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To those who said earlier …. guess someone forgot to nominate a UH player again …. before the award was even announced … Hartong was nominated. Natalie Allen (Murrieta, Calif./Murrieta Valley HS), who helped Cal State Northridge to its first 6-0 start since 1997, captured Big West Women’s Volleyball Player of the Week honors as she was named the Most Valuable Player of the Fiesta Bowl Tournament.The Matadors went 3-0 at the Fiesta Bowl Tournament with two five-set wins over […]

A 3-0 week that included a sweep of No. 10 UCLA and coach Dave Shoji becoming the all-time career leader in Division I women’s volleyball victories, had Hawaii moving down a spot in today’s AVCA Top 25 coaches poll. The Rainbow Wahine (5-1)  fell to No. 10, their preseason ranking. Hawaii’s week included Shoji surpassing retired UCLA coach Andy Banachowski for in all-time wins and a sweep of then-No. 10 UCLA in front of a sold-out crowd of 10,300. Shoji […]

Good morning all I will be away from the computer this morning and may not be able to post when the poll comes out. If you folks see it beforehand, would you mind posting on this thread? Mentioned elsewhere that I spoke with Mick Haley, USC, last nigiht. If there is a first-place vote for San Diego, that is from him. When I said I thought he’d move up to No. 1. He said that if the voters were paying […]

The comment that there seemed like there had been more than five made me start doing some research because I thought so too. I can remember having a discussion with Riley Wallace years ago ss to who had more, his team or Shoji’s. I said the Wahine and he said no his. But I digress. When I looked at the current media guide, they only list the top attendances, which is 10,300. I mistakenly thought it was the list that […]

Certainly a very good win for Hawaii tonight. Think the concern was the potential letdown for the Wahine after such an emotinal high of last night. Be interesting to see the poll Monday with all the upsets. Thought they had a nice game plan on Lowe. She was hitting .000 through Set 2. ended up 7-5-20. We know how UH traditionally does against left-handers. UCLA hit 169. Reeves finally got going 8-1-20. Looks a lot like her mom who also […]

Victory No. 1,108 may have even been sweeter than Friday’s record breaker for Hawaii coach Dave Shoji. Not only did it come against No. 10 UCLA — in the 71st meeting of his program’s longest running series — it came in front of the 14tth sellout at the Stan Sheriff Center. Behind the tournament’s most outstanding player Emily Hartong’s 15 kills and a raucous turnstile crowd of 9,664 (10,300 tickets), the ninth-ranked Rainbow Wahine dispatched No. 10 UCLA 25-18, 25-17, […]

UH with the same starting lineup. Longo, Taylor, Vorster, Manu-Olevao, Uito, Hartong, Adolpho UCLA starting libero is Rachel Inouye from Punahou. UH leads the all-time series 36-34.

As of 630 pm. 200 tickets remain. It would be the first sellout since 2011 regional semi against USC and fourth fifth all-time for women’s volleyball