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ON THIS DATE (1979): Diane Sebastian rules the net in UH win
By Jerry Campany on September 27, 2020ON THIS DATE: Rainbow Wahine jump out to 9-0 lead in 1987 rout
By Jerry Campany on September 26, 2020ON THIS DATE: Ivin Jasper scores four TDs in 1993 game
By Jerry Campany on September 25, 2020ON THIS DATE: Hawaii opens 2005 season with shutout
By Jerry Campany on September 24, 2020ON THIS DATE: Rainbow Wahine set tone for 2010 season
By Jerry Campany on September 23, 2020On this date in 2010, Hawaii did all that it wanted to in a season-opening sweep of Utah State. Kanani Danielson led the way with 15 kills and Chanteal Satele was next with 14. Elizabeth Kaaihue led the way for Hawaii with 15 of the team’s 59 digs. In all, Dave Shoji’s crew hit .235 to Utah State’s .108 and outblocked the Aggies 18-13.
Reliving Hawaii softball’s Women’s College World Series ride to Oklahoma City, 10 years later
By Jason Kaneshiro on May 31, 2020A decade after Hawaii’s appearance in the Women’s College World Series, the ripples of the impact of a nearly month-long postseason journey continue to come ashore. Just last year Izzy Dino and Mikaela Gandia-Mak — two members of the Rainbow Wahine 2019 freshmen class — cited the WCWS run as a reason they set Hawaii as a college target before they reached middle school. Kelly (Majam) Elms, the nation’s home run leader as a freshman in 2010, said one of this […]
Hawaii men’s volleyball: Rado Parapunov, Colton Cowell, Patrick Gasman will be back for 2021 season
By Stephen Tsai on May 7, 2020Aloha ball will have to wait another year. Volleyball coach Charlie Wade confirmed his four seniors — including two-time All-American Rado Parapunov — will return for the 2021 season. It was presumed their eligibility had ended in March when the NCAA canceled the remainder of the spring-sport seasons because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But later that month, the NCAA’s Division I Council approved a measure providing spring-sport players “an additional season of competition and an extension of their period of […]