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

Congrats to all-region picks Taylor, Magill

By Cindy Luis on December 8, 2015

appreciate all the help in trying to find the link this morning. To answer from previous thread, in California, leave for Iowa tonight through LAX, LAS, DFW then DES http://www.avca.org/awards/regional-awards/division-one/ COY to UW’s first-year Kegan Cook

Monday checkin

By Cindy Luis on December 7, 2015

appreciate all the help with links and analysis on previous tread. And the very entertaining ready. Long travel day yesterday plus a story. plus booking for Des Moines. So apologize for not getting to this sooner. As mentioned, Team in College Station today. They were looking for light workout in the morning (trainer Tony Cox has them on regular schedule) then light practice this afternoon before heading up to Des Moines Tuesday. they were thinking of asking TAMU to use […]

Saturday NCAA scores and regional brackets

By Cindy Luis on December 5, 2015

Des Moines 7. Penn State vs. Hawaii (unseeded) 2. Minnesota vs. Illinois (unseeded) Austin 3 Texas vs. 14 UCLA 6 Wisconsin vs. 11 Florida San Diego regional 1. USC vs. 16 Creighton 9 Kansas vs. LMU (unseeded) Lexington 4. Nebraska vs. 13 BYU 5. Washington vs. 12 Ohio State Saturday scores 1 Washington def. Michigan State, 25-17, 20-25, 25-21, 25-13 4) Minnesota def. Marquette 25-23, 25-13, 25-21 5) Nebraska def. 35 Wichita State 25-19, 25-19, 25-14 7) Hawaii def. 15. […]

Hawaii 3, Texas A&M 0

By Cindy Luis on December 5, 2015

Links Radio espn1420am.com Video http://espn.go.com/watchespn/index/_/id/2714535/ncaa-womens-volleyball-tournament Live stats http://www.cstv.com/gametracker/launch/gt_wvolley.html?event=1478422&school=fo&sport=wvolley&camefrom=&startschool=& about 15 minutes before first serve Couple of UH connections have made the trek Former Wahine Jen Roberts McGuire (1996-99) down from Waco where her husband Ryan (former Cal Baptist coach) in his first year. About a 90 minute drive Dave Smith, UH baseball during the Tatsuno era, drove from Louisiana, about 5 hours. ESPN will be using the Punahou School yearbook photo which has the Buffanblu basketball team coached by Chris […]

Friday NCAA scores

By Cindy Luis on December 4, 2015

1. Washington def. Denver, 25=12, 25-14, 25-12 2. USC def. San Diego, 25-20, 25-23, 25-13 3) Texas def. 1 7 Purdue 25-14, 14-25, 25-19, 27-25 4) Minnesota def. Jackson State 25-9, 25-13, 25-17 5) Nebraska def. Harvard 22-25, 25-15, 25-17, 25-19 Loyola Marymount def. Stanford, 28-26, 25-16, 25-23 7) Hawaii def. TCU 17-25, 25-23, 24-26, 25-21, 15-13 8) Penn State def. Howard 25-16, 25-8, 25-17 9) Kansas def. 25 Missouri 25-16, 25-13, 27-25 10) Wisconsin def. Iowa State 25-18, 25-15, […]

Hawaii 3, TCU 2

By Cindy Luis on December 4, 2015

Match at 12:30 p.m. HST ESPN3.com http://espn.go.com/watchespn/index#sport/volleyball/ Radio: 1420-AM espn1420am.com Broadcast being picked up on the Big Island in Kona and Hilo Not seeing a lot of purple under 75. Hawaii fans about 50. Mitchem’s dad, Taylor’s parents and brother. Booster club president, couple of other H shirts. Very sad because there would have been at least 8,000 at the SSC. good warmup music tho.

Happy birthday to coach Shoji

By Cindy Luis on December 4, 2015

Coach gets to celebrate 69th birthday on the road in College Station. in case you missed Thursday’s first-round scores 2) USC def. Cleveland State 25-16, 25-27, 25-14, 25-15 3) Texas def. Fairfield 25-18, 25-18, 25-17 6) Stanford def. New Mexico State 25-20, 25-13, 25-17 9) Kansas def. Furman 25-14, 25-21, 25-17 10) Wisconsin def. Oregon 25-18, 21-25, 25-21, 25-19 13) Colorado State lost to 34 Loyola Marymount 20-25, 25-16, 19-25, 15-25 16) Florida def. New Hampshire 25-15, 25-9, 25-15 17) […]

Thursday NCAA first-round scores

By Cindy Luis on December 3, 2015

http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/volleyball-women/d1 link to interactive bracket above at USC San Diego 3, Northern Arizona 0 USC up 2-1 , big lead in 4th At Texas Texas 3, Fairfield 0 Purdue 3, SMU ! AT Flordia Florida 3, New Hampshire 1 Florida State 3, Arizona State 0 At Wiscon Iowa State 3, Miami 0 Wisconsin def. Oregon 3-1 AT Kansas Kansas 3, Furman 0 Missouri 3, Missouri State 1 At Stanford Loyola Marymount 3, Colorado State 1 Stanford 3, New Mexico State […]