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

SandBows 2-0 at Queen’s, links for Stanford

By Cindy Luis on March 10, 2017

Hawaii defeats Stets 3-2 Losses at No. 1 (tucker-martin) in 3 and No. 5 (Zalopany-Ozee) in 3 http://stats.statbroadcast.com/statmonitr/?id=170920 livestats for UH-LMU match at http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=170921 Warriors vs. Stanford TV http://www.hawaiiathletics.com/watch/?Live=55 Radio 1500-AM http://nbcsportsradiohawaii.com Livestats http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=157417

Thursday check in

By Cindy Luis on March 9, 2017

A little rainy in Manoa Indoor Wahine had weight room workouts this afternoon. They also had 6 a.m. practice Wednesday. Sibley said it’s been hard doing both indoor and beach but she’s enjoying it, said she feels beach is helping her indoor game. Saw coach Shoji in the arena. He looked good. He said the other day has two more weeks of radiation and that he’s feeling fine. MPSF scores from Wednesday *UCSB 3, Csun 0 (25-20, 25-22, 25-21) UC […]

Warriors stay No. 4, SandBows No. 5, Kan-Homayun honored

By Cindy Luis on March 6, 2017

https://www.avca.org/polls/dii-men/3-6-2017.html Top 8 stays the same Pepperdine and Loyola-Chicago swap, Waves to 9, Ramblers to 10 Not much movement in beach poll either. Pepperdine and UCLA flip at 3-4, Waves to 3, Bruins to 4. https://www.avca.org/polls/beach/3-6-2017.html

No. 5 SandBows 2-0; No. 4 Hawaii 3, No. 14 USC 0

By Cindy Luis on March 3, 2017

Match at 7 p.m. this only counts in overall, not in MPSF play OCSports http://www.hawaiiathletics.com/watch/?Live=54 radio 1420-AM http://www.espn1420am.com livestats http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=157416 Results from today at Tucson, they play Jacksonville Saturday and then drive to Phoenix to play at Gtrand Canyon No. 5 Hawai’i 4 Arizona State 1 1. Morgan Martin/Mikayla Tucker (UH) def. Whitney Follette/Bianca Arellano (ASU) 19-21, 22-20, 15-8 2. Nikki Taylor/Ka’iwi Schucht (UH) def. Katie Cross/Frances Giedraitis (ASU) 21-11, 21-11 3. Laurel Weaver/Emily Maglio (UH) def. Oluoma Okaro/Madison Berridge […]

No. 4 Hawaii 3, No. 14 USC 0

By Cindy Luis on March 2, 2017

TV OCSports http://www.hawaiiathletics.com/watch/?Live=53 Radio 1500-AM http://nbcsportsradiohawaii.com live stats http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=157415 And welcome to two students from Comm/Jour 398B at curtsied

Wednesday check-in … In case you missed it …

By Cindy Luis on March 1, 2017

photo courtesy of UH media relations As mentioned at the end of the thread last night, 4 Wahine leaving tonight for the OTC in Colorado Springs. Knew only of Kahakai and Iosia. when asking Kahakai how she felt about it, she’s the one who mentioned Mitchem and Granato going. Will have more on them later. They’ve arranged an interview session with them at 2 p.m.

Hawaii 3, All Osaka 2, 4 Wahine to tryouts

By Cindy Luis on February 28, 2017

Reminder, no TV or Radio Just blog updates and live stats http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=169509 on another note, Tyler Hildebrand, Long Beach State All-American and associate men’s coach, named new women’s assistant at Nebraska.

Warriors remain No. 4 in poll, SandBows pairs

By Cindy Luis on February 27, 2017

https://www.avca.org/polls/dii-men/2-27-2017.html Top 5 stay the same 1. Ohio State all 24 votes 2. Long Beach State 3. BYU 4. Hawaii 5. Lewis UC Irvine at UCLA swap places at 6-7 Wahine indoor team are practicing today, includes a scrimmage with Osaka, the team they’ll face Tuesday. UH athletics posted a preview on the Beach freshmen http://www.hawaiiathletics.com/news/2017/2/27/womens-beach-volleyball-2017-beach-volleyball-preview-freshmen.aspx