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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General volleyball: Former Minnesota coach Mike Hebert passes

By Cindy Luis on October 22, 2019

I am traveling to mainland so on and off the blog the next few days. Appreciate the heads up on previous thread Mike Hebert, who coached at New Mexico, Illinois and Minnesota among other places, was a kind man and great coach. Would see him occasionally at the Olympic Training Center and he was always accommodating when I did stories on Dave Shoji. They were at UCSB together and fraternity IM rivals. Texted my condolences to Shoji today. He said […]

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.

Hawaii women’s volleyball: Hanna Hellvig freshman of week, Wahine RPI 10, up to No. 21 in poll

By Cindy Luis on October 21, 2019

Congrats to Hanna Hellvig, the Big West Freshman of the Week. Hellvig claimed her third such honor after leading Hawaii to a pair of victories last week. The 6-foot-2 outside hitter had a team-leading 26 total kills for the week as the Rainbow Wahine swept UC Riverside and upended UC Davis in five sets on the 25th anniversary of the Stan Sheriff Center. Hellvig averaged 3.25 kills, 1.63 digs and 0.50 blocks per set. She has posted double-figure kills in […]

Hawaii women’s volleyball: No. 22 Hawaii 3, UC Davis 2

By Cindy Luis on October 20, 2019

FINAL: No. 22 Hawaii reverse swept UC Davis, 22-25, 21-25, 25-22, 25-17, 15-12 on the night of the 25th anniversary celebration for the opening of the Stan Sheriff Center in 1994. Set 5: UH wins 15-12 Point is UPHELD for the Rainbow Wahine and #HawaiiWVB pulls off the reverse sweep of UC Davis, 22-25, 21-25, 25-22, 25-17, 15-12, on the 25th anniversary of the SSC opening. pic.twitter.com/DbgRvqvyKT — Hawaii Warrior World (@hawaiiwworld) October 21, 2019 #HawaiiWVB appears to win … […]

Hawaii women’s volleyball: T25 scores, UCSB over Cal Poly

By Cindy Luis on October 19, 2019

a bit of a surprise to me especially since Ruddins didn’t play UC Santa Barbara def. Cal Poly, 25-19, 25-21, 15-25, 25-21 Box available here Other Big West Long Beach State def. UC Irvine, 25-22, 25-12, 25-16 CSUN def. Cal State Fullerton, 25-21, 25-21, 25-19 Top 25 results No. 1 Baylor def. Texas Tech, 25-19, 25-21, 25-19 No. 4 Texas def. West Virginia, 25-13, 25-17, 26-24 No. 5 Nebraska def. Maryland, 25-19, 25-16, 25-13 No. 6 Wisconsin def. Northwetern, 25-22, […]

Hawaii women’s volleyball: No. 22 Hawaii 3, UC Riverside 0

By Cindy Luis on October 18, 2019

FINAL: No. 22 Hawaii sweeps UC Riverside, 25-17, 25-18, 25-12, to move to 15-3 (5-2 Big West) on the season. Set 3 UH wins 25-12. #HawaiiWVB puts away UC Riverside in straight sets, 25-17, 25-18, 25-12. Third set matches UH’s most lopsided of the season. pic.twitter.com/KxLjDl9LN1 — Hawaii Warrior World (@hawaiiwworld) October 19, 2019 8:33: Hawaii’s 10th block ends it. Amber Igiede with 11 kills. 10 each for Hanna Hellvig and McKenna Ross. Norene Iosia with 19 digs and 17 […]

Hawaii beach volleyball: Gold for Hartong, Speiler, Cook, Crabb, McKibbins

By Cindy Luis on October 18, 2019

Former Hawaii All-Americans Emily Hartong, Katie Spieler and Karissa Cook helped the U.S. women win gold and Punahou grads Trevor Crabb, Maddison and Riley McKibbin the men’s gold Wednesday at the ANOC World Beach Games in Doha, Qatar. In the women’s final, Cook, Hartong, Spieler along with Geena Urango, Kelly Reeves and Allie Wheeler were part of the 4×4 team that beat Brazil, 21-16, 21-9. The U.S. fell to Brazil 21-13, 21-21 in pool play but came back to defeat […]

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

By Cindy Luis on October 17, 2019

Top 25 No. 2 Stanford def. Colorado, 25-22, 25-12, 25-14 No. 2 Pitt def. North Carolina, 25-22, 25-15, 25-23 No. 6 Wisconsin def. No. 17 Illinois, 25-12, 18-25, 23-25, 25-21, 15-4 No. 7 Minnesota def. Northwestern, 25-18, 25-15, 25-22 No. 8 Penn State def. Michigan, 25-23, 25-20, 16-25, 25-22 San Diego def. No. 9 BYU in Provo, 25-18, 20-25, 25-19, 17-25, 15-10 No. 10 Washington def. Arizona State, 20-25, 25-20, 25-21, 25-22 No. 11 Creighton def. Butler, 25-17, 25-16, 25-16 […]

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