HONOLULU — The University of Hawai‘i men’s volleyball team will host Stanford in a three-day exhibition series starting today, then continuing Friday and Saturday at Klum Gym. The matches are open to the public with free admission. The teams will
HONOLULU — The University of Hawai‘i men’s volleyball team will host Stanford in a three-day exhibition series starting today, then continuing Friday and Saturday at Klum Gym. The matches are open to the public with free admission.
The teams will open play today from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., starting in Gym I, since Klum Gym is not available until 4:30 p.m.
Both teams will split their respective squads into two teams for best-of-five matches Wednesday and Friday.
On Saturday, the teams will be at full squad, with the Kailua Volleyball Club joining Hawai‘i and Stanford in a round-robin format. The KVC is a club team consisting of many former UH standouts.
First-year head coach Charlie Wade will make his debut with the Warriors. Wade spent the past three years as the University of the Pacific’s women’s head coach and prior to that spent 11 years as UH’s associate women’s coach under Dave Shoji.
Wade inherits a team which returns six starters from a team which finished 9-18 a year ago. Among the returning starters are seniors Matthew Rawson, Steven Grgas and Ric Cervantes, juniors Joshua Walker and Nejc Zemljak, and sophomores Steven Hunt and Gus Tuaniga. Heralded recruit Jonas Umlauft will be in action.
Stanford finished 21-11 last season and lost in the opening round of the MPSF Tournament. The Cardinal roster features seven players from Hawai‘i high schools.
Today
3-5 p.m., Split Squad – Stanford 1 vs. Hawai‘i 2; Stanford 2 vs. Hawai‘i 1
5-7 p.m., Split Squad – Stanford 2 vs. Hawai‘i 2; Stanford 1 vs. Hawai‘i 1
Friday
9 a.m. – Stanford 1 vs. UH 2; Stanford 2 vs. UH 1
11 a.m. – Stanford 2 vs. UH 2
2 p.m. – Stanford 1 vs. UH 1
Saturday
8 a.m. – Stanford vs. Kailua VC
9:30 a.m. – Hawai‘i vs. Kailua VC
11 a.m. – Hawai‘i vs. Stanford
