Hawaii Rainbow Wahine volleyball

Hawaii Rainbow Wahine
Volleyball
University University of Hawaii at Manoa
Head coach Robyn Ah Mow-Santos (2nd season)
Conference Big West
Location Manoa, HI
Home arena Stan Sheriff Center (Capacity: 10,300)
Nickname Rainbow Wahine
Colors Green, Black, Silver, and White[1]
                   
AIAW/NCAA Tournament champion
1979, 1982, 1983, 1987
AIAW/NCAA Tournament runner-up
1974, 1975, 1977, 1988, 1996
AIAW/NCAA Tournament semifinal
1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009
AIAW/NCAA Tournament appearance
1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Conference tournament champion
WAC
1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011
Conference regular season champion

PCAA
1987


WAC
1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

Big West
1988, 1989, 1990, 1995, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016
The Stan Sheriff Center's capacity crowd during a routine NCAA Tournament Match vs. USC (2011)

The Hawaii Rainbow Wahine volleyball team is the NCAA Division I women's volleyball team for the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. They are a member of the Big West Conference and are led by head coach Robyn Ah Mow-Santos. The Rainbow Wahine volleyball program remains a large source of financial income for the University of Hawaii athletic department, notwithstanding even what FB and MBB generates.

As show, volleyball has always been a celebrated linchpin between islands. A token manifested, then, person being, Kawehi Ka'a'a (2x UHH First Team All-American) who'd participate in three Final Fours (AIAW, UHH, 1978 & 1979 and AIAW, UHM, 1980). The follow-up was a Regional Final versus USC in the inaugural NCAAs, 1981. The UHM WVB program moreover frequently pays visits to Hilo and Kahului in competition during the spring. In 1974, for back-to-back matches somewhere between Sept.–Nov., it all began coincidentally on the island of Kaua'i, the eldest of all major-islands in the Hawaiian archipelago.

The team has won four national championships: one AIAW title and three NCAA Division I titles. The Rainbow Wahine played in the Big West Conference from 1988 to 1995. They joined the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) in 1996 and clinched at least a share of the regular-season conference title each year until 2012, when the Rainbow Wahine re-joined the Big West Conference. Hawaii won the WAC Tournament (and the WAC's automatic NCAA Tournament bid) in 1998 and every year between 2001 and 2011 except in 2010, when Hawaii lost in the tournament's final round to the Utah State Aggies. All four national championship squads have been team inducted into the UH Hall of Honor, of the Hawaii Athletics most prestigious, since 1981-82 (the NCAA's WVB birth).

Under the banner of 1987 Hawaiian Airlines, UH would capture the 3rd placed Berkeley, CA, USAV Open Nationals title (of mid-May) this year. A Tita of UHM, being recognized as the consecutive all-tourney, had fallen to NorCal's Carlson Chrysler (1st place) and the American SW's Merrill Lynch (2nd).[2]

Non-existent (since 2017), 10-time National Champions (w the NCAA Division II most recently), Brigham Young Hawaii had been the only other university statewide to have ever beat the Rainbow Wahine (once, 1992). Current coach Robyn Ah Mow-Santos would begin at UHM the following year in the re-establishment of order; she solidified the starting lineup in leading this team to the NCAA Regional Final, in Long Beach, CA (1993).

On 21 October 1994, the Rainbow Wahine played their first match in the Stan Sheriff Center against the AVCA polled San Jose State Spartans. The Rainbow Wahine led the nation in home game attendance from 1995 to 2014, with a cumulative average of more than 6,800 fans per match, until the Nebraska Cornhuskers moved into the Devaney Center and began averaging over 8,000 fans at each home match.[3][4]

Junior #2-Susie Boogaard (2002-2005), iffy, informally, has the best season of her UH career. Averaging approximately 15 home matches per year, the parents of Boogaard had purchased tickets for unlimited flights, on annual passes by ATA Airlines, out of Los Angeles into Honolulu.[5]The Ahuna's (1984-1987), reflexive, went Honolulu to the Continental U.S.[6]

It would be also that in 2006, former player Kari Anderson (1991-94) moved into the Associate Head Coach's position; she'd been an Assistant ever since '96-1997. She is still the longest tenured right-handed aide in UH WVB history. She'd retired from volleyball in early 2011.

