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.
First, thank you all for the comments on the other thread. just doing my job. The normal practice routine for about 3 hours. Small groups by position serve and pass, then a couple of 4s on 4s and 3s on 3s min scrimmages. next session had two courts of 6 being served to, running plays and alternating hitters taking swings. Onc court had Uiato setting, Longo as libero, Kastl and Harong Ls, Vorster MB, Goodman RS. The oterh Higgins setting. […]
Forgot to mention Tama was Player of the match The top-ranked U.S. Women’s National Volleyball Team used a 20-6 block advantage and Kristin Hildebrand (Orem, Utah) scored 21 points to defeat Japan 25-17, 25-19, 21-25, 25-18 Saturday afternoon during the FIVB World Grand Prix Pool M, the third and final preliminary weekend for the event, in Sendai, Japan. Libero Tama Miyashiro was credited with a team-high seven digs and added seven excellent receptions on 14 errorless chances. Team USA, which […]
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For those of you who aren’t S-A subscribers, here’s Ann’s story from this morning. There were some comments on another thread about it so to open the discussion up to everyone …. And yes, Higgins is pushing Uiato. Which is a good thing. Ann will be breaking down each positions over the next few days First of five parts For one glaring reason, the gap between all-conference University of Hawaii senior setter Mita Uiato and freshman Tayler Higgins is not […]
They went late, 5:30-815. supposed to end at 8 but they were in a middle of playing ‘baseball.’ one of Shoji’s favorite scrimmage games. Don’t ask me to explain it. somehow points equal either base runners or runs, opposing kills and blocks equals outs. Suffice it to say, it went extra innings. Early on, they had some fun drills, where people who don’t normally hit from the left side did, such as the middles and liberos/DSs.Sort of like pregame warmups. […]
Many of you read Ferd Lewis’ column yesterday on Croson maybe getting her release and have commented on other threads. My thought was Shoji wanted there to be some consequences for her actions but it seems like she may be doing what she was asked to do by UH now at UofA. my comment earlier in response to LC saying Shoji was doing a flip flop: As for Croson, Shoji wanted her to have some consequences for what went on […]
This from E Online. was posted up on Facebook but wanted to share the link. As always Vic looks great. http://www.eonline.com/news/448253/kevin-federline-wedding-pics-victoria-prince-s-dress-their-first-kiss-more-plus-watch-k-fed-s-proposal
Will not be at practice today. However, Ann is going this evening (530-8 pm) said if anything noteworthy happens she’ll let me know.