Hawaii was picked No. 2 behind Cal Poly in the Big West women’s volleyball coaches preseason poll released today. The two-time defending conference champion Mustangs received five first-place votes with the Rainbow Wahine receiving the remaining four votes. It is the second straight year that the votes were divided as such. 1. Cal Poly (5) – 77 2. Hawai’i (4) – 76 3. UC Santa Barbara – 59 4. UC Irvine – 52 5. Long Beach State – 46 6. […]
Thinking outside the box means thinking inside the service box for Skyler Williams. The junior middle for the Hawaii women’s volleyball team is determined to become more proficient at serving, a skill she rarely used in high school and one used sparingly as a Rainbow Wahine (no serve attempts as a freshman, 49 as a sophomore with three aces and 16 errors). “I’m feeling way more confident about my serve,” Williams said after Monday’s practice in Gym I. “All our […]
The AVCA released the preseason NCAA women’s volleyball Top 25 poll today. Hawaii received 13 points, worth an unofficial rank of 32nd along with Northern Iowa. Stanford was near unanimous at No. 1 with 62 first-place votes. Nebraska had one first-place vote as well as No. 8 Penn State. Ranked teams on the Wahine schedule are: 13. Washington; 20. Baylor; 21. San Diego; 23. Cal Poly Missouri was just out of the Top 25 at 26, while UCLA received 7 […]
Gym I gleamed and the Hawaii volleyball team glowed on Day 1 of 2019 full practices Saturday. It probably won’t all be quite that smooth leading into the Aug. 30 season opener against San Diego, but it seemed to be an encouraging start for a program that went one-and-done in the NCAA tournament the last two years. >> WAHINE VOLLEYBALL PRACTICE PHOTO GALLERY Here’s video of Day 1, featuring interviews with players Jolie Rasmussen, McKenna Ross, Amber Igiedi and Brooke […]
It was no typical Day 1 in Gym 1 at Hawaii women’s volleyball practice. And it wasn’t simply the pristine environs of the renovated facility. Saturday morning was crisper than the norm, the consensus seemed to be, despite the fact that there were faces aplenty to learn and three-plus hours to dissect. >> WAHINE VOLLEYBALL PRACTICE PHOTO GALLERY Helping raise the level of play among nine newcomers were four Division I transfer players who arrived in the offseason — Bailey Choy […]
Players were in Gym 1 before 640 Did a few warmups drills before official start at 7. UPDATING Practice very energized. very different from two years ago. Wasn’t just the AC. >> WAHINE VOLLEYBALL PRACTICE PHOTO GALLERY In 2017, team took 90 minutes to compete a passing drill which was passing a ball over the net to a player in the receiving line, below the antenna, 150 consecutive times without dropping (team divided on 3 courts). Today it took maybe […]
Just spoke with Coach Robyn Ah Mow and she said former Wahine setter/DS Faith Maʻafala is new DOVO (director of operations) replacing Aven Lee. Ma‘afala finished her UH playing career last fall. Nick Costello is heading to California so UH will have a new volunteer coach soon. —————— Here’s Ah Mow in an Wednesday interview talking about the start of full practices on Saturday. Here’s #HawaiiWVB coach Robyn Ah Mow speaking to @CindyLuis_SA about the imminent start of full practices […]
A quarter of the U.S. men’s team will be comprised of two former and one current Rainbow Warrior at the Pan American Games in Peru this coming week. Named to the 12-man roster are Kupono Fey (Hawaii 2014-17), who played outside but is the libero; All-America setter Joe Worsley (2016-19) and OH Colton Cowell (entering his redshirt senior season). The same three were on the U.S.’s Pan American Cup team in Mexico in June. Cowell is the only collegiate player […]