UHM is a perfect 24-0 against UH Hilo in their own state turf series, dating back to the mid 1970s. On September 12, 2009, the program notched its 1,000th victory with a 3-0 win over Stanford; this series favors UH 19-13. On December 11, 2015, the Wahine defeated 7-time national champions Penn State 3-0. Rarefied, NU(s'), of the great state consequentially of Nebraska, archives presenting the 7-8 UH favor make for Hawaiian celebratory tenor; the Rainbow and Cornhuskers wahine (beginning with 1975), both showstoppers, they codify the winner's tradition(s).


Crew 2008: Not since UH's AIAW days had a team been recognized with those assembled recipients, being called to be as it were, stacked with prominent national accolades. These individuals included, 1st Team AVCA all-American Kanani Danielson, 1st Team Volleyball Magazine all-Americans Amber Kaufman and Jamie Houston, 2nd Team AVCA all-American Brittany Hewitt, 3rd Team AVCA all-American Aneli Cubi-Otineru, 2xHM AVCA all-American Dani Mafua, The Elite 88 Award winner Stephanie Brandt. Additionally, TESL Certificate awardee Catherine Fowler-de Silva would promote English while, simultaneously, playing quasi-professionally: Thailand, Asia; England, UK; then later in El Molar, Madrid, Spain (with C.V. Torrejon).[7] They were exclusive hosts to the WAC End-of-season Tournament; going 20-3 at home, 11-1 away, they finished with a common 30+ wins season.

2011

Senior Leader: Kanani Danielson

Returning (as sophomores): Prepvolleyball.com's #10 '10 Class (Top 100's Hartong, Uiato, Goodman, Waber)

Highlights: Early, September 1-4th, the Hawaiian Airlines Wahine Volleyball Classic again drew for one of the best preseason collegiate tournaments in the nation; advancements, daily, featured four AVCA Top 25s (UCLA, The Ohio State University, Long Beach State, at Manoa). AVCA #21 Pepperdine then came into Honolulu for back-to-back matches against the, timed, #11 ranked 'Bows two weeks later. Memorably the second September 17th game, preceding CBS's Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series, season 2) 5th episode airing 11 October, resulted in a second consecutive win for UH (twice–3-1). It was titled "Maʻemaʻe"/"Clean."[8] The season would be the final one for UH in the WAC. The reigning Top 25, BWC Champions (14-2) Cal State Fullerton Titans, featuring eventual professional in two-time HM AVCA all-American Kayla Neto (2009-2012), they would succumb leadership to the upcoming and into Orange Co.-Wahine. Both teams would jointly wrangle to end their final regular seasons' schedule; the American NCAA collegiate women's volleyball league, annually, offering its Thanksgiving weekend matches. UH's post season Honolulu Regional would subsequently steal #25 Colorado State's victory in the second round thereafter. A tough loss to proceeding AVCA #1 USC (eventual NCAA third place–tied), 12-15 in the 5th, would end UHM's season heavily.


Contemporaneously, nascent-ly, perturbed in performance anxiety (at times), Los Angeles native TK was an aspiring actress at the age of 12. Measuring 1.12 meters, then 3'8", it was within a 10 years' moment which the former sought after 6'1' VB Magazine / Prepvolleyball.com Top-50 athlete left Manoa a graduate (2013-14). UHM-fulfilled, those believing, providing living verve with first-in-family college grads moreover.

