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

11-7 Top 25 scores; The Beach 3 Hawaii 2

By Cindy Luis on November 7, 2014

Kahakai at libero tonight. 1) Stanford def. Arizona 25-20, 23-25, 25-16, 23-25, 15-9 2) Washington def. Oregon 25-20, 25-18, 25-20 3) Florida State def. Virginia 25-17, 25-15, 20-25, 25-22 4) Wisconsin def. Michigan 25-20, 24-26, 25-19, 21-25, 16-14 5) Texas def. 22) Kansas State 16-25, 25-15, 25-21, 25-16 6) Penn State def. Rutgers 25-11, 25-12, 25-10 7) Florida def. Alabama 25-13, 25-23, 25-20 8) North Carolina def. Boston College 25-20, 25-18, 25-20 17) Kentucky def. Georgia 26-24, 24-26, 25-16, 25-13 […]

Thursday checkin, Top 25 scores

By Cindy Luis on November 6, 2014

Practice later today as per the routine for home matches. Long Beach is already here, they practiced Wednesday. had an email off the blog about the POW nominations. The SID did tell me that he put in Taylor because of her overall stats. Said that Magill was a very viable candidate and in hindsight might have been the better choice. Mentioned earlier that the volleyball SID also got men’s basketball dumped on him without much notice and was a bit […]

Wednesday;: Granato on UA All-America team, Top 25 scores

By Cindy Luis on November 5, 2014

NLI is next Wednesday. Expected to sign are Annie Mitchem (Irvine Valley), Casey Castillo (Santa Fe Christian) and McKenna Granato (Punahou) Granato was named to the ninth annual Under Armour Girls High School All-America first team Wednesday. Each of the players on the First Team will be invited to play in the Under Armour All-America Volleyball Match & Skills Competition. The event will be held at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on Friday, December 19th in conjunction with […]

Tuesday checkin

By Cindy Luis on November 4, 2014

Appreciate all the comments about Rise of the Wahine. I was unable to attend the film or the after party Sounded like everyone enjoyed it. As mentioned previously, I was interviewed for over an hour but didn’t how much, if any, they’d use. They did use some of my series on Title IX from 2002 as part of their research. Despite not having school today, team kept with their routine of Tuesday A.M. practice, 6-8:30-ish. Men’s volleyball team came in […]

11-1: Top 25, Big West scores

By Cindy Luis on November 1, 2014

4) Wisconsin def. Indiana 25-18, 25-15, 25-18 7) Colorado State lost to UNLV 25-20, 18-25, 23-25, 17-25 10) Illinois def. Michigan 24-26, 21-25, 25-19, 25-18, 15-9 11) BYU def. San Francisco 25-20, 26-24, 25-14 13) Purdue def. Minnesota 25-20, 25-22, 25-20 14) Nebraska def. Maryland 25-23, 25-22, 25-16 15) Arizona def. Utah 25-19, 25-23, 25-14 22) Kansas State def. Texas Tech 23-25, 17-25, 25-23, 30-28, 15-7 24) Long Beach State def. Cal State Northridge 22-25, 25-18, 25-23, 25-21 25) Oklahoma […]

Hawaii 3, CSU Fullerton 0

By Cindy Luis on November 1, 2014

Match starting in about 45. Mostly Hawaii fans here. Free parking too on weekends, what a concept. Like how they’re redone the floor with orange palm trees. Had lunch with former UH AD Jim Donovon, now the Fullerton AD. Nice to catch up with him. Don’t forget that you can catch the match on ESPN3 www.espn.go.com Radio: 1500-AM nbcsportsradioHawaii.com Live stats at http://fullertontitans.com/sports/w-volley/2014-15/boxscores/20141101_hm3f.xml

10-31 Top 25, Big West scores; Shoji a grandpa for second time

By Cindy Luis on October 31, 2014

Shoji’s daughter had a baby girl Thursday night, believe 2 weeks early. Good win for Hawaii. would have been a disastrous loss in terms of the RPI. 1) Stanford def. Oregon State 25-17, 22-25, 26-24, 25-15 2) Washington def. 16) UCLA 25-15, 25-17, 25-8 3) Florida State def. NC State 18-25, 25-17, 25-19, 25-17 6) Penn State def. 17) Ohio State 25-13, 25-16, 25-18 9) North Carolina def. Miami-FL 25-21, 25-12, 25-22 10) Illinois def. Michigan State 25-21, 21-25, 25-22, […]