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.
At Kentucky Penn State def. Michigan State 3-1 Stanford def. Minnesota 3-0 Saturday Stanford vs. Penn State At Nebraska Texas def. American 3-1 Nebraska def. San Diego 3-0 Saturday Texas at Nebraska At Illinois Wisconsin def. Florida State 3-1 Purdue def. Illinois 3-0 Saturday Wisconsin vs. Purdue At USC Washington def. Kansas 3-0 USC def. BYU, 3-1 Saturday Washington at USC
Done by John Tawa. In USA Today thank you to Nana Kokolele for the heads up on another thread one of 7 on the first team ‘Alohi Robins-Hardy | Right Side Hitter | 6-1 | Sr. | Kamehameha (Honolulu, Hawaii)A BYU recruit in both volleyball and basketball, Robins-Hardy led the Warriors to the Hawaii Division I title, amassing 18 assists, 16 digs and a match-high 13 kills in a sweep of league rival Punahou. Named the league MVP and state […]
Scheduled to play at 10:30 a.m. today (Thursday) their opponent Ferris State is doing radio if you care to listen other links available at http://www.ferrisstatebulldogs.com/sports/wvball/2013-14/releases/201312128rcje8
From UH. Poll link below http://www.avca.org/divisions/men/1-2-poll-12-11-13/ The University of Hawai‘i men’s volleyball team will open the 2014 season at No. 13 in the AVCA Division I-II Preseason Poll. The Rainbow Warriors finished last season at No. 13 after advancing to the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Tournament quarterfinals, their third postseason appearance under head coach Charlie Wade. Hawai‘i returns five starters and 10 lettermen off of that squad including its top two hitters – Brook Sedore and Sinisa Zarkovic, top three […]
Shoji was talking to Scott this morning. Said Saturday was still stinging. That he had spoken to Hartong yesterday and she wasn’t over it. Said BYU played pretty error free Saturday and that Hartong didn’t get much help offensively. said he didn’t know how well BYU would do against USC. 2014 schedule: still working on it. ASU is coming out. said that teams are concerned about the RPI, wanting to know who else would be in the tournament, not wanting […]
http://www.avca.org/awards/regional-awards/division-one/ UH in the Pacific North Region Congrats to Hartong FOY was WSU’s Kyra Holt COY: Hilbert, CSU
It was mentioned during Saturday’s telecast. Just got the info from Ryan Tsuji. She is hoping to raise $30,000. Sounds like it’s going to be a long and expensive process. Such a sweet woman. I remember that Shaq took her out once when the Lakers were here during volleyball season. They went to Waikiki and she was so happy to be out with someone taller than her and who was getting more attention than she normally got. Here is the […]
Not really much to say. Bad, bad loss. Season started out so promising. But as has been said ad naseum, Wahine got very predictable. First time they’d been swept all season and looked bad doing it. 86 minutes. last time UH lost in straight sets was the 2011 second round at Washington.