Hawaii junior opposite Rado Parapunov picked up his third weekly Big West honor of his career, and first this season, after putting down a combined 34 kills with eight blocks and hitting .463 in last week’s wins over UC Irvine. The Bulgarian national had 18 kills on Friday, including 12 in the 33-31 Set 1 victory, and added 16 kills Saturday as Hawaii extended its program records for consecutive sweeps (12) and consecutive sets won (36). It was the third […]
Off the Block National Offensive Player of the Night Joe Worsley had 39 assists and guided the offense to a .529 attack percentage along with contributing two aces in a sweep against No. 3/3 UC Irvine ++++ Other Saturday scores No. 1 Long Beach State def. No. 11 CSUN 25-11, 25-20, 25-18 No. 14 USC def. No. 4 Pepperdine 25-19, 25-27, 28-26, 25-20 No. 8 Stanford def. No. 9 BYU 25-20, 25-20, 22-25, 25-21 No. 15 Ball State def. Quincy […]
Elsewhere in the Big West Long Beach State def. CSUN, 25-14, 25-17, 28-26 UC Santa Barbara def. UC San Diego, 25-17, 25-13, 25-21 +++++ Junior opposite Rado Parapunov put down a match-high 18 kills and No. 2 Hawaii swept No. 3 UC Irvine, 33-31, 25-19, 25-14 in a Big West men’s volleyball match tonight in Irvine, Calif. The Rainbow Warriors (11-0, 1-0) set program records for consecutive sets-won (33) and sweeps (11); the previous marks both came in 2017. Junior […]
The Rainbow Warriors leave today for California. Matches Friday-Saturday at UC Irvine. Thank you to our Brian McInnis for the two videos below. Got to chat with Beach coach Alan Knipe this morning. Always accommodating. There are very few MVB coaches who aren’t. More from Knipe in Thursday’s BWC Preview in the Star-Advertiser. UH coach Charlie Wade touched on the Irvine matchup on Wednesday. Here's #HawaiiMVB coach Charlie Wade on facing UC Irvine on the road to open up @BigWestMVB […]
Beach poll Hawaii (2-2), preseason No. 5, was at No. 6 in today’s AVCA Coaches Top 20. UCLA (5-0), which won last weekend’s Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Classic at Queen’s Beach, was the unanimous top pick followed by USC (0-0). Pepperdine (3-1), the Kahanamoku Classic runner-up, moved up a spot to No. 3. LSU (4-0) moved up three spots to No. 4 followed by Florida State (4-1). Among other Big West teams, Cal Poly (3-3) dropped one place to No. 7 […]
Ran into former Warrior and Olympian Clay Stanley in Hawaii Kai today. Really good to see him. He was out with his family for dinner. _______ The Warriors are wrapping up their bye week with longer practices, more weight work, and split-squad practices rather than A vs. B. Interesting to chat with the players about seeing UCI, the last team they played last season, the team they beat in the Big West semifinal, and what should have been enough to […]
Congrats to Tita Akiu, her third straight year being invited to this From UH: Akiu will be among 45 liberos vying for a spot on the U.S. Women’s National Team and the U.S. Collegiate National Team programs during the March 1-3 tryouts at the U.S. Olympic Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. Each athlete will have one tryout session on Friday, one morning and one afternoon session on Saturday and one morning session on Sunday. Event Website … Tryout Live Streaming […]
The latest AVCA men’s volleyball poll is here. Hawaii was voted No. 2 for a fifth straight week. Hawaii (10-0) stayed behind unanimous No. 1 Long Beach State (13-0). UC Irvine (13-2), next week’s road opponent, remains at No. 3. #AVCA Top-15 (Feb. 18): 1. Long Beach State2. Hawai'i3. UC Irvine4. Pepperdine5. UC Santa Barbara6. UCLA7. Loyola-Chicago8. Stanford9. BYU10. Lewis11. CSUN12. Ball State13. George Mason14. Southern California15. Purdue Fort Wayne — AVCA (@AVCAVolleyball) February 18, 2019 Nominated for BWC honors […]
