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Susie Boogaard has played left-side hitter and right-side hitter in her senior season with the Rainbow Wahine.
Boogaard is everywhere
The senior is capable of playing anywhere on the court for the Rainbow Wahine
By Cindy Luis
cluis@starbulletin.com
Wanting it all doesn't mean being greedy, not in Susie Boogaard's dictionary.
Her definition is about values, about wanting a strong marriage such as the one her parents have enjoyed for 30 years. It's about raising children in the same loving environment she enjoyed, one that also fosters a passion for athletics and the outdoors.
It's about teamwork where family members work hard and play even harder together.
It's what Boogaard sees as her future. It's also what she saw in the Hawaii volleyball program, an ohana that was so welcoming it felt like an extension of her own family.
That warmth was enough to lure the 6-foot-2 hitter away from the close-knit Boogaard clan in Bellflower, Calif., in 2002. She quickly learned what an opponent had told her at a youth national tournament was true: "Hawaii is a fun place to play."
The opponent was Rainbow Wahine setter Kanoe Kamana'o, who met Boogaard when the two were competing against each other at the club level.
"She was trying to make a decision about where to go (to college)," Kamana'o said. "I kept telling her, 'You know, Hawaii's a great place.' Then I saw her here and it was like, wow, it happened, the opportunity to play with her and not against her.
"She's just been a great teammate, always smiling, always encouraging, always there. She's not real vocal and not real loud, but you hear her.
"It will be sad to say good-bye when the season does end."
Boogaard and Hawaii's two other seniors -- middle Victoria Prince and libero Ashley Watanabe -- have only seven regular-season home matches left in their stellar careers, the countdown continuing with tonight's contest against Fresno State. Boogaard anticipates playing the right side, as she did when putting down 12 kills and coming up with six blocks and 10 digs in last Saturday's 3-2 win at New Mexico State.
But that's not a given. Boogaard put her years of dance classes to good use as she has moved from right side to left side and back to the right so many times she could win a dance marathon.
"I don't know before a match where I'm playing and it doesn't matter, I'm just glad to be on the court," said Boogaard, who has split time at both positions this season. "I'm having a good time on the right, where it's usually more about blocking than about getting kills, like on the left.
"The positions are different and I've liked the mix of playing both."
If there were a utility player in volleyball, it would be wearing No. 2. She has to know all the blocking schemes, the passing patterns -- she's second on the team in digs -- as well as where the Wahine hitters are on offense because Boogaard is also the secondary setter.
"I like setting," said Boogaard, who is second to Kamana'o in assists. "It's really fun when a teammate gets a kill off my set."
She hasn't done it in a match, but Boogaard has been working hard in practice at setting the middle. The play requires a lot of timing "but when she gets comfortable with it, she may bust it out in a game," Kamana'o said. "And that would be fun.
"She's always commenting, 'Watch out, Kanoe, I'm going to take your position.' "
Wahine coach Dave Shoji has two words for that: "Not happening."
"That would require quicker feet than she has," Shoji said. "That's been one of her drawbacks, her foot speed. She has athletic ability, just not the fast-twitch. But she does really well for the physical tools she has. And Saturday, she was one of the reasons we turned things around.
"Susie's had a lot of roles on this team. Her first two years, she was kind of a role player, but she got a lot of good points for us. She's really well-suited for the right but last year, we needed her on the left and she was very, very solid. She's not the most dynamic player but she has solid skills and that's what I'm going miss."
No one is rushing this senior class out the Stan Sheriff Center door. Although this season didn't start off the way Boogaard had hoped -- losing more matches (six) than in her previous three years combined (five) -- it's how and where the season ends that matters.
"Our preseason was extra tough, but it's only made us stronger and tougher," Boogaard said. "As long as we keep improving, it's going to be a really good senior year.
"Hopefully, we'll make it to the final four and win it all. It's the last chance.
"The four years have gone really quickly and I'm going to miss the arena, my teammates, the fans, how nice and loving the people are here. When it is done, I hope I've left the image of a fun-loving, hard-working girl and people will have good memories of me."
Her teammates will.
"What I've learned from her is to play for myself, not anyone else's approval," sophomore middle Kari Gregory said. "She plays hard and has fun doing it."
Boogaard has also worked hard in the classroom and will finish her degree in four years. She'll graduate this May with a B.A. in sociology.
"I'm taking 17 credits in spring," she said. "It's going to be tough but it's worth it to be able to graduate in four.