2012, Sept. 4th @7p HST

The auspicious headline read: RAINBOW WAHINE VOLLEYBALL TOPS ALUMNAE IN FOUR SETS. [9]

2015 beginnings

This team was circumstantially given the entire Thanksgiving Day's weekend, at home (near and far), to spend gratefully with family and friends. It hadn't been since 1980 that this luxury was afforded this program.


Two years in, The Big West Conference with Ah Mow-starring (and the all female UCI staff, incidentally), for Sheng Xiao's "Dog year" ('18 occurring), UHM, progressively, always competes well. Too walking on, Hawai'i's January 1st 2000 Millennium Baby Kamalei Krug, a 6'1' MB/OPP FR from Ke Kula Kaiapuni ʻo Ānuenue, recipient of a clean knee by arthroscopic surgery, she'd come of age quickly in joining the ranks (post Manoa Beach VB Club). There in SO Setter Mina Andjelkovic played, with Long Beach State; there'd been Cal Poly's JR AVCA HM All-American Torrey Van Winden, also (2016 Switzerland Beach FIVB U-21 World Championships semifinalist). SR 6-footer Chanel Hoffman, moreover, the non Prepvolleyball.com's Hitter (vs. UHM's #35 Senior Ace Kalei Greeley), she rounded things out for the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos.

School's Year 2016-17

The 2016 season marked the end of an era for the AVCA Top-10 UHM program. Dave Shoji, with medical issues himself, retired at helm of Hawaiian VB trailblazer. Three all-Americans (Taylor, Mitchem, Maglio), six PrepVB Fab-50's (Iosia, Higgins, Kahakai, Granato, Castillo, Greeley) and the tallest 6'5" ever-Wahine (Burns) comprised the team that season. Prior, in 2015, as the Honolulu Star-Advertiser beat chronicled, a one Kalei Adolpho, hailing from nook Ho'olehua, Molokai, was also notably able to join these same; imposing as a Top-10 on UHM's international European multi-stop Summer Tour, atypical were all outside of the Orient comparatively.

Trivially, the incidental would further place Hawai'i at a 7-4 winning advantage against Florida schools (significant University of Florida and Florida State) within annals marked. As of 2016, both UF and UTAUS own their own 22 conference championships—in tie; they've managed to command their respective regions. Comparatively, the UH (with a 11-2 all-time-series advantage against UT Austin) owns outright its own 25 conference championships.

For the second consecutive year Thanksgiving was a bonus. Unfortunately, during the NCAA second round the team's star player went down—with injuries—of the first few points in Minneapolis. The twice AVCA Beach Volleyball all-American, consequently, wouldn't be the same.

2017

O Canada! Twin towers would aptly describe this season's anchored 6'3" and 6'5" middle blockers, long, lean and sky-high. The inner city of Honolulu would be well represented additionally in the back row by UH top 3 all-time digger, prodigious, Kanaka Maoli Hawai'ian libero. The Preseason/OOC gauntlet ran as follows: AVCA's #3 Minnesota (L, 0-3), #12 Kansas (W, 3-2), #22 San Diego (L, 0-3), #13 UCLA (L, 2-3), #22 Utah (L, 1-3), #10 BYU (L, 2-3). In conference UH subsequently encountered then ranked AVCA #23 Cal Poly SLO, twice (L, 2-3). 18 December 2017, Baylor University (24-7) ends at AVCA #21; the Wahine had beat them earlier, early (W, 3-2).

For this third season in a row, the last weekend of November, beginning with Thanksgiving Thursday, it gave the Wahine much in which to be thankful; R(est) & R(eflection) being key. Four matches scheduled, engaged in the season's last month of November (two at Home & on the road), it brought the uncertain.

This team also featured two seniors, who had been recruited as 2013-14 classmates out of Huntington Beach (HBHS, Ca.). One was a not so initial AVCA, inaugural, HS 1st Team Beach all-American. The other, initially recruited, a surfer, deferred on Minnesota's interest to make her a part of the B1G Conference; tutelage was to have been experienced by way of USA Olympics MVB and WVB coach Hugh McCutcheon (2008 gold and 2012 silver awardee) respectively.


