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

Wednesday check-in: Wahine practice, etc.

By Cindy Luis on April 1, 2015

Top Picture is of a setting drill with Koelsch to the left and Higgins on the right. 2nd picture is from afternoon sand practice They were taking a team photo. Taylor can only practice 20 hours a week so she was at indoor this morning, didn’t practice with sand this afternoon. Dropped into indoor practice this morning. Normal school day routine where they go 6:30-8:30 a.m. in Gym 1. . Shoji said he is happy with the progress after 2-plus […]

Hawaii 3, UCLA 0 Tuesday

By Cindy Luis on March 31, 2015

uclabruins.com audio http://www.uclabruins.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?type=live&db_oem_id=30500 live stats http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=74631&a=1

Shoji’s contract extended through 2017

By Cindy Luis on March 31, 2015

We have a story in Tuesday’s paper by Ferd Lewis. Coach and school have reached an agreement which has him coaching through 2017. Board of Regents approval will be needed. Expected to get a bump in salary as well.

No. 1 Hawaii 3, UCLA 2; UH hosts first round April 25

By Cindy Luis on March 30, 2015

http://www.avca.org/divisions/men/1-2-poll-3-30-15/ Hawaii stays No. 1. Top 6 stay the same, votes continue to be split UH with 11 votes, Loyola-Chicago 4, Pepperdine 1, Lewis 1, UCI 1 surprised that BYU stayed 6 after losing six in a row. As for Monday’s match at UCLA (4 p.m. HST) Video at http://pac-12.com/mens-volleyball/event/2015/03/30/hawaii-ucla Audio at: http://www.uclabruins.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?type=live&db_oem_id=30500 Gametracker at: http://www.statbroadcast.com/events/statbroadcast.php?t=1&gid=ucla

SandBows win all brackets

By Cindy Luis on March 29, 2015

http://static.psbin.com/k/b/mph1h7tx2x3my1/sunday_pairs_brackets.pdf handwritten bracket posted at above link. Sunday pairs tournament has Nos. 1 and 2 in the gold bracket, Nos. 3 and 4 in the silver and No. 5. Hall said the goal was to have all six pairs playing in the finals of each bracket won’t happen since they decided that the bronze would be only for the No. 5. Not all schools had a No. 6. UH-5 has a bye into the bronze semifinals, as does Santa Clara-5. […]

Hawaii 3, UCSD 1; SandBows win team title

By Cindy Luis on March 28, 2015

http://www.ucsdtritons.com//mediaPortal/player.dbml?SPID=2336&DB_OEM_ID=5800&catid=0&id=1283086&db_oem_id=5800 Link to UCSD match at 4 p.m. HST above If you’re interested and have Oceanic, second match with UCI at BYU at 4 p.m. HST on OC . As for the SandBows in Santa Cruz Hawaii def. USF 5-0 def. CSU Bakersfield.5-0 SandBows meet Santa Clara in the bracket team final starting at 2 p.m. HST

Warriors sweep UCSD, Sedore breaks 1000-kill mark

By Cindy Luis on March 27, 2015

sorry, couldn’t get into the blog tonight before now. Hawaii with the 10, 19, 24 sweep. Clinching MPSF berths this week: Hawaii, Pepperdine UCI. UH story link below http://www.hawaiiathletics.com/news/2015/3/27/MVB_0327153259.aspx?path=mvball

SandBows top UOP 4-1

By Cindy Luis on March 26, 2015

Match at 1 p.m. HST treamed live online, free of charge, with the ability to view both courts of action. http://pacifictigers.com/sports/w-svolley/2014-15/releases/201503250bzpkp