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

Thursday checkin

By Cindy Luis on December 1, 2017

A little chilly up here Could below freezing this weekend brr Spirited practice Coaches emphasizing staying loose Freshmen Howling and Williams are excited about being at their first NCAAs Williams said she remembers watching UH match vs UW in 2014 online And now she is here (at UW and at the NCAAs) Chatted with ljungqvist about her last trip to the tournament 1996 in Cleveland She was so ill. We were surprised she could play She had just been named […]

Radio/TV for Friday

By Cindy Luis on November 29, 2017

From UH Friday, Dec. 2 3:00 p.m. HT – Hawai’i vs. Illinois 5:30 p.m. HT – No. 8 Seed Washington vs. LIU Brooklyn Television: spectrum from Seattle for UH’s game(s) this weekend. Kanoa Leahey will handle the play-by-play with Chris McLachlin as the color analyst and Lisa Strand-Ma’a as the side-line reporter Livestream: Check the HawaiiAthletics.com women’s volleyball schedule page. Radio: ESPN 1420 am, UH’s flagship radio station, will be covering the first round of the NCAA Tournament with Tiff […]

Big West expansion, SandBows scrimmage Saturday

By Cindy Luis on November 28, 2017

Thought we should move it over to new thread for discussion. Someone had mentioned what is keeping the Sac State out of Big West in part is their football team in the Big Sky and the BSC wants to keep an all-sport member in California. What I question is how do they do that for Sac State when allowing Cal Poly and UC Davis to play football in the Big Sky and the Mustangs and Aggies have their other sports […]

Congrats to Maglio, Iosia, Kahakai, Granato; Big West expands

By Cindy Luis on November 27, 2017

Hawaii lands 4 on all conference first team http://www.bigwest.org//story.asp?story_id=20128 No Wahine on honorable mention or all-freshman POY: Nelson of Cal Poly FOY: White, UC Davis COY: Crosson, Cal Poly http://hawaiiathletics.com/news/2017/11/27/general-csu-bakersfield-uc-san-diego-to-join-big-west-conference.aspx joining are UC San Diego and Cal State Bakersfield

Hawaii vs. Illinois at UW, UCI to NIVC

By Cindy Luis on November 26, 2017

Alphabetically the top 4 seeds Florida Kentucky Penn State Stanford https://twitter.com/hashtag/NCAAVB?src=hash Show on ESPNU remaining seeds 5. Nebraska 6. Texas 7. Minnesota 8. Washington 9. Creighton 10. Southern California 11. Utah 12. Baylor 13. BYU 14. Iowa State 15. UCLA 16. Wichita State

Saturday practice, Giesseman new Warrior volunteer coach

By Cindy Luis on November 25, 2017

After the last two days off, the Wahine had morning practice 8-10 in Gym I. They’re going again on Sunday 1-3 p.m. At the moment, no organized ESPNu watch party. That may change by tomorrow. slipped my mind to put this up the other day after Josh Walker mentioned it. Chad Giesseman announced as new Warrior volunteer coach. http://hawaiiathletics.com/news/2017/11/22/chad-giesseman-joins-mens-volleyball-staff-as-volunteer.aspx was McKinley boys and girls coach. also at HBA and Maryknoll in the 90s and lately with Kailua VB, SportConX, Manoa […]

Friday T25

By Cindy Luis on November 24, 2017

6) Kentucky def. Georgia 25-21, 25-21, 25-15 8) Minnesota def. Rutgers 25-18, 25-8, 25-16 16) Purdue def. 10) Michigan State 20-25, 25-23, 25-20, 25-21 17) Creighton def. Villanova 25-20, 25-22, 25-19 20) Wichita State def. Memphis 25-17, 25-14, 25-11 25) Missouri State def. Indiana State 26-24, 25-15, 25-16

Happy Thanksgiving

By Cindy Luis on November 23, 2017

Hope everyone enjoying the holiday. working in the office then covering Wahine basketball on Friday VB team has next few days off. They haven’t decided yet if they are practicing Saturday As mentioned previously, NCAA selection show Sunday 4 p.m. ESPNU ICYM T25 from Wednesday 2) Texas def. Oklahoma 25-18, 25-20, 21-25, 25-22 3) Florida def. Auburn 22-25, 25-10, 25-16, 25-22 5) Nebraska def. Northwestern 25-13, 25-20, 25-21 6) Kentucky def. Arkansas 25-16, 25-17, 25-23 12) Washington def. Arizona 25-16, […]