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.
U.S. win 25-22, 25-27, 25-19, 25-19 in front of about 4,000 at UCI’s Bren Events Center. final two points were on a block by Akinradewoand an ace by Jordan Larson-Burbach If you were trying to watch the line stream, they had some technical difficulties. They were going to do a replay as soon as possible. No stats yet. You can follow how the match went on Twitter #USAVcup @volei
Not sure if I will be around to do a live update. will catch up after. Matches are at 4 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday HST There will be live streaming video this weekend Use usavolleyball.org click on USA Volleyball Cup As for the matches in Honolulu, have been in contact with USAV and they aren’t sure if the streaming will be live since there likely won’t be a TV feed. They will be using twitter. Not sure yet who […]
Serbia wins 25-21, 25-20, 25-17. Second straight loss for the Americans, third in their last four. Setter Christenson started the first two sets, Kawika Shoji started the third. Erik Shoji was the libero Taylor Sander with 13 kills, Christenson with a block.
Just announced: Legend: * = July 5 at UCI; ^ = July 6 at USC; # = July 11-12 at Hawaii # – Name (Position, Ht, World Championship App, Olympic App, College) 1 – *^# Alisha Glass (S, 6-0, 11, 0,, Penn State) 2 – *^# Kayla Banwarth (L, 5-10, 0, 0, University of Nebraska) 3 – *^# Courtney Thompson (S, 5-8, 0, 8, University of Washington) 4 – *^ Lauren Paolini (MB, 6-4, 0, 0, University of Texas) 6 – […]
U.S. loses 25-21, 25-19, 25-21 to Russia Saturday in Kaliningrad. Christenson set. K. Shoji came in in Set 3, don’t know if it was to set or as a serving sub. E. Shoji at libero. Anderson with 14 kills and a block, Taylor Sander with 13 kills. U.S. outblocked 9-4, 3-1 in aces. they are 8-2 with 2 matches left next weekend in Serbia. U.S. actually had more kills 46-39. final stats not up yet. They will be available at […]
http://www.laola1.tv/en-int/live/russia-usa/187323.html Starts at 5 am. Saturday
U.S. def. Russia 25-18, 25-19, 25-27, 19-25, 21-19 today (Friday) in Kaliningrad, Russia. Crowd announced at 7,000. It clinches a spot in the World League final round next month in Italy. Christenson set the whole match, E. Shoji at libero. Matt Anderson with 35 kills and a block, Taylor Sander with 21 kills and three aces. http://www.fivb.org/EN/volleyball/competitions/WorldLeague/2014/
sorry, thought this had gotten posted .it was in pending. thanks Cubi for making me check. i had written it for the Monday edition of the paper. Aiea’s Tri Bourne partnered with John Hyden of Florida to win their first World Tour beach volleyball gold medal on Sunday, defeating compatriots and fellow qualifiers Ryan Doherty and John Lucena 21-17, 21-11 in an all-American final at the FIVB Berlin Grand Slam in Germany. Both teams came out of the qualification tournament. […]