Volleyshots

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.

Latest news

Wahine at No. 9 in poll

By Cindy Luis on September 2, 2013

Kind of surprised since most coaches would have voted before the UH-USD match was over. but since the AVCA was so slow in reporting UH’s win over Texas … USD at No. 14 from 26. ww.avca.org/divisions/division-one-women/poll-9-2-13di/ Anyway The Hawaii women’s volleyball team moved up to No. 9 in the AVCA Division I Volleyball Coaches Top 25 announced today, the first official poll of the season. The Rainbow Wahine (2-1) were No. 11 in the preseason poll. Hawaii upset preseason No. […]

USD-Hawaii rewind

By Cindy Luis on September 1, 2013

Let me get this  started and then I’ll be back with some stats. The problem with the start of Set 5 Shoji turned in the lineup card. the wrong player went out on the court. It wasn’t caught It is the ref’s responsibility to check the lineup before he blows the whistle. I couldn’t hear it but it sounded like Shoji comment to the ref was that the official scorer signed off on the lineup that was on the court […]

USD 3, Hawaii 2

By Cindy Luis on September 1, 2013

Wahine starters: Longo, Adolpho. Hartong, Taylor, Vorster, Uiato, Kastl Live stats http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=23286

the arena wi-fi

By Cindy Luis on September 1, 2013

have passed along some of the problems to UH which include: limited to 2 hours confusion over the ‘free wi-fi access’ and the TWCable access the system overloaded last night something to be pointed out There are 2 internet things you can pick up in the arena 1 is the free wi-fi which will say free wi-or something like that (not there yet, will clarify) it has the wi-fi icon. you click on that, agree to terms, you get 2 […]

UH-UTEP rewind, look ahead to USD

By Cindy Luis on September 1, 2013

Sorry for the abrupt departure from cyberspace. I had a feeling that the free wi-fi in the arena was going to create some issues and it did. May be too many users that it got overwhelmed. but my UH access also knocked off. the free wi-fi only good for 2 hours and you can’t re-log in to get another 2 hours. will let UH know and hopefully they’ll have it fixed by next tournament. doubt if they can do much […]

Hawaii 3, UTEP 0

By Cindy Luis on August 31, 2013

Starting: Adolpho, Hartong, Uiato, Manu-Olevao, Longo, Long and Taylor. guessing you’ll see Goodman and Kastl get some playing tonight as they prep for Sunday’s match when they don’t have Manu-Olevao. be back in a bit. have to send in a short story from first match. would give you the link for live stats. but not working for me. UH up 3-1

No. 1 Texas 3, San Diego 2

By Cindy Luis on August 31, 2013

Sorry for the late start. Had a really nice chat with former ‘Bow Carlos Briceno, whose stepdaughter  (No. 1 for USD) is playing for the Toreros. many of you probably watching the match. Texas not looking very good. They were using their freshman setter. Not sure why but USD has looked good but Hawaii really needs Texas to win this one, otherwise it does diminish their win over Texas last night in national perception USD leads 25-19, 18-25, 25-21. Texas […]

Some Top 25 upsets 8-31, Nebraska loses

By Cindy Luis on August 31, 2013

Kind of giving up on pusting scores for the weekend but Gonzaga has pushed it to 5 with Washgion. UW Set 5 15-9. wasn’t that close. Was 8-3 at one point. AVCA site is worthless. still has Hawaii idle with Texas only playing USD but some upsets of note from Saturday (and late Friday) 10 Nebraska lost to Auburn 3-1 13 BYU (which I knew was overrated since their MWC Player of the Year is redshirting in vb to play […]