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Warriors 2nd to BYU in attendance again

Cindy Luis — Sun, 19 May 2013 00:40:40 +0000

Kind of old news but worth discussing.

Second year in a row that BYU is ahead of UH in national attendance

Numbers, according to the NCAA, for the Top 20

1. BYU — 3,019
2, Hawai’i — 2,735
3. UC Irvine — 911
4. Long Beach State — 898
5. Pepperdine — 890
6. UCLA — 829
7. Lewis — 801
8. Ball State — 767
9. Penn State — 714
10. Stanford — 649
11. Cal State Northridge — 662
12, USC — 578
13. Ohio State — 568
14. Cal Baptist — 558
15. UC San Diego — 445
16. IPFW — 435
17. Loyola — 401
18. UC Santa Barbara — 396
19. George Mason — 280
20. Mount Olive — 275

Carney leaving (Rainbow) Warriors

Cindy Luis — Sat, 18 May 2013 01:08:44 +0000

The job posting on UH site (thanks for the heads up on earlier thread) is for Sean Carney. He said he will miss being with the team but he wants to fully concentrate on his Elite Academy sports training, something he founded a few years ago and couldn't devote as much time as he wanted to while coaching. He said he loved working with the players and hoped he could do that again some day when he was more financially secure. Think it is a big loss. He's been key for the team landing some of the local recruits lately.

Wahine 2013 schedule announced

Cindy Luis — Thu, 16 May 2013 01:03:55 +0000

We had the home schedule posted already

Here's the complete schedule, minus the pairings for the Sept. 20-21 Wichita State tourney and Nov. 15. they've talked about it being a match against the sand team, or one of the DII schools or a Japnese team.

http://www.hawaiiathletics.com/documents/2013/5/15/2013_Hawaii_Womens_Volleyball_Schedule.pdf?id=2738

Sorry for the blank box. it still won't let me cut and paste.

Stauber to Santa Clara

Cindy Luis — Tue, 14 May 2013 03:52:01 +0000

Appears Stauber will be up at Santa Clara next season. Heard about this last week, been working on confirming it. A good source has.

Interesting since there were three other setters on the 2012 Bronco roster, all underclassmen.

Anderson, a junior, with 827 assists, Heier, a sophomore, with 588

Sophomore Sliger played in 10 sets.

State boys volleyball

Cindy Luis — Mon, 13 May 2013 20:02:33 +0000

Some really high-quality play during the tournament, particularly Saturday's final between Punahou and Kamehameha. very impressed by the defense of both teams.

Couple of college coaches in town to scout. Ferguson from USC, Rasay from Stanford. And Hall was at McKinley a couple of the nights I was there.

Couple of players have committed for next year: Punahou's Fey to UH and Peros to Vassar, Kamehameha's Kaniho and Mosher to Grand Canyon.Moanalua's Caldwell to play football, looking like either UNLV or Northern Arizona.

men's polls out

Cindy Luis — Tue, 07 May 2013 21:34:45 +0000

AVCA men

1. UCI (15 votes. 2. BYU (1 vote). 3. Long Beach State. 4. UCLA. 5. Pepperdine. 6. Stanford. 7. UCSB. 8. Cal Baptist. 9. Louola-Chicago. 10. Lewis.

11. Ball State. 12. Penn State. 13. Hawaii. 14. CSUN. 15. Ohio State

Volleyball Mag

1. UCI (all 10 votes). 2. BYU. 3. Long Beach State. 4. UCLA. 5. Pepperdine.

6. Loyola-Chicago. 7. Stanford. 8. UCSB. 9. Cal Baptist. 10. Penn State

Receiving votes: Lewis, Ball State, Hawaii, Pfeifer.

I voted the first 4 the same. Loyola 5 and Pepperdine 6, UCSB at 7, Penn State at 8. Stanford at 9 and Cal Baptist at 10.

Uiato, Manu-Olevao make A2 roster

Cindy Luis — Tue, 07 May 2013 17:56:49 +0000

Congrats to Mita Uiato and Tai Manu-Olevao

Announced this morning by USAV

USA Volleyball has announced its 48-player roster for the U.S. Women’s National Volleyball Senior A2 Program that will train and compete this summer in Dallas.

The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Senior A2 program is available to athletes with collegiate eligibility remaining for the 2013 season. This program is scheduled to take place in Dallas from June 25 to July 4 in conjunction with the USA Volleyball Girls’ Junior National Championships.

The program roster has athlete representation from 29 different universities with 12 schools having multiple selections.

During the six-day training period from June 25-30, the 48 athletes will be divided into four equal teams that will compete in pool play against the other A2 program teams and the top four Premier Volleyball League (PVL) teams. After pool play, the four A2 program teams and PVL teams will split into their own divisions to determine the medalist teams in the competition.

http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Volleyball/Features/2013/May/07/USAV-Announces-WNT-A2-Program-Roster.aspx

Rawson, Shojis among those on USAV world league roster

Cindy Luis — Mon, 06 May 2013 21:52:29 +0000

Kawika and Erik Shoji, Matt Rawson, Alfee Reft and Brad Lawson were named to the USAV World League Roster today for the FIVB competition.

