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.
Or is it Overtime? only caught part of it Tuesday. Anyway, Tuesday’s late addition on the radio was Gary D.’s show that had Wade discussing the season and the NCAA tourney. Wade said he pretty much knew the agenda for the committee when they decided that the MIVA had the highest RPI of the 4 leagues at the start of the season. Of course we all know that is bogus but it was setting up how Loyola would ended up […]
e Hawaii’s No. 1 pair of Brittany Tiegs and Karissa Cook lost to USC’s top pair of Kirby Burnham-Sara Hughes in Sunday’s championship match of the AVCA Collegiate Sand Volleyball Pairs Championship at Gulf Shores, Ala. The third-seeded Tiegs-Cook, named to the 16-member All-American team earlier Sunday, fell 21-15, 21-13 the fourth-seeded Women of Troy tandem to take second. It was the fourth meeting between the two pairs and included a 2-0 sweep by Tiegs-Cook in Friday’s team portion of […]
Both UH pairs won their openers against The Beach 2-0. No. 12 Spieler-Taylor lose to No. 4 Burnham-Hughes of USC, 2-0 No. 3 Tiegs-Cook beat No. 6 Pepperdine’s Dykstra-Strehlow, 19-21, 21-15, 15-13 Tiegs-Cook play No. 2 Davis-Pardon of FSU Other semi has Burnham-Hughes vs. No. 9 Metter-Keil of LMU Semifinals start at 7 a.m. HST, championship is at 10 a.m. HST
Ramblers win for NCAA title, top the Cardinal , 25-17, 19-25, 25-19, 25-15 http://www.ncaa.com/game/volleyball-men/d1/2014/05/03/stanford-loyola-il
Tiegs-Cook, seeded third, take on The Beach’s Aigner-Swesey/Tordorovic Spieler-Taylor seeded 125h, take on Jackson-Johnson of the Beach http://avca.scoutware.net/vb/cgi/viewMail.pl?i=S0320480901_24650859 When the UH-LBS meet on March 7, the wahine won the dual match 3-2 Tiegs-Cook beat Aigner-Swesey/Torodovic 22-20, 20-22, 14-11 Spieler-Taylor defeated Jackson-Johnson, 22-20, 21-19 full bracket: http://avca.scoutware.net/vb/cgi/viewMail.pl?i=S0320480901_24650859
Fourth-seeded Hawaii lost to No. 3 Florida State 4-1 in the AVCA Collegiate Sand Championships semifinals Saturday morning in Gulf Shores, Ala. The Rainbow Wahine finish the season at 20-4. Their other losses came against the two teams playing in Saturday’s second semifinal: No. 1 USC and No. 2 Pepperdine. Pepperdine, seeking its second title in three years, defeated USC 3-2.
Hawaii advances to Saturday’s semifinal vs. winner of today’s loser-out match vs. FIU & FSU. Saturday’s second semi is Pepperdine vs. today’s late winner between USC-Stetson Friday Hawaii def. FIU, 4-1 Hawaii def. USC 3-2 11 a.m. HST FIU vs. USC (loser out) other side of the bracket FSU def. Stetson, 5-0 Pepperdine def. FSU, 4-1 Noon HST Stetson vs. FSU (loser out)