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By: Tiff Wells – ESPN Honolulu’s Hawaii Men’s Volleyball Play-by-Play 1 – Milestone For Chakas. With his Set 2 ending service ace on night two, Spyros Chakas entered an exclusive club. The Senior Outside Hitter from Greece became the 10th Rainbow Warrior with 100 career service aces. Now tied with Yuval Katz and Sivan Leoni […]

By: Tiff Wells – ESPN Honolulu’s Hawaii Men’s Volleyball Play-by-Play 1 – Tone Set Early. Against a first-time opponent playing the sport in just its second year, how would Hawai`i respond coming off its final bye week of the regular season? Without Spyros Chakas for the first match due to load management, the offense didn’t […]

By: Tiff Wells 1 – Shakas For Chakas. A week after sitting out due to load management, floor captain Spyros Chakas was back in the lineup for the huge early season test against fifth-ranked Stanford. Night one for the Greek featured a 15 kill on 30 swing performance with just four hitting errors to help […]

By: Tiff Wells 1 – Load Management…No Problem. In the series against Tusculum where both of UH’s pin hitters (Spyros Chakas and Chaz Galloway) did not play, Head Coach Charlie Wade elected to give more court time to Louis Sakanoko and Keoni Thiim as that combo was the starting left side hitters. Night one featured […]

By: Tiff Wells 1 – Road Warriors. The road can be a tricky aspect of the season, especially when it brings you to an unfamiliar place (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and one where you had been just once before (Muncie, Ind.). While UH did drop the opening set of the road-trip (25-22 on night one at […]

By: Tiff Wells 1 – Bonjour Louis! If you had heard Coach Wade during our Call the Coach this past Tuesday (next one is Jan. 30, 6:30 p.m. at Ruby Tuesday Moanalua), he had mentioned of a few players he wanted to give some court time to. One of them was freshman Louis Sakanoko. A […]

By: Tiff Wells 1 – Energizer `Eleu. Farrington High alum `Eleu Choy stepped in as the libero for the All-American Brett Sheward and delivered on both nights. Seven digs in the first set on night one, Choy finished the win with a career-high 15 digs and five assists. On night two, Choy finished with seven […]

By: Tiff Wells 1 – A win for the Group of 5. An unseeded team out of a mid-major conference, the Automatic Qualifying Hawai`i Rainbow Wahine out of the Big West Conference stifled the Big XII Freshman of the Year Nayeli Gonzalez and the seventh-seeded Iowa State Cyclones. A 7-2 start to the match for […]

1 – Thankful Bows cash in. The word around the program after Senior Night was “thankful.” Thankful for a second chance at qualifying automatically for the NCAA Women’s Volleyball Championship. Thankful to take the first-round bye into Semifinal Friday of The 2023 Outrigger Big West Women’s Volleyball Championship. The seniors thankful for at least one […]

By: Tiff Wells 1 – Mānoa Magic strikes again. On Senior Night, Hawai`i began the match with serve. Long Beach State sided out and then the run began. UH didn’t get their first kill until it was 12-3. It wasn’t until 16-4 when Amber Igiede scored her first kill. If you’re going to get down […]