Comments on: Hartong POY as All-Big West teams announced

By: Hot

Hot — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 07:10:11 +0000

26. Thanks Cubicle. With those PAC-12 teams in the mix, I think Hartong might be the only lock. Uiato, Longo and Taylor possible HM’s.

By: Warriorfan

Warriorfan — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 09:13:52 +0000

23, not enough sets, and that’s totally on Uiato. Anyway one of the reasons they lost three conference matches is that they set Olevao too much.

By: Cubicle1126

Cubicle1126 — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 09:09:31 +0000

Hot — There are new regional alignments this year. Hawaii is in the Pacific North region with the following schools:

Oregon
Stanford
Washington
California
Washington State
Oregon State
St. Mary’s
Santa Clara
San Francisco
Pacific
Portland
Gonzaga
Hawaii
UC Davis
Cal Poly
UC Riverside
Colorado State
Wyoming
Utah State
Boise State
Air Force
Portland State
Northern Arizona
Sacramento State
Idaho State
Southern Utah
Weber State

I think Longo has a shot. Off the top of my head, the only standout libero I can think of is Orlandini from Washington. There may be others though from the other schools. But of the Big West schools in this region, Longo will already be the standout, as she was 1 of 2 on the Big West all-conference team. And the other libero is from UCSB, which is in another region.

By: Hot

Hot — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 07:56:36 +0000

Adolpho and Vorster lucky to be honored. Adolpho had a stretch of bad matches in conference, Vorster just did not get enough sets. Bottom line, neither made a real impact. Hawai’i was all about Hartong, Taylor and Olevao when it came to offense.

Hartong on All-Region team for sure, with Uiato. Taylor might get HM. Longo on the bubble as HM. Were there any “star” liberos in the West Region? Only UH libero to get regional recognition was Ashley Watanabe (honorable mention) in 2005.

By: Kazu

Kazu — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 04:58:05 +0000

Good going ladies. You all deserve the recognition. I strongly belive that Nikki Taylor will make AA status by the time she graduate.

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 04:18:41 +0000

Totally agree with mauna re: up-side. She is developing right before our eyes just like Emily did.

By: mauna

mauna — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 02:04:49 +0000

My take on the FOY awards. Ali Spindt may have been the coaches choice this time but she has no chance for NFOY. Nikki has way more upsides and will show it in her future play. Shoji has kept her from playing the backrow for the first 18/20 matches, but now has more than proven her value of being in for the 6 rotations. Wouldn’t surprise me if she raises her level of play next year and be the BW POY as a soph.

By: Cubicle1126

Cubicle1126 — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 01:37:22 +0000

maybe shoji was referring more to the perception of who should be region FOY, versus the actual criteria. being a conference FOY will certainly bode well for the player nominated.

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 00:19:53 +0000

18. not what I’ve been told, which is why Shoji said he was so upset about Croson not being FOY 2 years ago. It knocked her out of all-region consideration.

By: Cubicle1126

Cubicle1126 — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 23:49:14 +0000

cindy — it’s never been a requirement that a player be on the first team for their conference, or to be FOY of the conference, to be considered for the avca’s all-region list or region FOY honors, respectively. (maybe early on it was that way. but as far as i can recall, that has not been a requirement for a good many years now.)

for one thing, the avca all-region selection is based on season stats, but the conference awards are based on conference stats. so it’s really different criteria, at that point. (although, i’m sure there’s always overlap between first team all-conference honorees, and avca all-region honorees.)

for the regional FOY award, it is not limited to just the FOYs from conferences. and in fact it’d be tough to do that this year, because some schools from the same conference are in different regions now, due to the re-shuffling of the regional alignments. (ucsb is in the ‘pacific south’ region, and hawaii is in the ‘pacific north’ region. so hawaii’s taylor and uscb’s spindt won’t even be competing against each other for their respective region FOY honors.)

as i understand, each school can nominate one freshman for consideration for all-region FOY. freshmen who are named the region FOY, and any freshmen who are named to the all-region team, will all be eligible for national FOY consideration.

one significant change in the avca voting this year is that all coaches can vote now to select the all-region team. it’s not just decided by a regional committee anymore. in fact, the coaches HAVE to vote, if they want their own nominated players to be considered as well. and the avca site also says the voting totals will be announced after the selections are announced.