Hawaii down a spot to 11 in RPI
By Cindy Luis on November 25, 2013Texas still No. 1 followed by Penn State and Washington http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/weeklyrpi/2013WVBrpi1.html
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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.
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Hawaii stays at No. 12 in poll
By Cindy Luis on November 25, 2013Some movement in the top 10 but Hawaii unaffected. 1. Texas. 2. Penn State. 3. Stanford up from 5. 4. Missouri. 5. Washington down from 3. 6. Florida. biggest drop was Nebraska from 6 to 10. http://www.avca.org/divisions/division-one-women/poll-11-25-13di/
Senior night dancing
By Cindy Luis on November 23, 2013Seven seniors came out in different colored tanks. (a rainbow) did a hula to somewhere over the rainbow, then a little bit of My Girl. Have no idea what the song is. a little funk? very cute. CSUN seniors also honored. they are going to toss balls into the crowd. actually just threw them at Shoji. ended it with Baby, Bye, Bye, Bye
Hawaii 3, CSUN 0 11-23
By Cindy Luis on November 23, 2013Should be a good crowd although they’re expecting 30,000 at the Stadium for prep football. There will be 7 co-captains for tonight’s match. UH sent its seven seniors over for the coin flip with the down ref.
Top 25 & Big West 11-23
By Cindy Luis on November 23, 2013Big West CSFullerton at Cal Poly, tied 1-1 UCSB def. UC Riverside 3-0 Long Beach State def. UCI, 3-0 Top 25 1. Texas (H) def. Kansas State 3-0 2. Penn State def. No. 20 Illinois 3-1 3. Washington idle 4. Missouri idle 5. Stanford idle 6. Nebraska (A) def. Indiana 3-0 7. Florida idle 8. USC idle 9. San Diego (H) def. No. 21 BYU, 3-2 10. Colorado State 11. Minnesota (A) at No. 17 Michigan State 12. Hawaii (H) […]
UH-UCD rewind
By Cindy Luis on November 22, 2013Will keep it short Thought Hawaii played well for the most part. Passing much better than they had. Agree that they might have gone to Hartong too much … again. 15-3-40. Taylor 11-4-22. Adolpho had a nice night hitting middle 8-3-16. Couple of her slides went wide but there was one point where she went wide in Set 3 and Uiato went right back to her. Unsung hero tonight was Mendoza with 12 digs, career high, and an ace. UH […]
Hawaii 3, UC Davis 0
By Cindy Luis on November 22, 2013Seems like it’s been a while since they played in here. Almost 3 weeks. Long Beach State was Nov. 2. Longo in the bright spring green jersey. no changes in the starters for Hawaii Adolpho, Vorster, Longo, Hartong, Taylor, Uiato, Manu-Olevao
top 25 & big West 11=22
By Cindy Luis on November 22, 2013for those who might have missed it on the other thread. Wahine will fly back Dec. 1 and watch the selection show in Honolulu Some Thursday scores too UCSB def. Fullerton 3-0 UC Riverside def. Cal Poly, 3-2 1. Texas idle 2. Penn State def. Northwestern 3-1 3. Washington (A) def. Cal 3-2 4. Missouri (32-0) def. Mississippi State, wins first SEC title 5. Stanford (H) def. Washington State 3-0 6. Nebraska (A) lost at No. 25 Purdue 3-0 7 […]