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.
Livestats available at http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=23305 Very busy night Oahu, may affect the attendance. a bit of rain and a bit of traffic coming down into the quarry. UH starting same lineup. Longo wearing the lime jersey.
Hartong one of the 10, announced this morning Ten NCAA women’s volleyball student-athletes who excel both on and off the court were selected as finalists today for the 2013 Senior CLASS Award® in collegiate volleyball. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence – community, classroom, character and competition. Named are Jennifer Cross, Michigan Ashley Potts, Western Kentucky Natalie Hagglund, USC Ariel […]
I have asked nicely to stop the name-calling without any results. Previous thread likely won’t make a lot of sense because of the number of ‘deleted’ comments. Guess I need to start charging for baby-sitting. Anyway ere is the link to the AVCA watch list. http://www.avca.org/includes/media/docs/2013-NCAA-Championship-Host-Watch-List-Release.pdfAgain, these are the 33 schools who meet at least one of the following criteria. as it also states These are POTENTIAL hosts. Teams that are in the AVCA Coaches Top 25 poll as of […]
http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/weeklyrpi/2013WVBrpi1.html Two five-set losses led to Hawaii dropping six place in the NCAA Ratings Percentage Index and five places in the AVCA Division I Coaches Top 25 poll released today. The Rainbow Wahine (16-4, 5-3 Big West) lost to both Cal State Northridge and UC Davis on the road last week, losing consecutive conference matches for the first time since 1993. It is also the first time since 1994 that Hawaii has lost three matches in conference play. The Ratings […]
http://www.avca.org/divisions/division-one-women/poll-10-28-13di/ Two five-set losses led to Hawaii dropping five places in today’s AVCA Division I Coaches Top 25 poll. The Rainbow Wahine (16-4, 5-3 Big West) lost to both Cal State Northridge and UC Davis on the road last week, losing consecutive conference matches for the first time since 1993. It is also the first time since 1994 that Hawaii has lost three matches in conference play. The top six teams remained the same, led by Texas (15-2), which received […]
A very bad road trip for the team. first time since 1993 they’ve dropped consecutive conference matches. That was back when it wasn’t a home-and-home. lost twice to Long Beach State in Klum. This is my story from the website. pretty shocking. Senior hitter Emily Hartong put down a match-high 29 kills and sophomore hitter Tai Manu-Olevao added 14 but it was not enough as No. 8 Hawaii dropped a second consecutive five-set match in Big West play tonight, falling […]
Due to UH football, radio is 1500 gametracker through ucdavisaggies.com bigwest.tv you can see warmups going on now.
Other threads getting way too long and too confusing as to who is responding to what. I do apologize again for not responding to all the comments. I am not getting notices that there are new posts as I normally get. Check with one of our web guys. sounds like they made some changes to the website and did something about filters and notifications. Friday morning QBs go for it.