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.
Bye week didn’t change anything for UH. Warriors still at No. 13. BYU and UCI still tied at No. 1. followed by Stanford, Long Beach State, Pepperdine, Ohio State, UCLA, CSU Northridge, Penn State and USC. Not sure why the love for USC. Trojans lost twice last week. 11. Pacific and Cal Baptist tied. 13. Hawaii. 14. Lewis. 15. UC Santa Barbara.
BYU def. UCLA 25-22, 25-15, 25-23 Stanford def. UC San Diego 25-22, 25-22, 25-23 UC Irvine def. Pacific, 25-16, 25-15, 25-21.
UC Irvine def. Stanford (h) 25-18, 25-18, 20-25, 25-23 Long Beach State (h) def. USC 25-21, 25-21, 20-25, 25-22 Pacific (h) def. UC San Diego, 25-22, 17-25, 26-24, 25-17 Cal State Northridge def. Pepperdine, 16-25, 25-22, 25-20, 27-29, 15-13
UCSB 25 18 13 27 9 BYU 21 25 25 25 15 (gave up a 6-0 run late. was tied at 8-8. then 14-8 Only other match: going 5 UCLA 28 25 25 25 12 Cal Baptist 30 23 27 23 15
Have been told that Hilo grad Reed Sunahara has taken an assistant’s job with USA volleyball women’s team. Sunahara resigned about a year ago after a number of years as coach at Cincinnati. Not a real surprise. He was a teammate of USA head coach Karch Kiraly at UCLA.
from UH this morning.. The University of Hawai’i unveiled its 2013 women’s sand volleyball schedule as the program enters its second season as a collegiate sport. The Rainbow Wahine program will play at least a dozen regular-season dual matches, participate in three tournaments and host a pair of home events. UH will open the season by hosting Florida International on Friday, March 15th. UH’s season-opening match—along with all other home events and practices—will again be at the Queen’s Beach Sand […]
BYU and UCI tied for No. 1. BYU with 8 votes, UCI with 7 3. Long Beach State. 4. Stanford. 5. Pepperdine. 6. UCLA. 7. Penn State (1 vote). 8. USC. 9. Ohio State. 10. CSU Northridge 11 Pacific. 12. Cal Baptist. 13. Hawaii. 14. Lewis. 15. UC Santa Barbara.
He walked by and said hi while I was finishing up. Asked him a few things On Stauber … said she was going to be the third setter and still a backup. No surprise she’s gone. On Hagins … kind of surprised. He said he had let some of the potential recruits go because they were done with recruiting at that point. But he’s really happy to get Goodman. Middles … Tuaniga is No. 3 on the depth chart. They […]