for flights 4-6 in Friday’s pairs event and won both matches in Saturday’s duals where Hawaii swept Arizona State 5-0 and lost to UCLA 3-2. Hawaii has won […]

Bruins upset Waves on beach; Volleyshots on break

By Cindy Luis on March 30, 2016

UCLA upset No. 1 Pepperdine today 3-2, first time the Bruins have ever beaten the Waves. http://www.uclabruins.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=30500&ATCLID=210849130 Also looking like Cal Baptist may pick up a win over UCI tonight other match has CSUN-Stanford tied at 1 on the Farm Quick trip to the mainland. Be back Sunday will try to check in Friday-Saturday for UCSB matches 4 p.m. HST no radio or TV. live stream and game tracker at UCSBGauchos.com

The weekly honors add up

By Cindy Luis on March 29, 2016

Forgot to mention yesterday that besides Zarkovic and Worsley being recognized in men’s volleyball, the SandBows had the top pair from the Big West for a fourth straight week Hannah Rooks and Ka’iwi Schucht earned their first award Spoke to them today for a feature that runs Thursday. Also at the courts today was former player Brittany Tiegs, fresh off playing in Australia where she won a couple of tournaments. She is headed back to Florida later this week and […]

Polls: Beach up to 4, men stay at 8

By Cindy Luis on March 28, 2016

https://www.avca.org/polls/beach.html Top 10 teams the same, just a couple of switches Pepperdine 1. USC and FSU trade spots at 2-3, Hawaii and UCLA traded spots at 4-5, Arizona and The Beach swap at 6-7. 8. Georgia State. 9. Stetson. 10. FIU https://www.avca.org/polls/dii-men/poll-3-28-2016.html not a lot of movement on the men’s side either UCLA moves to 1 with Ohio State 2 basically on 1 point and 1 coach’s not BYU 3, Stanford and The Beach swap at 4-5, Staying the same. […]

No. 8 Hawaii 3, No. 14 UCI 2

By Cindy Luis on March 26, 2016

A win tonight puts UH in the playoffs. TV OCSports Radio: 1500 Gametracker http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=113612 standings prior to UH match MPSF volleyball W L Pct. GB All x-Stanford 15 3 .833 — 17-3 x-UCLA 15 3 .833 — 21-3 x-BYU 15 3 .833 — 19-3 x-Long Beach St 14 4 .778 1 20-5 x-Pepperdine 11 7 .611 4 12-7 x-UC Santa Barbara 10 8 .567 5 15-9 Hawaii 8 9 .470 6 1/2 13-9 CSUN 6 12 .333 9 13-12 UC […]