ISLE FILE
Warriors volleyball starts out at No. 7
Advertiser Staff
The University of Hawai'i men's volleyball team is ranked seventh in the first 2006 CSTV/AVCA poll.
The Warriors, who swept two exhibition matches against Douglas College of Canada the past weekend, received 141 points in polling of coaches.
Long Beach State is No. 1, receiving seven first-place votes and 229 points.
UCLA is second, followed by 2005 national champion Pepperdine and Brigham Young.
The Warriors open the regular season with road matches against No. 8 UC Santa Barbara on Friday and Saturday.
The complete poll is in For the Record, D4.
TRACK & FIELD
UH WOMEN START SEASON SATURDAY
The University of Hawai'i women's track & field team will host the first of nine Sunset Meets at Cooke Field, starting Saturday.
Field events for the open meet will start at 2 p.m., and track events will begin at 4.
Last season, Carmyn James' Rainbow Wahine sent six athletes to the NCAA Outdoor West Regionals at Eugene, Ore.
"We are looking at a top four placement at the conference (WAC) championship and eight NCAA Regional qualifiers," James said in a press release. "With the veterans we have returning along with a great recruiting class, I feel this goal is very attainable."
The top returnees are junior pole vaulter Patricia Gauthier and sophomore shot putter Meghan Weaver. Both qualified for the West Regionals last season.
