RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Erik Shoji has the video to prove it: He tore it up playing two-handed table tennis last week when the U.S. volleyball team had some rare free time in the athletes village.
A standout tennis player in his high school days back home in Hawaii, Shoji and older brother Kawika are cherishing their time together in Rio de Janeiro as first-time volleyball Olympians — with a supporting cast of about a dozen that came along to cheer their special accomplishment.
Including their decorated coaching dad, Dave, the longtime head of the University of Hawaii program.