Many know her by the byline 🌈📝.
I’m blessed to call her mom.
What an honor and so very happy you and Ann were inducted into the same class.
Proud of you
@Cindy3Luis
. Well deserved.
Love you mom 💚🤍
Last night was mostly great for
#NCAAMVB
.
10 sets of high quality volleyball that took 5 hours and 7 minutes to finalize the Championship match.
If
#GrowTheGame
is the phrase and you want to believe it, then do better
@NCAA
and put the Men’s Nat’l Semifinals on television
When you play for and represent an entire state, it just hits a little different.
A mainstay on the island, it’s been so cool seeing this tradition take place on the road wherever
#HawaiiMVB
travels.
I will miss this
#BraddahHood
that makes up the fabric that is
#WarriorBall23
For the second straight season & third overall in
@HawaiiMensVB
history, the Bows take all 19 1st-place votes & are No. 1 in the final
@AVCAVolleyball
Coaches Poll.
#HawaiiMVB
was ranked No. 1 in the poll 7 times in ‘22.
UH has been ranked No. 1 59 times, which is 6th all-time
After beating N.Greenville, Ball State, and Long Beach State in NCAA Championship play,
@HawaiiMensVB
is No. 1 in the final
@nvausa
/ AVCA Men’s Div. I-II Poll. Hawai‘i closed the year 27-5 & took home the title for the second-straight season.
Final poll:
Tough times are hitting us all & last night, it hit my family.
I feel for all who are dealing w/ this too.
Mom taught me to work hard,to pursue the job w/ passion,to help
#GrowTheGame
,to have fun with it.
That is my continued promise to you the fan & to you mom
@CindyLuis_SA
The NCAA needs to take a hard look at this picture, this tweet…and at themselves.
When the next rotation of NCAA Championship host sites are determined, what more does
@HawaiiMensVB
&
@HawaiiAthletics
need to do in order to secure a hosting bid?
UH last hosted in 2004
Nearly 3 hours of volleyball and there were no tweets during the 🏆 match.
Again, it's hard to
#GrowTheGame
and believe in this phrase when there are no live tweets from
@NCAAVolleyball
#PackTheStan
No. 1
#HawaiiMVB
vs No. 5 UC Irvine.
Both matches can be heard on
@ESPNHonolulu
beginning at 6:45p HT / 9:45pm PT on Friday & Saturday with Rainbow Warrior Countdown, presented by Southern Turf Hawaiʻi
#PackTheStan
Appreciate the stream of tonight's match
@LewisMVBall
but you just may want to tell the pxp guy to not say "I can't believe they are called the Rainbow Warriors...that's the worst name I've ever heard of any team in the history of human existence
#hawaiimvb
#hotmic
Year 9 as the 📻 play-by-play voice comes to a close.
Mahalo to the team and staff for everything throughout the season.
Best of luck to the 6 seniors in your future endeavors.
And a big mahalo to the
#HawaiiWVB
fanbase.
Until 2024…Aloha 🤙🏻
Started the year 1-7.
Lost 3 starters to injury.
A 4th out for the year.
Down 15 in the
@BigWestSports
Championship.
Never. Say. Die.
Never. Backed. Down.
The grit!
TIME. TO. DANCE!!!
@HawaiiWBB
#HawaiiWBB
Wow...what a season. Although it wasn't the outcome we hoped for, we couldn't be more proud of how this team represented our State. Mahalo to the
@HawaiiMensVB
team for taking us along on their journey and for bringing Hawai'i together through such an elite program. 🤙🏼
It’s hard to
#GrowTheGame
and believe in the phrase when Men’s Volleyball isn’t recognized as a “Notable Spring NCAA Championship” by the worldwide leader
#hawaiimvb
#WarriorBall20
#HawaiiMVB
receives a big verbal commit for the ‘26 class.
Per his Instagram earlier this morning, 6’8” hitter Kainoa Wade of
@KSKAthletics
, the ‘23 New City Nissan
@HHSAAsports
Division I Most Outstanding Player as a Soph, has announced his commitment to play for
@HawaiiMensVB
This tournament is becoming a joke.
First, it was limited to 48 teams.
Now there’s no announcers for the first two rounds.
It’s like a club tournament has broken out for the ncaa women’s volleyball championships.
GET IT TOGETHER no clue at all. Do better to
#GrowTheGame
No announcers for the first two rounds of
#NCAAVB
tourney is far beyond laziness. It's the
@NCAA
trying to save some money (probably citing COVID as an excuse) and betting that not enough people will speak out about this for it to matter.
Time to rally like WBB community did.
I mean if
@usavolleyball
can tweet during the
#NCAAMVB
season and market the sports…well done USAV!!!, surely
@NCAAVolleyball
could put out something…ANYTHING on their social media.
