Comments on: A brief chat with Shoji https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/volleyshots/a-brief-chat-with-shoji/ Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:51:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: slBrown https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/volleyshots/a-brief-chat-with-shoji/#comment-26606 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:51:58 +0000 http://volleyshots.staradvertiserblogs.com/?p=81#comment-26606 HONOLULU – 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 Box in majestic Waikiki. After its dual match on March 15, the Rainbow Wahine will host FIU, Chaminade and Hawai’i Pacific in tournament action on Saturday, March 16.

The rest of the schedule will take the Rainbow Wahine to California and Arizona for a slew of dual matches and tournaments. With more teams in the collegiate sand volleyball fray this year, UH play will have at least two more dual matches than it did last year (10). Highlighting the dual match schedule are meetings in Southern California with first-year programs Nebraska (March 22) and UCLA (April 5). Also on the horizon is a showdown with defending national champion Pepperdine in Malibu on April 6.

On April 20-21, UH will compete in the USAV Beach Collegiate Challenge at Hermosa Beach, Calif. Last year the tournament served as the de facto West region’s qualifying competition for the inaugural national championship and could again prove critical to a possible UH appearance in the nationals.

“This year my two goals were to schedule as many top national sand volleyball programs as possible,” head coach Scott Wong said, “and to host some of those top teams in Hawai’i. We have a very tough schedule on the road and also get the opportunity to host one of the top East Coast teams in Florida International. I hope this will be the start of us attracting the top sand programs across the country to compete here in Hawai’i.”

For the second straight year the American Volleyball Coaches Association will host the Collegiate Sand Volleyball Championship in Gulf Shores, Ala., with the dates set for May 3-5. The competition will consist of both a team championship, which will include the top six NCAA women’s sand teams, and a pairs championship, which will consist of the top 16 collegiate doubles teams.

Invitations to participate will be based on 2013 season results and tournament selections will be made by a committee. Last year the duos of Jane Croson-Ashley Lee and Emily Hartong-Elizabeth Stoltzman represented UH in the pairs championship.
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Date Event Location Time/Result Details
3/15/2013 Florida International Queen’s Beach 9:30 a.m. Details
Hawai`i Tournament (Chaminade, Florida International, Hawai`i Pacific)
3/16-16/2013 Hawai`i Tournament Queen’s Beach All Day Details
3/22/2013 USC Los Angeles, Calif. 11:00 a.m. PT Details
3/22/2013 Nebraska Los Angeles, Calif. 1:00 p.m. PT Details
3/23/2013 Loyola Marymount Phoenix, Ariz. TBA Details
3/23/2013 Grand Canyon Phoenix, Ariz. TBA Details
Grand Canyon Tournament (Hawai`i, Grand Canyon, Loyola Marymount)
3/24/2013 Grand Canyon Tournament Phoenix, Ariz. All Day Details
3/26/2013 Cal State Bakersfield Long Beach, Calif. TBA Details
3/26/2013 Long Beach State Long Beach, Calif. TBA Details
4/5/2013 Irvine Valley College Irvine, Calif. TBA Details
4/5/2013 UCLA Irvine, Calif. TBA Details
4/5/2013 Long Beach State Irvine, Calif. TBA Details
4/6/2013 Pepperdine Malibu, Calif. TBA Details
4/6/2013 USC Malibu, Calif. TBA Details
USAV Beach Collegiate Challenge
4/20-21/2013 USAV Beach Collegiate Championship Hermosa Beach, Calif. All Day Details
AVCA National Championship
5/3-5/2013 AVCA National Championship Gulf Shores, Ala. All Day Details

Home Games are in bold

Neutral Site Games are in italics

]]> By: slBrown https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/volleyshots/a-brief-chat-with-shoji/#comment-26605 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 02:54:20 +0000 http://volleyshots.staradvertiserblogs.com/?p=81#comment-26605 ^
Babooze#2,

This is for you C.B.

