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

New video challenge being tested; Hawaii 3, Ohio State 1

By Cindy Luis on January 8, 2015

Mentioned on the earlier thread but just got some more details. Video Challenge System will be used for the tournament. both teams have the right to call video verification for referees’ decision twice per set. If whoever calls for the challenge wins the challenge it does not decrease the number of challenges still available for the set. If team loses the challenge, it decreases the number of challenges left in the set by 1. The up ref has the right […]

Outrigger Invitational: UCI 3, Penn State 2

By Cindy Luis on January 8, 2015

Penn State showing a little jet lag. They were delayed out of Chicago, ended up flying through Houston. got in last night. Anteaters win Sets 1 and 2, 25-17, 25-18. Nittany Lions come back to win Set 3 25-18, outscoring UCI 12-4 in the final going after leading 14-13. Roberts ended it with consecutive aces. No TV or radio for the non-UH matches. game tracker link below: http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=74737

Wahine banquet, another coach hire update, etc.

By Cindy Luis on January 6, 2015

Details are still being worked out but the Wahine banquet won’t be a traditional one. It will be held during the afternoon of Monday, Jan. 19, the MLK holiday weekend. As for the hire, have been told it won’t happen until Friday at the earliest, more likely next week. Can we say … Red Tape? If you have noticed that the comment section appears and disappears, it’s part of the process of upgrading the site. Sorry for the inconvenience. I […]

Congrats to Averill, MPSF POY; Wahine asst. update

By Cindy Luis on January 5, 2015

Application deadline was last Friday. Was told the decision could be made as early as Wednesday. As for Averill, No real surprise, given his night Saturday. From the MPSF University of Hawai’i men’s volleyball senior middle blocker Taylor Averill was named Mountain Pacific Sports Federation/Molten Player of the Week for Jan. 5-11 after leading the Rainbow Warriors to a season-opening three-set win (25-19, 25-14, 25-23) over Stevens Institute of Technology last Saturday. The All-American and two-time All-MPSF honoree netted a […]

Hawaii 3, Stevens 0; Wahine asst. opening

By Cindy Luis on January 3, 2015

Warriors open tonight 7 p.m. HST No TV but there is radio 1420-AM or espn1420am.com Livestats at http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=74736 2 freshmen will be redshirting for UH Namahoe from Waiakea and Owens from Kalaheo. As for the Wahine associate/sand head … application deadline was friday, Jan. 2 Process begins next week with interviews by Shoji, who then will make his recommendation to the AD. Don’t think it will take long for this to get done.

Happy New Year: Huff becomes two-sport Wahine

By Cindy Luis on December 30, 2014

Thanks for your patience while things got worked out on the blog. Jason Kaneshiro has the story about Huff on the Warrior World main page. As mentioned, she is on basketball scholarship for the spring. At the moment it doesn’t change anything for the volleyball team in terms of recruiting as Huff is scheduled to be on volleyball scholarship for 2015.

Happy holidays, UH final RPI 32, No. 23 in poll

By Cindy Luis on December 21, 2014

Interesting final Saturday but showed that experience is key, which proved the difference in Set 2. A very good run by BYU. Both Hamson and Robins-Hardy go back to basketball Monday. As others have mentioned PSU libero Gonzalez was great, 16 digs, but Courtney had a great all around game with 11 kills, 14 digs, 5 blocks. In case you missed the all-tourney team: Penn State: Franti, Hancock, Courtney (MVP); BYU: Gray and Hamson. Stanford: Howard. Texas: Ogbogu. Think the […]

Saturday championship links

By Cindy Luis on December 20, 2014

Match is at 2:30 p.m. HST Available on OC 224 (ESPN 2) BYU is offering radio at http://www.byuradio.org/listen online espn link is http://espn.go.com/watchespn/index/_/id/2188024/2014-NCAA-Women’s-Volleyball-Championship