The Rainbow Wahine basketball team’s 2017-18 roster has been posted on the UH website and the 15-member group should give head coach Laura Beeman greater depth to work with in her sixth season. The Wahine were limited to eight players for last season’s opener at USC and 11 eventually saw playing time in a 12-18 campaign. Nine of those players return and junior guards Rachel Odumu and Tia Kanoa join the active roster after being limited to practice duty during […]
The University of Hawaii women’s basketball team’s nonconference schedule will include a December road trip to Las Vegas to face Texas A&M and Oregon in the Duel in the Desert, UH announced on Wednesday. The Rainbow Wahine face Texas A&M on Dec. 20 and Oregon on Dec. 22 at UNLV’s Cox Pavilion. Both games tip off at 10 a.m. Hawaii time. UH will compete in the Desert Division in the six-team event. Mississippi State, last season’s national runner-up, Syracuse and […]
Since being hired to fill out the Rainbow Wahine basketball team’s coaching staff for the 2017-18 season, Darron Larsen hasn’t had much time to settle into his new office. When the former Pepperdine assistant’s addition was finalized earlier this month, his first assignment took him from Los Angeles to Chicago, where he met up with head coach Laura Beeman and fellow first-year assistant Courtney Locke to scout a tournament. After arriving in Honolulu last week, he shuttled between apartment hunting […]
The Rainbow Wahine basketball team’s revamped coaching staff is taking shape. After the departures of last year’s associate and assistant coaches, UH head coach Laura Beeman announced the additions of Courtney Locke and Berry Randle to the program on Friday. Beeman said she hopes to have the third position filled by the end of the month. Locke, who spent the last three years as the associate coach at Lipscomb, has already been working the phones in her role as recruiting […]
The Rainbow Wahine basketball team put the finishing touch on the season with its annual postseason banquet on Monday. The festivities included the presentations of the team awards as voted upon by the players. “I think any time you leave it in the hands of your players to elect your captains and to vote on the special team awards that we give out, I think that’s a real honor for any of these young ladies to receive one of those […]
It was next-coach-up for most of the Rainbow Wahine basketball team’s practices this week. It takes a lot to keep Laura Beeman out of the gym, which should provide an indication of the degree of the ailment that prevented the UH head coach from attending practices until Friday. In her absence associate coach Alex Delanian and assistants Calamity McEntire and Brad Langston ran the workouts Wednesday and Thursday as the Wahine prepared for their senior night game against Long Beach […]
Coming off its first win in February, the Rainbow Wahine basketball team takes some confidence and momentum into today’s regular-season road finale at Cal State Fullerton. UH (9-17, 5-9 Big West) snapped a six-game losing streak with a 73-60 win at UC Irvine on Thursday and faces Cal State Fullerton (4-22, 1-12) on the Titans’ senior night set for 4 p.m. Hawaii time. The Rainbow Wahine won the first meeting with Fullerton 60-50 on Jan. 12 at the Stan Sheriff […]
The Rainbow Wahine basketball team will attempt to end one streak while extending another. UH (8-17, 4-9 Big West) enters its final road trip of the regular season with a six-game losing streak but have won seven straight in the program’s series with UC Irvine (4-22, 2-10), including a 79-62 win at the Stan Sheriff Center on Jan. 26. The Wahine have also won 13 of the last 14 meetings dating back to 1996, with a 64-52 road loss on […]
