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

Tuesday checkin: Kahakai cleared to play

By Cindy Luis on October 7, 2014

Kahakai cleared to play so she’ll be making the road trip. Shoji still thinking about the other DS, between Anderson, Guinasso and Ponce (alphabetical order). Sorry if I”m repeating myself, sometimes I forget if it was already in my print story or only on a previous post but He said there isn’t much difference between the three. He was looking whether to take the better server or the better passer. He had said previously that the rotation with Ponce serving […]

Rise of the Wahine premiere

By Cindy Luis on October 6, 2014

For those interested in going to the film’s inaugural public showing: Monday, Nov. 3, 7 p.m. Hawaii Theatre Part of the Hawaii International Film Festival for ticket info http://program.hiff.org/films/detail/rise_of_the_wahine_2014 Watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWpSG2m9cVo

Hawaii opens at 17 in RPI, up to 21 in poll

By Cindy Luis on October 6, 2014

Shoji and I were talking about it this morning, I said 17 and … I need to go to Vegas. also thought that between looking at RKPI and Pablo this was where they’d end up UH at 17. http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/weeklyrpi/2014WVBrpi1.html 1. Stanford. 2. FSU. 3. Texas. 5. Oregon. 15. UCLA. ASU 37. in the poll 1 and 2 stay the same Stanford and Texas. Penn State drops to 5 from 3. as for teams that beat Hawaii Oregon stays at 11 […]

Top 25 scores 10-5

By Cindy Luis on October 5, 2014

Believe first RPI is out this week. Will be at practice early (6-830) Monday so will get to poll and other things when I can. CSTV/AVCA Division I Coaches Top 25 Poll Matches (listings below 25 not officially recognized) 2) Texas def. Kansas 25-14, 25-20, 20-25, 25-21 5) Florida State def. Miami-FL 26-28, 25-19, 25-20, 27-29, 15-9 9) Florida def. Mississippi State 25-18, 25-18, 25-23 11) Oregon def. Cal 25-19, 25-21, 25-21 12) North Carolina def. Clemson 25-18, 27-25, 25-23 […]

Hawaii 3, UCI 0

By Cindy Luis on October 4, 2014

Not expecting any lineup changers among the starters.

10-4 Top 25, Nebraska loses, shocker in the Big West

By Cindy Luis on October 4, 2014

as of 450 p.m. HST I’m a little surprised by this: UC Davis def. UCSB (H) 25-21, 25-19, 25-16 Day after Nebraska’s big win over Penn State, Huskers lose in 5 at Ohio State 1. Stanford (H) vs. Oregon State 3. Penn State (A) def. Iowa, 25-15, 25-14, 25-11 6. Wisoncin (A) def. No. 16. Illinois, 25-17, 25-22, 11-25, 25-23 7. Colorado State (H) def. San Diego State, 25-22, 25-21, 25-16 8. Nebraska (H) loses to Ohio State 25-27, 27-25, […]

Hawaii 3, Fullerton 0 10-3 scores

By Cindy Luis on October 3, 2014

Kahakai cleared to participate in pregame warmups. She will not play this weekend. They are hoping to get her cleared to go on next week’s road trip. CSTV/AVCA Division I Coaches Top 25 Poll Matches 1 Stanford (H) def. #11 Oregon 3-1 3) Penn State lost to Nebraska 25-12, 22-25, 20-25, 23-25 #4 Washington (H) def. #20 UCLA 3-2 5) Florida State def. Georgia Tech 25-17, 25-22, 25-18 9) Florida def. LSU 25-12, 23-25, 25-11, 25-22 12) North Carolina def. […]

10-2 scores, Kai Kahele

By Cindy Luis on October 2, 2014

7) Colorado State def. UNLV 25-15, 23-25, 25-16, 25-14 10) BYU def. San Francisco 25-15, 25-18, 23-25, 25-11 22) Loyola Marymount def. Portland 25-19, 25-22, 23-25, 26-24 23) San Diego lost to Santa Clara 25-23, 19-25, 23-25, 23-25 Alsom on Saturday, Oct. 25 at Punahou, former Warrior volleyball player Kai Kahele is the keynote speaker at the Astronaut Lacy Veach Day of Discovery. Kai started his pilot career with HANG. His impressive bio can be found at http://www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu/Day-of-discovery/Kai_Kahele_Bio.pdf if you […]