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

Final MPSF standings, UH broadcast info

By Cindy Luis on April 13, 2013

UH match at 3 p.m. HST Saturday Match is during BYU’s finals so we’ll see how the crowd will be. Been years when the students haven’t come BYU TV will air it and Hawaii radio is tentative BYU 21-3 UC I  and Long Beach 18-6 UCLA 16-8 Pepperdine 13-11 Stanford & Cal Baptist  12-12 UCSB 11-13 UH  10-14 CSUN 9-15 USC & Pacific 6-18 UCSD 4-20 Saturday results Hawaii def. UCSD 25-27, 26-24, 19-25, 25-21, 15-11 Pacific (h) def. Cal […]

Warriors rally in 5, heading to Provo

By Cindy Luis on April 13, 2013

Crazy night. Sorry still up in Waikele after water polo. My prediction at the pool was that UH would lose in five. Surprised when seeing the final game tracker. Anyway, only got to hear up until the end of Game 3. Things were sounding good at that point. Sophomore opposite Brook Sedore put down a career-high 31 kills and No. 14 Hawaii did what had appeared two weeks ago to be the impossible: make the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation volleyball […]

Warriors at UCSD Saturday 4-13

By Cindy Luis on April 13, 2013

Match on 1500-Am livestats free, video and audio for a charge. All available at ucsdtritons.com CSUN at The Beach stats at longbeachstate.com CSUN tweeted that the Matadors coaches had tweaked his lineup with 2 new starters, including one making his first collegiate state

other MPSF scores & tourney pairings 4-12

By Cindy Luis on April 12, 2013

Top 4 seeds were already set prior to tonight 1. BYU. 2. UCI. 3. Long Beach State. 4. UCLA BYU hosts No. 8. UCI hosting UCSB. Long Beach State hosts Stanford. UCLA hosts Pepperdine. BYU def. Pacific (h), 25-21, 25-23, 25-19 Stanford (h) def. Cal Baptist 25-23, 20-25, 25-16, 23-25, 15-10 Pepperdine def. UC Santa Barbara (h), 20-25, 25-21, 25-19, 25-23 UCLA (h) def. USC, 25-16, 25-18, 25-15.

Tuileta commits to UH

By Cindy Luis on April 12, 2013

Story first tweeted by Tsai, picked up by Kekaula Punahou junior quarterback Tui Tuileta commits to UH. Chow has agreed to let him play both sports, football and volleyball. Would be a great ‘get’ for Warrior volleyball for the 2015 season.

Warriors stay alive with 3-1 win over UCSD

By Cindy Luis on April 12, 2013

Sorry, out a Mililani for a track meet. Sophomore opposite Brook Sedore put down 19 kills and sophomore middle Taylor Averill added 13 as No. 13 Hawaii downed UC San Diego 25-20, 15-25, 25-21, 25-23 tonight in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation volleyball match in La Jolla, Calif. The Warriors (11-16, 9-14 MPSF) remained alive in the hunt for the eighth and last MPSF tournament playoff. Hawaii needs to beat UC San Diego again Saturday and have Cal State Northridge […]

CSUN loses, Warriors staying alive

By Cindy Luis on April 10, 2013

UCI sweeps CSUN 25-19, 25-19, 25-22 UCI locks up No. 2 seed. CSUN at The Beach Saturday. UH needs to win Friday to keep thoughts alive. then it would come down to Saturday’s outcomes. sorry but have to go out to an interview, scheduled in Aiea at 6 p.m.

Warriors stay at 14 in poll & playoff stuffs

By Cindy Luis on April 8, 2013

not much movement in the poll, BYU and The Beach 1-2. but the 49ers picked up two first-place votes. UCLA and UCI stay a 3-4, Cal Baptist and Pepperdine trade places at 5-6. 7-8-9-10 stay the same with UCSB, Stanford, Lewis & CSUN 11 Loyola up 2 spots from 13, 12 Ohio State down 1 from 12. 13. Penn State down 1. 14 UH. 15. Ball State says put. Warriors will know before they leave for UCSD whether they’re still […]