Toyota 3, Hawaii 2
By Cindy Luis on September 17, 2014Live stats available at http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=61741
Expanded coverage of all things volleyball, including notes, observations and analysis on the Rainbow Wahine, Rainbow Warriors, SandBows and Team USA.
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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.
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Coach’s Show 6 pm Tuesday; Danielson won’t play
By Cindy Luis on September 16, 2014Call the Coach with Shoji 6 p.m. Tuesday 1420-am 296-1420 if you want to chat Show is at Rumors Nightclub at the Ala Moana Hotel Danielson had shoulder surgery on a torn labrum (right hitting shoulder) so she will be on the sidelines for Wednesday’s match between Toyota Auto Body and Hawaii. Reminder: no TV or radio for the exhibition
Hawaii drops out of poll, at No. 26
By Cindy Luis on September 15, 2014Hawaii fell out of the Top 25 poll today, Believe it’s the first time since 1992. Interesting thing is that every time UH has lost, the team that beat them replaced them at the former ranking. UCLA moves into 22 Michigan State at 25 with 117 points, Hawaii at 95 pushing the Wahine out were Texas A&M unranked to No. 21 and Loyola Marymount unranked to No. 23. Top 5 all the same. Stanford, Texas, Penn State, Wisconsin and Washington
No. 22 Hawaii 3, USF 1
By Cindy Luis on September 14, 2014Starting Higgins, Taylor, Magill, Greeley, Mendoza (L), Kahakai, Adolpho. Long should be replacing Kahakai in the front row. Live stats http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=61740
Story on Micah Christenson from FIVB
By Cindy Luis on September 14, 2014Thought I’d share. US swept Australia Saturday, lost to Argentia 3-2 Sunday http://poland2014.fivb.org/en/news/micah-christenson-sets-a-good-role-model?id=49357
No. 25 UCLA 3, Utah State 1; other Top 25 scores
By Cindy Luis on September 13, 2014Bruins defeat the Aggies, 25-23, 25-19, 20-25, 25-16 Lowe with 22. She had 8 in Set 1. Aggies led 23-22. UCLA scored the last three points of Set 1 http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=61739 1. Stanford (7-0) def. Penn, 3-0; def. Santa Clara, 3-0 2. Texas (6-0) def. UCF 3-0 3. Penn State (8-1) def. Kansas 3-0 def. Yale 3-0 4. Wisconsin (8-0) def. Ball State 3-0; def. Missouri State 3-1 5. Washington (8-0) idle 6. USC (6-2) idel 7. Florida State (7-0) def. […]
UCLA-Hawaii rewind
By Cindy Luis on September 12, 2014Some may disagree but IMHO it was a very winnable match. Hawaii did a pretty good job on Lowe, who was averaging 7.07 kps coming in. She finished with 17, 7 in Set 3, a couple late. On the previous thread serving was mentioned. Stats were identical for the teams 2 aces, 7 errors. the problem is the 2 errors that will be remembered will be the 2 by Manu – Olevao that ended Sets 1 and 2. From Shoji: […]
UCLA 3, UH 0
By Cindy Luis on September 12, 2014Live Stats http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=61738 Limited updates tonight Utah State-USF went over 2 hours. Wahine starting around 745 which is pushing my first deadline (10 p.m.) In between Sets 2 and 3 UH will recognize one of the Wahine’s oldest fans Madeleine Lee is 100 today Her family asked her what she wanted to do for her 100th birthday She said Go to Wahine volleyball.