Comments on: Hawaii women’s volleyball: AVCA All-Region: Robyn Ah Mow Coach of Year, Norene Iosia first team

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 13:13:51 +0000

17. think it caught Spectrum by surprise. It was bleeped out on the replay. She is nothing if not genuine.
She was a little embarrassed about it on Monday during our interviews.

By: wahinefan87

wahinefan87 — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 09:06:50 +0000

Coach Shoji out here keeping it real https://twitter.com/DaveShoji/status/1204662934627999745

By: nomu1001

nomu1001 — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 08:15:03 +0000

Good to see JR back in time for the tournament. Friday is championship day!

By: Sheila

Sheila — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 04:10:37 +0000

Although anchorman, Ryan, as usual spit the curse of ‘reverse sweep by San Diego’, wahine coaching staff managed to overcome it by executing another option of planned strategy during third game (once SD briefly took the lead). Be focus solely on all plausible strategy options to pass B2B hurdle rather trapping into recognition distractions…Both opponents are higher ranked (not by mistake but because their staff are excellent in counteracting chess/strategy moves. Wahine staff needs to keep up with them to repeat super team effort for two day marathon without getting cramps in mid of the run…Good move to use 6’3”Amber’s in full rotation who could intercept high off roof fly…IMO, Jolie needs to contribute more now being in starting lineup against higher rank opponents, and also IMO, #20, BVS and Norene, (crafty weaponry) become more effective as later phases of match…So far, RAM-ANG staff has done a marvelous job, keep up good work for two more weeks!

By: mauna

mauna — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 04:10:10 +0000

AVCA got it right. Big West Co-coach of the Year, really. Congrats Robyn, Rene, Hanna and Amber!

By: HighGreenWall

HighGreenWall — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 03:39:10 +0000

Great job this past weekend ladies, congratulations to all we!l deserved.
Does anyone know how or where to find the recruiting class rankings for this class? All my searches end up at the NCAA or AVCA rankings.

By: Harvey

Harvey — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 02:07:41 +0000

16. I heard a Robyn “family unfriendly” utterance at during the post-game interview after the San Diego match. Caught me by surprise and was really funny.

Good thing that the FCC has no jurisdiction over Spectrum Sports, so no fines are coming.

For some reason, Ah Mow’s cussing comes across as her just being genuine.

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 01:37:06 +0000

8. Couldn’t tell you. The awards are from the AVCA, not the NCAA
9. IF it happens, Team would fly to Pittsburgh courtesy of NCAA travel. Not sure how long they’d stay in Madison before moving to final four site.
14. and they had to bleep out one of Ah Mow’s less than family friendly comments ‘-)

By: wahinefan87

wahinefan87 — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 00:08:04 +0000

NCAA Volleyball picked one of those UNC/UH long rallies as their #1 play of the week:

https://twitter.com/NCAAVolleyball/status/1204438509370691586

Also, the NCAA Championships Hawaii v. San Diego highlight video is up on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fyVwxBE8wE

Nice to see the Rainbow Wahine getting some love from the NCAA before the regionals.

By: WaveRipper

WaveRipper — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 23:59:49 +0000

(For some reason what I wrote didn’t post, so I’ll try again.)

Per the new AVCA rules, if a student-athlete wins her conference’s POY award AND is named All-Regional she is automatically AVCA All-America Honorable Mention and is eligible for First, Second, or Third Team consideration. Thus, Norene Iosia is officially an AA.

Further, if a player is named All-Region Honorable Mention, she becomes eligible for All-America Honorable Mention. Well earned, Hannah and Amber!

Aside to Cindy: Check out the East Coast Region awards. I’ve never seen anything like it before! 4 of Georgia Tech’s players are named to the First Team.

Yet the Yellow Jackets, a bubble team, failed to win a bid/berth to the NCAA D1 Women’s Volleyball tournament and instead accepted the invite to the NIVC, where the Jackets continue postseason play right now (Tuesday, Dec. 10) as they host Liberty in the quarterfinal of the NIVC. Take that NCAA Volleyball Committee!

GO BOWS!