Volleyshots

For those who missed the previous thread Burns injured her right hand during practice yesterday going up on a routine block during afternoon practice. Appears to be the base of her right ring finger but you never know how far down the hand it could be. Don’t want to speculate. She is seeing a specialist this afternoon, is doing some workouts in the training room that don’t involve her hand. We’ll know more this afternoon. Team picture is prior to […]

Quite the crowd at this morning’s practice from the TV stations who all wanted to interview Mitchem. She was very poised. Practice was a little later this morning and it will be a little earlier this afternoon since team will be headed out for their service project. Not sure exactly where but it has to do with feeding the less fortunate. They were going to take the afternoon off but added this practice, probably to get Mitchem more reps. for […]

She was in the arena checking in and then had a physical. There was also NCAA stuff to do. She may not practice until tomorrow. Will know more when I get back to the arena.

watched the end of it this morning. Bourne-Hyden lost to Dalhausser-Lucena 21-19, 21-17. Dalhausser quite the player. finished with 19 blocks for the tournament. The Crabb brothers lost to Dalhausser-Lucena in the semis, 21-14, 21-14. Good finish for a team seeded 13th. With no summer school on Monday, Wahine going a little later in the morning, 8 a.m. instead of 630. then 3-630 afternoon. Mitchem supposed to be finishing paperwork in the morning then at practice in the afternoon. Not […]

Wahine had one practice Saturday morning Off until Monday morning Team had drills with the trainers then went pretty quickly into scrimmaging. Shoji feels they are farther along at this point of camp than last year with so many returnees. Freshmen fitting right in. Liking how Huff is moving, has some real pop on the ball. Mitchem supposed to be coming in tonight. She’s got some upper campus stuff to do Monday morning so first practice likely Monday afternoon. As […]

Team has the morning off. Working on our preview that comes out the 26th In the meantime, someone asked for more pictures. Not really part of my job but here’s a couple that are sort of WahVB related Amber Kaufman, who has been playing in Finland, finally got her NCAA championship ring from 2010 high jump. photo from Kaufman. Norene Iosia, a 2016 (corrected) commit, will be playing in the Ann Kang with Redondo Union. She also is a pretty […]

Short video from Wednesday with Magill and Burns Last day of 2 practices for this week. They’re going only afternoon Friday and only morning on Saturday. Mitchem scheduled to arrive Saturday afternoon and, if paper work has gone through, she’ll be cleared to practice Monday. Magill missed the afternoon session. Wasn’t feeling well. Freshmen seem to be integrating well and during mini scrimmages are active participants in the offense and defense. Still some glitches as they learn serve-receive patterns and […]

Dropping by Wednesday’s second session was quite the coaching circle for Shoji. His coach at UCSB Dennis Berg is in from Santa Barbara, mostly for a couple of funerals. He is the father of Lindsey and Erin Berg. Shoji’s assistant from the early 80s also here for a few weeks. Charlie Brande, former OCC and UCI coach. Didn’t realize that he was Jeff Hall’s coach at Orange Coast. And former Punahou coach Peter Balding was there. Shoji coached Balding on […]