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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.
Walked over to The Pav (sports pavilion) couple of blocks from the hotel. 90 minutes per ncaa regulation. As for OCSports, was told they couldn’t release the info until today so you’ll hear more later. something about the contract wording.
Team got in around 10 am 2. Flights but with one delayed they ended up able to use same vans They are having 2. Hour practice tonight Team very loose
The whole crew (7) will be in Minneapolis to broadcast Friday’s first match ran into Chris McLachlin at HNL, he said they may do the second match as well Believe the Big Ten network has the rights to the second round should Minnesota advance. anyway, be back on when I get to LAX
Hawaii’s RPI up to 23, which makes the placement in the bracket even more baffling. Whatever. http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/weeklyrpi/2016WVBrpi1.html Big West awards out at 9 a.m. HSTS
1. Nebraska 2. Minnesota. 3. Wisconsin 4. Texas
Selection Show at 4 p.m. Sunday ESPNU, Ch. 221 if you have Oceanic. Any thoughts? Congrats to the SandBows, went 5-1 against UCLA en route to capturing Founder’s Cup of the Pacific Rim Beach Volleyball Championships at the Ching Courts today (Saturday) Day 2 Results Laurel Weaver/Hannah Zalopany (UH) def. Lily Justine/Remy Wilson (UCLA), 21-18, 24-22 Brooke Garlick/Julia Chizanskos (UH) def. Jasmine Hogan/Lexi Jasper-Baylin (UCLA), 21-19, 14-21, 15-13 Hannah Rooks/Ari Homayun (UH) def. Elise Zappia/Isabelle Carey (UCLA), 23-21, 21-13 Hi’ilawe […]
Hope everyone is enjoying Thanksgiving weekend. team had 2 early practices. 6 a.m. Friday, 8 a.m. Saturday none of the crossover indoor players are competing in the beach tournament everyone as healthy as they’ve been, eagerly awaiting Sunday’s 4 p.m. NCAA selection show PacRim continues today at UH. SandBows play UCLA at 2 p.m. then international matches follow PacRim Friday at Queen’s Day 1 Results Heather Boyan/Katie Spieler (USA) def. Hannah Rooks/Ari Homayun (UH) 21-16, 21-15 Julia Tilley/Alice Bain (New […]
Shoji spoke on a variety of subjects, including retirement, the team and the NCAA selection. Continues to say it will be “sooner rather than later” when retiring. Bobby asked him what he wanted to do after, Shoji said he wanted to continue to give back, maybe be a volunteer coach. Said wife Mary involved with a number of volunteer organizations and would like to do things with her on that front. Said he would travel to see the football team […]