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Moanalua’s Funcheon is Gatorade player of year

By Nick Abramo on June 17, 2015

The Gatorade Company announced Wednesday that it has picked Moanalua’s Kathleen Funcheon as the Gatorade Hawaii Girls Track and Field Athlete of the Year The award recognizes outstanding athletic excellence, high standards of academic achievemnt and exemplary character. The 5-foot-8 senior sprinter won two individual championships at the state meet this spring. Named her school’s Female Outstanding Athlete of the Year, Funcheon won the 100-meter dash in 12.11 seconds and the 200 in 24.51. Her wind-aided performances are the fastest […]

Football assistant Saturnio spreads aloha

By Nick Abramo on June 16, 2015

It’s from nearly two years ago and doesn’t fit the strict definition of “newsworthy,” but it’s still worth sharing this video of former Waipahu football head coach Sean Saturnio when he was an assistant coach at Georgia Southern. In the video here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-YGehtz–A), Saturnio is being interviewed by a reporter and answers questions about the Eagles, a Football Championship Series squad. The questioning turns to his use of Hawaiian words such as “pono” and “aloha.” All of a sudden, though […]

Mililani’s Razon will play in soccer worlds

By Nick Abramo on June 15, 2015

Mililani’s Jarrett Razon is a midfielder for the 14-member U.S. Paralympic soccer national team that will play in the world championships starting Tuesday in Staffordshire, England. The tournament — the 2015 Cerebral Palsy Football Championships — runs through June 28, and the U.S. opens with a match against Venezuela on Wednesday. In 2001, Razon was Hawaii’s soccer player of the year after the Trojans, under coach Jeff Yamamoto, won the state title. Since suffering severe injuries as a staff sergeant in […]

USC lands commitment from Saint Louis’ Iosefa

By Hawaii Prep World on June 15, 2015

Jordan Iosefa, a 6-foot-2, 225-pound linebacker who sat out last season after transferring from Waipahu to Saint Louis, has committed to USC according to Scout.com. Iosefa had other offers from Oregon State and Hawaii but was a relative unknown because he didn’t play last season. He has fared well at a couple of camps, including the recently completed Maximum Exposure combine last week and the Nike Opening regional event at Aloha Stadium back in February. Iosefa’s SPARQ score ranked sixth […]

UPDATED: Mililani’s Malepeai commits to Oregon

By Hawaii Prep World on June 14, 2015

Mililani running back Vavae Malepeai committed to Oregon during his weekend trip to Eugene, Ore., according to multiple reports online. The 6-foot senior-to-be had an impressive list of at least 18 offers including USC, UCLA, Stanford, Nebraska, Michigan and Washington before taking up the Ducks on their offer. Malepeai told Greg Biggins of Scout.com in a story posted today that, “it’s been a good process. Everything just felt right. The coaches treated me well and I just know I’ll be […]

Kaimana Awards celebrate greatness

By Jerry Campany on June 13, 2015

Another group of outstanding student athletes were honored at the HMSA Kaimana Awards and Scholarship program luncheon at the Hawaii Convention Center on Saturday. The program has awarded 206 scholarships to high school students over the past 10 years and added began giving awards to entire schools this year. The 15 student-athletes honored today all received $5,000 scholarships and nine schools were awarded $1,500 each. The winners were: Schools Big Island Interscholastic Federation Small School – Parker School Large School […]

Somerville Purpura to coach Punahou girls

By Nick Abramo on June 12, 2015

Punahou is juggling its tennis coaching staff, according to Buffanblu athletic administrator Tom Holden. Betsy Somerville Purpura is the new girls tennis coach, and coach Ikaika Jobe will move from the girls team to the boys team, Holden told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Hawaii Prep World on Friday. For Jobe, it will be a tough act to follow. He replaces Rusty Komori, who retired recently after winning the last 22 boys state championships (during the streak of 25 by the […]

Football start date: a small up and a big down

By Nick Abramo on June 11, 2015

Football season will stay a little bit more like football season. A proposal that would have allowed high school football teams to start one week earlier — from July 20 to July 13 — took a wild ride through Hawaii’s athletic directors and decision makers this week at the Hilton Waikoloa Village. It had some life and momentum on Tuesday, when it passed a Hawaii Interscholastic Athletic Directors Association committee with a 22-6 vote with seven abstaining. The measure was […]

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Moanalua’s Funcheon is Gatorade player of year

Football assistant Saturnio spreads aloha

Mililani’s Razon will play in soccer worlds

USC lands commitment from Saint Louis’ Iosefa

UPDATED: Mililani’s Malepeai commits to Oregon

Kaimana Awards celebrate greatness

Somerville Purpura to coach Punahou girls

Football start date: a small up and a big down

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