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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 […]

By: Tiff Wells 1 – Venue change isn’t an issue. Two weeks prior to the Hawai`i-UC Irvine match, the Anteaters had moved their matches with UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly from The Bren Events Center to Crawford Court because of “a facility issue.” The Bows knew there was a strong possibility that the match […]

By: Tiff Wells 1 – Igiede moves up the ranks. After this past weekend, Senior Middle Blocker Amber Igiede passed Diana Jessie for 13th place all-time in career kills. Igiede now sits at 1267 kills with four regular season matches remaining, plus the postseason. She’s also closing in on a major milestone as she sits […]

By: Tiff Wells 1 – Middles lead the way. The senior middle blocker tandem of Amber Igiede and Kennedi Evans led the way as Hawai`i recorded two 3-0 wins, their 11th and 12th sweeps of the season. On Friday in Northridge, they combined for 20 kills on 28 swings with just one hitting errors and […]

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 […]