Hawaii in the Polls
With the release of the polls today, the Wahine have gone up in all of them. In the AVCA and RichKern poll, they are ranked 9th but in the Pablo Rankings, they are at 10th. Some coaches may have not stayed up to find the results of the San Diego match before turning in their ballots which may be why the Wahine up. But San Diego was the biggest leap in the polls going from receiving points to 14th. Texas went from #1 to #6.
Hawaii's futures opponents that were ranked this week were UCLA (#10) and Creighton (#19) with Long Beach State, Wichita State, and Cal State Northridge receiving points.
Hartong is Big West POW
Senior outside hitter Emily Hartong has received this weeks Big West Player of the Week. This is the fifth time in her career that she has received this award and first time this season. She earned this award after having an outstanding weekend with 62 kills while hitting .356. She was named Chevron Rainbow Wahine Invitational Most Outstanding Player while her team went 2-1 upsetting #1 Texas but was upset by unranked San Diego.
Congrats to Emily and what a great performance she has had this weekend and can't wait to see her play the rest of the season!
Next Match: Thursday vs New Mexico State
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Just my take but, for San Diego to jump from 26 to 14, I would think that most of the voters knew the upset result. If they didn't the 5 set lost to Texas would have probably make them go up to 20-22. Emily hit .356 for the 3 matches.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the correction. That is quite true but that is a big jump.
DeleteIt's hard to win with 7 players on the other side, 6 USD and one down referee.
ReplyDeleteI want Their libero to transfer to UH, petitions are useless, people need to open up their wallets, anyone don't care for pacific so whatever.
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