Hire an intern…contract out someone or a group. Something…anything
#GrowTheGame
#NCAAMVB
The
@ncaa
men's volleyball season is in full swing. Check out our weekly roundup of the top teams, and find out how some of our National Team Development Program (NTDP) athletes are doing.
Read more:
Season-high 12 blocks for The Mānoa Roofing Company
#HawaiiMVB
#NCAAMVB
best now 18-straight match win streak as the Bows (9-0) head back to the island for an 11-match home stand
Hey Alexa, cue 🎶 Hawaiian Roller Coster Ride 🎶
#HawaiiWVB
now 36-5 all-time in 1st round matches of the
#NCAAWVB
Championship.
Iowa State is the 3rd 7-seed to get upset on Day 1.
Bows survive and advance into Round 2
6’5” OH Adrien Roure will join
#HawaiiMVB
for the 2025 season.
Roure helped France win the 2023 FIVB Volleyball Boys U19 World Championship
#WarriorBall25
🇫🇷
A total of 19 home matches for
#WarriorBall23
, two of which were sellouts.
126,385 through the gates this season…an average of 6,652 per match.
It’s the highest average per
@HawaiiMensVB
home match since 1998 (7115).
🗣️ Well. Done.
#HawaiiMVB
. Fans 🤙🏻
The reason why I love
@HawaiiWVB
&
@HawaiiMensVB
is because of you mom.
The sport has given us so much over the years and she has done so much to help
#GrowTheGame
.
The volleyball community & the state of Hawai`i will miss your stories.
Thank you
@Cindy3Luis
. Thank you mom.
After 14,144 days in the sports department at a Honolulu newspaper I have taken a voluntary layoff. On to new advertures. Mahalo for all the support and reading my stories over the decades -30-
What did
#WarriorBall23
mean to its fan base?
Over 2,000 Hawai`i fans were in Fairfax, VA to watch the ‘23 National Championship.
To put that in perspective…per
@NCAAStats
, 27 of the 57
#NCAAMVB
schools had accumulated attendances that were under 2,000 for the 2023 season
#AndStill
@BigWestSports
MVB champs…
#HawaiiMVB
Bows get the AQ bid out of the Big West Conf. 2x defending champs with the opportunity to defend their titles.
UH to make its 4th consecutive & 9th overall NCAA Appearance.
Selection Sunday, 7am HT on
#WarriorBall22
to have one final dance as the defending champs will play for the title on Saturday night.
#HawaiiMVB
becomes the first team since UCLA (‘94-‘96) to play in 3 consecutive
#NCAAMVB
Tournament finals
Transfer portal giveth to
#HawaiiMVB
.
Per his IG earlier today,
#WarriorBall24
picks up former Lewis setter Kevin Kauling.
Listed at 6’8”, Kauling was a 3x All-MIVA Second Team selection & a 2022 Second Team All-American.
2624 career assists at Lewis, Kauling has 1 year w/ UH
Thankful for the second chance,
#HawaiiWVB
locates their dance ticket on the beach.
The Bows take the
@BigWestSports
auto bid and for the 30th consecutive season and 41st time in program season, the Rainbow Wahine are into the NCAA Championship
#NCAAWVB
Year 7 as the 📻 voice of
@HawaiiWVB
on
@ESPNHonolulu
&
@CBS1500Hawaii
comes to a close in Seattle.
Mahalo to the team and staff for the insights & access all season long, to those in the
@HawaiiAthletics
department for their help and to all who listened in all season long 🤙🏻
Mahalo braddah Rob 🤙🏻
It’s been so cool to see mom do her thing for so many years and then to be part of the only Mother/Son duo in the sports media business.
😊
@Cindy3Luis
😊
The best to ever ✍️ about 🏐
🌈🏐
Congrats and best of luck to former
@HawaiiMensVB
MB Cole Hogland as he’s been selected as one of 32 players to the Japan Men’s National Team
#BowsInThePros
Former
@HawaiiMensVB
HC Mike Wilton and his wife Kuʻulei drove 12 hours from Utah to Long Beach to watch their grandson Keoni Thiim and the Bows play The Beach
#HawaiiMVB
Over 14k in house for the 2-match series with The Anteaters.
Once again, so very well done by the best fans in the land
#HawaiiMVB
#NCAAMVB
#PackTheStan
Transfer portal giveth to
#HawaiiWVB
.
Per her IG earlier today, UH picks up former Youngstown St OH Paula Gürsching.
Listed at 6’2”, last year she was an AVCA AA HM, All Northeast Region & Horizon League POY.
Averaged 4.68 kps (552 k in ‘22, 430 k in ‘21) & 5.32 pps in 2 seasons
Per his Instagram earlier today, 6’7” Setter Tread Rosenthal (Manhattan Beach, Calif / Mira Costa HS) announced his commitment to
#HawaiiMVB
.
