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

Sand volleyball goes 2-1 at Hermosa

By Cindy Luis on April 12, 2014

complete results at below link http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Volleyball/Events/Beach/2014-Beach-Collegiate-Challenge No. 3 Hawaii 5, Bakersfield 0 1 Cook/Tiegs (Hawaii) def. O’Hagan/Araujo, 21-8, 21-10 2 Spieler/Taylor (Hawaii) def. Guitare/Alvidrez, 21-18, 19-21, 15-13 3 Long/Longo (Hawaii) def. Bartsch/Bowen, 21-10, 21-12 4 Chow/Higgins (Hawaii) def. Youngblood/Haynes, 21-18, 20-22, 15-8 5 Rooks/Tucker (Hawaii) def. Perrins/Little, 21-17, 21-16 6 Mendoza/Urban (Hawaii) def. Flemion/Tucker-Campbell, 21-19, 21-9 No. 3 Hawaii 5, Arizona 0 1 Cook/Tiegs (Hawaii) def. Witt/Witt, 21-14, 21-23, 15-11 2 Spieler/Taylor (Hawaii) def. Kingdon/Lewis, 21-18, 19-21, 15-12 3 Long/Longo […]

Pepperdine 3 Hawaii 1 4-12

By Cindy Luis on April 12, 2014

sorry, just go back from funeral services for Al Chase, longtime sports writer for the Star-Bulletin Hawaii serving well, 4 aces, UH wins Set 1 25-19 Same links as Friday 1500-AM nbcsportsradiohawaii.com hawaiiathletics.com will get you the links to game tracker and free Pepperdine video    

MPSF standings 4-11, BYU loses again

By Cindy Luis on April 11, 2014

only listed teams in playoff contention BYU, Pepperdine,  Stanford and UCSB have clinched home matches for next Saturday’s quarterfinals seeds in parenthesis. Stanford  has the tiebreaker on UCSB set differential If the two are tied Friday’s other matches, Stanford def UCI  3-2 UCSB  def. BYU 3-1 BYU (1)  18-5 Pepperdine (2)  17-6 Stanford   (3) 16-7 UCSB (4)  16-8 UC Irvine 14-9 Long Beach  14-9 UCLA  14-9 USC   14-10 Hawaii 13-10  

Waves sweep Rainbow Warriors, with box link

By Cindy Luis on April 11, 2014

Link for the box: www.hawaiiathletics.com/boxscore.aspx?path=mvball&id=17973 Punahou product Josh Taylor put down a match-high 11 kills to lead No. 2 Pepperdine over No. 9 Hawaii 25-19, 25-17, 25-23 in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation volleyball match Friday in Malibu, Calif. The victory clinches a home quarterfinal match in the MPSF tournament for the Waves (17-6, 17-6 MPSF). The Rainbow Warriors (15-11, 13-10) will need to beat Pepperdine Saturday as well as have BYU defeat UCLA Saturday in order to get into […]

Hawaii at Pepperdine 4-11

By Cindy Luis on April 11, 2014

I won’t be able to update until late so … Links for the match Free Video   www.pepperdinesports.com/allaccess/?media=426060 Radio 1500-AM nbcsportsradiohawaii.com OC 885 livestats   hawaiiathletics.com  

MPSF standings 4-10, 2 interesting matches tonight

By Cindy Luis on April 10, 2014

Thursday: Cal Baptist is at UCLA (went 4 March 27) , a hot CSUN at Long Beach State (teams play again Saturday at CSUN) 1. BYU 18-4 At UCSB Friday, at UCLA Saturday 2. Pepperdine  16-6 hosts Hawaii Fri-Sat 3. Stanford 15-7  at UCI Friday, at UCSD Saturday 4. UCSB 15-8 hosts BYU Friday 5 UCI  14-8  hosts Stanford Friday, hosts UOP Saturday, the Tigers’ final match as they are dropping the program 6. Long Beach State 13-9  hosts CSUN […]

congrats to Zarkovic, national POW

By Cindy Luis on April 8, 2014

Interesting since he wasn’t the MPSF’s POW, Sam Holt from CSUN was. From the AVCA: Sinisa Zarkovic, a 6-4 sophomore outside hitter for No. 9 University of Hawaii, has been named the Sports Imports/AVCA Men’s Division I-II National Player of the Week. It was a huge weekend for the Rainbow Warriors, defeating then-No. 2 BYU twice last weekend to enter into a three-way tie for sixth place in the MPSF standings.  The first match of the home series was a […]

Hawaii up to No. 9 in poll

By Cindy Luis on April 7, 2014

http://www.avca.org/divisions/men/1-2-poll-4-7-14/ 2 wins over the No. 2 team didn’t do much for Hawaii up to No. 9, swapping with UCLA, which basically reflects the MPSF standings, when taking out Loyola Loyola stays at No. 1 (16 votes). Pepperdine up a spot to No. 2 (2 votes) BYU a spot to 3, 4-5 stay the same: Stanford, UCSB UCI and Long Beach trade at 7-8, UCI up a spot, The Beach down 1 USC stays at 8.