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.
The NCAA decision to cancel all spring sports competition didn’t just end the season but likely the collegiate careers of the four Warriors seniors. Read more
This is worse than 2018. At least then, the Hawaii men’s volleyball team could put faces and names to those who decided against giving the Rainbow Warriors the at-large berth in the NCAA tournament. Read more
The season is over for University of Hawaii athletics and the rest of the college sports world. Read more
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The Big West has left it up to individual institutions in regards to allowing spectators into its men’s volleyball matches for the foreseeable future. Read more
The Big West again is the Big Dog when it comes to men’s volleyball. Read more
From nearly 10,000 to 0. That’s the number of fans the Hawaii men’s volleyball team could see in a span of a Friday to Friday. Read more
A bye week did not change the ranking for the Hawaii beach volleyball team, with the Rainbow Wahine (7-2) remaining at No. 4 in Monday’s American Volleyball Coaches Association Top 20. Read more
Friday was the 50th sellout in the Stan Sheriff Center for a Hawaii athletic team. Senior opposite Rado Parapunov matched that total with his number of attacks, putting down a career-high 30 of them in the Rainbow Warriors’ reverse sweep of Brigham Young on Friday to gain a split of the men’s volleyball matches between Nos. 1 and 2. Read more
Thud. That was not just the sound of Hawaii’s No. 1 ranking being drop-kicked across the college volleyball landscape. It was the noise that vulnerability makes when it comes crashing down and there’s no safety net. Read more
This was the match most expected on Thursday. Twenty-four hours later, the 50th sold-out athletic contest in the Stan Sheriff Center was one for the ages. Read more
It is the 11th sellout in 25 seasons for the Rainbow Warrior program in the 10,300-seat Stan Sheriff Center and first since the Big West Tournament championship last April 20 against Long Beach State. Read more
It’s a bit of chess out there on the board known as the volleyball court, and the redshirt freshman setter for the top-ranked Hawaii volleyball team has — so far — been making the right moves. Read more
Boxing had Ali vs. Frazier. This men’s volleyball season has Hawaii vs. Brigham Young. Read more
Four road victories last week helped Hawaii move up a spot to No. 4 in Monday’s American Volleyball Coaches Association Collegiate Beach Top 20. Read more
Midway through the season, there are only two. After Thursday, there will be only one. Read more
Hawaii (14-0) remained at No. 1 in today’s AVCA poll, receiving 12 of the 16 first-place votes. Read more
It was a moot point — Hawaii had already clinched the beach volleyball dual 3-1 — still it was anything but pointless to Morgan Martin and Pani Napoleon on Sunday. Read more
The Hawaii beach volleyball team concluded its first road trip undefeated by picking up two wins today at the Bay Area Classic at Stanford, Calif. Read more
The Hawaii beach volleyball team went 2-0 today, the opening day of the Bay Area Classic at Stanford, Calif. Read more
Sports, as a metaphor for life, has felt very real this week for the Nittaidai men’s volleyball team. Read more
Senior opposite Rado Parapunov put down 13 kills while playing two sets and Hawaii swept Nittaidai 25-23, 25-23, 25-14 in a men’s volleyball exhibition tonight at the Stan Sheriff Center. Read more
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