UH passes, sets, and hits their way to a victory!

Pass...set...hit!  I watched a Sand Volleyball Tournament this past weekend.  The University of Hawaii (UH) was hosting a tournament for 3 universities here on Oahu.  I was rooting for the home team.  Team name: Warriors; mascot: Vili the Warrior.  The athletes were very impressive, especially the top 5 seeded teams in the tournament.  I've played a lot of sand volleyball, and I would not want to be on the other end of some of the players' hits/kills.  UH took 3 of the top four places, including first and second place.

Sports Trivia 1:  Didn't know sand volleyball was a collegiate sport?  It is the NCAA's newest official sport.  Sand Volleyball made its debut for women this year (2011-2012 season) with scholarships and all.  While it has support from beachy schools and the NCAA, in 2010 63 Universities had a failed bid to block the newly sponsored sport (those schools are typically dominant in hard court volleyball and fear loosing good individual athletes from their programs).

Sports Trivia 2 (ie. nerd alert):  In 2000, UH made a controversial decision to let each team/sport pick their own team name (coinciding with a decision to change the athletics logo from a rainbow to its current sylicized 'H').  Previous to this, all sports' teams were named Rainbow Warriors, but after 2000 each team was allowed to choose whatever adaption of that they wanted.  Currently, football, golf and volleyball call themselves the Warriors.  Swimming, diving, tennis and basketball go with the name of Rainbow Warriors, and baseball goes with Rainbows.  Softball and sailing teams go by Rainbow Wahine (and some of the other teams are also called the Rainbow Wahine despite having other team names from what I can gather).  No other University in the country does this.

Below are as action sequence of a jump serve (this one's for you Captn'):