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.
First commit for 2015. Full release at uhathletics.com Kalaheo senior Luke Owens has signed with the Warriors Owens, a 6-foot-7 middle blocker, plays club volleyball for Kuikahi. He was a Honolulu Star-Advertiser Fab 15 selection last season.
Part of UH’s release from this morning. read the rest at uhathletics.com The University of Hawai’i women’s sand volleyball is gearing up for its third season of NCAA competition after wrapping up fall training in November. The Rainbow Wahine spent five straight weeks of training in preparation for the regular season which commences in March 2014. A total of 14 student-athletes—six returnees and eight newcomers—conducted camp on its new sand practice courts, part of the TC Ching Athletics Complex that […]
Caught the last bit of the interview late this afternoon. He spoke mostly about recruiting and how happy he was with the class, saying they were very athletiic, maybe not great volleyball players but that they had a lot of potential to develop. said he had a few invited walk-ons coming in that he couldn’t talk about and that he might have one more scholarship available. He also talked a bit about the RPI and hosting. He felt they had […]
http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/weeklyrpi/2013WVBrpi1.html 1. Texas. 2. Penn State 3. Washington. 4. Florida. 5. Missouri 6. Nebraska. 7. USC. 8. Stanford. 9. Kentucky. 10. Hawaii
Some shuffling among the top 9. Biggest move by Missouri from 7 to 4 USC drops from 4 to 8 Florida 5 to 7 Top 3 the same: 1. Texas. 2. Penn State. 3. Washington Northridge did get knocked out of the top 25 Enough points to be 26. UCSB enough points to be 34th http://www.avca.org/divisions/division-one-women/poll-11-18-13di/
Talk about a bad rotation … USC at Washington State Sunday USC serving for the match at 14-9, lose 21-19. 4. USC loses at Washington State 3-2 14. Wisconsin def. Ohio State 3-1 17. Kentucky def. Ole Miss 3-0
Thanks to the Gauchos’ 25-18, 27-29, 25-20, 21-25, 15-12 win over CSUN last night, Hawaii stays alive in the title hunt CSUN 12-2, UCSB 10-2, Hawaii 9-3. UH needs to win out and UCSB to lose another. if that happens and the three teams end up 13-3 … UCSB holds the tiebreak on CSUN having beaten the Matadors twice The Wahine hold the tiebreak over UCSB on point-differential. 213-207 For Hawaii to earn the tiebreak over CSUN, the Wahine have […]
Catching up on scores from the past couple of days Big West big match saturday has UCSB at CSUN 5 p.m. HST on ESPN 3; UCSB swept last meeting in SB also Saturday: Cal Poly at Davis; The Beach at Fullerton Thurs: UCI 3, UCR 0; UCSB 3, Davis 0; CSUN 3, Cal Poly 0 Fri: UCI 3, Fullerton 2; The Beach 3, UCR 1 1. Texas at Texas Tech Sat. 2. Penn State (A) def. Wisconsin 3-0; at No. […]