Zarkovic 1st team MPSF, Kanetake 2nd, and about Pestolesi
Siki Zarkovic named first team, Kanetake second, van Tilburg honorable mention as well as all-freshmen team
Stanford’s Shaw POY and the Beach’s DeFalco FOY.
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/mpsf/sports/m-volley/auto_pdf/2015-16/misc_non_event/mvb-all-mpsf.pdf
to recap the ‘rumor’ about IVC coach Tom Pestolesi joining the UH staff. Since it’s out there.
He has always said he’d like to come out for a season before Shoji retires.
It should happen this fall.
But a lot has to happen before it does.
My understanding is he would take a sabbatical from IVC, where he coaches and is a tenured professor. A sabbatical means he’s basically an unpaid volunteer.
There’s a lot of paperwork to be done so nothing official.
UH has yet to post the opening for Ah Mow-Santos’ replacement. There likely would be a push to have a female on staff but, of course, they can’t say that.
Previous thread mentioned perhaps getting Diane Sebastian Pestolesi to be on staff as well. Don’t see that happening. She’s chair of the health department at Saddleback, has her Ph.D. And will be honored in June by the UH School of Nursing as one of its 50 distinguished graduates as part of the school’s 50th anniversary.
Congrats to Siki for making the first team! Also to Kolby and Stijn. Good luck to all of them at UCLA – Go Bows, beat the Bruins!!!
congrats to Siki, Kolby and Stijn!
Congrats to the guys for their awards. Well deserved.
My fantasy concerning Pestolesi is that he coaches here for a year with Shoji and then applies for the Head Coach position if Shoji decides to pull the plug. Tom is about 55 yrs old and his retirement with Irvine is vested. He coaches here for about 5 years and in the mean time he grooms one of the Shoji boys to take over for him, insuring the dynasty continues! Additional bonus is that Tom and Diane are very close to Annie and she will play her heart out for them. Remember, this is just a fantasy!
3. no problem with your fantasy.
But I don’t know why people keep pushing the Shoji sons into coaching at UH. They have plenty of professional playing ahead of them and have little coaching experience, which would be a major requirement in taking over this program.
Forgot to mention that Micah Ma’a 1st team, all-freshman team, and looks like runner-up to DeFalco for FOY
Evan Enriques, Stanford libero,second team.
Congrats to Siki on making first team well deserved.
I thought Evan was a sophomore? I thought he would make first team all mpsf.
Im suprised at who they picked for POY.
I would be very happy if Tom Pestolesi becomes the assistant this year.
agree Cindy, shoji’s son’s have no experience coaching.
I’m kinda bummed that we as Hawai’i was never really able to send Ah-mow off how she deserves. Unless I missed a huge ceremony at one of the games? Man, she’s awesome, love her, and would have loved to see us give her the huge ‘mahalo’ and ‘a hui hou’ she deserves. Hopefully she will be back, even if it’s just for a visit or something.
6. yes, my bad, Enriques is a sophomore. had his brother Emmett on the brain.
8. The decision about the move and her husband’s orders came in March. She did know before the spring scrimmage but she didn’t want to make a big deal out of it. Didn’t tell the team until the week after the scrimmage. So there was no appropriate time to do the ‘send off’. ‘
But agree it would have been nice. She’s here until July.
cindy, where’s ah-mow santos going?
10. To Vegas. That’s where her husband was re-assigned.
11, Thanks for helping me with the answer.
10. Mark you could do a search of the blog and see original post.
new thread up for Friday.
http://hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=36942