In addition, the program has made 35 NCAA postseason appearances out of 36 years, only missing the 1992 NCAA tournament. The program has produced Olympians, All-Americans and five individuals named National Player of the Year since 1983. Richard Okamoto of MHS has been deceased since 1995. Jet setter Dave Shoji travels the world, even more so in this inaugural year. Lang Ping continues presently with volleyball in her native China as their national head coach. Rainbow Warrior Football nevertheless, earnestly, beneficially, looks to haul in Black (non-Red) operationally.

Notable players

  • Linda Fernandez: Coach Kang trainee (1972-4); superstar of the professional International Volleyball Association. Gifted athlete 'til the 1980s featured on ABC-TV's Superstars (U.S. Men, Women, Networks, Olympic). Title IX beneficiary, being teammate AA Joyce Kapuaala-Kaapuni (herself a teammate to 3x AVCA All-American D. Collins).
  • Lisa Strand-Ma'a (1981–84): Color commentator on Oc 16 TV for all things, UHM, volleyball (teammate to 2x National P.O.Y. Deitre Collins (1988 Seoul S. Korea Olympian)).
  • Debbi Black: Gifted teaching Brethren, solid Beach volleyball professional. Miracle, subjectified, materfamilias; all-U.S.A. dimensioned. National Champion (NCAA), 1983, and 1986 Regional Finalists w AVCA No.1 University of the Pacific (United States), as AVCA No.2.
  • Suzanne Eagye-Cox: 2-time AVCA 1st Team All-American (1986-7) & '87 Nat'l Honda Award winner. Husband Tim is a pro motion picture's artist in the realm of blockbusting faith-based films. She was the 1987 PCAA/BWC P.O.Y.
  • Tonya "Teee" Williams: 3-time 1st Team All-American (1987, 1988, 1989), 2-time AVCA National Player of the Year (1987, 1989). A member of the 1992 and 1996 USA Olympic Teams. She continued to win mid-2000's National Championships, indoors and beach, in Germany her place of residency.
  • Karrie Trieschman-Poppinga (1987-1990): 2-time 1st Team AVCA All-American (1989, 1990). Along with fellow Kama'aina Gabrielle Reece (w/4-person WBVL), she was a Nike, Inc. spokes model starring on the 2-person WPVA Tour (1992-7).
  • Cheri Boyer (PHS c/o '88, top 3 U.S. recruit): from a family of pro's, b-i-l Trevor; sister Ann; sister Amy; sister Meri-de, who represent the S.W. SoCal region of America. Cheri was USAV 18s MVP; 1990-1, twice, & then 1st team AVCA all-American; 2010 USAV 40s MVP. Costumed dressed, revelry attired, the sisters play 6-women Beach tourneys from San Diego to Los Angeles.
  • Jenny Wilton: Mike Wilton's daughter (at UH 1991-95). She represented the USAV org. on the '89-1990 U.S. Women's Junior National Team, was an all BWC Frosh in 1991 and was team captain of a 28-0 regular season '95-team—the impetus for Wahine Ball: The Story of Hawai'i's Most Beloved Team. Her 'ohana is responsible for, questionably, the UH's only winning, 2002 NCAA MVB National Championships. Injury plagued, Hawaii Media deemed Jenny: Most inspiring.
  • Angelica Ljungqvist (Coach Ah Mow's Ast.): 1996 AVCA/Volleyball Magazine P.O.Y., 4-time AVCA All-American, star on the 4-person WBVL tour (1997-8). A Stockholm barrister w/in the Swedish Volleyball Federation, Ang was involved in every aspect of SWED's national team (playing, beach; coaching; Olympic color commentating).
