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

No. 4 Hawaii 3, Lindenwood 0; re: Wahine job

By Cindy Luis on February 15, 2017

Match 3 p.m. HST today as promised, Wade using subs starting are Worsley, Sobrig and Parapunov. Also Matautia, Tuileta, Mol, Rosenmeier Livestats http://www.sidearmstats.com/lindenwood/mvball/ live stream https://portal.stretchinternet.com/lindenwood2/ continuing comment from previous thread. below is link to the posting, Deadline was Monday, Feb. 13 http://workatuh.hawaii.edu/Jobs/NAdvert/24483/4234811/2/postdate/desc Only one I know who has applied is Jeff Hall. Scott Wong told me he isn’t. Neither is Sealy nor Wade. did see Shoji on Tuesday. looked a little tired but otherwise well.

No. 4 Hawaii 3, McKendree 0

By Cindy Luis on February 14, 2017

Match today 3 p.m. HST Live stats http://www.sidearmstats.com/mckendree/mvball/ streaming http://www.glvcsn.com/mckendree/

Warriors up to No. 4 in poll

By Cindy Luis on February 13, 2017

no surprise with UCLA’s third straight loss not a lot of other movement. https://www.avca.org/polls/dii-men/2-13-2017.html

No. 5 Hawaii 3. Cal Baptist 0

By Cindy Luis on February 11, 2017

Links for match at 5 p.m. HST Live stream & live stats available through links at https://portal.stretchinternet.com/cbulancers/

No. 5 Hawaii 3, UCSD 0

By Cindy Luis on February 10, 2017

Links for today (5 p.m. HSTº Steaming at $6 if you don’t already have a subscription http://ucsdtritons.tv live stats http://www.ucsdtritons.com/liveStats/v2/volleyball/index.dbml?GAME_STAT_ID=2990887&db_oem_id=5800 and for those who missed previous thread Tamas hired at Illinos http://fightingillini.com/news/2017/2/10/tamas-introduced-as-illini-volleyball-coach.aspx

Thursday check in

By Cindy Luis on February 9, 2017

MPSF results from Wednesday UCSD swept CSUN 27-25, 25-13, 25-14 first five-match winning streak for the Tritons since 2012 link to that game story, plus other links to quotes and box http://www.ucsdtritons.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=5800&ATCLID=211462393 *PEPPERDINE def. UCSB 23-25, 25-12, 34-32, 31-29 To continue the previous thread, someone said they wanted a proven head coach, preferably one who has won a national title. There are not a lot of those still out there beyond Shoji Banachowski (retired) Dunning (retired) Erbe (retired) Pettit (retired) […]

Tuesday check-in, Freitas added to indoor roster

By Cindy Luis on February 7, 2017

Carrying over the discussion from yesterday on Shoji Some interesting names thrown out, a number who would not be interested in the job. As mentioned on previous thread, Wade said he is not going to apply, said he has not heard that Shoji is retiring, and that “Dave should coach as long as he wants.” Not sure if I mentioned this earlier but Kahakai has decided not to play beach this year. Also joining the indoor roster for spring workouts […]

UH announces Wahine coach search

By Cindy Luis on February 6, 2017

It’s not an announcement of Shoji’s retirement but they’d like to have a pool of candidates in place should his treatment require more time away form the job. From UH A nationwide job search for the head coach of the University of Hawai‘i women’s volleyball program is now underway. The selection is contingent upon the anticipated retirement of current head coach Dave Shoji, who coached the Rainbow Wahine for 42 years and 1,202 career wins. “Coach Shoji means so much […]