SandBows to NorCal

Photo Credit: Hawaii Athletics

Hawaii Preview

The 2nd ranked Hawaii sand volleyball team will head to Northern California where they will face the 10th ranked Pacific Tigers and participate in the Santa Cruz Collegiate Challenge hosted by Santa Clara.

Thursdays match against Pacific (March 26, 1:00 PM) will be the first meeting between the two teams on the sand courts. The Tigers are currently 7-4 on the season. They opened the season at the NorCal Invitational with victories over California, St. Mary's, and Stanford. The match-up between the Tigers and the Rainbow Wahine will be streamed live on two courts through Youtube. (Note: Both matches will be archived at the links below for those who want to rewatch or are unable to see it live)

Court 1 Stream | Court 2 Stream | Pacific Preview

The Santa Cruz Collegiate Challenge hosted by the Santa Clara Broncos will take place at Main Beach in Santa Cruz. Teams like San Francisco, Cal Poly, California, Cal State Bakersfield, and Santa Clara are featured in this tournament.

On Saturday (March 28th), each team will play two dual matches with Hawaii facing San Francisco (6:00 AM H.T.) and Cal State Bakersfield (10:00 AM). Pairs 3-5 will play the first hour while Pairs 1, 2, and 6 will play the next. Once pool play is over, the teams will play for their deciding place (1st, 3rd, or 5th).

The next day will be a pairs tournament with three tournaments in it self going on throughout the days starting at 06:00 AM. First up are the No.1 and 2's tournament followed by the No.3 and 4's tournament than the No.5's tournament.

Saturday Schedule | Sunday Schedule | Santa Clara Preview

Jeff Hall mentions that this weekend will be about experiment with the line-ups after being swept by the now No.1 ranked USC. Pairs No.1-3 will remain the same while 4-6 will be changed starting with the match against Pacific.

Main Beach in Santa Cruz

Wong To Pepperdine

Photo Credit: Pepperdine Athletics

Hawaii Release | Pepperdine Release | Coaching Bio (UH) (Pepp)

Associate coach Scott Wong has accepted a head coach position at Pepperdine University. Wong has been with the Wahine program for five seasons and has a winning coaching record at the university.

The head coach position for the Waves became available after first season coach Troy Tanner left for personal family reasons. Wong will become the fifth women's coach in program history.

Before coming home to Hawaii, he was the assistant coach for the men's team under Marv Dunphy from 2005-09. As a college student he was a three-time All-American for the Waves and moved on to play beach volleyball in the AVP.

The Punahou school product was also the head coach of the sand volleyball program at UH. Under his reign, he was the first coach for the program and has a 30-17 record in three seasons. In his last season for the SandBows, they reached the AVCA National Championships for the first time while finishing ranked third.

Hawaii head coach Dave Shoji will make an immediate search for the associate coach position.