  • Jameka Stevens: Olympian, who had done it and won it all before stepping foot on the UHM campus (1997). After playing VB through 2000, she has traveled for Maternal and Children’s Health, now 23 countries TD; this she did via Berkeley's post-2001 certification, in pharmaceutical research & development.
  • Heather Bown: 2-time 1st Team All-American (1998, 1999). Led the country in blocks in 1999, with over 2 blk/s. The 2-time WAC Player of the Year (1998, 1999) was also a 3-time Olympian at the (2000, 2004, 2008) Olympic Games as a member of the USA indoor women's team.
  • Kim Willoughby: AVCA National Player of the Year (2003), 3-time AVCA 1st Team All-American (2001, 2002, 2003), 3-time WAC Player of the Year. 2008 USA Olympic Indoor women's team member. She is the all-time career kill leader at Hawaii and the Western Athletic Conference with 2,598 career kills.
  • Victoria Prince-Federline: 2-time AVCA 2nd Team All-American (2004, 2005). Middle-blocker among those only at least twice recognized on all WAC teams for WAC All-Decade Volleyball team (2000-2009). She married her baby-daddy (in 2013 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas) becoming stepmother to Britney Spears' Sean Preston and Jayden James Federline.
  • Kanoe Kamana'o: AVCA F.O.Y.; 4-time All-American (2003-6). Ranks in the top 10 all time of NCAA assists. Hawaiian ambassador fly girl, post David Ige and politics.
  • Raeceen Woolford: 'Iolani School's c/o 2003; progressively to 2006 (in all 35 matches) she earned starting spots at libero & back-row specialists, while serving Most phenomenally. She was crowned Miss Hawai'i 2009; she made the final cut of seven in the 2010 Miss America pageant, there she won Miss Congeniality.
  • Jamie Houston: Five-time-named All-American, mentored by hometown's Rose Magers (2006 AVCA/Volleyball Mag. 3rd Team, 2007 Volleyball Mag. 3rd Team, 2008 AVCA 2nd Team & Volleyball Mag. 1st Team). Currently, her team Criollas de Caguas of Puerto Rico SuperLiga can be viewed on PBS San Juan, via DirecTV or Dish Network.
  • Chanteal Satele (Western U.S. Mid-major VIP): 4-time all conference(s); NCAA tourney participant. Family includes: Chargers LB, father, Alvis; Dolphins C, cousin, Samson; Jets LB, brother, Brashton; Cardinals G, cousin, Hercules; Free agent, brother, Liko; 2x NCAA VB Champion, mother, LeeAnn Pestana (UHM 1982-3).
  • Beaut Herring: Danielson by name (2009). Three-time AVCA 1st Team All American (2009-11), 4x AA. Lowe's only CLASS Award rep. (2011). 2012 USAV Open Nationals MVP.
  • Jane Croson: 2010 FIVB (U-19) Beach World Champion with partner Summer Ross, 2010 NORCECA (U-20) Women's Continental Champion; tournament MVP, 3-time all WACs & BWC selection (2011, 2012), 2012 AVCA Collegiate Beach VB All-American, 2015 South Pacific Games gold medalist (team American Samoa); v Tahiti. § (Women) Volleyball-movies p5433 #2148, Alyssa Longo: 2010 NCAA National Champion. 2014 UHM indoor Student Assistant-coach. 2014 AVCA, preNCAA-emerging, Beach VB Final Four participant (at 20-4).
  • Nikki Taylor: 4x All-American (2014-5 Beach; AVCA). Father Graham, 50th State, renown, PSY.D, transferred by extension, or metaphor, that which shouldn't be confused with Floridian Niki Taylor. The latter being also plagued with injury though confidently faithful in boldness of Glory—application(s)—eternally, a single 'k' differentially.
  • Emily Maglio: w DVM, a.k.a. "Mags." Vancouver Canucks Pre pre-Farm Team (Nursery club: grades 2nd thru 9th). Three time AVCA all-American (2016-18).

