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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.
This is the annual round-robin with the three DII schools and UH. It’s March 9 in Gym II starting at 8 a.m. UH, HPU, Chaminade and BYUH. Admission is free but there is no bleacher seating.
The Hawaii i women’s volleyball team will host Texas Tech in a spring exhibition match on Friday, Mar. 15 at 7 p.m. at the Stan Sheriff Center. Tickets for the match are $10 for adults, $6 for senior citizens (65+), and $4 for students ages 4-18. UH-Manoa students receive free admission with a valid UHM ID. Fans can purchase tickets online and print them on their home computer, or visit the Stan Sheriff Center Box Office (Monday through Friday, 9:a.m. […]
Not a lot of movement from last week UCI stays at No. 1, 14 votes BYU stays at No. 2, 2 votes Long Beach stays at No. 3 Stanford and Pepperdine swap players, the Cardin up to No. 4, Bruins down to No. 5 UCLA and Ohio State swap players, the Bruins up to No. 6, Buckeyes down to No. 7 CSUN and Penn State stay at 8 and 9, respectively Lewis jumps up from 12 to 10 Hawaii at […]
Don’t ever remember it being bunched up like this. One of Pepperdine’s OHs injured in the win over BYU Tonight UCLA def. Pepperdine (h), 25-18, 25-17, 25-18 BYU (h) def. Stanford, 23-25 25-23, 21-25, 25-21, 15-13 Earlier this week BYU 3, UOP 0, Long Beach State 3, CSUN 1, UCSB 3, USC 1 BYU 10 2 11-3 UCI 11 3 […]
Asked UH today about when ticket sales were going to be. Was told that they were working on that, as well as the exact date and time of the match. Not sure if it’s because sand volleyball was opening the morning of the 16th or it’s something to do with Texas Tech’s travel. Was told they’d know next week. As mentioned earlier, Uiato, Vorster and Longo are all in Colorado Springs for the A2 tryout that starts tomorrow. Hartong not […]
No question a brutal road trip. Had to be demoralizing to be up 17-11 and 18-13 and lose Set 2. Might have been a lot different going into Set 3. Think they had no gas left in the tank. Affected the serving and the passing. You saw the fatigue early with all those serving errors in Set 1. Timmer 2-0-5, Sedore 10-4-30, Averill 6-2-6, Marks 5-2-11, Zarkovic 10-7-26, West 1-2-3, Holg 1-2-6 playing in Sets 1 and 3. 2 aces, […]
Sorry, dentist ran late and traffic in town a mess. livestats available at ucirvinesports.com video at ustream.tv/channel/irvine-volleyball UCI wins Set 1 25-20.
As was written on the other thread, they put up a tough fight but a loss is still a loss. Not an excuse but it’s a young team playing their third road match in four days. Anteaters played Thursday vs. UCSB, at UCSD Saturday, all of a 60-minute freeway drive. Ramos 52 assists, 11 digs, 3 BA Timmer 0-0-1, 1 SA, 3 SE, 1 BA Sedore 20-9-45, 0 ace, 5 SE, 6 digs, 1 BS, 1 BA Averill 9-3-15, 3 […]