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

Ljungqvist joins Ah Mow-Santos’ staff, Hall full-time beach

By Cindy Luis on May 3, 2017

Awesome hire IMHO for Ah Mow-Santos. Hall happy to be just the beach coach Much better situation for him, a single dad with two young daughters. Ljungqvist is going with the traditional Swedish spelling of her last name now. Expected to be in Hawaii next week. Two of the most decorated players in Hawaii women’s volleyball history will be reunited this coming season when Angelica Ljungqvist, the 1996 AVCA national player of the year, joins Robyn Ah Mow-Santos’ inaugural staff. […]

Anticipating major WVB announcement today

By Cindy Luis on May 3, 2017

Should have something around 10 a.m. HST (4 p.m. here in Columbus) Think Wahine volleyball fans will be excited about this. no hints. let the speculation begin ‘-)

Hawaii 3, Penn State 2

By Cindy Luis on May 2, 2017

Match at 2:07 HST OC Sports http://www.hawaiiathletics.com/watch/?Live=86&type=Live 1420-AM http://www.espn1420am.com livestats http://stats.statbroadcast.com/statmonitr/?id=174154 Mol is on the sidelines, not warming up. I don’t know if he’s been cleared. If he gets in my guess is it will be as a serving sub but he’ll not do a jump serve just his flat footed beach wounded duck serve which is very effective. Solbrig will be starting.

BYU 3, Barton 0/UH match starts at 2:07 pm HST

By Cindy Luis on May 2, 2017

http://www.ncaa.com/game/volleyball-men/d1/2017/05/02/barton-byu Bulldogs were hanging tough early Was 8-8, now 11-8 cougars. BYU up 19-14. TO Barton Warriors watching the match

Monday II: Warriors, Granato, et al

By Cindy Luis on May 1, 2017

couple of photos from today. Team in the arena, bleachers that might remind some of Klum and Mol with a beard. St. John Arena built in 1956. has wood bleachers courtside and wood chairs. pretty cool. Mol’s beard will be gone tomorrow. Team policy is no facial hair but since Mol technically hasn’t been practicing, he grew a beard. but says as much as he likes it, he knows the team rule. Noticed that the Cleveland Cavaliers would be in […]

Congrats to AA picks Franciskovic, van Tilburg, Tuileta, Mol

By Cindy Luis on May 1, 2017

Above picture from last practice at SSC Friday Below is St John Arena https://www.avca.org/awards/all-regional-all-america-awards/2017-men-di-ii.html Announced today setter Jennings Franciskovic and Stijn van Tilburg on the first team libero Tuileta on the 2nd team Mol HM Franciskovic is third setter to make first team, the others being Pichel (96) and Beckwith (06) Warriors now have 20 first team picks, 29 certificates due to multiple winners (Theocharidis 4, Katz 2, Umlauft 2, Averill 2) Evan Enriques (Kamehameha-Hawaii), stanford junior, HM

SandBows seeded fifth in NCAA, face FSU

By Cindy Luis on April 30, 2017

Just settling into Columbus. Warriors had a light practice at the arena then dinner. I didn’t get in early enough to catch either. They’ll practice Monday afternoon. as for the SandBows, Hawaii seeded fifth in the Friday-Sunday tournament bracket available at http://hawaiiathletics.com/documents/2017/4/30//17_BVB_Bracket_.jpg?id=6374 From UH The University of Hawai’i Rainbow Wahine (26-5) will make its second straight appearance in the NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship in Gulf Shores, Ala., after gaining the No. 5 seed as an at-large selection on Sunday. “We’re […]

SandBows win second Big West title, 4-1, over The Beach

By Cindy Luis on April 29, 2017

Tweets by UHBeachVolley Scores from semifinal 1 | 9-21, 19-21 L Martin-Tucker 2 | 21-14, 21-18 W Taylor-Schucht 3 | 21-13, 21-19 W Maglio-Weaver 4 | 21-18, 21-16 W Homayu-Kan 5 | 14-21, 22-24 L Ozee-Zalopany