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

Hawaii 3, CSUN 1

By Cindy Luis on February 20, 2015

Putting up links early since I’ve got Wahine basketball interview this afternoon and have to write advance for Saturday. This gives you links to game tracker, audio and video http://www.hawaiiathletics.com/schedule.aspx?tab=volleyball2&path=mvball Match on OCSports and 1500-AM nbcspotsradiohawaii.com. Someone asked about Zarkovic on previous thread. He’s practicing. Don’t know how much they’ll use him this series. Other matches Friday: UC San Diego at Pepperdine; Long Beach State at BYU, Cal Baptist at UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine at Stanford.

That was a surprise: UCSB sweeps USC

By Cindy Luis on February 19, 2015

At Rob Gym Wednesday, 25-19, 25-17, 25-22 No Trojan with more than nine kills (Feathers) SC hits .070 on the night. 5 aces, 14 SEs 4 blocks for the Gauchos, Nielsen and Donohue with 12 kills each, 4 aces, 11 SEs, 9 blocks. 40 digs for UCSB, 18 by the libero Boehle and 15 for Nielsen Standings heading into Thursday’s matches BYU and UCI 8-2 Pepperdine 7-2 Hawaii 6-2 USC 6-3 Long Beach 6-4 UCSB 5-5 UCLA 3-5 Stanford and […]

Warriors drop to 7, SandBows at No. 4 in preseason poll

By Cindy Luis on February 16, 2015

No real surprise, given what happened last week. UCI’s win over Pepperdine plus BYU’s split with SC jumbled things up this week from 2-7, the latter which pushed the Cougars up two spots as the Waves and Warriors dropped. Loyola stays at 1, Lewis back alone at 2, SC at 3 UCI up a spot to 4, BYU up 2 to 5, Waves down two to 6 and UH down a spot to 7 http://www.avca.org/divisions/men/1-2-poll-2-16-15/ As for the SandBows, top […]

UCI upends Pepperdine in 5

By Cindy Luis on February 14, 2015

UCI tops Pepperdine 22-25, 25-18, 25-20, 18-25, 15-13 creates quite the jam at the top USC, BYU and UCI at 8-2 Pepperdine 7-2 Hawaii 6-2

Hawaii 3 Cal Baptist 0 Night 2

By Cindy Luis on February 13, 2015

Links for Friday’s match, 5 p.m. HST Audio/Video/gametracker all through http://cbulancers.com/schedule.aspx?path=mvball In case you missed Thursday’s results SC def. BYU, 20-25, 21-25, 25-16, 25-21, 16-14. Tuilete off the bench with 15 kills. SC with 11 aces, BYU 0.

Hawaii 3, Cal Baptist 0

By Cindy Luis on February 11, 2015

Will be on the road during the early portions of the match. Video and livestats can be accessed through the MVB schedule page http://cbulancers.com/schedule.aspx?path=mvball

Sedore AVCA Player of the Week

By Cindy Luis on February 10, 2015

Sorry, still having power outages in Kailua Sedore, who was the MPSF player of the week Monday, picks up the AVCA national honor today. From UH Senior Brook Sedore was named Sports Imports/AVCA Player of the Week (Feb. 10-16) after his performance last week, where he recorded 20+ kills two nights in a row over USC. He was also awarded conference player of the week honors Monday . It is already UH’s second AVCA weekly award this season and 21st […]

Warriors stay at No. 6, Sedore MPSF POW

By Cindy Luis on February 9, 2015

Maybe a bit of a surprise. but the teams ahead of Hawaii kept winning so many not. That said, I think Hawaii going 5 with SC twice and splitting should have carried more weight that UCI’s 3-1 win over winless UCSD. But that’s just how the points fall USC gets a first-place vote, from the UCI coach. those points were enough to keep SC tied with Lewis. Loyola-Chicago with 17 votes stay at No. 1 Lewis tied with SC at […]