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

BYU 3, Hawaii 0

By Cindy Luis on December 7, 2013

Sounds like traffic is bad and causing some to be late to the arena. Wahine starting the same lineup.

NCAA tourney scores 12-7 Mizzou loses

By Cindy Luis on December 7, 2013

Will update USC Regional Second round BYU at Hawaii (11) BYU-Hawaiiwinner vs. USC (6) regional semi Washington (3) 3, LSU 1 Kansas (14) 3, Creighton 1 Kanas (14) vs. Washington (3) in regional semi — Kentucky regional Minnesota (1o) 3, Colorado 2 Minnesota (10) vs. Stanford (7) regional semifinal Kentucky (15) 3, Duquense 0 (first round) Penn State (2) 3, Utah 0 Penn State (2) vs. winner of Sunday’s Kentucky-Michigan State — Illinois regional Illinois (13) 3, Marquette 1 Purdue […]

Wahine rewind

By Cindy Luis on December 6, 2013

think Shoji said it best. “We play our game, we’re good.” anyway this is our online story Serve and pass. It’s as basic as volleyball can get. Win that game and, more often than not, a team will win a match. Eleventh-seeded Hawaii did just that Friday night when overcoming a Set 2 hiccup to put away Idaho State 25-16, 19-25, 25-12, 25-13. Senior libero Ali Longo had five of the Rainbow Wahine’s 12 aces and senior hitter Emily Hartong […]

Hawaii 3, Idaho State 1

By Cindy Luis on December 6, 2013

will update with set scores but have to write the BYU-ASU match first UH starters the same as has been

BYU 3, ASU 2

By Cindy Luis on December 6, 2013

ASU wins Set 1 25-21. BYU with 5 blocks. ASU hit .324.

NCAA tourney 12-6 UPDATED

By Cindy Luis on December 6, 2013

will update as needed http://www.ncaa.com/scoreboard/volleyball-women/d1/2013/12/06 USC regional First round At Hawaii BYU 3, Arizona State 2 Hawaii (11) 3, Idaho State 1 At Washington LSU3, Michigan 2 Washington (3) 3, Alabama State 0 At Kansas Creighton 3, Arkansas 1 Kansas (14) 3, Wichita State 1 Second round USC (6) 3, CSUN 0 —– Kentucky Regional First round At Minnesota Colorado 3, Iowa State 1 Minnesota (1) 3, Radford 0 At Kentucky Saturday Ohio vs. Michigan State Duquesne at Kentucky (15) […]

OC sports to televise subregional

By Cindy Luis on December 5, 2013

OCsports has won the bid to host rounds one and two of the NCAA Tournament at the Stan Sheriff Center. Both matches on Friday will be televised, and streamed on ocsports.tv. Saturday’s match will be broadcast only if Hawaii advances to the second round.

UH press conference 12-6

By Cindy Luis on December 5, 2013

UH should have video up of it later. Shoji said he expected a competitive match and that ISU is a good team, fights hard. Longo said she felt the team had learned from its mistakes during that stretch with the three losses and it made them better. I asked Hartong if there was more pressure being at home this week. She said it was a huge advantage to be home. They want to be playing six more matches. Asked if […]