Didn't realize Alfee was still playing. He's been up at Minnesota as an assistant coach

http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Volleyball/Features/2013/May/06/USAV-Announces-2013-World-League-Roster.aspx#.UYgP-uqKqps.mailto

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 6, 2013) – USA Volleyball has announced its 22-player roster for the 2013 FIVB World League.The World League is the premier annual men’s international volleyball tournament, where 18 teams from around the world compete over seven weeks of pool play in hopes of advancing to the Final Round on July 17-21 in Mar del Plata, Argentina and the chance to win $1 million.

John Speraw first-year head coach of the U.S. Men’s National volleyball Team, said he wants to put the focus on newer players early in the quadrennial leading up to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

“As we project four years down the road, we know we would like still have the contributions of proven veterans such as Reid Priddy and Clay Stanley, who aren’t on the World League roster this year," coach John Speraw said. "But veterans have to learn how to manage their training over the next four years so they can peak at the right time.”

Seven players on the 22-man roster return from the 2012 U.S. Men’s National Team that took silver at the FIVB World League and finished fifth at the Olympic Games: Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.), David Lee (Alpine, Calif.), Rich Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.), Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.), Brian Thornton (San Clemente, Calif.), Russell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.) and David Smith (Saugus, Calif.). Lee and Lambourne also played on the 2008 U.S. Men’s National Team that won the Olympic gold medal in Beijing.

Evan Patak, Max Holt , Jayson Jablonsky and Alfee Reft have all been on rosters for major U.S. Men’s National Team events including the FIVB World League, the FIVB World Championships and the NORCECA Continental Championships.

The 11 other players on the roster have all competed on a U.S. Men’s National Team for a Pan American Cup, a Pan American Games or as part of the Junior National Team.

The U.S. Men, ranked fifth in the world, won the World League in 2008, finished second in 2012 and finished third in 2007 and 1992.

In the 2013 world League, the U.S. Men’s National Volleyball Team will host Argentina on June 7-8 in Wichita at Charles Koch Arena; France on June 14-15 in Tulsa at the Tulsa Convention Center Arena and Bulgaria on June 28-29 in Reno at the Reno Events Center.

The team will then travel to Poland for matches on July 5 and 7 and to Brazil for their final pool play matches on July 13-14.

Long Beach State tops Pepperdine for sand title

Cindy Luis — Sun, 05 May 2013 04:32:32 +0000

INfo from The Beach:

Down 2-1 in the championship match against No. 1 Pepperdine, No. 2 Long Beach State got a win from Janisa Johnson and Tyler Jackson, who finished the season undefeated, tying the national championship 2-2. Lauren Minkel and Jocelyn Neely then finished off the day with a 21-19, 9-21, 15-10 win in the final match of the day, clinching a win for the 49ers.

With the win, the 49ers handed the defending champions their first loss in two years of Sand Volleyball, and avenged a loss in the title game one season ago. The win also sealed the seventh team championship in Long Beach State's history. Men's volleyball has won one national championship and women's volleyball has won five.

It was the fourth chance this season for Long Beach State (19-3) to topple the Waves, but the 49ers came through in their biggest moment. The 49ers were also the beneficiaries of some misfortune to Pepperdine, as the Waves were forced to forfeit at flight No. 1 due to an injury to Jazmine Orozco.

o. 2 Long Beach State 3, No. 1 Pepperdine 2
1) Caitlin Ledoux/Tara Roenicke, LBSU def. Lilla Frederick/Jazmine Orozco, PEP 21-0, 21-0 via forfeit
2) Lara Dykstra/Caitlin Racich, PEP def. Delainey Aigner-Swesey/Chelsea Cabrajac, LBSU 16-21, 21-13, 15-9
3) Kelley Larsen/Kellie Woolever (PEP) def. Libby Fontanilla/Bre Mackie, LBSU 21-17, 21-19
4) Lauren Minkel/Jocelyn Neely, LBSU def. Victoria Adelhelm/Taylor Racich, PEP 21-19, 9-21, 15-10
5) Tyler Jackson/Janisa Johnson, LBSU def. Emily Cook/Katie Messing, PEP 21-19, 21-18

UCI sweeps BYU for men's title

Cindy Luis — Sun, 05 May 2013 04:22:37 +0000

Impressive win by the Anteaters, becoming the first team to win consecutive titles since UCLA in 95-96.

UCI wins 25-23, 25-22, 26-24.

Think what impressed me the most was UCI holding off three set points in Set 3, down 24-21, scoring five straight with BYU in a bad rotation. Anteaters win the block war 17-6 and did a great job on serve-receive.

Sander with 20 of BYU's 47 kills, not much help. Boyce got pretty predictable at the end.

UCI had a balanced attack with 11 kills from Hughes, Tillie and LaCavera.