"I have no idea what I'll be doing. It's going to be strange not being part of a team because I've never not been part of some team."
That might not last for long. Her older sister, Sarah, is looking for a beach-doubles partner.
But that is the future. The present includes several more trips here for Boogaard's biggest fans, her parents John and Susan, who have rarely missed a Sheriff Center match in four seasons, thanks to buying airline passes for unlimited flights.
In Boogaard's first three years, the team went a combined 100-5 with final four appearances in 2002 and 2003. Last year, they missed being in Long Beach for what would have been a third straight final four as well as a 15-minute drive from Boogaard's home.
"Being able to play that close to my family and friends would have been exciting," she said. "But I don't like to have regrets ...
"But getting to San Antonio (site of this year's final four) would work for me."
No one would blame Boogaard for being greedy -- just this once -- for wanting to have it all.
Injury update: The depth chart at middle blocker was temporarily reduced by 40 percent this week when freshman Nickie Thomas rolled her right ankle in practice and Gregory was hampered by a possible torn meniscus in her left knee. Both were back practicing yesterday, saying they would be ready to play tonight.
Had the two been sidelined, it would have moved sophomore Caroline Blood to No. 3, behind starters Victoria Prince and Juliana Sanders. Blood, who played one season for the Rainbow Wahine softball, had three appearances last season as a middle and three this season as a right-side hitter.
End quote: "It certainly got our attention," UH coach Dave Shoji said when asked what he thought of Fresno State picking up its first WAC win in handing Utah State its first WAC loss on Wednesday.
The Susie Boogaard File
Ht.: 6-2
Class: Sr.
Pos.: LS/RS
Season totals
Kills: 126. Needs 13 for 800
Digs: 145. Needs 30 for 650
Blocks: 36. Needs 12 for 200
Aces: 7. Needs 11 for 50
Last match: 12 kills, 10 digs, 6 blocks at New Mexico State
Article URL: starbulletin.com/2005/10/07/sports/story01.html
© 1996-2005 The Honolulu Star-Bulletin | www.starbulletin.com
Posted on: Friday, October 7, 2005
Mom, dad always there for Boogaard
By Ann Miller
Advertiser Staff Writer
Coach Dave Shoji says few outside the team will realize how valuable Boogaard is until she leaves.
REBECCA BREYER | The Honolulu Advertiser
When Hawai'i recruited Susie Boogaard it had no idea it was bringing in the Boogaard family. Neither did the Boogaards.
Through a quirk of aviation fate, hard work early in their family life and a blood bond the Pacific Ocean could not break, John and Susan Boogaard have watched nearly every match their daughter Susie has played in her four-year Rainbow Wahine career.
They live in Bellflower, Calif., yet have seen more matches than some players.
"Her family needs to talk to every family in the country about coming to Hawai'i," says UH coach Dave Shoji, sensing a recruiting gem. "They have made it work. I'm sure they would have liked her to go to UCLA or USC so they could have gone to every match. They have made a lot of sacrifices, but if you talk to them, they'll say it's worth it. They are hard-core fans and have been there for us and everybody."
It hasn't been easy or cheap, but the family has been creative.
John Boogaard closed his thriving real estate brokerage two years ago and now works out of his home, giving out his cell phone to clients. You might see him doing deals at pre-game potlucks, in the stands at Stan Sheriff Center tonight or tomorrow when the 11th-ranked Rainbows face Fresno State and Nevada, or by fax and computer.
Some deals have dissolved over the Pacific. It is a price he was more than willing to pay.
"I look at it as, you can always work, you can't always watch your daughter," John said. "I'd have felt sick if I'd missed it."
Susan has been a volunteer coach at Valley Christian High School, even guiding Susie's senior team when her daughter threatened, semi-seriously, to play football if she didn't. That left her free to take her three girls to lessons and games as they grew up.
"They made sure they were at every activity we've ever done," Susie says of her parents. "From soccer to choir concerts. I'm the youngest, so it got easier."
Until the Rainbow Wahine came calling, drawn by her size and "volleyball IQ." Susie, who didn't even like to stay over at friends' houses as a child, fell hard for Hawai'i with its "great college atmosphere," idyllic location and realistic shot at a national championship.
"I wanted to be able to play a lot, but I wanted to be on a real good team," Boogaard recalled. "I wanted to earn a position."
Her parents backed her decision and didn't give the distance "that much thought, other than, 'She is playing, we've got to go.' " Fate intervened when ATA Airlines offered an annual pass to Hawai'i, a practice ending now that Boogaard is graduating.
