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.
http://www.avca.org/divisions/division-one-women/poll-12-21-2015/ Best finish since 2011 when Wahine were No. 5. 1. Nebraska (63 votes). 2. texas. 3. Minnesota. 4. Kansas. 5. USC (1 vote) 6. Washington. 7. Hawaii. 8. Florida. 9. Penn State. 10. Wisconsin. As for the RPI: http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/weeklyrpi/2015WVBrpi1.html
2:30 pm. HAT ESPN2 Ch. 224 Gametracker at http://www.ncaa.com/game/volleyball-women/d1/2015/12/19/nebraska-texas
In case you missed Thursday scores Rank is AVCA poll, seed in parenthesis 3) Texas (3) def. 4) Minnesota (2), 26-24, 27-25, 23-25, 25-21 5) Nebraska (4) def. 9) Kansas (9) 25-20, 25-21, 20-25, 25-16 National POY announced later today I’m thinking Nebraska’s Rolfzen the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award went to UW’s Cassie Strickland
On ESPN2 Oceanic 224 Seeds in parenthesis Minnesota (2) vs. Texas (3), 2 p.m. HST Nebraska (4) vs. Kansas (9), probably around 4:30 p.m. HST www.ncaa.com/game/volleyball-women/d1/2015/12/17/texas-minnesota link for online stuffs, such as game tracker above link for UT-UM below link for N-KU below www.ncaa.com/game/volleyball-women/d1/2015/12/17/kansas-nebraska
Congrats to Nikki Taylor and Olivia Magill. www.avca.org/awards/all-america/division-one/ Taylor was named to the second team and Magill the third this morning. I know, it is disappointing. Thought they’d both be higher considering their national stats and the Wahine record. Taylor, the Big West player of the year, ranked in the top 50 nationally this season in five categories (points average, kill average, ace average, total points and total aces). The Kaiser High product finished the year with team highs of […]
From UH: Individual match tickets for the 2016 University of Hawai‘i men’s volleyball season on sale Monday. Tickets can be purchased online at HawaiiAthletics.com, at the Stan Sheriff Center Box Office (Monday-Friday, 9 am-5 pm), or by calling 944-2697. UH-Manoa students who pay the athletics fee receive admission with validated ID. Prior to officially opening the 2016 season with the Outrigger Resorts Invitational, UH will play an exhibition match against Team SportConX, Monday, Jan. 4. Tickets for that match are […]
We all were up early. Wahine had a 530 a.m. flight i think through Houston. didn’t ask if everyone was going back to Honolulu. Will have depended on whether they had finals left this week or still had to check out of the dorm. I suggest you check out the final OMG blog, very sweet words. They will miss her and Manu-Olevao.You can also access links to the press conferences. http://www.hawaiiathletics.com/news/2015/12/8/WVB_1208151042.aspx?path=wvball My flight was at 605 via Denver and LAX. […]
if you need links, see previous thread.