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.
MPSF CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH Saturday, April 26, 3 pm. HST Smith Fieldhouse; Provo, Utah No. 3 Seed Stanford (22-8) at No. 1 Seed BYU (20-8) Live Television: BYU TV In Hawaii OC 409 Live BYU TV Video Stream: BYU TV Live Radio: Sirius XM 143 Live Audio: BYU Radio Live Stats:No. 3 Seed Stanford at No. 1 Seed BYU
Couple of announcements from UH today Fey joins Evan Enriques on U.S. men’s junior national training team. The team will be cut down to 12 before competing at the NORCECA Under-21 Continental Championship on July 28-Aug. 3 in El Salvador. The team will begin training together on July 13 at the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, N.Y. UH made it official on Olivia Magill transferring from Arizona. Also in the same release UH mentions that Goodman and Kawamura won’t be […]
Am traveling today so likely won’t be updating. but feel free to do so. BYUtv will broadcast the UC Santa Barbara vs. BYU match Thursday and the championship match Saturday should BYU advance. BYUTV on OC409 for thise who have it Thursday’s semifinal between Stanford and Pepperdine will be streamed live on TheW.tv. Links to live video streaming and live stats for both matches, as well as live audio streaming for the UC Santa Barbara vs. BYU match, are available […]
http://hawaiiathletics.com/documents/2014/4/21/2014_AVCA_Nationals_Bracket.pdf?id=3067 Above line for the team bracket. Pairs tournament announced and seeded after the final saturday The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Championship Selection Committee announced the field for the third annual Collegiate Sand Volleyball National Championship with the University of Hawai’i gaining its first-ever team invite to the event. The Rainbow Wahine earned the sole at-large bid in the six-team field which also includes Pepperdine (West), USC (West), Florida State (Southeast), Stetson (Atlantic Sun) and UH’s first-round opponent Florida […]
Someone asked if they show the nationals on TV this is what they did last year: CBS Sports Network will televise portions of the competition in three hour-long specials beginning on Tuesday, May 21 (7:00 PM, ET). From Saturday The University of Hawai`i women’s sand volleyball team concluded its regular season with pairs competition versus Long Beach State and Irvine Valley College in the Big West Challenge. UH competed in three separate brackets with the team of Karissa Cook and Brittany Tiegs capturing Bracket A […]
at 3 p.m. HST USC at BYU byucougars.com At 4 p.m. HST UCSB at UCSB ucsbgauchos.com Long Beach State at Pepperdine pepperdinesports.com UC Irvine at Stanford gostandford.com.
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/mpsf/sports/m-volley/auto_pdf/2013-14/misc_non_event/mvb-allmpsf.pdf Averill on first team along with Taylor Crabb (Punahou, Beach); Micah Christenson (Kamehameha-USC), Josh Taylor (Punahou-Pepperdine) Second team to Sedore along with Henry Cassiday (Punahou-USC) very surprised Zarkovic didn’t get anything. Sander of B YU POY, Yoder of USC FOY And very interesting to see the number of second-generation players : Crabb, Yoder, Shaw, Hanley … i’m sure I’ve missed a few.
Heading to Sequim to see my mom for Easter. Internet access sporadic but will try to check in when I can. UH wasn’t about the scores from Friday sand, just because, as you all know, it was a bit disorganized. Believe IVC is playing host and I’m sure coach Tom Pestolesi will get things done. Happy Easter all.