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.
Stanford using twitter to update https://twitter.com/StanfordSandVB as of 715 HST UH up 2-0 No. 5 Chow-Higgins win 21-12, 21-10 No. 4 Riggs-Rooks win 21-16, 21-11 I’m going to be out for a couple of hours. please help update if you are so inclined.
really exciting match on byutv BYU def. UCSB 32-17, 22-25, 21-25, 25-18, 15-13 BYU’s 22nd straight win at home. Stanford 3, Pepperdine 0 25-21, 25-18, 25-19 UCI 3, Long Beach 0 25-22, 25-14, 26-24 USC 3, UOP 1 20-25, 25-20, 25-21, 25-20 standings based on percentage 1 BYU 17-2 2 Pepperdine 14-6 USC 14-9 3 Long Beach, Stanford, UCSB 13-7 6. UCLA 12-7 7 UCI 13-8 8. USC 14-9 9. Hawaii 11-9
From UH The No. 3 University of Hawaii Rainbow Wahine sand volleyball team swept a pair of matches Thursday over No. 6 UCLA and San Francisco Thursday at Piper Park. The Rainbow Wahine improved to 9-2 on the season with the wins. UH faced UCLA in the first match of the day and blanked the Bruins, 5-0. UH won in straight sets on three of five courts. UH’s top pair of Brittany Tiegs and Karissa Cook defeated the Bruins’ Jessyka Ngauamo and Kamila Tan […]
looking like home football games may split a couple of the early tournament with a couple tourney games to be played as singles on Saturday. biggest issue may be UCLA in the middle date. Aug 29: Ohio vs. San Diego State; Hawaii v Arizona State (30 Ohio ASU single) 31 (sun) ASU vs. SDSU; Ohio vs. Hawaii. Sept. 1 (Mon) Hawaii-SDSU Sept 4: Oregon vs. St. Johns; Hawaii v New Mexico; Sept 5 St. John’s New Mexico; Hawaii vs. Oregon. […]
Very good guessing all the way around. But needed to hear from her officially. Olivia Magill, a 6-foot-2 middle blocker who played for Arizona the past two volleyball seasons, is transferring to play for Hawaii this fall, Magill told the Star-Advertiser Monday. Magill, who led the Wildcats in blocking the past two seasons, has been given her release and is eligible to play immediately. The Fab 50 selection out of Seattle Prep is expected to vie for the starting position […]
Rainbow Warriors trade spots at 10-11 with Lewis Loyola Chicago stays at 1 (13 v0tes The Beach’s losses drop them to 4 with BYU (3 votes) and Pepperdine (2) all moving up a spot 3-4 5 through 9 remain the same: UCSB, Stanford, USC, UCI, UCLA. http://www.avca.org/divisions/men/1-2-poll-3-24-14/
USC 3, Beach 1 25-22, 21-25, 25-19, 27-25 Pepperdine 3, CSUN 0 BYU 3, Cal Baptist 0 Friday USC 3, CSUN 0 1. BYU 16-2 2. Pepperdine 14-5 3. Long Beach & UCSB 12-6 5. USC 13-8 6. Stanford & UCLA 11-7 8. UCI 11-8 9. Hawaii 11-9
just got in. long day at the beach. Unlike Wednesday’s dual where Tiegs-Cook beat Burnahm-Hughes in 3 Saturday’s title match was a sweep by the SC pair. 21-18, 25-16 Awards: Best defender: Hughes, USC Best blocker: Burnham, USC Best Offense: Cook, UH Aloha Spirt: Madi Kingdon, Arizona Played No. 1 with Croson. Gold Bracket Round of 16 Kirby Burnham/Sara Hughes (USC) def. Amanda Moriaty/Samantha Rummans (HPU), 21-9, 21-4 Nicolette Martin/Allie Wheeler (USC) def. Ali Longo/Ginger Long (UH) vs. 22-20, 21-18 […]