Of note professionally

Mauian-Cecilia Goods, Europe (c/o 1997-98); Amber Kaufman, Europe (2010 w/ USTFCCCA also); Aneli Cubi-Otineru, Caribbean (2010 O+ Bonham); Tara Hittle, Europe (2010-2011); Dani Mafua, Europe (c/o 2010-11); Jane Croson, AVP (Team 2011-12); Kanani (a.k.a. Beaut Herring) Danielson, Asia, Alex Griffiths, USAV (c/o 2011-12); Katie Spieler, AVP (Team 2012); Mrs. Juliana Sanders-Brian Beckwith, Europe (in 2013); Emily Hartong, Europe, Mita Uiato, Europe, Ashley Kastl, USAV, Ali Longo, Europe (c/o 2013-14); Tai Manu Olevao, Asia; Olivia Magill, Europe (c/o 2015-16); Nikki Taylor, Europe, Annie Mitchem, Europe (c/o 2016-17); Emily Maglio, thru BC Province (c/o 2017-18)

During the 2002 and 2013 regular seasons, the Rainbows played first ever exhibition matches against Samorodok (Russia) and the Toyota Queenseis, a Japanese professional team (commonly). An AVCA All American Duggins-sister#1, she was business scouted (by happenstance), then recruited consequently, as fated, historically, for the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (post 2002-03).[10]

Those of THE experience (out in Dec. 2000), post NCAA Final Four– AVEN LEE is currently the UHM Director of Volleyball Operations; NorCal Canada College Professor JESSICA SUDDUTH-Kaven chairs Communication Studies; singer ANDREA GOMEZ-TUKUAFU in musical recording art performs professionally; too, VERONICA LIMA reports on Brasilia radio, akin to the Federal Communications Commission agency. Lily Kahumoku (2000): earns WAC P.O.Y., AVCA All-West Region team, first team AVCA All-American and is named to the NCAA Championship all-tournament team. Kim Willoughby (2000): debuts, with a near triple-double, on 9/1, against TAMU in the season opener (14 kills, 15 digs and six blocks). Closing in the 1-3 NU loss, Kim clocks-in with 15 (kills and digs both).