John and Susan have each had one since 2002, and make 10 to 15 trips a year here. It is still costly (passes were $1,700 the first year and $2,500 the last), particularly when you tack on room, board and Mainland travel. But for the Boogaards, it is another price they are willing to pay.
"I think we've even grown closer, in different ways," Susie said. "I've always been extremely close to my parents, but they're more friends now than parents because I'm on my own.
"The distance does make a difference, but because they are here all the time it's easier. I can be independent and do what I want to do. If I was at home, I wouldn't have that independence."
The unbroken bond has allowed Boogaard to reach her athletic potential, according to Shoji. She has made a successful transition from the "Kim (Willoughby)/Lily (Kahumoku) Era" to this drastically different bunch that has been so startling the past two seasons. The Rainbow Wahine are 109-11 in the "Susie/Ashley (Watanabe) Era."
Boogaard has been in the center of it all, literally, with her passing the most prized part of her game. She rarely leaves the floor and, in a testament to her work ethic, often looks fresher in the fifth game than the first.
Ironically, Shoji says few outside the team will realize how valuable Boogaard is until she leaves. She is the only player capable of passing in all six rotations and has seemlessly made what can be an awkward move, from left-side hitter to right.
She probably plays more roles than any Rainbow on the floor, but her soft-spoken personality and rapt attention to the detailed parts of the game only noticed if they are botched, usually keep her under the radar. And, Boogaard's best quality might be that she is a steadying influence on a team that can be desperately in need of steadying.
"People don't appreciate the stuff she does for the team," Shoji said. "She's hitting 20 percent and that's not a great number, but she does so much more for our team that people don't appreciate. People who know our team and appreciate other parts of the game understand what she gives us."
Her father is, without question, her biggest fan and most severe critic. "She hears me in the crowd and gets kinda irritated," John said. "That's just the way the deal goes. ... I'm so thrilled she's achieved what she's been able to achieve."
Boogaard describes her mother, without hesitation, as the most inspirational person in her life. When she plays her final home match next month, her parents will bring along 48 of their closest friends and family.
It will be the end of a memorable long-distance era the Boogaards never imagined four years ago. While Susie was zoning in on UH, her sister was struggling with the separation early in her volleyball career at UC Santa Barbara, less than 2 hours from the Boogaard home. She ultimately had a successful career at Biola, but it brought up a crucial question when Susie was packing her bags.
"I said, 'Susie, when you miss us in Hawai'i, what do you want me to say?' " Susan recalled. "She said, 'Don't let me come home, no matter what.'
"She went through some homesickness, but I never saw the tears. I'd drop her off at the airport and it would be very, very difficult leaving my baby, but it got easier and now she's made a nice life out there. To a mom, that's what matters. It was very hard. I didn't want my baby to go so far, but we never told her that. And it's been great, a fairy tale story."
SUSIE BOOGAARD
6-2 senior hitter
Bellflower, Calif.
GRADUATION: May 2006 with a degree in sociology and a minor in women’s studies
NOTABLE: Played in all but five matches in her career … one of six Rainbow Wahine averaging more than two kills this year … second-team all-WAC as junior when she averaged nearly 4 kills and 3 digs a game, was named all-WAC Tournament and Most Outstanding Player at the Waikïkï Beach Marriott Challenge and hit .381 at the NCAA sub-regional.
QUOTABLE: “Dave (Shoji) has to coach more now. He’s more involved in the game and every decision Dave makes is a win-lose decision. He has had to coach more than he’s ever had to before and I think he’s enjoying it. You see him laugh a lot and he’s having fun. Same as last year. We stress him out a lot, but he’ll get over it.”
WHO: No. 11 Hawai‘i (9-6, 3-0) vs. Fresno State (3-11, 1-3) tonight and Nevada (9-5, 4-0) tomorrow
WHERE: Stan Sheriff Center
WHEN: 7 both nights
TV/RADIO: Live on KFVE (5) tonight. Tomorrow’s match will be live on pay-per-view. KKEA (1420 AM) live both nights.
TICKETS: Lower level $18; upper level $15 (adults), $9 (seniors 65-older), $6 (students 4-18) and $3 (UH students).
PARKING: $3
Reach Ann Miller at amiller@honoluluadvertiser.com.
the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Oct/07/sp/FP510070343.html/?print=on
The fairy tale's not over yet, Mrs. Boogaard!
