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

Friday checkin: Practice video, beach signings

By Cindy Luis on November 13, 2015

practice if you click on ‘practice’ link, you should get a short clip from practice. I’m not great at this. As for beach signings, this is the official release from UH. More info than I could get into my story in today’s paper Hawaii beach volleyball coach Jeff Hall announced the signing of six players to national letters of intent. Cyrene Hertzog, Sydney Kidd, Julia Chizanskos, Amy Ozee, Morgan Martin and Chloe Luyties will all join the Rainbow Wahine for […]

Thursday checkin, posting problems

By Cindy Luis on November 12, 2015

Team only has lifting session today, they will practice Friday morning, fly out Friday afternoon Hall was expecting to have all of his NLIs in by today so should have a story for Friday’s paper and an update later today. He was waiting on 2 as of last night. Someone had mentioned Emma Smith, 5-8 libero from Mira Costa. She is considered an invited walk-on and is expected to be indoor and beach. So nothing official from UH and coaches […]

Wednesday updated: Iosia, Sibley sign

By Cindy Luis on November 11, 2015

Long practice this morning 6:30-9:30 a.m. then rest of the holiday off. Sounded like a beach day. The reminder was to wear sun screen. Not sure if UH will get its NLIs cleared through compliance. I know that Iosia and Sibley have signed theirs, Sibley’s dad said it’s been faxed. Those are the two commits for indoor. Emma Smith is a walk-on and is supposed to be playing both beach and indoor. From the previous thread, courtesy of Maverick, who […]

tuesday checkin

By Cindy Luis on November 10, 2015

Not sure when they’ll receive the paper work but sometime this week UH should sign Norene Iosia (5’11” Setter) Redondo Union Kirsten Sibley (6’2″ Outside) Campolindo HS walk-on is Emma Smith (5’8″ Libero) Mira Costa HS Also, one of the boosters who says he has too much time on his hands sent this in first number is conference matches home average, second is what they drew against Hawaii ( * Hawaii attendance figures for Cal Poly, Davis, Irvine and UCSB […]

No. 6 Hawaii 3, CSUN 0, 17th straight win

By Cindy Luis on November 7, 2015

Links for Saturday match through gomatadors.com Radio is on 1500-AM because football is on 1420 nbcsportsradiohawaii.com Livestats at http://www.sidearmstats.com/csun/wvball/ Live stream through the Big West at bigwest.tv Men’s volleyball season tickets on sale Monday From UH: Season tickets for men’s volleyball season go on sale Monday. Packages for the 17-match home schedule includes the 22nd annual Outrigger Resorts Invitational as well as non conference vs. Grand Canyon six Mountain Pacific Sports Federation series with UCLA, BYU, UC Irvine, UC San […]

No. 6 Hawaii 3, The Beach 1

By Cindy Luis on November 6, 2015

5 p.m. HST start links available through hawaiiathletics.com http://www.hawaiiathletics.com/schedule.aspx?tab=volleyball2&path=wvball or longbeachstate.com ESPN3.com 1420-AM espn1420am.com

Thursday Top 25 scores

By Cindy Luis on November 5, 2015

1) Penn State def. Maryland 21-25, 25-17, 25-12, 25-22 5) Texas def. West Virginia 25-14, 25-21, 25-9 15) Colorado State def. Air Force 24-26, 25-19, 25-20, 25-21 21) Kentucky def. Georgia 25-19, 25-17, 25-15