The Hawaiʻi Rainbow Wāhine beach volleyball team, more commonly known as the Hawaii SandBows, is the

beach volleyball Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two or more players on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side of the ...

team representing the

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa The University of Hawaii at Mānoa (University of Hawaii—Mānoa, UH Mānoa, Hawai'i, or simply UH) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Manoa, Mānoa, a neighborhood in Honolulu, Hawaii. It ...

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Division I women's play.

History

The university has a rich volleyball tradition. They have had three head coaches since the team's inception in 2012. In 2014 under head coach Scott Wong, they appeared in the

Division I Final Four. During the 2015 season, they ranked first in attendance among all Division 1 volleyball beach programs. The "SandBows" averaged over 330 fans, each, for six home matches. With Collegiate Beach's inception, the Bows have been ranked in every AVCA Top 10 Poll to date. The university plays its home matches in the—five courted—The Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex. Angelica Ljungqvist is the current head coach of the team. She assumed the role in August 2020 after the indoor and beach programs merged in a financial decision stemming from the

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Year-by-year results

Notes

Home Court/Practice and Training facilities

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located on the

Waikiki Waikiki (; haw, Waikīkī; ; also known as Waikiki Beach) is a neighborhood of Honolulu on the south shore of the island of Oahu in the U.S. state of Hawaii. Waikiki is most famous for Waikiki Beach, which is one of six beaches in the district ...

shore is the home court for the women's beach volleyball team. *

Clarence T. C. Ching Athletics Complex The Clarence T. C. Ching Athletics Complex, located on the campus of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in Honolulu, features a three-story building next to an all-purpose track and Clarence T. C. Ching Field. The facility, built in 2015, includ ...

is the practice facility for the women's beach volleyball team.

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