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.
We had the home schedule posted already Here’s the complete schedule, minus the pairings for the Sept. 20-21 Wichita State tourney and Nov. 15. they’ve talked about it being a match against the sand team, or one of the DII schools or a Japnese team. http://www.hawaiiathletics.com/documents/2013/5/15/2013_Hawaii_Womens_Volleyball_Schedule.pdf?id=2738 Sorry for the blank box. it still won’t let me cut and paste.
Appears Stauber will be up at Santa Clara next season. Heard about this last week, been working on confirming it. A good source has. Interesting since there were three other setters on the 2012 Bronco roster, all underclassmen. Anderson, a junior, with 827 assists, Heier, a sophomore, with 588 Sophomore Sliger played in 10 sets.
Some really high-quality play during the tournament, particularly Saturday’s final between Punahou and Kamehameha. very impressed by the defense of both teams. Couple of college coaches in town to scout. Ferguson from USC, Rasay from Stanford. And Hall was at McKinley a couple of the nights I was there. Couple of players have committed for next year: Punahou’s Fey to UH and Peros to Vassar, Kamehameha’s Kaniho and Mosher to Grand Canyon.Moanalua’s Caldwell to play football, looking like either UNLV […]
AVCA men 1. UCI (15 votes. 2. BYU (1 vote). 3. Long Beach State. 4. UCLA. 5. Pepperdine. 6. Stanford. 7. UCSB. 8. Cal Baptist. 9. Louola-Chicago. 10. Lewis. 11. Ball State. 12. Penn State. 13. Hawaii. 14. CSUN. 15. Ohio State Volleyball Mag 1. UCI (all 10 votes). 2. BYU. 3. Long Beach State. 4. UCLA. 5. Pepperdine. 6. Loyola-Chicago. 7. Stanford. 8. UCSB. 9. Cal Baptist. 10. Penn State Receiving votes: Lewis, Ball State, Hawaii, Pfeifer. I voted […]
Congrats to Mita Uiato and Tai Manu-Olevao Announced this morning by USAV USA Volleyball has announced its 48-player roster for the U.S. Women’s National Volleyball Senior A2 Program that will train and compete this summer in Dallas. The U.S. Women’s National Volleyball Senior A2 program is available to athletes with collegiate eligibility remaining for the 2013 season. This program is scheduled to take place in Dallas from June 25 to July 4 in conjunction with the USA Volleyball Girls’ Junior […]
Kawika and Erik Shoji, Matt Rawson, Alfee Reft and Brad Lawson were named to the USAV World League Roster today for the FIVB competition. Didn’t realize Alfee was still playing. He’s been up at Minnesota as an assistant coach http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Volleyball/Features/2013/May/06/USAV-Announces-2013-World-League-Roster.aspx#.UYgP-uqKqps.mailto COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 6, 2013) – USA Volleyball has announced its 22-player roster for the 2013 FIVB World League.The World League is the premier annual men’s international volleyball tournament, where 18 teams from around the world compete over seven […]
INfo from The Beach: Down 2-1 in the championship match against No. 1 Pepperdine, No. 2 Long Beach State got a win from Janisa Johnson and Tyler Jackson, who finished the season undefeated, tying the national championship 2-2. Lauren Minkel and Jocelyn Neely then finished off the day with a 21-19, 9-21, 15-10 win in the final match of the day, clinching a win for the 49ers. With the win, the 49ers handed the defending champions their first loss in two years of Sand […]
Impressive win by the Anteaters, becoming the first team to win consecutive titles since UCLA in 95-96. UCI wins 25-23, 25-22, 26-24. Think what impressed me the most was UCI holding off three set points in Set 3, down 24-21, scoring five straight with BYU in a bad rotation. Anteaters win the block war 17-6 and did a great job on serve-receive. Sander with 20 of BYU’s 47 kills, not much help. Boyce got pretty predictable at the end. UCI […]