Expanded coverage of all things volleyball, including notes, observations and analysis on the Rainbow Wahine, Rainbow Warriors, SandBows and Team USA.
About the blog host
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.
Wade mentioned it to me this morning and see that Larry Tuileta now is on the official roster. Warriors open workouts Thursday at Waialua High and will spend the last four days of the year at Camp Erdman. Roster at http://www.hawaiiathletics.com/roster.aspx?path=mvball
Hope everyone is enjoying the holidays Rainbow Wahine ornament a shining star from the heart some of you may have seen this Christmas Day in the S-A. If you can’t access it via above link: Nathaniel Zentkovich wasn’t one of our Keiki Kalikimaka finalists (his sister Chloe was), but we couldn’t resist his contest entry showing University of Hawaii Rainbow Wahine head coach Dave Shoji and volleyball players Kalei Greeley and Tayler Higgins with a Christmas tree. The 8-year-old Mililani […]
http://volleyballmag.com/2016-vbm-aa/ Taylor one of 12 on first team On the second team ws Adora Anae (Kahuku), a junor hitter at Utah. Named honorable mention were: Carly Kan (Punahou), a senior hitter at Missouri; Kalei Mau (St. Francis), a senior hitter for Arizona; and Penina Snuka (Kahuku), a senior setter for Arizona. Player of the Year — Inky Ajanaku, Stanford Freshman of the Year — Micaya White, Texas Coach of the Year — Kirsten Bernthal Booth, Creighton
Taking a few days off as will the blog. Hope everyone has a great holiday season. couple of interesting things Long Beach State setter Missy Owens has transferred to Texas Tech As a sophomore, she started all 31 matches for the 49ers in 2016, compiling 1,225 assists and a team-leading 31 service aces. Her 10.56 assists per set ranked second in the Big West Conference and helped Long Beach State finish with the second-best hitting percentage in the conference at […]
Stanford receives all 64 first-place votes https://www.avca.org/polls/di-women/12-19-2016.html
4 p.m. HST ESPN2 online links available at http://www.ncaa.com/news/volleyball-women/article/2016-12-17/ncaa-womens-volleyball-live-updates-scores-and-highlights gametracker http://www.ncaa.com/game/volleyball-women/d1/2016/12/17/stanford-texas
sorry to be MIA. catching up on a few things From the AVCA today (Friday) https://www.avca.org/awards/avca-national-player-of-the-year-awards/2016-division-i.html University of Minnesota Senior Outside Hitter Sarah Wilhite has been selected as the 2016 TeamSnap/AVCA Division I Player of the Year. The award was presented this afternoon at the AVCA All-America/Players of the Year banquet, which was held in Columbus, Ohio as part of the 2016 Annual Convention. From the AVCA Thursday https://www.avca.org/awards/national-coaches-of-the-year/2016-division-i.html Stanford Head Women’s Volleyball Coach John Dunning has been selected as […]
sad Taylor got snubbed again for first team https://www.avca.org/awards/all-regional-all-america-awards/2016-division-i-allamerica.html Hawaii senior opposite Nikki Taylor repeated as a second-team All-American and junior middle Emily Maglio was among the honorable mentions on the AVCA’s Division I women’s volleyball All-America teams announced today. Both Taylor and Maglio also are beach volleyball All-Americans. Taylor, the two-time Big West player of the year, was No. 2 nationallly in aces per set, No. 5 in points per set and No. 14 in kills per set nationally […]