Program record and history

National championship banners hang in the rafters at the Stan Sheriff Center
Year Head Coach Overall
Record
Conference
Record
Conference
Standing
Postseason
1974 Alan Kang 9–1 AIAW Runners-up
1975 Dave Shoji 16–2 AIAW Runners-up
1976 Dave Shoji 14–5 AIAW 3rd Place
1977 Dave Shoji 22–5 AIAW Runners-up
1978 Dave Shoji 28–10–1 AIAW 3rd Place
1979 Dave Shoji 36–5 AIAW Champions
1980 Dave Shoji 34–10 AIAW 3rd Place
1981 Dave Shoji 37–2 NCAA Regional Final
1982 Dave Shoji 33–1 NCAA Champions
1983 Dave Shoji 34–2 NCAA Champions
1984 Dave Shoji 33–11 NCAA First round
PCAA (1985–1987)
1985 Dave Shoji 28–13 10–6 3rd NCAA Regional Semifinal
1986 Dave Shoji 31–7 15–3 2nd NCAA Regional Final
1987 Dave Shoji 37–2 17–1 1st NCAA Champions
Big West (1988–1995)
1988 Dave Shoji 33–3 18–0 1st NCAA Runners-Up
1989 Dave Shoji 29–3 17–1 1st NCAA Regional Final
1990 Dave Shoji 28–6 16–2 1st NCAA Regional Semifinal
1991 Dave Shoji 26–5 15–3 2nd NCAA Regional Final
1992 Dave Shoji 15–12 11–7 4th
1993 Dave Shoji 19–11 13–5 3rd NCAA Regional Final
1994 Dave Shoji 25–5 15–3 2nd NCAA Regional Semifinal
1995 Dave Shoji 31–1 18–0 1st NCAA Regional Final
WAC (1996–2011)
1996 Dave Shoji 35–3 16–0 1st NCAA Runners-Up
1997 Dave Shoji 25–8 14–0 1st NCAA First round
1998 Dave Shoji 32–3 13–1 1st NCAA Regional Final
1999 Dave Shoji 29–2 14–0 1st NCAA Regional Semifinal
2000 Dave Shoji 31–2 16–0 1st NCAA Final Four
2001 Dave Shoji 29–6 13–0 1st NCAA Regional Semifinal
2002 Dave Shoji 34–2 13–0 1st NCAA Final Four
2003 Dave Shoji 36–2 13–0 1st NCAA Final Four
2004 Dave Shoji 30–1 13–0 1st NCAA Regional Semifinal
2005 Dave Shoji 27–7 16–0 1st NCAA Regional Semifinal
2006 Dave Shoji 29–6 15–1 1st NCAA Regional Final
2007 Dave Shoji 27–6 15–1 1st NCAA Second round
2008 Dave Shoji 31–4 15–1 1st NCAA Regional Final
2009 Dave Shoji 32–3 16–0 1st NCAA Final Four
2010 Dave Shoji 29–3 16–0 1st NCAA Second round
2011 Dave Shoji 31–2 16–0 1st NCAA Regional Semifinal
Big West (2012–present)
2012 Dave Shoji 27–3 18–0 1st NCAA Second round
2013 Dave Shoji 25–5 13–3 1st NCAA Second round
2014 Dave Shoji 22–7 13–3 2nd NCAA Second round
2015 Dave Shoji 29–2 16–0 1st NCAA Regional Final
2016 Dave Shoji 23–6 15–1 1st NCAA Second round
2017 Robyn Ah Mow-Santos 20-8 14-2 2nd NCAA First round
2018 Robyn Ah Mow-Santos
Total 1,231–213–1 488–44

Team facts

Head coach

  • 1972–1974: Alan Kang
  • 1975–2017: Dave Shoji
  • 2017–present: Robyn Ah Mow-Santos

Robyn Ah Mow-Santos, a former player and assistant coach for the Rainbow Wahine, was named head coach in February 2017 immediately upon the announcement of Dave Shoji's retirement. Dave Shoji was the head coach of the Rainbow Wahine Volleyball team from 1975–2017. As of 2013, he was the winningest Division I women's volleyball head coach. He is a member of the NCAA Volleyball Division 1 25th Anniversary Team. In addition, he has been named the National Coach of the Year by the American Volleyball Coach's Association twice—in 1982 and 2009. He was named Region Coach of the Year nine times and the conference Coach of the Year eleven times.[11] In 2010, he was inducted into the AVCA's Hall of Fame. He co-authored with Ann Miller, Wahine Volleyball: 40 Years of Coaching Hawaii's Team (2013).[12]

League

Conference

Home court

National championships

  • 1979: AIAW by defeating Utah State, 8–15, 7–15, 15–9, 16–14, 15–12
  • 1982: NCAA by defeating USC, 14–16, 9–15, 15–13, 15–10, 15–12
  • 1983: NCAA by defeating UCLA, 15–13, 15–4, 15–10
  • 1987: NCAA by defeating Stanford, 15–10, 15–10, 9–15, 15–1

In film

The formation of the first Rainbow Wahine volleyball team is chronicled in the documentary film Rise of the Wahine, directed by Dean Kaneshiro.[13] Rise features the struggles of these first teams after the passing of Title IX and highlights the roles of coaches Alan Kang and Dave Shoji, first female Athletic Director Dr. Donnis Thompson, Patsy Mink, and players from the first teams, including Diana McInerny, Marilyn Moniz-Kaho`ohanonaho, Joyce Ka'apuni, and Joey Akeo.

