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

SandBows finish out at USAV in Hermosa

By Cindy Luis on April 13, 2015

UH-1 Tiegs-Taylor, UH-2 Spieler-Urban and UH-6 Chow-Zalopany lose in their respective bracket semifinals, UH-5 Tucker-Schucht lose in Bronze final Gold Bracket Brittany Tiegs/Nikki Taylor (UH) def. Mead/Nikki Hess (SCU) 21-16, 21-14 (Quarterfinal) Lara Dykstra/Becca Strehlow (PEPP) def. Brittany Tiegs/Nikki Taylor (UH) score U/A (Semifinal) Silver Bracket Katie Spieler/Olivia Urban (UH) def. Alex Green/Brooke Razo (GCU) 21-11, 21-8 (Round of 16) Katie Spieler/Olivia Urban (UH) def. Sabrina Clayton/Danielle Rottman (SCU) 21-11, 21-13 (Quarterfinal) Kelley Larsen/Kellie Woolever (PEPP) def. Katie Spieler/Olivia Urban […]

Great wins for Warriors, SandBows

By Cindy Luis on April 12, 2015

thanks for everyone who kept the discussions going while I was gone. Sorry for the delay in posts. some major internet issues at my hotel. Will be flying back today (Sunday) and will catch up more tonight. Impressive 16th straight win for Rainbow Warriors UH still a half-game ahead of UCI. Playoff picture got a little clearer at least in terms of berths. Hawaii, UCI and Pepperdine have clinched top-4 hosing In addition to USC, BYU, UCSB and Long Beach […]

Warriors go for 16 straight saturday

By Cindy Luis on April 11, 2015

Great win for the Warriors Friday night Was able to catch parts if it on the internet including the exciting end of Set 2 Sounds like it will be an even bigger crowd Saturday for senior night Dame links as Friday All available through hawaiiathletics.com

Friday check-in: Stanford at Hawaii

By Cindy Luis on April 10, 2015

Good morning all. Still on the mainland. Won’t be monitoring the matches today and tomorrow live but will check in later. Links for Friday are TV: OCsports Ch. 16 ocsports.tv Radio: 1420-AM espn1420am.com Gametracker: stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=74752 As for the standings UH 16-2, UCI 17-3, Pepperdine 17-4 have all clinched hosting duties for first round USC 13-7 has clinched a playoff berth Mathematically you have 6 teams alive for last four berths BYU 10-8, UCSB 10-9, The Beach 10-11, Stanford 7-11, UCLA […]

SandBows stay at No. 2; USA-China tickets on sale

By Cindy Luis on April 7, 2015

http://avca.org/sand/poll/ USC 15=0, the only team to beat Hawaii, at No. 1 UH 10=1 stays at No. 2 3. Florida International jumps three spots 4. Pepperdine 7-4 have now lost more this season than in the previous years combined. 5. Florida State drops a spot And No. 6 Long Beach State, Hawaii’s next opponent As Hall says, it is the most important match of the year vs. The Beach. Also, No. 1 USA vs. No. 3 China women tickets go […]

Warriors stay at No. 1, 4 in RPI

By Cindy Luis on April 6, 2015

thanks for the help on posting this on the other thread. UH stays No. 1 13 votes, Lewis No. 2 3 votes, with Pepperdine 1 vote and UC Irvine 1 vote. Lewis moved from 4 to 2 and Loyola moved from 2 to 5. Flyers defeated the Ramblers 3-1 in Chicago, second time Lewis has won the head-to-head. Of import for the at-large berth/RPI is the April 17 match when Lewis hosts Ohio State prior to the MIVA tourney. speaking […]

Sunday check-in

By Cindy Luis on April 5, 2015

Hope everyone had a pleasant holiday. As some have surmised, I’m on vacation and checking in occasionally. Not a lot has changed at the top of the standings UH 16-2, UCI 16-3, Pepperdine 16-4 All three have clinched Top-4 and home court. USC 13-7 has clinched a playoff berth. three teams with 10 wins in UCSB, BYU and The Beach Three teams with 7 wins in UCLA, Stanford and CSUN. Going to be an interesting last two weeks. BTW, last […]

Friday check-in: tentative 2015 schedule out

By Cindy Luis on April 3, 2015

What the boosters got for ticket renewals Still listed as tentative good news is that they’re looking at 4:30 p.m. starts for some of the double headers Aug. 28: Oregon State vs. Wichita State, Hawaii vs. Idaho Aug 29: Idaho vs. Oregon St; Hawaii vs. Wichita St. Sun Aug. 30: Idaho vs. Wichita St; Hawaii vs. Oregon St Sept. 4: American vs. UCLA; Hawaii vs. Iowa Sept. 5 Iowa vs. UCLA; Hawaii vs. American Sun Sept 6: Iowa vs. American; […]