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

SandBows sweep LMU; BYU, Beach upset in MVB

By Cindy Luis on March 19, 2016

Only have scores, no pairings Wahine sweep all five matches vs. LMU Saturday 1. 21-19, 21-15 2. 21-16, 21-15 3. 21-8, 21-9 4. 21-11, 21-4 5. 21-9, 21-17 Hawaii plays Nebraska at 4 p.m. Sunday at Ching. Saturday Pepperdine upsets host BYU, 23-25, 33-31, 25-23, 25-22 CSUN upsets The Beach, 25-19, 18-25, 25-27, 25-19, 15-13 quirk of the schedule had the two playing back to back nights the 49ers won at home in 3 Friday. Saturday was at CSUN

Exhibition: UH 3, Iowa State 1; beach update

By Cindy Luis on March 18, 2016

No radio or TV tonight livestats at http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=129150 Warrior libero Kolby Kanetake is the volunteer assistant tonight. Part of his student internship. UH very thin in the SID department with two departures and two others on the road with the two basketball teams. and one over at baseball Which means no one at Queen’s today nor here tonight for the exhibition. No info from Friday’s pairs tournament other than USC swept the three brackets and UH had no pair in […]

Wednesday checkin

By Cindy Luis on March 16, 2016

Another early morning practice. Arena being used for HPD dog training, think bomb squad. Mitchem is looking very good in practice, especially on the slides. Friday you’ll likely see both setters and Koelsch may play OH when they move Taylor from Opp to left side for a set. Iowa State continues to enjoy its touristy things. They thought about doing Makapu’u lighthouse trail but told the coach it would be a couple hours up and back. Think they were opting […]

SandBows fall 4-1 to SC

By Cindy Luis on March 15, 2016

No. 3 USC def. No. 5 Hawaii, 4-1 1. Kelly Claes-Sara Hughes (USC) def. Katie Spieler-Emily Maglio (UH), 21-16, 21-9. 2. Sophie Bukovec- Alexa Strange (USC) def. Nikki Taylor-Lara Schreiber (UH), 21-16, 21-10. 3. Nicolette Martin-Allie Wheeler (USC) def. Ginger Long-Mikayla Tucker (UH) 19-21, 21-17, 15-11. 4. Hannah Rooks-Ka’iwi Schucht (UH) def. Jenna Belton-Katrina Kemochan, 21-15, 21-19 5. Jo Kremer-Zoe Nightingale (USC) def. Tai Manu-Olevao-Ari Homeyun (UH), 21-17, 21-19). Exhibition 6. Hi’ilawe Huddleston-Hannah Zalopany (UH) def. Terese Cannon-Becca Dunn (USC), […]

Warriors drop to 9, SandBows stay at 5 in polls

By Cindy Luis on March 14, 2016

Despite winning both its matches last week, the Hawaii men’s volleyball team dropped a spot in today’s AVCA Division I-II Top 15 poll. Hawaii (12-9, 7-9 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) traded places with Pepperdine (10-6, 9-6). The Warriors fell to No. 9 and the Waves moved to No. 8 after their upset Saturday at then-No. 3 Stanford. BYU (16-2, 12-2 MPSF) replaced Long Beach State at No. 1, receiving 17 of the 20 first-place votes. The 49ers (18-3, 12-2 MPSF), […]

Wahine open spring practice, beach goes 2-0

By Cindy Luis on March 14, 2016

Team in gym 1 for early practice before class Greeley will be out for Friday match after surgery But she is here in charge of the click Men are off but Kanetake here helping with ball carts Seems to be moving ok Said he’s feeling better. Sounds like he’ll get a cortisone shot tomorrow For those who missed Saturday’s results … UH doesn’t have an SID at the moment for beach. the results they posted are from Hall, without the […]

No. 8 Hawaii 3, No. 11 CSUN 0; Congrats to Wahine, Warriors

By Cindy Luis on March 12, 2016

Wahine win Big West basketball title, headed to the NCAAs for first time since 1998. They’ll learn where they are headed Monday Same links as Friday No radio or tv Live stream has audio of gym announcer http://gomatadors.com/sports/2016/1/4/MVB_STREAM.aspx Live stats http://www.sidearmstats.com/csun/mvball/

No. 8 Hawaii 3, No. 11 CSUN 1

By Cindy Luis on March 11, 2016

No radio or TV this week. Live stream http://gomatadors.com/sports/2016/1/4/MVB_STREAM.aspx live stats at http://www.sidearmstats.com/csun/mvball/