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

Happy birthday to Coach Ah Mow-Santos

By Cindy Luis on September 15, 2017

Hauoli la Hanau Coincidently born about six weeks before Dave Shoji’s first match as Wahine head coach (10-29-75

UH still not in poll, no BWC honors

By Cindy Luis on September 11, 2017

This is 13th week in program history not ranked Not mentioned in receiving votes Cal Poly just outside at 26 1 Minnesota 2. Penn st 3. Florida Avca.org Thought Kahakai might get defensive POW but went to Fullerton Libero Big west.org

Hawaii 3, Nevada 0, Saturday scores

By Cindy Luis on September 9, 2017

Links for tonight Gametracker http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=184110 Spectrum 12/1012 bigwest.tv 1420-AM espn1420am.com With BYU losing in 5 to baylor, the tourney title will go down to a set differential. Hawaii would need to sweep Nevada. Then it goes to point differential between BYU, which also swept the Wolf Pack Nevada scored 58 points on the Cougars Top 25 No. 3 Penn State def. No. 4 Stanford, 24-26, 25-22, 23-25, 25-17, 25-11 No. 6 Wisconsin def. Texas A&M, 25-19, 25-23, 25-10 No. 9 […]

Baylor 3, No. 10 BYU 2, scores, good win for Cal Poly

By Cindy Luis on September 9, 2017

http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=184109 gametracker link Top 25 No. 3 Penn State vs. No. 4 Stanford No. 6 Wisconsin vs. Texas A&M No. 7 Kansas vs. No. 9 Creighton No. 8 Washington def. Wyoming, 28-26, 25-23, 25-18 No. 10 BYU vs. Baylor No. 11 UCLA vs. No. 12 Nebraska No. 13 Kentucky vs. Loyola-Chicago No. 14 Oregon vs. Duquesne No. 15 San Diego def. Green Bay, 25-17, 25-21, 25-15 No. 15 San Diego def. Missouri, 25-23, 25-17, 25-16 No. 17 Purdue def. Belmont, […]

Hawaii 3, Baylor 2

By Cindy Luis on September 8, 2017

Match should start on time Live stats http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=184108 1420-AM espn1420am.com bigwest.tv Spectrum OC16 12/1012 Top 25 No. 1 Minnesota def. No. 5 Texas, 25-21, 15-27, 26-24, 25-19 No. 3 Penn State def. Colorado, 25-22, 25-18, 25-21 No. 4 Stanford def. Illinois, 25-23, 25-23, 25-22 No. 7 Kansas def. Belmont, 25-18, 25-20, 25-18 No. 7 Kansas def. No. 17 Purdue, 25-18, 25-17, 18-25, 25-19 No. 8 Washington def. Missouri State, 25-20, 21-25, 25-12, 25-23 No. 8 Washington def. Pepperdine, 25-23, 25-18, […]

No. 10 BYU 3, Nevada 0; Top 25, Big West scores

By Cindy Luis on September 8, 2017

http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=184107 link for gametracker which is not working at the moment. BYU up 22-16 in Set 1 Cougars take Set 1 25-18 Cougars rally for Set 2, 25-22 BYU was losing 19-16 when Robins-Hardy came in. At 21-17, BYU went on an 8=1 run to win.

No. 10 BYU 3, Hawaii 2

By Cindy Luis on September 7, 2017

A little odd. Clock at 30 mknutes but countdown hasn’t begun. even odder they just switched to 35 minutes and clock has started So if I do the math, intros at 713 LIve stats at http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=184106 1420-AM espen1420am.com Ch. 12/1012 BigWest.TV

Baylor 3, Nevada 1; Shoji part of TV broadcast, SandBows honors

By Cindy Luis on September 7, 2017

Blog should be up and running tonight. Finally got things working with the computer. Thank you for your patience Dave Shoji joins the Spectrum OC16 gang for pre and post game this week’s matches. He came to Wednesday’s practice. Looking very tan and fit. been doing a lot of surfing and SUP. Nevada-Baylor, 4:45 p.m. Live Stats for Pack-Bears http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=184105 Hawaii-BYU 7 p.m. Glad they have figured out that they don’t have to delay the start of the second match. […]