Hindsight is 20/20…we’re better off looking ahead and forgeting about the past; yet ’cause it’s so fresh, still, in everyone’s minds we’ll analyze what SHOULD’ve been @Hec Ed. Pavillion, Dec. 1st ’12, 7pm PST, vs. UW:
*For the fall 2012, w/ that which was given, Croson (mainly) @LOH2 belonged…the athletes at the moment were actively developing*

Though as it were/would be against da Huskies:
Pos.#1, Mita
Pos.#2, Jade
Pos.#3, Hartong who’d play some @OPP
Pos.#4, Ashley &then Maeda
Pos.#5, Ali &then Kalei
Pos.#6, Jane

Hah?
:p

]]> By: mauna https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/volleyshots/a-brief-chat-with-shoji/#comment-26604 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 02:03:45 +0000 http://volleyshots.staradvertiserblogs.com/?p=81#comment-26604 I’ll say this with confidence that Dave will never move Emily to MB. She is way too valuable on the LOH. I have a feeling that among Kaela, Ashley, Tai, Ginger, Keani and Nikki one will step up and fill the need for a consistent blocker and terminator for the RS position. Emily and Jane will start as LOH1 and LOH2 when the season begins in August.

]]> By: Cindy Luis https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/volleyshots/a-brief-chat-with-shoji/#comment-26603 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:11:42 +0000 http://volleyshots.staradvertiserblogs.com/?p=81#comment-26603 No one has said Hartong is moving. It was a comment made in response to the worry over not having enough middles. I’d cut Manu Olevao some slack. activated weeks into the season as a true freshman.

]]> By: Hot https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/volleyshots/a-brief-chat-with-shoji/#comment-26602 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:03:10 +0000 http://volleyshots.staradvertiserblogs.com/?p=81#comment-26602 I don’t think it would be a good idea to move Hartong back to MB. She’s pretty much the only OH who can produce consistently. Even her bad matches weren’t all that bad. Even if Nikki Taylor is the second coming of Kim Willoughby or Lily Kahumoku or Kanani Danielson, they would still need Hartong’s consistency. Croson has been consistently inconsistent, Goodman lacks offense on the right, Manu-Olevao was up and down and Kastl really can’t produce against top teams.

]]> By: dedicatedfan https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/volleyshots/a-brief-chat-with-shoji/#comment-26601 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:23:52 +0000 http://volleyshots.staradvertiserblogs.com/?p=81#comment-26601 Cindy, just hoping it does not come to that, Hartong moving back to middle. The 3 middles need to stay healthy and effective.

]]> By: Cindy Luis https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/volleyshots/a-brief-chat-with-shoji/#comment-26600 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:18:08 +0000 http://volleyshots.staradvertiserblogs.com/?p=81#comment-26600 Don’t know if Croson will be ‘forced’ to play RS on the beach. She’s pretty versatile. I could see some movement in terms of positions on the indoor team. And as someone pointed out earlier … was my thought as well … that Hartong is always an option back in the middle. Haven’t seen N. Taylor play so don’t know how she would be in the middle.

]]> By: Cindy Luis https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/volleyshots/a-brief-chat-with-shoji/#comment-26599 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:15:53 +0000 http://volleyshots.staradvertiserblogs.com/?p=81#comment-26599 it would be nice if there was an edit button for you folks. I’ll ask but you know how long it took to move the blog over to the ‘new’ server.
As for English majors … it’s not the only classes they take. Part of the reason Umlauft was so frustrated with the American college system. He was an engineering major and didn’t see the need for taking classes outside his major.

]]> By: slBrown https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/volleyshots/a-brief-chat-with-shoji/#comment-26598 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:46:21 +0000 http://volleyshots.staradvertiserblogs.com/?p=81#comment-26598 Croson will be forced to play RS on the 2013 Wahine beach team, with whomever. She plays the RS equally as effective indoors.

Uiato will be much improved next indoor season also.

What would’ve been a slight difficulty to set in 2012, it’ll become pretty routine with Croson at Opposite. Dave couldn’t afford to do without Jane’s hitting efficiency on the Outside last season, but he will have the grace to move a number of individuals in 2013 as he’d see fit courtside.

I wish that this blog had its own ‘edit’ button also. Perhaps Cindy could make a point to request it of IT personnel.

]]> By: Cindy Luis https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/volleyshots/a-brief-chat-with-shoji/#comment-26597 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 06:05:52 +0000 http://volleyshots.staradvertiserblogs.com/?p=81#comment-26597 not sure what you are talking about in terms of Akana.

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