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.

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Hawaii vs. Minnesota links

By Cindy Luis on December 12, 2015

My favorite picture from last night courtesy of DMR photog Michael Zamora. and another one of Manu-Olevao Live NCAA scoreboard at http://www.ncaa.com/scoreboard/volleyball-women/d1 Seeding in parenthesis Washington (5) vs. Nebraska (4), tied 1-1 Hawaii vs. Minnesota (2), 1:30 p.m. HST Florida (11) at Texas (3), 4 p.m. HST Kansas (9) vs. USC (1), 6:30 p.m. HST Match at 1:30 p.m. HST 1420-AM goes at 1:20 HST available also online at espn1420am.com Live stats at http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=113064 As for TV Warning. There is […]

the morning after (in Des Moines)

By Cindy Luis on December 11, 2015

last thread getting way too long to follow. You can continue the conversation here Friday scores Des Moines Hawaii def. Penn State 25-22, 27-25, 25-16 Minnesota def. Illinois, 25-22, 25-23, 25-17 San Diego USC def. Creighton, 25-27, 25-16, 25-16, 25-18 Kansas def. LMU, 25-19, 25-11, 21-25, 25-13 Austin Texas def. UCLA, 23-25, 25-22, 25-10, 25-20 Florida def. Wisconsin, 25-17, 25-23, 19-25, 22-25, 15-12 Lexington Washington def. Ohio State, 23-25, 25-20, 25-18, 12-25, 15-8 Nebraska def. BYU, 26-24, 25-17, 25-23

Hawaii 3, Penn State 0, Minnesota next

By Cindy Luis on December 11, 2015

First serve at 335 HST Radio 1420-am espn1420am.com live scores from around the tournament http://www.ncaa.com/scoreboard/volleyball-women/d1 Hawaii the only team with a band. Just played Hawaii 5-0. Crowd enjoyed it. ESPN3 link. Won’t go online until 430 http://espn.go.com/watchespn/index/_/id/2691490/hawaii-vs-7-penn-state-regional-semifinal-2–w-volleyball#type/livenow/ Live stats http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=113062

Minnesota 3, Illinois 0; other NCAA scores

By Cindy Luis on December 11, 2015

http://www.ncaa.com/scoreboard/volleyball-women/d1 Link to NCAA scoreboard above At Des Moines, Minnesota up over Illinois, 25-22, 11-8 Hawaii vs. Penn State At Austin Florida up over Wisconsin, 25-17, 25-23 UCLA at Texas At Lexington Nebraska def.BYU, 26-24, 25-17, 25-23 At San Diego Loyola Marymount vs. Kansas Creighton vs. USC

Friday check in: Game Day

By Cindy Luis on December 11, 2015

photo courtesy of UH media relations SID Kara Nishimura doing an outstanding job. If you missed the previous threads, Olivia Magill doing a blog for the trip: OMG Report http://www.hawaiiathletics.com/news/2015/12/8/WVB_1208151042.aspx?path=wvball this will take you to social media page including the press conferences from Thursday

Thursday checkin

By Cindy Luis on December 10, 2015

As mentioned on previous thread, didn’t get back on after practiced. Wrote and crashed. Press conferences for each team and open practices later today. UH practices at 445-616 if anyone in the area. Practices are open to the public. Think first practice is at Noon (minnesota). Link for UH-Penn State on ESPN http://espn.go.com/watchespn/index/_/id/2691490/hawaii-vs-7-penn-state-regional-semifinal-2–w-volleyball ESPN3 peeps will be Cara Capuano and Maria Taylor. Couple of links from previous thread you might find of interest. Thanks to all who provided them. Penn […]

Finally in Des Moines, Warriors at No. 7 in preseason poll

By Cindy Luis on December 9, 2015

Downright balmy 35 when landing, up to 44. Team got in yesterday, oddly routed through atlanta. They are at study hall then lunch. They have practice later this afternoon at Drake. The really random thing was pulling over to check directions to hotel and having a guy tap on the window. It was Shoji out for jog. Will be back later. Will try to shoot stuff from practice.

Passi All-America HM, new E. Shoji award, Mitchem not at regional

By Cindy Luis on December 8, 2015

Annie Mitchem will not be with the team this week. She flew back for this week’s final week of classes. She was not cleared to play and was limited in practice. She may return to team should they make the final four. From Off the Block Tuesday Off the Block announcedthat it will present in 2016 the inaugural Erik Shoji Award, which will be awarded to the best libero in NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball during the regular season. The […]