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Kamehameha’s Tanner Moku wins Gatorade Hawaii award

By Nick Abramo on June 24, 2019

Kamehameha junior Tanner Moku is the Gatorade Hawaii boys track and field athlete of the year, the Gatorade Company announced Monday. The award recognizes outstanding athletic excellence, high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character on and off the track. Moku, a 6-foot-2, 180-pound junior, won the 110-meter high hurdles in 14.54 seconds and the 300-meter intermediate hurdles in 38.72 at the state championship meet in May. Moku also set a state-meet record of 38.07 in the preliminaries of the […]

VIDEO: Hawaii coach Nick Rolovich after big turnout at UH camp

By Paul Honda on June 24, 2019

By rule, Hawaii coach Nick Rolovich cannot name or discuss any high school football players. He can, though, express his thoughts about their turnout at the Warrior Football Elite Camp, which ran for three hours on a sweltering afternoon at UH’s upper practice field. Rolovich chatted with Hawaii Prep World about the core values that set the Warriors apart from many programs.

Former Ka‘u standout Ravel Kaupu builds hoops haven for keiki

By Paul Honda on June 24, 2019

PAHALA >> Counselor. Coach. Mentor. Ravel Kaupu was a relentless point guard with a fearless physicality in the paint back in the day. Now he has guided Ka‘u’s basketball present and future to unprecedented heights with the biggest feeder program in the district’s history. With school out of session on this June day, Kaupu’s Hokulele club had 100 players, boys and girls, fourth grade to junior varsity, practicing at the Ka‘u High School gym. The first age group began at […]

Miami’s Jordan Yamamoto now 3-0 after beating Philadelphia

By Billy Hull on June 23, 2019

Miami right-hander Jordan Yamamoto shook off an ugly first inning and managed to give the Marlins five innings of two-hit ball to earn the win in a 6-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday. The Saint Louis School alumnus, who tossed seven shutout innings in each of his first two MLB starts, walked the first three batters of the game and gave up a two-run single to Jean Segura to fall behind 2-1. From then on, Yamamoto was sharp, […]

GLORY DAYS: Coach Eddie Klaneski and the 2019 Damien Monarchs

By Nick Abramo on June 22, 2019

THIRD IN A SERIES This summer, head coaches from all 28 Oahu high school varsity football teams are being asked to recount their football playing days. One coach who has already been interviewed for this multi-part series pointed out what he thinks may be the value of this endeavor: “A lot of times, you only hear about coaches when they’re getting released or are having a special season. It’s super hard to have a special season, so this should shed […]

Kamehameha freshman Tausili Akana lands offers from Hawaii, BYU, Utah

By Paul Honda on June 22, 2019

Tausili Akana is on the radar and shining brightly. The incoming Kamehameha freshman linebacker earned defensive MVP honors for grades 8-10 at the All-Poly football camp in Utah and landed three scholarship offers: Hawaii, Brigham Young and Utah. He is 6-foot-3, 195 pounds after growing four inches in the past year, according to his father, former Hawaii basketball player and current Kahuku boys basketball coach Brandyn Akana. Tausili Akana is the younger brother of heralded volleyball players Braelyn Akana and […]

Kahuku, Kamehameha, Kapolei to play mainland teams

By Nick Abramo on June 22, 2019

Three more Hawaii vs. non-Hawaii football games are on this fall’s master high school schedule, bringing the total to 13. Kahuku will visit Timpview of Provo, Utah, for a Sept. 6 game. It will be the Red Raiders’ fourth mainland trip this decade. They lost at East High (Salt Lake City) 38-15 in 2013, at Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas) 35-7 in 2016, and against Bingham (South Jordan, Utah) at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas 17-0 in 2017. Both Kamehameha […]

Mililani DE Shane Kady headed to the Pac-12

By Billy Hull on June 21, 2019

Mililani senior Shane Kady, a 6-foot-3, 210-pound defensive end, announced his college commitment to play at Oregon State on social media today. C O M M I T T E D #BTD20 #DAMRIGHT pic.twitter.com/Qg7jO79dyj — Shane Kady ⚡️ (@Shanek45) June 21, 2019 Kady, a second-team Star-Advertiser All-State selection as a junior, held offers from Arizona, Army, BYU, Fresno State, Hawaii, San Diego State, UNLV, Utah State and the Beavers. Kady visited Oregon State last week and then tripped to Fresno […]

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