In print

Wahine Ball: The Story of Hawai'i's Most Beloved Team, by Dean Chadwin, details the evolution of a once-genteel game born one hundred years ago in a Massachusetts "Y" and the University of HI. By telling the story of one of the most popular collegiate teams in volleyball history, Chadwin comparatively links the timeworn establishments in his publishing dated April, 1997.

NCAA representation

On November 1, 2005 for immediate release, the NCAA Press issued for the public and media relations a NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball 25th Anniversary Team.[14] The team featured 1983 Honda-Broderick Cup winner Middle Blocker Deitre Collins, who's a 2017 Inaugural SCIVBHOF Inductee, including: Andy Banachowski, Laurel Brassey, Craig Buck, Tara Cross, Bob Ctvrtlik, Dusty Dvorak, Rolf Engen, Debbie Green, Kathy Gregory, Bryan Ivie, Karch Kiraly, Ricci Luyties, Chris Marlowe, Misty May, Kim Oden, Mike O’Hara, Doug Partie, Al Scates, Gene Selznick, Sinjin Smith, Jeff Stork, Steve Timmons, Paula Weishoff; Coach Dave Shoji being awarded as head coach, likewise, of seven total NCAA honorees. Tonya "Teee" Williams had too been further named to the 1980s NCAA all-Decade team for accolades. Also, the NCAA no longer awards athletes with All-American recognition as they once did in the one and only year, for 1981 (Wahine Diane Sabastian-Pestolesi).

Notes

  1. ^ NCAA Volleyball Record Book (2005), p. 106–107
  2. ^ NCAA Division I Volleyball 25th Anniversary Team
  3. ^ "Assistant coach helped unite Wahine", Honolulu Star Bulletin, November 10, 1999
  4. ^ The Big West Conference Volleyball Records Book, p. 43
  5. ^ Hawaiʻi Pacific University Athletics Department, Tita Ahuna
  6. ^ Hawaiʻi Pacific University Athletics Department, Volleyball history
  7. ^ Cornell University Athletics Department, Deidre Collins
  8. ^ (Honda-)Broderick Award winners
  9. ^ NCAA Division I Volleyball 25th Anniversary Team
  10. ^ University of Hawaiʻi Athletics Department, Marilyn Moniz-Kahoʻohanohano
  11. ^ Rise of the Wahine Documentary Film.

See also

References

  1. "University of Hawai'i Graphics Standards". University of Hawai‘i. May 15, 2007. Retrieved June 13, 2015.
  2. "Tita Ahuna at Berkeley Nationals" (PDF).
  3. "2012 NCAA Women's Volleyball Attendance" (PDF). NCAA. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  4. Luis, Cindy (21 February 2017). "Shoji's retirement marks an end of an era". Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  5. "Family 1st for young woman highly touted & (then) decorated Susie".
  6. "Reynette and Reydan "Tita" Ahuna".
  7. "Trek on Prezi".
  8. "2011 NCAA Women's Volleyball on prime-time CBS Network".
  9. "AN UNPARALLELED NCAA ALUMNAE MATCH".
  10. "Duggins the VB Pro".
  11. http://hawaiiathletics.com/coaches.aspx?rc=660&path=wvball
  12. http://www.avca.org/awards/avca-hall-of-fame/dave-shoji/
  13. "Rise of the Wahine Documentary Film".
  14. "NCAA Names Division I Women's Volleyball 25th Anniversary Team".
  1. University of Hawaiʻi, Women's Volleyball page
  2. US Olympic Committee Includes lists of past Olympians
  3. American Volleyball Coaches Association Division I awards – Lists of volleyball award winners
  4. NCAA Division I Volleyball information page. The current NCAA Volleyball Records Book may be obtained (in PDF format) from this page.
  5. Big West Women's Volleyball page
  6. The Big West Conference Volleyball Records Book (PDF)
  7. The Western Athletic Conference Women's Volleyball page
  8. The Western Athletic Conference Volleyball Records book (PDF)
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