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.
Not that it really helps anyone except BYU and Pepperdine Waves win at home, 25-21, 25-21, 27-25 1. BYU 15-2 2. Pepperdine 13-5 3. The Beach 12-5 4 UCSB 12-6 5 UCLA & Stanford 11-7 7. UCI & USC 11-8 9. Hawaii 11-9
No. 3 Hawai’I def. No. 8 Nebraska 5-0 Order of Finish: 2, 5, 4, 1, 3 1. Brittany Tiegs/Karissa Cook (UH) def. Mel Kiel/Justine Wong-Orantes (NEB) 21-7, 21-17 2. Katie Spieler/Nikki Taylor (UH) def. Amber Rolfzen/Kadie Rolfzen (NEB) 21-11, 21-7 3. Ali Longo/Ginger Long (UH) def. Cecilia Hall/Alexa Ethridge (NEB) 21-13, 21-15 4. Hannah Rooks/Karlee Riggs (UH) def. Brenna Lyles/Alicia Ostrander (NEB) 21-4, 21-18 5. London Chow/Tayler Higgins (UH) def. Mary Pollmiller/Kira Larson (NEB) 21-11, 21-18 No. 2 USC def. No. 8 Nebraska 5-0 Order of Finish: 2, 5, 3, […]
Sweet young woman Said she hoped everyone knew that she was leaving because she was graduating and wanted to move on academically. Said she guessed she had always been more of a student than and athlete and the move will give her a chance to be closer to family and play with her sister, whom she considers her best friend. Said she hopes to play 2 years and finsh her Master’s in public health around the same time her eligibility […]
Jade Vorster will be transferring after graduating with her chemistry degree this May. The 6-4 middle blocker is eligible to play for Liberty as a graduate student. It’s a Christian college in Virginia. The Flames are DI, play in the Big South. It gives her a chance to be with her younger sister who will be a freshman at Liberty in the fall and be closer closer to her family in Florida and Virginia, where she was born. I believe […]
Should have something Thursday about UH transfer. Spoke with Shoji at sand today. There will be one other bit of news first that UH will announce, probably in the morning. No, he isn’t retiring. After UH puts out the announcement then I can get to the transfer details. Transfer will be a MB, not an All-American, but a very good player, Shoji said. Asked which conference, he said he had told me enough already. ‘-) I know, I know, this […]
sorry, took me almost 2 hours to get from waikiki to Kailua. some great play by Hawaii today, match with SC could have easily going 3-2 in their favor. Pairs 1-2 both went to 3, No. 1 wins, No. 2 loses. this from UH. back later The No. 3 University of Hawai’i Rainbow Wahine sand volleyball team returned to the Queens Beach Sand Box for a pair of dual matches on Wednesday. The Rainbow Wahine blanked Arizona, 5-0, before falling […]
this was my web story Wade said on the radio that he wasn’t too concerned about Sedore’s ankle, said he came back out of the locker room and looked to be fine. They have a big break in playing dates, don’t play again until April 4-5 vs. BYU Not sure why Zarkovic didn’t play. I’m sure Stephen will find out. First time this season Siki didn’t start. Anyway: Senior hitter Johann Timmer put down a career-high 15 kills and junior […]
stats & audio links available through match on 1420-AM on oahu http://www.hawaiiathletics.com/schedule.aspx?tab=volleyball2&path=mvball