The incoming Jr. was named Best Setter at the Pan American Cup this past May in Guatemala for the US Boys U19 Nat’l Team that won gold
Per his instagram earlier this morning,
#HawaiiMVB
verbal commit Tread Rosenthal has “decided to skip his senior year of high school and go to UH early. Go Bows 🤙🏻”
The 6’7” Setter from Manhattan Beach, Calif & Mira Costa High School reclassifies as a 2023 athlete
#WarriorBall24
For the first time this season and 76th time in program history,
#HawaiiMVB
is ranked No.1.
Bows (17-1) begin
@BigWestSports
play at No.2 Long Beach State (16-1, 2-0) this Friday & Saturday
#NCAAMVB
After their victories against two top-5 teams at the Outrigger Invitational,
@HawaiiMensVB
claims the top spot in the latest AVCA/NVA National Collegiate Men’s VB Poll.
#WeAreAVCA
#NCAAMVB
5th straight year
#HawaiiMVB
has won a major conference award.
It’s the first Conference Freshman of the Year award for UH since 2010 when they were in the MPSF and Jonas Umlauft won the award
For the first time since the 1/31/22 poll,
@HawaiiMensVB
is back at No. 1.
It marks the 58th time in
#HawaiiMVB
history they are ranked No. 1.
Bows receive 11 of the 19 1st-place votes
Well, it seems all we needed to do was get to conference tourneys and wait for upsets to happen to shake things up in the
@nvausa
/ AVCA Men’s Div. I-II Poll. All of that happened, which brought some shifting in the final regular-season rankings.
Poll:
HOW SWEET IT IS!
For the first time since 2015,
@HawaiiWVB
is into the Sweet 16.
Time to Jump Around in Wisconsin as No. 12
#hawaiiwvb
travels to the Madison Regional to face No. 5
@Huskervball
.
@ESPNHonolulu
will be with the Bows next week on the continent
🌈🌽🏐🤙🏻
Announced on his Instagram late Monday night, Kristian Titriyski of Bulgaria has announced of his commitment to join
#HawaiiMVB
for the 2025 season.
Per , Titriyski is a 6’7” Opposite who also was on Bulgaria’s U19 World Championship roster
#WarriorBall25
Also a congrats to
@JakobThelle
who earlier tonight against UCSB passed Mason Kuo for 9th-place all-time in
@HawaiiMensVB
career assists
#HawaiiMVB
Thelle now at 2620…and counting
Another top 3 attendance finish for
@HawaiiWVB
.
In this era of Power 5 (Power 4 now or whatever it is) dominance, it’s very nice to see a group of 5 school continuously be represented.
Take a bow
#HawaiiWVB
fans…so very well done 🌈🏐 🤙🏻
'I've never experienced that type of love and support' - Speaking publicly for the first time since collegiate career ending knee injury, Hawai'i men's volleyball star Spyros Chakas says Mahalo ahead of senior series this weekend 🗒️
@c_shimabuku
#HawaiiMVB
+1 to the
#HawaiiMVB
#BraddahHood
.
Bows pick up Aleksa Mandić, listed as a 6’4” outside/opposite (hits left-handed) from Serbia.
Has played the last few years with the Partizan Belgrade club
#WarriorBall24
17 home matches highlight the schedule.
6 Power Five Opponents & in total, eight of 10 non-conference matches are against teams that advanced to the post-season in 2022.
Inaugural BWC Championship at LBSU: 11/22, 24-25
#HawaiiWVB
Huge honor for one of the very best to ever wear the
#HawaiiWVB
Green & White.
Blessed to be on the radio call every fall for her team.
Congrats Coach 🤙🏻
RIGHT BACK ATCHA!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥 🧹🧹🧹
The ‘Bows came back strong rallying from last night and returning a sweep against
#4
Long Beach, 3-0.
They have a road trip starting with CSU Northridge on Friday at 4:00 pm HT.
#GoBows
#HawaiiVolleyball
#HawaiiAthletics
Transfer portal giveth again to
#HawaiiMVB
.
Per his IG earlier today,
#WarriorBall
picks up former Jamestown (NAIA) oppo Oguzhan Oguz.
Listed at 6’8”, Oguz was a ‘23 AVCA All-American HM, Great Plains Athletic Conf FOY & 1st-team selection.
Averaged 4.2 kps, hit .314 w/ 31 SA
The past 3 nights on the island sure were fun.
Over 18,000 through the gates on the 3 nights of the
@OutriggerResort
Volleyball Invitational
#HawaiiMVB
#NCAAMVB
🗣
#GrowTheGame
Do better
@NCAA
@NCAAMVolleyball
, do better.
And again, it’s hard to say
#GrowTheGame
and actually believe in the phrase when you don’t give a Championship Tournament it’s proper attention and respect
It’s something quite special to be on one of the two teams that is playing on the final day of the season for its sport.
To be doing that for a 4th consecutive year is historic
#HawaiiMVB
#NCAAMVB