Volleyshots

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.

Latest news

Warriors stay at No. 2, SandBows down to No. 3; no weekly awards

By Cindy Luis on March 5, 2018

Warriors remain at No. 2, behind unanimous No. 1 Long Beach State (16-0). UCI (12-4) moves up a spot to 3 as does BYU (14-4). The loss by UCLA at BYU (15-5) has Bruins down from 3 to 5. Lewis (13-5) and Penn State (10-4) both drop a spot, the Flyers to 8 nd the Nittany Lions to 11. In Beach poll, Pepperdine (5-2) leapfrogs from No. 5 to No. 1, SC (5-3) drops from 1 to 2, which pushes […]

No. 2 Hawaii 3, No. 13 Concordia 0

By Cindy Luis on March 4, 2018

Live stream with sync to 1420-AM http://bigwest.sidearmstreaming.com/watch/?Live=850 Live stats http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=201041 1420-AM http://player.listenlive.co/27971

Friday: No. 2 Hawaii 3, No. 13 Concordia 0

By Cindy Luis on March 2, 2018

Match at 7 p.m. HST No TV Live stream at http://bigwest.sidearmstreaming.com/watch/?Live=848 Radio 1500-AM http://nbcsportsradiohawaii.com/ Livestats http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=201040 Matches tonight Long Beach State at CSUN (ESPN3) UC Santa Barbara at UC San Diego

Granato, Iosia, Akiu to USA Tryouts

By Cindy Luis on February 28, 2018

http://hawaiiathletics.com/news/2018/2/28/womens-volleyball-three-rainbow-wahine-invited-to-usa-volleyball-national-team-tryouts.aspx Trio leaves Thursday, second time to tryouts for all three: McKenna Granato, Norene Iosia and incoming transfer Reyn “Tita” Akiu The U.S. Women’s National Team Open Volleyball Tryouts are Friday-Sunday at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. The three players will be among 229 athletes from more than 90 colleges and high schools to be evaluated. Each athlete will have one tryout session on Friday, one morning and afternoon session on Saturday and one morning session […]

UH men, SandBows up to No. 2; SVT & Tuileta earn honors

By Cindy Luis on February 26, 2018

No real surprise after UCLA loses a third https://www.avca.org/polls/dii-men/2-26-2018.html Hawaii move up a spot to No. 2. The Beach remains unanimous No. 1 UCLA to 3 followed by UC Irvine, moving up a spot, and BYU at 5. Big drop for Ohio State, from 4 to 9. SandBows move from 5 to 2 SC stays No. 1 https://www.avca.org/polls/beach/2-26-18.html van Tilburg & Tuileta earn weekly honors. http://www.bigwest.org//story.asp?story_id=20306 ➜ Junior Stijn Van Tilburg led No. 3 Hawai’i in a pair of big […]

MVB: UCI 3, Hawaii 1; BVB: Sandbows 3, Stanford 2

By Cindy Luis on February 25, 2018

if you want to play along at home livestats for SandBows vs. Stanford http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=211698 someone asked about Muno, has an injury Did not make the trip. as for Warriors-Anteaters TV Spectrum OC 16 Radio: 1420-am http://player.listenlive.co/27971 livestats http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=201039

Sunday UCLA 3. Hawaii 2

By Cindy Luis on February 25, 2018

Retire coach Dave Shoji dropped by beach VB Saturday Ssid he is enjoying retirement He ended up flipping the numbers on the score thing at one UH flight UCLA v Stanford at 10 Hawaii v UCLA at 1 Hawaii v Stanford at 4

No. 5 Hawaii 5, No. 3 UCLA 0

By Cindy Luis on February 24, 2018

http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=211695 live stats because UH-Stanford went late, match with the Bruins started a little late. ICYMI UH 4, Stanford 1 1. Kan-Weaver def. Plummer-Villapando, 21-10, 21-18 2. Schucht-Maglio def. Hentz-Smith, 18-21, 21-13, 15-7 3. Martin-Monkhouse def. Chang-Raquel, 21-12, 21-11 4. Formico-Bowen def. Homayun-Ozee (UH), 15-21, 23-21, 16-14 5. Dreeuws-Zalopany def. Anderson-Keefe, 21-15, 21-19