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Hawaii volleyball: Rainbow Warriors No. 1 in preseason poll; NCAA first-round results

By Cindy Luis on December 5, 2019

Congrats to Hawaii men’s volleyball, the No. 1 in the AVCA preseason poll today. ————— The Hawaii men’s volleyball team was at No. 1 in today’s American Volleyball Coaches Association Division I-II preseason poll, a first for the program. The Rainbow Warriors (28-3 in 2019) finished second nationally, losing to Long Beach State in the NCAA final. Hawaii received 14 of the 16 first-place votes. UCLA (19-9, 1 first-place vote) was at No. 2 followed by BYU (13-12) and Long […]

Hawaii men’s volleyball: Rainbow Warriors release 2020 schedule

By Cindy Luis on November 15, 2019

Like most teams, the Hawaii men’s volleyball team has had problems filling its allotted 28 dates. The Rainbow Warriors have 29 matches, including two exhibitions with Nittaidai of Japan. Alumni match is Jan. 24. Joked with coach Charlie Wade that they are revisiting the ghost of 2018 with nearly the identical schedule (at CSUN for 2 and then Pepperdine) that led to three road losses, something some have pointed to as one of the reasons the Warriors didn’t get the […]

Hawaii volleyball: Rainbow Wahine add Anna Kiraly, Warriors officially sign 3, T25 scores

By Cindy Luis on November 14, 2019

Hawaii has signed a second Rainbow Wahine volleyball player. She is 6-3 middle Anna Kiraly from Hungary, the first Wahine ever from that country. She helped lead her Godolloi Roplabda Club team to the Central Hungarian Regional Championship 1st place in 2017; U21 Hungarian Championship 2nd place in 2019; and the U19 Hungarian Championship 3rd place in 2017,’19. She is a two-time Hungarian Championship “All star tournament team player” (’18 U19, ’19 U21) and was named her club’s Player of […]

Hawaii volleyball: National Letter of Intent paperwork in on Kate Lang, Makua Marumoto, Austin Buchanan

By Cindy Luis on November 13, 2019

All three Hawaii volleyball teams were expected to announce commits for 2020-21 but we have been told the SandBows will be out on Thursday. Signing with the Hawaii men is 6-8 setter Austin Buchanan, son of Idaho WVB coach Debbie Buchanan. Mom was recruited by Dave Shoji but chose to play at USC over Hawaii. According to our Paul Honda and Billy Hull on Hawaii Prep World, Makua Marumoto (St. Francis/HBA) is signing with Rainbow Warriors. Makua Matumoto and his […]

Hawaii women’s volleyball: T25 results

By Cindy Luis on October 30, 2019

Wednesday’s results 1) Texas def. Texas Tech 25-20, 25-21, 25-21 3) Baylor def. Oklahoma 26-24, 15-25, 29-31, 25-15, 15-12 4) Wisconsin def. Maryland 25-21, 25-14, 25-20 6) Minnesota def. Ohio State 25-19, 19-25, 22-25, 25-10, 17-15 13) Florida def. 24) Missouri 25-22, 17-25, 29-27, 20-25, 15-12 16) Purdue def. Indiana 25-16, 25-12, 25-20

Hawaii men’s volleyball: Warriors 3, Beach 0; Warriors 2, Beach 1

By Cindy Luis on October 26, 2019

Hawaii took on defending national champion Long Beach State in two fall exhibitions on Saturday, one in the Walter Pyramid and one in the auxiliary Gold Mine facility. For the week, the Rainbow Warriors went 5-1, defeating UC Santa Barbara 4-1, UC Irvine 4-0, CSUN 5-1 and Long Beach State 3-0 and 2-1. The loss came to USC 3-1 with Hawaii’s B side playing against the Trojans. The rivals decided to end the first matchup with LBSU after Hawaii swept […]

Hawaii men’s volleyball: Warriors win at CSUN, UCI, UCSB

By Cindy Luis on October 25, 2019

Apologies again for lateness. Traveling. Will be at WVB Friday (Fullerton) and Saturday (Irvine). Men the men played at CSUN Friday. They may try to make the UCI match Saturday playing at Long Beach State. At CSUN, (teams agree to play six), Hawaii won 25-18, 25-11, 25-14, 25-27, 25-14, 25-22 in the fifth. At UCI Thursday, the site of next April’s Big West tournament, the teams agreed to play four sets regardless of the outcome and the Warriors won all […]

Hawaii men’s volleyball: Warriors on road for fall matches, roster up

By Cindy Luis on October 21, 2019

The 2020 roster is up (without bios on the new guys) Click here Warriors are at UC Santa Barbara Wednesday, UC Irvine Thursday, CSUN Friday and Long Beach State Saturday. Saturday the Warriors play Beach at 10 a.m., USC at 11:45 in the Pyramid. They’ll play Beach again 3 p.m. in the Gold Mine.

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