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.
Congrats to the SandBows, going 5-0 on trip, including today’s 4-1 win over No. 2 FSU and 4-1 over No. 10 FIU. Loss vs. the ‘Noles came at No. 1 where Schreiber and Taylor lost in 3. it was FSU’s first team loss of the season. Against FIU, No. 1 and 2 flights switched, Maglio-Speiler to 1 and Schreiber-Taylor to 2. Both won in 3 loss was at No. 5 with Taylor and Long
TV on OCSports Radio has moved to 1500 Live stats at: http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=113611 Nice to see Mark Presho, still a UCI assistant.
No. 5 Hawaii def. No. 9 Stetson 4-1 1. Sara Putt/Vendy Strakova (STET) def. Lara Schreiber/Nikki Taylor (UH) 23-21, 21-15 2. Katie Spieler/Emily Maglio (UH) def. Kristin Lind/Rachel Noble (STET) 21-14, 21-15 3. Hannah Rooks/Ka’iwi Schucht (UH) def. Emily Carroll/Kaylee Anderson (STET) 21-18, 16-21, 15-11 4. Hannah Zalopany/Ari Homayun (UH) def. Madison Akins/Lauren Durham (STET) 21-11, 21-16 5. Ginger Long/Mikayla Tucker (UH) def. Jamie Walsh/Alexa Richardson (STET) 21-9, 21-18 Ext. Hi’ilawe Huddleston/Gianna Guinasso (UH) def. Samantha Harris/Tiffany Creamer (STET) 22-24, […]
Hartong had 15 points to help lead Hyundai Engineering & Construction to the championship over IBK Altos in the South Korean League earlier this week. First title for Hyundai and it was over defending champion IBK Altos. I would be remiss if I didn’t say how much I enjoyed watching Ah Mow-Santso grow from a quiet high school player and fairly quiet in college to the player and coach she has become. We spent a lot of time together on […]
Story in Wednesday’s paper Husband has been re-assigned so the family is moving to Vegas for his new post. Ah Mow-Santos said it was a happy sad day at today’s exhibition, her last official day as a coach in the arena. sad because she’s leaving everyone who is so important to her, happy for the new adventure. It’s been hard for her to juggle job, the two kids and taking care of her father while husband has been deployed. So […]
Hawaii had a closed scrimmage this morning against Nittaidai. Castillo was on the left, Burns and Mitchem middle, Magill was used as an OH since Taylor with the beach team. Granato the other OH. Ponce as the DS, Kahakai at Libero. Higgins the setter. no Koelsch. Wahine got some good experience against the always energetic Japanese team. They are very quick and Wahine block had to work to track the hitters. Former Wahine Jade Vorster has been visiting. Forgot to […]
Today’s breaking news story An idle Hawaii did not idle in the national poll. The Rainbow Warriors come off a bye week by moving up one spot in today’s AVCA Division I-II Men’s Volleyball Top 15. Hawaii returned to No. 8, a spot it held two weeks ago. The Warriors (12-9, 7-9 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) return to the Stan Sheriff Center court when hosting No. 14 UC Irvine (7-14, 5-11 MPSF) in matches Friday and Saturday. For the first […]
Matches start at 4 p.m. TV coverage at 7 for No. 2 At 8 p.m. at No. 1. apologize, having issues posting As some of you also are with the weirdness due to the video addition in between the original post and the comment section someone asked about Beach scholarships. They give 6, no full, just partials for sand-only players As for Saturday, Closing out the Hawai’i Invitational on Saturday at Queen’s Beach, the No. 5 University of Hawaii Rainbow […]