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

No. 1 Long Beach 3, No. 7 Hawaii 0

By Cindy Luis on February 26, 2016

Expecting some changes to Hawaii’s lineup Likely Worsley to start, as well as Frank for McKellar in the middle. and they may flop the 2 lefts to get a better matchup. We’ll see what happens The usual links for tonight’s match http://www.hawaiiathletics.com/schedule.aspx?tab=volleyball2&path=mvball Spoke to former Warrior Gus Tuaniga. his brother Josh is the Beach’s freshman setter. Tuaniga said he’s in Long Beach and playing a lot of beach.

Thursday checkin: Sebastian Pestolesi honored, beach, etc

By Cindy Luis on February 25, 2016

UH school of nursing is celebrating its 60th. All-American Diane Sebastian Pestolesi has been chosen one of the 60 distinguished alums who will be honored in June. Spoke with Hall today about the 18th indoor exhibition/beach conflict, which is something that happened last year. As mentioned a few threads ago, the indoor players who are the beach team will play indoors. The beach-only players will complete on the 18th. There likely will be a crossover to play both, such as […]

No. 1 Long Beach State 3, Hawaii 1

By Cindy Luis on February 24, 2016

The usual links for tonight Radio 1420-AM TV: OCSports Livestats: http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=113607 Welcome to students from Comm/Jour 390 covering the match

Tickets on sale for spring exhibition vs. Iowa State

By Cindy Luis on February 23, 2016

Coach Wade had surgery last Friday, with nine pins put into his fractured wrist. He said he was tired of telling people about it so he printed out copies of his Xray. In other news, UH announced that tickets are on sale for the spring match. Hawaii, coming off an elite eight appearance in last year’s NCAA women’s volleyball tournament, will host Iowa State in a spring exhibition match at 7 p.m. on March 18 at the Stan Sheriff Center. […]

Warriors drop to No. 7 in AVCA poll

By Cindy Luis on February 22, 2016

Hawaii down 2 spots from No. 5. Long Beach State a unanimous No. 1 BYU stays at 2. Stanford (3) and UCLA (4) trade places at 3-4. the 2 two teams that were behind UH last week move up a place, Ohio State to 5 and Penn State to 6 Rounding out the top 10: UC Santa Barbara, Ball State and Pepperdine. https://www.avca.org/polls/dii-men/poll-2-22-2016.html

MPSF standings as of Sunday

By Cindy Luis on February 21, 2016

Long Beach state 10-2 Stanford 10-2 BYU 8-2 UCLA 9-3 UCSB 7-5 Pepperdine 5-5 Hawaii 5-5 CSUN 5-5 Cal Baptist 3-9 UC Irvine 3-9 CSUN 3-9 UCSD 0-12 previous results CSUN 3, UCI 1 Long Beach 3, UCSD 0 UCSB 3, Pepperdine 2 CSUN 3, UCSD 0 Long Beach 3, UCI 0 BYU 3, Cal Baptist 0 UCLA 3, Pepperdine 0 Stanford 3, UCSB 0 BYU 3, Cal Baptist 0 UCSD 3, Holy Names 0 Stanford 3, UCLA 1

Taylor to national team tryout; USC 3, No. 5 Hawaii 2,

By Cindy Luis on February 16, 2016

Sorry for the delay on posting Taylor info. Was able to tweet and do a breaking news story around 10 a.m. but was locked out of the blog for some reason. Anyway, Taylor leaves Wednesday for USAV open tryouts. One of 230 players from 88 colleges. Shoji received an email from Kiraly in December asking that Taylor consider coming. Tryouts last Friday through Sunday. All sessions streamed live through USA.org Sounds more likely that she’d be looked at for the […]

No. 5 Hawaii 3, USC 2

By Cindy Luis on February 15, 2016

not sure what time live stream supposed to be up http://pac-12.com/live/usc-2 gametracker at http://www.usctrojans.com/gametracker/launch/gt_mvolley.html?event=1466701&school=usc&sport=mvolley&camefrom=&startschool=&