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: T25 results Friday

By Cindy Luis on November 1, 2019

Here’s some video interviews with Amber Igiede and Norene Iosia about this week’s important matches against UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly. Freshman middle Amber Igiede lays out what has to happen for #HawaiiWVB against conference co-leaders UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly tonight and Sunday. pic.twitter.com/2fTqwgN1ru — Hawaii Warrior World (@hawaiiwworld) November 2, 2019 Setter/hitter Norene Iosia summed up her team’s shortcomings at Cal Poly a couple weeks ago and how #HawaiiWVB has turned things around since. pic.twitter.com/itennkpK5A — […]

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

Women’s volleyball: Cal Poly extends home win streak to 29

By Cindy Luis on October 29, 2019

Cal Poly sweeps CSUN tonight, 25-19, 25-18, 25-15 nation’s longest current home winning streak at 29. full box click here UCSB keeps pace with Cal Poly at 9-1, defeats Long Beach State, 25-22, 22-25, 31-29, 25-15 Ruddins 21 kills, Froley 13 Full box click here Lone T25 match No. 14 Colorado State def. Wyoming, 27-25, 23-25, 30-28, 25-12

Hawaii women’s volleyball: Norene Iosia DPOW, RPI dips, still No. 21

By Cindy Luis on October 28, 2019

Senior Norene Iosia earned her first Defensive Player of the Week award from the Big West on Monday. Iosia had a combined 22 digs and 12 blocks in the sweep of Fullerton and UCI, including a career-high eight blocks against the Titans. She has 13 double-doubles on the season, giving her a total of 57 in her career. She has five career triple-doubles and was two kills and two blocks away from capturing a quadruple-double against the Titans. Iosia’s three […]

Hawaii women’s volleyball: No. 21 Wahine 3, UCI 0, T25 results

By Cindy Luis on October 26, 2019

FINAL: No. 21 Hawaii (18-3, 8-2 Big West) avenged a five-set defeat to UC Irvine earlier this month with a 27-25, 25-17, 25-21 sweep of the Anteaters (4-16, 1-7) on Saturday at the Bren Events Center. Set 3: UH wins 25-21 8:48: Two errors by UCI ends it. 8:46: Bailey Choy with her fourth ace to make it 23-19. UCI comes back to 23-21. TO UH 8:42: Bailey Choy with her second ace, Hawaii’s 11th. It’s 21-19. TO Anteaters. 8:37: […]

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 women’s volleyball: No. 21 Wahine 3, Fullerton 0, Top 25