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.
Most of the top 25 playing Fri-Sun this week 1. Texas idle 2. Penn State idle 3. Washington idle 4. USC idle 5. Florida idle 6. Stanford idle 7. Minnesota idle lost to Wisconsin 3-1 Wed. 8. Hawaii at CSUN 9. San Diego at St. Mary’s 10. Michigan Sttate idle los 11. Missouri idle 12. Colorado State (H) leads Fresno State 2-0 13. Nebraska idle 14. North Carolina idle 15. Kentucky idle Lost at Georgia Wed, 3-2 16. Wisconsin def. […]
Just a reminder that because of the World Series broadcast today and Saturday, Wahine volleyball mathes at CSUN today and UC Davis Saturday will be on 1500 instead of 1420. Meaning no internet on espn1420am.com but there is streaming video at BigWest.TV audio link is through GoMatadors.com as are live stats
http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/weeklyrpi/2013WVBrpi1.html 1. Texas 2. Penn State 3. Florida 4. USC 5. Creighton 6. Washington 7. Missouri 8. Stanford 9. Hawaii. 10. Kansas
http://www.avca.org/divisions/division-one-women/poll-10-21-13di/ Wahine up a spot to No. 8. 11. Missouri 23-0 surprised they aren’t getting more love as Tsai would say The Rainbow Wahine (16-2), who had a bye week last week, went from No. 9 to No. 8 in the rankings that saw a number of upsets create movement among the teams above them. Texas (13-2), the preseason No. 1, returned to the top spot, receiving 44 of the 60 first-place votes. The Longhorns, who lost the season-opener to Hawaii, […]
1. USC (A) lost to Arizona 3-0 2 Florida (A) lost to Missouri 3-1 3. Texas (H) def. Texas Tech 3-1 4. Penn State def. Northwestern, 3-0 5. Michigan State (A) lost to No. 15 Wisconsin 3-1 6. Washington (H) def. Stanford 3-2 7. Stanford (A) lost to Washington 3-2 8. Nebraska idle 9. Hawaii Idle 10. Minnesota Idle 11. San Diego Idle 12 Colorado State idle 13. North Carolina idle 14. Kentucky idle 16. Wisconsin def. No 5 Michigan […]
Big West UC Santa Barbara def. UC Davis 3-2 UC Irvine def. CSU Fullerton 3-0 Long Beach State (H) def. UC Riverside 3-0 CSUN (A) def. Cal Poly 3-2 Top 25 1. USC idle 2. Florida idle 3. Texas (H) v Iowa State 4. Penn State idle 5. Michigan State idle 6. Washington idle 7. Stanford idle 8. Nebraska (H) lost to No. Purdue 3-1 9. Hawaii (idle 10. Minnesota H) def. No. 16 Michigan 3-1 11. San Diego def. […]
Longo is wearing the bright yellow green jersey Normal Varsity starters. alums look pretty serious. Ah Mow-Santos. Maeda L, Duggins, Hewitt, Hedder Ilustre, Sanders. … Brandt and Kamana’o both in now.
Someone asked on another thread about who is playing. we did not get a roster for the ‘vintage match’ which will go just one set. they did the usual 60 minute protocol with the varsity. with the alums warming up on one side. some people where that I hadn’t mentioned before are Jayme Lee, Lisa Strand Maa, Melody Eckmeier Studer, Waynette Mitchell. Terry Maltierre, Kamanao and Am Mow-Santos are setting the alumnae warmup. Hewitt, Duggins, Wurts, Ka’aihue, Sanders, Bradnt, Maeda, […]