Chaminade women’s volleyball team pursues respect, historic start
HONOLULU — In its never-ending quest for respect, Chaminade volleyball has made some hard-earned headway.
Longtime coach Kahala Kabalis Hoke took her team to Japan in the preseason, the first sanctioned foreign tour in Chaminade athletics history, with the thought that it would have her group playing to midseason form by the time her team’s first official NCAA matches got underway in Alaska two weeks ago.
The gambit worked. Chaminade was tested by – and lost to – stalwart defensive teams in its exhibition matches in Osaka. It turned around and swept the four matches of the Hawaii/Alaska Challenge and followed that up with four more victories in its Hawaii Invitational at McCabe Gym last weekend to begin the 2023 season at 8-0.
