Rainbow Wahine basketball

After ending a run of opening-game futility in conference play on Thursday, the Rainbow Wahine basketball team takes a couple of streaks into Saturday’s Big West contest at UC Davis. The Wahine started their conference schedule at 1-0 for the first time since 2006 with Thursday’s 67-55 win at Long Beach State. The victory was also their sixth straight on the road this season and 15th consecutive Big West regular-season win going back to last season. Both streaks figure to […]

Hours before a fundraiser to support the Rainbow Wahine basketball program, coach Laura Beeman was already “overwhelmed” by the response the event had received. According to the Wahine Basketball Hoopla web site, tickets for today’s event at Hukilau Honolulu are sold out with the proceeds to benefit the UH women’s program. “It’s just a tremendous, overwhelming show of support,” Beeman said after today’s practice. “If you would have asked me year one if this was going to happen, I’d be […]

While the Rainbow Wahine basketball team prepares for an exhibition game with BYU Hawaii tonight, a future member of the program will be in action a few blocks down University Ave. Julissa Tago, a UH signee, is in town with the South Medford (Ore.) High School basketball team and the Lady Panthers open play in the ‘Iolani Prep Basketball Classic girls tournament against Punahou today at 5 p.m. The South Medford-Punahou winner will play Mililani or top-ranked Konawaena in the […]

The Rainbow Wahine basketball team opens its shortest “road trip” of the season by taking on BYU today in the front end of a two-game stay on the North Shore. “It’s not our home court, but it’s definitely not 2,500 miles,” UH coach Laura Beeman said earlier this week. The Rainbow Wahine (4-3) drove out to Laie on Wednesday and face BYU (3-3) today at 6 p.m. in the Tom Weston Classic at BYU Hawaii’s Cannon Activities Center. They’ll take […]

Even with games against two nationally ranked opponents looming this weekend, Rainbow Wahine basketball coach Laura Beeman wasn’t all that concerned about the team looking past its opening game of the Waikiki Beach Marriott Rainbow Wahine Shootout today at the Stan Sheriff Center. The Rainbow Wahine (3-1) open against CSU Bakersfield (1-2) at 5 p.m. before taking on No. 16 Arizona State on Saturday and No. 2 South Carolina on Sunday. UH dropped a game at CSU Bakersfield last December […]

Brianna Kennedy will face a familiar opponent in her debut at the Stan Sheriff Center. The Rainbow Wahine center sat out last year after transferring at Loyola Marymount and will take the floor against the Lions in UH’s home opener today in the Bank of Hawaii Rainbow Wahine Classic. “I have a lot of good friends who still play for LMU, so it’ll be fun to play against them,” Kennedy said after Thursday’s practice at the Sheriff Center, “but also […]