Cross Country

Maui High’s Hunter Shields is the the Gatorade Hawaii boys cross country runner of the year, the Gatorade Company announced recently. The award recognizes outstanding athletic excellence, high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field. Shields, a 5-foot-9, 128-pound sophomore took second place to Hanalani’s Adam Harder at the state meet last fall with a time of 16 minutes, 59.36 seconds, leading the Sabers to the Division I state championship. Shields was the co-MVP […]

Seabury Hall’s Chloe Gangnath is the Gatorade Hawaii girls cross country runner of the year, the Gatorade Company announced recently. The award recognizes outstanding athletic excellence, high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character. The 5-foot-7 senior won the state meet in the fall with a time of 19 minutes, 20.73 seconds, a meet record and 47.46 seconds ahead of the next closest competitor. The Spartans finished in sixth place as a team. In addition, Gangnath went undefeated in the […]

Hawaii Baptist’s first state title in girls cross country came in dominating fashion. The Eagles placed four girls in the top 10 to claim the Division II title at Saturday’s Honolulu Marathon/HHSAA State Championships at Central Oahu Regional Park. Their win ended Seabury Hall’s streak — the Spartans had won every team title since a DII classification was added in 2012. Only one race is held per gender at the state meet. Team scores in Division I and II are […]

Hanalani junior Adam Harder took his time to savor the school’s first individual ILH cross country title. Harder covered three miles at Punahou in 17 minutes, 6.4 seconds to beat ‘Iolani senior Charles Sakamaki and the rest of the field by a wide margin on Saturday. Sakamaki clocked a 17:21.99 and gave the Raiders the runner up for the second straight year. Harder’s winning time was the slowest since 2011, the last time the meet was held at Punahou. It […]

Dallas Inouye dusted the field by more than 30 seconds to give Moanalua a repeat winner at the OIA Cross Country Championships at Central Oahu Regional Park on Saturday. Inouye covered the sprawling 3-mile course in 21 minutes, 17.93 seconds to beat teammate Maleah Kanayama‘s 21:49.91 clocking. Inouye’s time was the slowest at the meet since it moved to three miles in 2005. Inouye’s win comes on the heels of Brooklyn Allen‘s title for Na Menehune last year. Moanalua had […]

It is probably fitting that a new course gets a new champion. Hanalani junior Adam Harder is favored to win the ILH cross country championship on Saturday at Punahou, the first time the meet will be held there since 2011. It has been held at Mid-Pacific since then. Reigning champion Aaron Shiinoki of Punahou has since graduated, leaving the title for Harder to pick up. Harder has won five ILH meets this year and was the top Hawaii finisher with […]