Athletic administration

Although the HHSAA wasn’t born until 1956, the Hawaii Interscholastic Federation was born out of many of the same ideas. On this day in 1925, the HIF was formed temporarily to create games in all sports between schools of every island. The first rule it drew up was requiring athletes to be under 21 years of age and restricting them to four seasons. The organization was given the OK in 1926 and immediately formed a football schedule that included McKinley, […]

On this day in 2003, everyone had an opinion on classification in prep sports. HHSAA boss Keith Amemiya announced that he would put up $20,000 to give classification a try for a year and KHNL general manager John Fink said he would match that number in air time for small-school football. That didn’t go over well with some, including OIA chief Dwight Toyama and Waimea AD Jim Kitamura. Kitamura teamed up with his girls volleyball coach, Doc Arrington, to present […]

On this day in 1986 Pearl City lost its legendary athletics director. Edwin “Bino” Neves died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 52, less than a month after showing up for the baseball and tennis state championships. He was diagnosed with the terminal condition nine months earlier. Neves was a bull of a running back for Iolani in his high school days, leading the ILH in rushing in his senior year. He made headlines in 1951 for scoring four […]

It might sound familiar, but on this day in 2001 the HHSAA was doing everything it could to save the state tournaments. Executive director Keith Amemiya didn’t have to worry about a global pandemic, just a teacher’s strike that wiped nearly out a month of the spring season. OIA executive secretary Dwight Toyama was fine with scrapping state tournaments all together and playing out his league’s season, but Amemiya was working on a plan to satisfy him. The solution, announced […]