2013 UH Wahine Thread

[FOBRA]

Their roster online is only showing 9 players, so it looks like they had some scholarship room.

[geddyleeridesagain]

May 23, 2013 1:11:59 GMT -5 @fetchin said:

What about the Tenn middle Okoro? Did not know Seickman left already.

Good catch, totally forgot about her. Still, doesn't seem like an inordinate number of transfers all in all.

[bumpsetspike]

Check Monica Stauber's Instagram. She's gonna play vball at UCLA. Major upgrade! Congrats to her!

[kolohekeiki]

May 23, 2013 4:30:31 GMT -5 bumpsetspike said:

Check Monica Stauber's Instagram. She's gonna play vball at UCLA. Major upgrade! Congrats to her!

Congrats to Monica and best of luck! It looks like we'll still be seeing her every year

[Huh]

May 22, 2013 23:33:37 GMT -5 geddyleeridesagain said:

May 1, 2013 0:08:59 GMT -5 love2play said:

If Croson & Strehlow transfer to Pepperdine (not saying either of them will) it could be Sport Shack 2.0, The College Years with Orozco, Dykstra already there.

You should try your hand at fortune telling - Strehlow is in fact transferring to Pepperdine.

I'll try my "hand at fortune telling"...congrats to Pepperdine & UCLA also with whom/whatevers!
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Setter: 5.8 Uiato (2012 HM AVCA AA, 2013 USAV A2 Team member)

MB1: 6.4 Vorster (Prepvolleyball.com SeniorAce, Florida Gators recruit)
MB2: 6.1 Adolpho (Prepvolleyball.com SeniorAce, BYU Cougars recruit)

Libero: 5.6 Longo (Penn State transfer)

OH1: 6.0 Croson* ('Sand' VB Champion/AA, Prepvolleyball.com, Top 10, SeniorAce)
OH2: 6.0 Manu-Olevao (3x 1st Team All-Hawai'i Prep Team, 2013 USAV A2 Team member)
w/ DS: 5.7 Lelepali (1x 1st Team All-Hawai'i Prep Team, USA High Performance)

Opp: 6.2 Hartong (multi AVCA AA, USAV NT trainee, Prepvolleyball.com, Top 50, SeniorAce)

*the "fun" that she creates via social media in the off season is literally laughable. IF @all, she leaves the team in mid-October for U. of Arizona 2014 "Beach"

UH will have played Texas, San Diego, UCLA, Wichita State, Long Beach State, their star studded Alumnae, Long Beach State, JP's Nittaidai (certainly the equivalent of a U.S. AVCA Top 30 NCAA team)
...and yet some of these characters on VT, who I suspect don't truly know volleyball to begin with, can't seem to give the Bows a preliminary "revised"(even) Preseason Top 10 ranking. WTx?!

What's really going on here??
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& since no body gave it a try
..in: "Wonder(ing) what 80s team, in congruence, 2013 Na Wahine "dittos" this upcoming season ..anybody out there familiar with them, UH Wahine VB, wanting to guess?"

This '89/2013 UH Team:

lb, Longo

Boyer~Uiato

Trieschman~Vorster

Williams~Croson

#######~Hartong
(All-Am. Fransson)

Robins~Adolpho

#######~Manu-Olevao
(Babes Kalulu_Cubi-Otineru)

DS
Golden~Lelepali
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That's all.

[Huh]

--Alumnae--

S: Ah Mow-Santos

OHs: Willoughby, Mason

MBs: Hewitt, Gregory

OPP: Cubi-Otineru

Libero: Brandt

:-)

[slBrown]

What UH / LB fans have to look forward to in 2013.

More or less *of all sets played this past 2012 btwn the two* this brief snippet--and these first 13' (or so) of the anticipated reupped rivalry only, are what's expected to come.
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LBSU WILL be a ranked Top 25 opponent moreover this next fall; circumstance(s)/incidentals didn't allow for such a ranking when this video was shot.

[jttaberu]

welp, best of luck to croson wherever she's choosing to play. it was a great ride while she was with UH.

[HawaiiVB]

Jane I love you no matter what. Thak you for your hard work. When you were out, UH struggled.

[skeleton]

Jane is my favorite player but obviously she has some issues that could not be worked out. Will be better for the team in the long run. Good luck Jane.

Time to move on……

Hearing good things about Tai Manu-Olevao and seems she will be ready to take Jane’s spot. Tai and Nikki Taylor should take some of the load off of Emily. I am predicting a breakout, Brittany Hewitt-type season for Jade Vorster.

We’ll be OK……..

[bluecougarnation]

So it's confirmed that she's transferring?

[vballfreak808]

May 28, 2013 14:06:09 GMT -5 bluecougarnation said:

So it's confirmed that she's transferring?

No confirmation about that. In the article it mentions she does not know what she is going to do now.

[vballfreak808]

Croson leaving Rainbow Wahine

By Ann Miller

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, May 28, 2013

After a spring of discontent, the  Rainbow Wahine volleyball team is moving on without Jane Croson.

Hawaii coach Dave Shoji said Monday that, "We have come to a mutual agreement that Jane will leave Hawaii and go to school somewhere else."

Croson, who won a Youth Beach World Championship three years ago, earned all-conference honors indoors her first two years at UH. She was a sand volleyball All-American last year in the sport's debut season.

But this past school year was fraught with problems.

She was "suspended indefinitely" during the indoor season for "breaking team rules." Shoji reinstated her after a month. In the spring, Croson was left home to "concentrate on academics" at the end of the sand season and posted on her Facebook page that volleyball "was now like a job."

Rumors started swirling that she would transfer to Arizona, but Croson said Monday she did not know what she was going to do.

"I've just been training and going to the gym and working out by myself," she said by phone from her home in California.

Then she added, "I don't really want to talk about this right now."

Over the past month, there had been talk that she might return to UH for her junior year. That apparently is no longer an option.

Shoji and the returning players are prepared to go on without the player who has one of the collegiate game's most fascinating serves, was second on the team in kills and digs the last two seasons — and first in distractions.

"There have been a lot of off-the-court issues that we had to deal with and now we won't," Shoji said.

"She has a very powerful arm and the ability to create kills because of it. On the other hand, I think we might be a little more physical there (outside hitter) as far as athleticism and power."

Senior Ali Longo, who played indoors and on the sand with Croson this school year, said simply that "these kinds of things happen when you are on teams.

"Our main goal was to find the best situation for the team and at the same time what's best for Jane," Longo said from Colorado. "Any way it would have gone, the team would be supportive. Now it's behind us and we'll be stronger because of it. … We are a really close-knit team, even without Jane."

Shoji said Croson, who has a redshirt year remaining, is free to transfer to another school, be on scholarship and train. He has not given her a release to play next season. She has the right to appeal that decision.

The Wahine were 27-3 last year, winning the Big West in their return to the conference and losing to Washington in Seattle in the second round of the NCAA tournament. Hawaii was 11th in the final national poll. It opens its 2013 season Aug. 30 against defending NCAA champion Texas.

[spikerthemovie]

No release. Intriguing.

[dedicatedfan]

I am real curious to see what Dave Shoji's back plan is. Cause if he believes he can win a National Championship with the current players he now has, including the new incoming players. He will have a rude awakening come the first match of the season against Texas. This was going to be his truly last chance to win a National Championship before he decides to retire. After this year, he will have to rebuild his whole entire team again. With about 7 players leaving after this coming year.