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.

Latest news

Akiu off to NT tryout, Wahine spring practice

By Cindy Luis on February 28, 2019

Tita Akiu is leaving tonight for the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. She is one of 45 liberos competing for a spot on one of the U.S. national and collegiate national teams. “I’m really excited,” she told me this morning. “A goal is to play overseas. This is the first step to making that happen.” This is the third consecutive year she has been invited to the tryouts. Each athlete will have one tryout session on Friday, […]

VIDEO: ‘Bows prepare for Irvine; Worsleys up for OTB national honors (fan voting)

By Cindy Luis on February 27, 2019

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 […]

Big West BVB honors to Scoles-Homayun

By Cindy Luis on February 26, 2019

Don’t think this was a huge surprise. Ari Homayun and Julia Scoles played really well over the weekend, earning Big West Pairs Team of the week on Tuesday. Opposing coaches commented on Scoles’ physicality. As they say in VB, she hits a heavy ball. Scoles’ mother was here watching. Scoles is very athletic and is falling in love with beach. She told me that she still feels like a fish out of water as she continues to learn the game. […]

Monday check-in: Volleyball polls, Matautia picked for WUGs team

By Cindy Luis on February 25, 2019

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 […]

Duke BVB Day 2: Hawaii 3, Stanford 2; UCLA 5, Hawaii 0

By Cindy Luis on February 24, 2019

HfD came to watch as well as cool down the courts. Former Warrior setter Al-B Hannemann with daughter Maia, Beach commit for next year, visiting from Florida +++++ No. 5 Hawaii 3, No. 11 Stanford 2 Stanford takes Flt 1, 21-19, 8-21, 20-18. Stanford takes Flt 2, 19-21, 21-8, 15-9 SandBows clinch match with win at Flt 4, 21-18, 21-15 SandBows push it to 3 at both Flts 1 and 2 Sandbows win at Ft. 5 21-11, 21-7 SandBows win […]

Pepperdine def. Hawaii 3-2; SandBows def. Saint Mary’s 4-1

By Cindy Luis on February 23, 2019

Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Classic today (2-23) at Queen’s No. 4 Pepperdine 3, No. 5 Hawaii 2 1. Brook Bauer/Heidi Dyer (PEP) def. Hi’ilawe Huddleston/Emily Maglio (UH) 21-16, 21-15 2. Amy Ozee/Morgan Martin (UH) def. Gigi Hernandez/Deahna Kraft (PEP) 21-15, 21-11 3. Ari Homayun/Julia Scoles (UH) def. Skylar Caputo/Jenna Tunnell (PEP) 21-16, 21-9 4. Maddie Dilfer/Alexis Filippone (PEP) def. Pani Napoleon/Kylin Loker (UH) 21-19, 21-13 5. Katie Gavin/Nikki Lyons (PEP) def. Regan Hurkett/Presley Forbes (UH) 21-18, 21-16 Order of finish 2, […]

Friday checkin: MVB, BVB extra ICYMI

By Cindy Luis on February 22, 2019

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 […]

Akiu invited to NT tryouts; MVB scores

By Cindy Luis on February 21, 2019

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 […]

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