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Coaches, players reeling after BIIF principals ax fall, winter sports

By Paul Honda on January 8, 2021

The Big Island Interscholastic Federation made it official on Thursday as principals voted to cancel fall and winter sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The league’s athletic directors had voted to cancel two days earlier as case numbers increased after the holiday season. The BIIF followed in line with the Oahu Interscholastic Association and Maui Interscholastic League. “This hurts my heart,” said Konawaena girls basketball coach Bobbie Awa, who has guided the Wildcats to nine Division I state crowns. Several […]

Max Holloway to Hawaii’s athletes: ‘Stay strong, be the author of your path’

By Paul Honda on January 7, 2021

Several time zones away, preparing for a huge UFC showdown, Max Holloway thought about Hawaii’s high school student-athletes. As the UFC’s No. 1 contender in the featherweight class, Holloway is prepping for a battle with No. 6 Calvin Kattar next week. Before Holloway departed from his training grounds in Las Vegas, he shared his thoughts about the young athletes whose fall and winter sports seasons have been cancelled by leagues across the state due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Stay positive, […]

Chad Owens Jr. starts petition drive to save prep sports season

By Paul Honda on January 7, 2021

Chad Owens Jr. is optimistic even in the face of certain impossibility. The cancellation of football season has only optimized his motor. “We still have eight weeks until the season should’ve started,” the Moanalua senior quarterback said. “They pulled the trigger too quickly.” When the Owens ohana moved home, Chad Jr. embraced the move 100 percent. The son of former Roosevelt, Hawaii and CFL great Chad Owens Sr. was ready for a new chapter. Even as a senior, having to […]

Coaches unsurprised, disappointed as MIL cancels fall, winter sports

By Paul Honda on January 6, 2021

The Maui Interscholastic League is the latest of the state’s five high school leagues to cancel sports. The MIL announced on Wednesday that it has cancelled all fall and winter sports, including football and competitive cheer. Those two sports were slated to begin in the spring after being postponed. Air riflery, basketball, bowling, competitive cheer, cross country, paddling, soccer, swimming and diving, and wrestling — all done for the 2020-21 pandemic year. “I think it’s because of all the challenges. […]

BIIF ADs vote to cancel fall, winter sports

By Paul Honda on January 5, 2021

Falling in line with the public-school Oahu Interscholastic Association, athletic directors in the Big Island Interscholastic Federation voted on Tuesday to cancel fall and winter sports. The BIIF, comprised mostly of public schools, will take the athletic directors’ recommendation to a principals’ vote on Wednesday — which is almost always a mere formality. That means no air riflery, basketball, bowling, competitive cheer, cross country, paddling, soccer, swimming and diving, and wrestling. In addition, previously postponed sports that were originally pushed […]

OIA to announce cancellation of football on Tuesday

By Paul Honda on January 4, 2021

(6:55 p.m. Adds comments from Kaimuki football coach David Tautofi.) (7:45 p.m. Adds comments from Kahuku girls volleyball coach Tuli Peters Tevaga.) (8:15 p.m. Adds comments from Moanalua girls volleyball coach Alan Cabanting.) A press release dated Jan. 5 — Tuesday — has included football along with fall and winter sports cancelled by the Oahu Interscholastic Association. Coaches were informed by administrators about the cancellation of fall and winter sports, but football and girls volleyball had been postponed until spring […]

Neighbor island coaches hoping leagues buck trend of Oahu

By Paul Honda on January 4, 2021

Sometimes, even when outside pressure mounts, the neighbor islands go their own way. What that means for high school sports is that the Big Island, Maui and Kauai sometimes stand alongside their Oahu counterparts and, sometimes, though, they don’t. That was apparent at HIADA’s annual conferences in years past. Even when the two largest leagues, the Oahu Interscholastic Association and Interscholastic League of Honolulu clearly outnumbered the neighbor island leagues, the latter often stood with an opposing viewpoint — because […]

JAN 4, 2005: David Moore makes Kalaheo his team

By Jerry Campany on January 4, 2021

For much of his early prep basketball career, Kalaheo’s David Moore was known as a defensive stopper. But on this date in 2005, after starting since his sophomore year, he showed that he was going to be so much more for his senior season. Moore scored 14 of his 23 points in the second half and the Mustangs opened their league season with a 59-50 win over Castle. The Knights led by a point at halftime before Moore took off. […]

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