{"id":448657,"date":"2026-08-31T06:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448657\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T06:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:54:17","slug":"rainbow-wahine-volleyball-swept-by-san-diego-to-close-opening-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448657\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Wahine volleyball swept by San Diego to close opening weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; The University of Hawaii women\u2019s volleyball team was swept by San Diego to close out opening weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">UH returned to the Bankoh Arena at Stan Sheriff Center Sunday and fell to the Toreros in three sets, 18 hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/2026\/08\/30\/rainbow-wahine-volleyball-falls-no-21-baylor-five-set-thriller\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/2026\/08\/30\/rainbow-wahine-volleyball-falls-no-21-baylor-five-set-thriller\/\">a five-set slugfest against No. 21 Baylor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hawaii\u2019s Cha\u2019lei Reid was the team\u2019s leader in kills with 11, tied for a match-high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u2018Bows head coach Joshua Walker reflected on the weekend and said there is a lot of work to do and they haven\u2019t peaked yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThere were moments where we fought,\u201d Walker told K5\u2019s Ryan Kalei Tsuji after the match. [We] brought some different situations in there to see what people could do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Walker added there were too many moments and not enough consistent play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe got to make sure we\u2019re not turning these moments into us habitually. We\u2019ve got to make sure we\u2019re a lot more consistent, how we\u2019re playing, how we start games, how we\u2019re finishing sets,\u201d he said. \u201cEasy way to lose matches if you\u2019re not focused at the start of matches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Rainbow Wahine are back in the Stan for the Outrigger Invitational, facing Utah Tech on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe got to make sure we\u2019re taking care of our bodies first of all, tomorrow is an off day, so it\u2019s a good opportunity to do that,\u201d Walker said. \u201cWatch some video, make sure we get better on the things that we can fix just mentally, and then we got to be able to execute a little bit better next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/uhsports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/uhsports\/\">Television coverage on K5 starts at 6:30 p.m. Hawaii time.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; The University of Hawaii women\u2019s volleyball team was swept by San Diego to close out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-448657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}