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The Rainbow Wahine seemed to be re-energized after a good night’s sleep, no bus ride and, for some, some time in the pool and sauna. The sauna’s here are very eye-opening to say the least. Coed and you can wear a towel but no other apparel, including bathing suits. Hawaii played well in winning 25-21, 25-15, 25-18, 22-25. In Set 4, Huff played OH and Anderson came in as libero. Adolpho and Long played for Slovenia. Team was down to […]

Team had a great time with the dinner at the Doppler winery restaurant. Beautiful place but unfortunately we didn’t get to enjoy the 360 view because of the rain and darkness. As mentioned previously, think the players enjoyed dressing up for dinner. Rain is preventing them from doing the ropes course and the alpine slide, both which are closed due to the weather. It’s a bit chilly, in the upper 40s and 50s. supposed to clear up tomorrow. Been pretty […]

Hawaii defeats the Maribor club team Nova KBM Branik 25-17, 25-21, 25-23, 25-18, 15-11. They had an impressive comeback in Set 3, got down 9-1, tied it at 17 and it was tied all the way through 22. Tough serving by Magill made it 24-22 and Taylor put down the kill to end it 25-23. Now the reality. Maribor team was missing 5 players who are with the Slovenian senior national team and will play France in France Saturday. The […]

Tweeted around 930 p.m. HST last night that Koelsch was out for the tour. that was 930 a.m. in Venice. Didn’t have access to update this. on a bus to Venice proper Spent the day in Venice from about 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Rode water taxis both ways on the Grand Canal Very cool. then 3-plus hour ride to Maribor. got in around 8:30 p.m., walked down to the Maribor training center for dinner. It’s almost midnight and finally […]

Long day for Hawaii. Drove from Milan to Verona for lunch and short stay, then to Venice to check into the hotel, then across the border to Gorica, played, dinner, then back to Venice. We left Milan at 10 a.m., got back to the hotel after 11 p.m. Some heavy rains during the drives with thunderstorms. Supposed to clear up today (Thursday). On Koelsch, she slid into the ref’s stanchion on the first play of Set 4, her first action […]

Not much time to write. Just got in from Verona had a short rainy visit. very cool buildings. and got to the hotel in Venice. Heading out for 2 1/2 hour drive up north near the Slovenian border for match against the Slovenian national team. Maja Gustin will be coming over with one of her young daughters. Ciao for now. will have match updates via twitter @CindyLuis_SA #WahineEuro

Hawaii had its moments but lost 25-18, 25-17, 25-17, 25-20. They decided to play a minimum of four sets. When the Wahine could pass, they could run their offense. Think people will be pleased by Maglio’s development. There weren’t a lot of hitting errors on either side. No official stats kept, as mentioned on previous thread, scoreboard was the manual flip kind. Italy didn’t wear numbers on their jerseys and I never got a roster of them. By my count, […]