Wednesday checkin, Top 25
By Cindy Luis on November 4, 2015Team leaves later today. Will check back later after they get on the bus
Expanded coverage of all things volleyball, including notes, observations and analysis on the Rainbow Wahine, Rainbow Warriors, SandBows and Team USA.
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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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Tuesday checkin
By Cindy Luis on November 3, 2015Usual Tuesday morning workout after having Monday off and doing just lifting. with travel Wednesday, they have switch to another early morning practice on Wednesday. leaving Wednesday afternoon, should get into LA before 10 p.m.
Hawaii drops to 32 in RPI, stays at 6 in poll
By Cindy Luis on November 2, 2015RPI link http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/weeklyrpi/2015WVBrpi1.html Poll link http://www.avca.org/divisions/division-one-women/poll-11-2-2015/
Hawaii 3, Fullerton 0; radio joining in progress, TMO singing
By Cindy Luis on November 1, 2015Usual links available through hawaiiathletics.com Volleyball will be joined in progress after the World Series game on 1420-AM Some pregame observations Mitchem isn’t participating other than to throw out balls during warmups. Isn’t wearing a protective wrap as she has been. Higgins has her wright hand taped, not sure what that’s about. For those missing the Top 25 scores from previous three 1. USC def. Washington State, 20-25, 25-19, 25-19, 19-25, 15-13 4. Minnesota def. 17. Purdue 25-20, 25-21, 21-25, […]
Senior night is white out night, Top 25
By Cindy Luis on November 1, 2015Couple of reminders Sunday’s match is at 5 p.m. It is also white out night so wear white if you have side note: please use a legitimate email address when posting we are in the process of upgrading our security and got a note about an address on the previous thread that was associated with a phishing site.
Top 25 scores Saturday
By Cindy Luis on October 31, 2015Early as of 5 p.m. HST 9) Nebraska def. Maryland 25-9, 25-11, 25-12 10) Kansas def. Baylor 25-15, 25-9, 25-16 18) Colorado State def. Nevada, 25-18, 25-14, 25-19 21) Illinois def. 25) Michigan 25-22, 25-22, 25-20 22) Western Kentucky lost to Rice 23-25, 21-25, 25-22, 25-23, 14-16 Saturday’s Big West schedule Long Beach State at UC Davis CSUN at UC Irvine
Hawaii 3, UC Riverside 1
By Cindy Luis on October 30, 2015Higgins starting as are Magill, Manu-Olevao, Greeley, Taylor, Kahakai, Maglio usual links through Hawaiiathleteics.com
Friday Top 25, SC swept by UW
By Cindy Luis on October 30, 2015Will check in after getting to arena So far Friday No. 2 Texas def. Texas Tech, 25-19, 25-18, 25-19 No. 3 Penn State def. No. 11 Ohio State, 25-15, 25-16, 19-25, 25-15 No. 9 Nebraska def. Rutgers, 25-11, 25-17, 25-14 TNo. 12 Florida def. South Carolina, 25-22, 25-14, 25-21 TNo. 12 Wisconsin def. No. 17 Purdue, 25-18, 19-25, 25-20, 25-22 No. 16. BYU def. No. 24 San Diego, 25-23, 25-19, 25-20 Texas A&M def. No. 20 Kentucky, 30-28, 14-25, 25-23, […]