Stanley helps US upset Brazil
By Cindy Luis
Led by former Hawaii player Clay Stanley’s 11 kills, the U.S. Men’s National Volleyball Team assured itself its best FIVB World League finish ever when it swept host and world No. 1 Brazil 25-23, 25-22, 27-25 today in front of 11,615 fans on at Maracanazinho Gymnasium in Rio de Janeiro.Team USA will face a rematch with Serbia in tomorrow’s gold-medal contest. Serbia defeated Russia 25-19, 25-19, 25-23 in today’s other semifinal. Serbia swept the U.S. on Wednesday in their pool play opener.The U.S., ranked third in the world, ended Brazil’s string of five consecutive World League titlesand advanced to the gold medal match for the first time since the competition began in 1990. Brazil is the defending Olympic, World Cup and World Championship gold medalist.Stanley (Kaiser ‘96) added two blocks and three aces.
July 27th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Clay and the US won
CIndy any news on 2009 wahine recruits, I’ve heard a rumor they got a new Commit.
July 28th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Rumors are true. At least I have it from a good source. Have not spoken to Kristiana Tuaniga but this is what I posted earlier summer
John Tawa at Prepvollyball.com said about Hawaii 09 recruit Kristiana Tuaniga.
“This is a player with freakish ability, one I would not want to see on the other side of the net EVER.”
Not ever seeing her play I have no idea what he is talking about but it’s something good.Tawa has nothing but great things to say about the kids at the prep level and he named her a Top 50 “09″ recruit for reason.
http://prepvolleyball.yuku.com/topic/2522/t/Rainbow-Wahine-get-athletic-middle.html
August 2nd, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Amazing how many USA Women’s and Men’s Team players have Hawaii connections. We are “World Class” and are superior to most countries.
August 5th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
I was just thinking that same exact thing. go bows!!!
August 6th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Good to hear from you Kee. Hope all is well. Thanks for posting.