Big West scores 9-27
By Cindy Luis on September 27, 2013Long Beach State 3 UC Santa Barbara Cal Poly def . UC Irvine at Cal Poly, 25-22, 25-18, 25-11
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.
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Moving on to Friday, PSU upset, Adolpho still with basketball
By Cindy Luis on September 27, 2013Heading out to the arena in a bit. Fullerton at Hawaii, 7 p.m. HST Will update more Top 25 scores when I get there but … At University Park, PA. Big Ten opener for both No. 15 Michigan State (12-2) def. No. 1 Penn State (9-2) 25-23, 26-24, 19-25, 19-25, 15-9 Likely buried on the other thread. Someone questioned why Adolpho wasn’t on the basketball roster yesterday. Simple answer: It hadn’t been updated until until today One last comment regarding […]
Comments from Danielson following exhibition
By Cindy Luis on September 25, 2013Not going to stay too long. It’s freezing in here. Danielson came by. Asked her how she was feeling. She is still recouping from meniscus surgery (left knee) which was in June. She’s been limited in her jumping and knew she’d only play in two sets. Thought the crowd was really good and she was happy to play in the arena again. Said it was always an amazing experience. And happy to speak English since she doesn’t get to much […]
Queenseis 3, Wahine 0
By Cindy Luis on September 25, 2013Starting for UH Long, Taylor, Vorster, Manu-Olevao, Uiato, Adolpho and Hartong Danielson starting for the Queenseis Former Gov. Waihe’e just showed up Live stats at http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=23299
Ticket, other info for Toyota exhibition
By Cindy Luis on September 24, 2013No radio or TV, only live stats for Wedneday’s match. 7 p.m. start Tickets range $5 (ages 4-18) to $17 adult lower bowl other info on tickets https://ev9.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetEventInfo?ticketCode=GS%3AHAWAII%3AWVB13%3AWVB10%3A&linkID=hawaii&shopperContext=&pc=&caller=&appCode=&groupCode=WVB&cgc=
Hartong wins another weekly BWC honor
By Cindy Luis on September 23, 2013Senior hitter Emily Hartong picked up her second Big West women’s volleyball player of the week in four weeks today. It was the third for a Rainbow Wahine this month; senior setter Mita Uiato was honored last week. Hartong averaged 4.18 kills and 3.09 digs en route to the MVP honors at the Shocker Volleyball Classic. The Rainbow Wahine defeated South Dakoto, No. 23 Creighton and Wichita State. Hartong hit .284 (46-13-116) for the tournament with double-figure kills in each […]
Hawaii up to No. 6
By Cindy Luis on September 23, 2013Sorry, getting a slow start this morning Hawaii up to a spot to No. 6. Last week’s No. 2 San Diego took a big hit, falling to No. 8 after being swept at BYU.. It moved everyone else up a spot 1. Penn State, 53 votes, stay;s at 1 2. Washington, 5 votes, up a spot to 3 3. Florida, up a spot to 5 4. USC, 2 votes, up a spot to 5 5. Texas (nice five-set win over […]
Hawaii-WSU rewind, Hartong MVP
By Cindy Luis on September 21, 2013will start with the basics, which is the brief story that is up on our website. will be back later with quotes from Shoji. won’t have time for much more until I get into the office, probably atound 530 HST Senior All-American Emily Hartong put down a match-high 13 kills, all coming in the first two sets, and sophomore hitter Tai Manu-Olevao added 10 as No. 7 Hawaii made its first road trip of the season a successful one when […]