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FL MORRIS / FMORRIS@STARBULLETIN.COM
Susie Boogaard has played left-side hitter and right-side hitter in her senior season with the Rainbow Wahine.
Boogaard is everywhere
The senior is capable of playing anywhere on the court for the Rainbow Wahine
By Cindy Luis
cluis@starbulletin.com
Wanting it all doesn't mean being greedy, not in Susie Boogaard's dictionary.
Her definition is about values, about wanting a strong marriage such as the one her parents have enjoyed for 30 years. It's about raising children in the same loving environment she enjoyed, one that also fosters a passion for athletics and the outdoors.
It's about teamwork where family members work hard and play even harder together.
It's what Boogaard sees as her future. It's also what she saw in the Hawaii volleyball program, an ohana that was so welcoming it felt like an extension of her own family.
That warmth was enough to lure the 6-foot-2 hitter away from the close-knit Boogaard clan in Bellflower, Calif., in 2002. She quickly learned what an opponent had told her at a youth national tournament was true: "Hawaii is a fun place to play."
The opponent was Rainbow Wahine setter Kanoe Kamana'o, who met Boogaard when the two were competing against each other at the club level.
"She was trying to make a decision about where to go (to college)," Kamana'o said. "I kept telling her, 'You know, Hawaii's a great place.' Then I saw her here and it was like, wow, it happened, the opportunity to play with her and not against her.
"She's just been a great teammate, always smiling, always encouraging, always there. She's not real vocal and not real loud, but you hear her.
"It will be sad to say good-bye when the season does end."
Boogaard and Hawaii's two other seniors -- middle Victoria Prince and libero Ashley Watanabe -- have only seven regular-season home matches left in their stellar careers, the countdown continuing with tonight's contest against Fresno State. Boogaard anticipates playing the right side, as she did when putting down 12 kills and coming up with six blocks and 10 digs in last Saturday's 3-2 win at New Mexico State.
But that's not a given. Boogaard put her years of dance classes to good use as she has moved from right side to left side and back to the right so many times she could win a dance marathon.
"I don't know before a match where I'm playing and it doesn't matter, I'm just glad to be on the court," said Boogaard, who has split time at both positions this season. "I'm having a good time on the right, where it's usually more about blocking than about getting kills, like on the left.
"The positions are different and I've liked the mix of playing both."
If there were a utility player in volleyball, it would be wearing No. 2. She has to know all the blocking schemes, the passing patterns -- she's second on the team in digs -- as well as where the Wahine hitters are on offense because Boogaard is also the secondary setter.
"I like setting," said Boogaard, who is second to Kamana'o in assists. "It's really fun when a teammate gets a kill off my set."
She hasn't done it in a match, but Boogaard has been working hard in practice at setting the middle. The play requires a lot of timing "but when she gets comfortable with it, she may bust it out in a game," Kamana'o said. "And that would be fun.
"She's always commenting, 'Watch out, Kanoe, I'm going to take your position.' "
Wahine coach Dave Shoji has two words for that: "Not happening."
"That would require quicker feet than she has," Shoji said. "That's been one of her drawbacks, her foot speed. She has athletic ability, just not the fast-twitch. But she does really well for the physical tools she has. And Saturday, she was one of the reasons we turned things around.
"Susie's had a lot of roles on this team. Her first two years, she was kind of a role player, but she got a lot of good points for us. She's really well-suited for the right but last year, we needed her on the left and she was very, very solid. She's not the most dynamic player but she has solid skills and that's what I'm going miss."
No one is rushing this senior class out the Stan Sheriff Center door. Although this season didn't start off the way Boogaard had hoped -- losing more matches (six) than in her previous three years combined (five) -- it's how and where the season ends that matters.
"Our preseason was extra tough, but it's only made us stronger and tougher," Boogaard said. "As long as we keep improving, it's going to be a really good senior year.
"Hopefully, we'll make it to the final four and win it all. It's the last chance.
"The four years have gone really quickly and I'm going to miss the arena, my teammates, the fans, how nice and loving the people are here. When it is done, I hope I've left the image of a fun-loving, hard-working girl and people will have good memories of me."
Her teammates will.
"What I've learned from her is to play for myself, not anyone else's approval," sophomore middle Kari Gregory said. "She plays hard and has fun doing it."
Boogaard has also worked hard in the classroom and will finish her degree in four years. She'll graduate this May with a B.A. in sociology.
"I'm taking 17 credits in spring," she said. "It's going to be tough but it's worth it to be able to graduate in four.
