Hawaii Warrior World

Expanded coverage of all things volleyball, including notes, observations and analysis on the Rainbow Wahine, Rainbow Warriors, SandBows and Team USA.

About the blog host

Cindy Luis covers University of Hawaii volleyball for the Star-Advertiser. She began her career as a sports journalist in Hawaii in 1981 with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and was the sports editor, assistant sports editor, columnist and beat writer during a 31-year span before the paper became the Star-Advertiser. She graduated from UCLA in 1977 with a B.A. in Communication Studies.

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Hawaii women’s volleyball: Beach knocks off Poly, T25 results

By Cindy Luis on November 16, 2019

Saturday Big West Another good win for Beach 25-18, 23-25, 25-17, 25-19 link to box click here Ca State Fullerton def. UC Riverside, 27-25, 25-17, 25-23 UC Santa Barbara def CSUN, 25-18, 25-21, 25-22 UC Davis def. UC Irvine, 25-23, 18-25, 25-22, 25-14 Top 25 No. 1 Texas (H) def. TCU, 25-19, 25-16, 25-23 No. 2 Pitt (A) def. Duke, 25-16, 25-14, 25-17 No. 5 Minnesota (H) def. No. 23 Michigan, 25-21, 25-14, 25-17 No. 6 Nebraska (H) def. Iowa, […]

Hawaii women’s volleyball: Top 25, BWC results Friday

By Cindy Luis on November 15, 2019

Top 25 No. 4 Stanford (H) def. USC, 25-12, 25-17, 22-25, 25-20 No. 8 Penn State (A) def. No. 25 Illinois, 25-15, 25-22, 25-18 No. 9 Marquette (H) def. Georgetown, 25-11, 20-25, 25-14, 25-17 No. 24 San Diego (H) def. No. 10 BYU, 25-18, 23-25, 24-26, 25-16, 15-9 No. 11 Florida (H) def. LSU, 25-20, 25-19, 25-18 No. 13 Washington (H) def. Colorado, 25-22, 25-17, 25-19 No. 15 Utah (A) def. No. 22 Washington State, 27-25, 25-15, 23-25, 25-19 No. […]

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: Hellvig FOW, Rainbow Wahine to 18 in poll, RPI stays at 11

By Cindy Luis on November 11, 2019

Congrats to Hanna Hellvig her fifth Freshman of the Week honors Big West release click here The Wahine moved up one spot to No. 18 in this week’s AVCA poll, while their RPI remained the same at 11. Haweaii’s Norene Iosia nominated for Player of Week, Rika Okino for Defensive POW Top 3 remain the same: 1. Texas (17-2, 50 first-place votes), 2. Pitt (25-1, 12 votes) and Baylor (20-1, 1 vote) 4. Stanford up a spot (18-4, 1 vote) […]

Hawaii women’s volleyball: No. 19 Hawaii 3, UC Riverside 0, T25 results

By Cindy Luis on November 10, 2019

Senior hitter McKenna Ross put down 11 kills without an error and freshman hitter Hanna Hellvig also had 11 kills as No. 19 Hawaii used a balanced attack to sweep UC Riverside 25-19, 25-11, 25-17 in today’s Big West volleyball match in Riverside, Calif. It was the ninth consecutive victory for the Rainbow Wahine (22-3, 12-2) when running the series record to 27-0 against the Highlanders (6-18, 2-11). Hawaii is a game ahead of Cal Poly (17-7, 10-2) in the […]

Hawaii women’s volleyball: Top 25, Cal Poly 3, UCSB 0

By Cindy Luis on November 9, 2019

Big West Cal Poly up 25-13, 25-18, 25-19. Mustangs home winning streak at 30 This breaks the current tie for second. Mustangs 10-2, a half-game behind Hawaii (11-2) UCSB 9-3. CSUN (A) def. UC Irvine, 19-25, 25-18, 21-25, 25-20, 15-8 Long Beach State (A) def. CSU Fullerton, 25-23, 25-16, 25-15 live stats click here Saturday’s Top 25 No. 3 Baylor (A) def. Texas Tech, 25-18, 25-20, 25-21 No. 4 Wisconsin (A) def. Maryland, 25-18, 25-13, 25-13 No. 5 Stanford (A) […]

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