Compared to last season, the UH men’s and women’s basketball teams will double up on their doubleheaders in the upcoming season. The Rainbow Warriors and Rainbow Wahine are scheduled to share dates eight times this season, six times at the Stan Sheriff Center and twice more during a Big West road trip to UC Riverside and Cal State Northridge in early February. The UH teams played four regular-season doubleheaders last season, two during the nonconference schedule and two in the […]
The Rainbow Wahine basketball team’s coaching shuffle wasn’t limited to departures and arrivals. Among the assistant coaches, Alex Delanian’s office was the only one that went undisturbed this summer. Even so, he returns for his third season on the staff with a new title. Now UH’s associate head coach, Delanian takes on some of the duties previously handled by Mary Wooley over the past four seasons. With Wooley moving on to Loyola Maryland, Delanian is looking forward to adding to […]
Even after weathering the whirlwind of a hiring process and relocating from Northern California to Hawaii, Brad Langston doesn’t mind some long hours in the office. After being offered a spot on the Rainbow Wahine basketball team’s coaching staff, Langston landed in Honolulu on Sept. 1, went straight from the airport to the office for his first day of work under head coach Laura Beeman and was on the court that afternoon. He’s since immersed himself in the teaching process […]
The Rainbow Wahine basketball team’s coaching staff is now complete. UH announced today the hiring of Brad Langston to fill the last vacancy on the staff headed by Laura Beeman. Langston joins associate coach Alex Delanian and assistant to the head coach Calamity McEntire. Langston’s addition with the UH staff will mark his entry into Division I coaching. He was an assistant coach at West Campus High School in Sacramento, Calif. for the last five years and founded the Evolution […]
A one-way ticket to Hawaii was all Calamity McEntire needed. After interviewing for a position on the Rainbow Wahine basketball team’s coaching staff, McEntire stayed in town and accepted the job on Aug. 23. Once the paperwork was finalized, she promptly jumped into her new duties as assistant to the head coach “and we’ve been off to the races ever since,” she said. “With school already being in session and (recruiting) visits already in the works, I wanted to be […]
UH announced today that Rainbow Wahine associate basketball coach Mary Wooley is leaving the program to take the same post at Loyola University Maryland. Wooley joined the UH program shortly after Laura Beeman was hired as head coach in 2012 and served as associate coach for the last four seasons. “It’s with a heavy heart that I say goodbye to Coach Beeman, the staff and team, the University and state of Hawaii,” Wooley said in a release from UH. “I am […]
A new-look Rainbow Wahine basketball team will be tested by a nonconference schedule featuring three games against Pac-12 opponents, including a meeting with UCLA in rematch of their NCAA tournament game last March. Coming off the program’s first NCAA tournament appearance in 18 years, the Rainbow Wahine return one senior (guard Briana Harris) to a roster that includes seven freshmen among nine newcomers, The Rainbow Wahine make their Stan Sheriff Center debut in an exhibition game against Hawaii Hilo on […]