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Over the next 24 hours, Hawaii Prep World and the Star-Advertiser will release 12 small features on the 2017 inductees into the Hall of Honor ahead of Sunday’s ceremony. The orders keep coming, and business is cranking at Sophie’s Gourmet Hawaiian Pizzeria. Kristen O’Handley, scholar-athlete and part-time employee, doesn’t consider herself an expert on business or pizza, but she understands the underpinnings of success. Long before pulling off a rare feat — winning gold in the high jump, 100-, 200- […]

Over the next 24 hours, Hawaii Prep World and the Star-Advertiser will release 12 small features on the 2017 inductees into the Hall of Honor ahead of Sunday’s ceremony. There she went, blazing past everyone on the soccer field. Celena Jane, as she prefers, was a blur on the pitch. So many of her futbol friends were about to start playing the game for Konawaena High School. Molina went the other direction. By freshman year, she morphed into a vital […]

Over the next 24 hours, Hawaii Prep World and the Star-Advertiser will release 12 small features on the 2017 inductees into the Hall of Honor ahead of Sunday’s ceremony. The coverage was air-tight and his vision, even with his back to the ball, was creeping on legendary. Kekaula Kaniho’s ability to master hand-to-hand combat, leverage, angles and space were unmatched in the 2015 football season, and he was just a junior. The impenetrable air zone on his side of the […]

Over the next 24 hours, Hawaii Prep World and the Star-Advertiser will release 12 small features on the 2017 inductees into the Hall of Honor ahead of Sunday’s ceremony. The time-lapse image of Hugh Hogland over a four-year span would be this: a 6-foot-6 freshman, all arms and legs, a bit stiff and a wee bit pudgy, hungry to learn; a growing, increasingly agile 6-7 sophomore, finding success on both the basketball and volleyball hardwood; a 6-8 junior, hammering kills […]

Over the next 24 hours, Hawaii Prep World and the Star-Advertiser will release 12 small features on the 2017 inductees into the Hall of Honor ahead of Sunday’s ceremony. A leader by nature, Lia Foster stayed ahead of the pack throughout her Punahou swimming career. Foster claimed 12 gold medals over four state championship meets, taking a place among the most decorated Buffanblu swimmers in the program’s storied history. Since 1998, only four others, including three Hall of Honor members, […]

Over the next 24 hours, Hawaii Prep World and the Star-Advertiser will release 12 small features on the 2017 inductees into the Hall of Honor ahead of Sunday’s ceremony. Respect is earned and few have commanded the level of deference afforded to Jocelyn Alo. Not long after Alo transferred from Kahuku, where she won a state wrestling crown as a sophomore, her at-bats — whether in games or practice — became must-watch moments. In her first state tournament with the […]

Over the next 24 hours, Hawaii Prep World and the Star-Advertiser will release 12 small features on the 2017 inductees into the Hall of Honor ahead of Sunday’s ceremony. All Kesi Ah-Hoy does is deliver state championships. For all of his accolades in football, where the Oregon State commit’s future resides, Ah-Hoy’s varsity career began in basketball where he was Kahuku’s best defensive player as a freshman. He joined the varsity for football for Lee Leslie as a sophomore and […]

Over the next 24 hours, Hawaii Prep World and the Star-Advertiser will release 12 small features on the 2017 inductees into the Hall of Honor ahead of Sunday’s ceremony. Kayla Afoa began her high school career surrounded by winners before growing into one of the school’s best. Afoa played on two state championship teams as a freshman, starting on a volleyball team that featured three other future Hall of Honor members in Alohi Robins-Hardy, Tianna Hallums and Sarah Lau. Afoa […]