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

Warriors stay at No. 5

By Cindy Luis on February 1, 2016

Not a lot of movement in the top 15 Top seven remains the same: UCLA, Long Beach State, BYU, Loyola-Chicago, Hawaii, Stanford, Ohio State http://www.avca.org/divisions/men/1-2-poll-2-1-16/

No. 5 Hawaii 3, UCSD 0

By Cindy Luis on January 31, 2016

Welcome to 390C students at the arena for class assignment. Reminder No TV today Radio 1420-AM espn1420am.com Live stats through hawaiiathleticds.com not sure what happened at SC but that is the right score for Set 4 Stanford def. USC, 25-20, 19-25, 25-19, 25-8

No. 5 Hawaii 3, UCSD 0

By Cindy Luis on January 29, 2016

For those interested in men’s basketball tickets for Saturday, as of 545: 1600 left per UH The usual links for Friday OCSports Ch. 16 1420-AM espn1420am.com livestats at http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=113603 Friday’s other matches CSUN at UCLA BYU at UC Irvine Long Beach State at UC Santa Barbara Stanford at Cal Baptist

Wednesday checkin, Pac-12 all-century team

By Cindy Luis on January 27, 2016

Finding the Pac-12’s all-century team ironic in that Volleyball hasn’t been played for 100 years in the conference and the players selected played in two different centuries. And the Pac-8/10/12 has never sponsored the sport. But I digress http://pac-12.com/article/2016/01/26/pac-12-all-century-mens-volleyball-team-announced Kiraly named POC, Scates COC Hawaii prep products name Stein Metzger Erik Shoji Mike Lambert BeachBows or SandBows (which team apparently prefers) did a service day at Papahana Kuaola to plant taro. https://www.facebook.com/UHBeachVolleyball/?hc_location=ufi Sounds like men’s volleyball benefit raised about $70,000 […]

Warriors back to No. 5 in poll

By Cindy Luis on January 25, 2016

Hawaii (6-1) went from No. 6 to No. 5, where the Warriors were two weeks ago. The top three remained the same with UCLA (7-0) a unanimous No. 1 choice followed by Long Beach State (6-1) and BYU (4-2). http://www.avca.org/divisions/men/1-2-poll-1-25-16/

Saturday checkin

By Cindy Luis on January 23, 2016

Warriors have the weekend off. next face UC San Diego Friday and Sunday, No. 1 UCLA in two weeks. from previous thread courtesy of nobelsol (thank you) UCSD is considering going from DII to DI in all sports, and thinks its profile may fit in the Big West: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/jan/19/ucsd-division-one-change/ Think the Tritons would be a good fit for the Big West and much easier travel for Hawaii and other schools say thank adding Cal State Bakersfield. You would hope that, […]

Hawaii 3, Grand Canyon 1

By Cindy Luis on January 22, 2016

Reminder no TV tonight Radio at 1420-AM, espn1420am.com livestats at http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=113602

Hawaii 3, GCU 0

By Cindy Luis on January 21, 2016

http://www.hawaiiathletics.com/schedule.aspx?path=mvball& all links available through above URL, including game tracker TV: Oc16 Radio: 1420-AM espn1420am.com It’s Kupono Fey’s 21st birthday today