"I have no idea what I'll be doing. It's going to be strange not being part of a team because I've never not been part of some team."
That might not last for long. Her older sister, Sarah, is looking for a beach-doubles partner.
But that is the future. The present includes several more trips here for Boogaard's biggest fans, her parents John and Susan, who have rarely missed a Sheriff Center match in four seasons, thanks to buying airline passes for unlimited flights.
In Boogaard's first three years, the team went a combined 100-5 with final four appearances in 2002 and 2003. Last year, they missed being in Long Beach for what would have been a third straight final four as well as a 15-minute drive from Boogaard's home.
"Being able to play that close to my family and friends would have been exciting," she said. "But I don't like to have regrets ...
"But getting to San Antonio (site of this year's final four) would work for me."
No one would blame Boogaard for being greedy -- just this once -- for wanting to have it all.
Injury update: The depth chart at middle blocker was temporarily reduced by 40 percent this week when freshman Nickie Thomas rolled her right ankle in practice and Gregory was hampered by a possible torn meniscus in her left knee. Both were back practicing yesterday, saying they would be ready to play tonight.
Had the two been sidelined, it would have moved sophomore Caroline Blood to No. 3, behind starters Victoria Prince and Juliana Sanders. Blood, who played one season for the Rainbow Wahine softball, had three appearances last season as a middle and three this season as a right-side hitter.
End quote: "It certainly got our attention," UH coach Dave Shoji said when asked what he thought of Fresno State picking up its first WAC win in handing Utah State its first WAC loss on Wednesday.
The Susie Boogaard File
Ht.: 6-2
Class: Sr.
Pos.: LS/RS
Season totals
Kills: 126. Needs 13 for 800
Digs: 145. Needs 30 for 650
Blocks: 36. Needs 12 for 200
Aces: 7. Needs 11 for 50
Last match: 12 kills, 10 digs, 6 blocks at New Mexico State
Article URL: starbulletin.com/2005/10/07/sports/story01.html
© 1996-2005 The Honolulu Star-Bulletin | www.starbulletin.com
Posted on: Friday, October 7, 2005
Mom, dad always there for Boogaard
By Ann Miller
Advertiser Staff Writer
Coach Dave Shoji says few outside the team will realize how valuable Boogaard is until she leaves.
REBECCA BREYER | The Honolulu Advertiser
When Hawai'i recruited Susie Boogaard it had no idea it was bringing in the Boogaard family. Neither did the Boogaards.
Through a quirk of aviation fate, hard work early in their family life and a blood bond the Pacific Ocean could not break, John and Susan Boogaard have watched nearly every match their daughter Susie has played in her four-year Rainbow Wahine career.
They live in Bellflower, Calif., yet have seen more matches than some players.
"Her family needs to talk to every family in the country about coming to Hawai'i," says UH coach Dave Shoji, sensing a recruiting gem. "They have made it work. I'm sure they would have liked her to go to UCLA or USC so they could have gone to every match. They have made a lot of sacrifices, but if you talk to them, they'll say it's worth it. They are hard-core fans and have been there for us and everybody."
It hasn't been easy or cheap, but the family has been creative.
John Boogaard closed his thriving real estate brokerage two years ago and now works out of his home, giving out his cell phone to clients. You might see him doing deals at pre-game potlucks, in the stands at Stan Sheriff Center tonight or tomorrow when the 11th-ranked Rainbows face Fresno State and Nevada, or by fax and computer.
Some deals have dissolved over the Pacific. It is a price he was more than willing to pay.
"I look at it as, you can always work, you can't always watch your daughter," John said. "I'd have felt sick if I'd missed it."
Susan has been a volunteer coach at Valley Christian High School, even guiding Susie's senior team when her daughter threatened, semi-seriously, to play football if she didn't. That left her free to take her three girls to lessons and games as they grew up.
"They made sure they were at every activity we've ever done," Susie says of her parents. "From soccer to choir concerts. I'm the youngest, so it got easier."
Until the Rainbow Wahine came calling, drawn by her size and "volleyball IQ." Susie, who didn't even like to stay over at friends' houses as a child, fell hard for Hawai'i with its "great college atmosphere," idyllic location and realistic shot at a national championship.
"I wanted to be able to play a lot, but I wanted to be on a real good team," Boogaard recalled. "I wanted to earn a position."
Her parents backed her decision and didn't give the distance "that much thought, other than, 'She is playing, we've got to go.' " Fate intervened when ATA Airlines offered an annual pass to Hawai'i, a practice ending now that Boogaard is graduating.
