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By: Tiff Wells 1 – Different locale in same week…same result. Due to the addition of the Big West Conference Championship, one conference week of competition was taken off the board. That week occurred this past week. Playing two teams just once, you travel to one of them while you host the other. Totally random […]

By: Tiff Wells 1 – Sweet sweep of victory…times two. An 83-minute 3-0 victory over Cal State Fullerton, followed by a nearly two-hour sweep over UC Irvine on night two, Hawai`i held serve at home twice this past weekend to maintain pace with the league leaders. Through six matches in conference play, each of those […]

ESPN Honolulu Rainbow Wahine play-by-play voice Tiff Wells with his six biggest takeaways from the previous week for the Bows  By: Tiff Wells 1 – Guersching seizes opportunity. After six kills in Set 3 on Friday at Long Beach State, Paula Guersching was given the chance to start on Saturday at UC San Diego. In place of […]

By: Tiff Wells 1 – Starters take care of business. The three-time defending conference champions made an early statement in their conference opening set, winning 25-8 as Cal State Bakersfield registered just four kills and hit -.086. Of the six sets played over the weekend, UH held their opponents to a negative hitting percentage in three of […]

By: Tanner Haworth The unnerved Matthew Shipley stared through the uprights with only two seconds left in the game, and punched in the field goal to give Hawaii their much-needed revenge over the New Mexico State Aggies Saturday night, 20-17. Before Shipley could even explain what was going through his brain, the senior kicker thanked […]

ESPN Honolulu Rainbow Wahine play-by-play voice Tiff Wells with his six biggest takeaways from the previous week for the Bows  1 – Defense suffocates efficient Florida State’s offense. Florida State came into the match as the NCAA leader in hitting percentage at .347. Not only did UH outhit the Seminoles .253 to .173 (season-low for […]

ESPN Honolulu Rainbow Wahine play-by-play voice Tiff Wells with his six biggest takeaways from the previous week for the Bows  1 – Continue to challenge the block. Yes Hawai`i was blocked 12 times en route to 31 hitting errors on Sunday in the 3-1 loss to UCLA, but the UH hitters kept on swinging. More often than […]

By: Tiff Wells, ESPN Honolulu Play-by-Play 1 – Milestone for Igiede. Her 9th kill in Set 3 on Saturday gave her 1,000 for her career. The All-American Middle Blocker becomes UH’s 21st player to reach that milestone. Over the nine sets played against USC, Igiede recorded 31 kills on 53 swings to hit .488, while […]

By: Tanner Haworth The University of Hawaii loses against the Stanford Cardinal in their home debut, 37-24. After raising expectations for the level of play in 2023 in a hard-fought game against Vanderbilt last week, the Rainbow Warriors could not stop shooting themselves in the foot, finishing with ten penalties for 107 yards.  Even though […]

By: Tanner Haworth While the ‘Bows made it a one possession game in the fourth quarter, the Commodores capitalized on UH’s mistakes in all three phases of the game The Rainbow Warriors lost in a heartbreaker to the Vanderbilt Commodores, 35-28. In a game where offenses shined, it was Hawaii that outgained Vanderbilt in a […]