John and Susan have each had one since 2002, and make 10 to 15 trips a year here. It is still costly (passes were $1,700 the first year and $2,500 the last), particularly when you tack on room, board and Mainland travel. But for the Boogaards, it is another price they are willing to pay.
"I think we've even grown closer, in different ways," Susie said. "I've always been extremely close to my parents, but they're more friends now than parents because I'm on my own.
"The distance does make a difference, but because they are here all the time it's easier. I can be independent and do what I want to do. If I was at home, I wouldn't have that independence."
The unbroken bond has allowed Boogaard to reach her athletic potential, according to Shoji. She has made a successful transition from the "Kim (Willoughby)/Lily (Kahumoku) Era" to this drastically different bunch that has been so startling the past two seasons. The Rainbow Wahine are 109-11 in the "Susie/Ashley (Watanabe) Era."
Boogaard has been in the center of it all, literally, with her passing the most prized part of her game. She rarely leaves the floor and, in a testament to her work ethic, often looks fresher in the fifth game than the first.
Ironically, Shoji says few outside the team will realize how valuable Boogaard is until she leaves. She is the only player capable of passing in all six rotations and has seemlessly made what can be an awkward move, from left-side hitter to right.
She probably plays more roles than any Rainbow on the floor, but her soft-spoken personality and rapt attention to the detailed parts of the game only noticed if they are botched, usually keep her under the radar. And, Boogaard's best quality might be that she is a steadying influence on a team that can be desperately in need of steadying.
"People don't appreciate the stuff she does for the team," Shoji said. "She's hitting 20 percent and that's not a great number, but she does so much more for our team that people don't appreciate. People who know our team and appreciate other parts of the game understand what she gives us."
Her father is, without question, her biggest fan and most severe critic. "She hears me in the crowd and gets kinda irritated," John said. "That's just the way the deal goes. ... I'm so thrilled she's achieved what she's been able to achieve."
Boogaard describes her mother, without hesitation, as the most inspirational person in her life. When she plays her final home match next month, her parents will bring along 48 of their closest friends and family.
It will be the end of a memorable long-distance era the Boogaards never imagined four years ago. While Susie was zoning in on UH, her sister was struggling with the separation early in her volleyball career at UC Santa Barbara, less than 2 hours from the Boogaard home. She ultimately had a successful career at Biola, but it brought up a crucial question when Susie was packing her bags.
"I said, 'Susie, when you miss us in Hawai'i, what do you want me to say?' " Susan recalled. "She said, 'Don't let me come home, no matter what.'
"She went through some homesickness, but I never saw the tears. I'd drop her off at the airport and it would be very, very difficult leaving my baby, but it got easier and now she's made a nice life out there. To a mom, that's what matters. It was very hard. I didn't want my baby to go so far, but we never told her that. And it's been great, a fairy tale story."
SUSIE BOOGAARD
6-2 senior hitter
Bellflower, Calif.
GRADUATION: May 2006 with a degree in sociology and a minor in women’s studies
NOTABLE: Played in all but five matches in her career … one of six Rainbow Wahine averaging more than two kills this year … second-team all-WAC as junior when she averaged nearly 4 kills and 3 digs a game, was named all-WAC Tournament and Most Outstanding Player at the Waikïkï Beach Marriott Challenge and hit .381 at the NCAA sub-regional.
QUOTABLE: “Dave (Shoji) has to coach more now. He’s more involved in the game and every decision Dave makes is a win-lose decision. He has had to coach more than he’s ever had to before and I think he’s enjoying it. You see him laugh a lot and he’s having fun. Same as last year. We stress him out a lot, but he’ll get over it.”
WHO: No. 11 Hawai‘i (9-6, 3-0) vs. Fresno State (3-11, 1-3) tonight and Nevada (9-5, 4-0) tomorrow
WHERE: Stan Sheriff Center
WHEN: 7 both nights
TV/RADIO: Live on KFVE (5) tonight. Tomorrow’s match will be live on pay-per-view. KKEA (1420 AM) live both nights.
TICKETS: Lower level $18; upper level $15 (adults), $9 (seniors 65-older), $6 (students 4-18) and $3 (UH students).
PARKING: $3
Reach Ann Miller at amiller@honoluluadvertiser.com.
the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Oct/07/sp/FP510070343.html/?print=on
The fairy tale's not over yet, Mrs. Boogaard!
