Hawaii Grown

Southern California’s Malia Nam, a 2018 Kaiser alumna, was named the Pac-12 freshman of the year in women’s golf on Tuesday. Nam, who recorded eight top-12 finishes in tournaments this season, helped USC win seven tournaments including both a Pac-12 and NCAA regional championship. Nam also made the All-Pac-12 first team and was named a second-team All-American after finishing third on the Trojans with a 72.57 scoring average. She had four finishes in the top seven of a tournament and […]

There isn’t much that the Southern California women’s golf team hasn’t achieved in the 2018-2019 season. A No. 1 national ranking. A Pac-12 title. Six other tournament victories. As much of an individual sport the game of golf may be, the Trojans find team success by embracing competition within. Before almost every tournament, all 10 players on the roster are vying for five coveted spots. Punahou’s Allisen Corpuz and Aiko Leong, as well as Kaiser’s Malia Nam, make up 30 […]

Two schools in two separate mainland states can be a lot for someone who wasn’t supposed to leave home in the first place, but Pono Anderson has taken every new opportunity in stride. Anderson signed with Hawaii during his senior year at Saint Louis but ended up at South Mountain Community College in Phoenix instead. Now as a senior at Texas-Arlington, Anderson was the subject of Wednesday’s Hawaii Grown feature in the Star-Advertiser, which can be read here. “When I […]

You could say that coach Tony Bennett is a man of vision. There’s no way he would be taking Virginia into the NCAA men’s basketball championship game today against Texas Tech if he wasn’t. Fifteen years ago, Bennett talked about “a vision” he had for a young ‘Iolani player named Derrick Low. At the time, Bennett was an assistant at Washington State under his dad Dick Bennett and was one of the men responsible for bringing Low there. Here is […]

The Hawaii Grown section is currently running every other week in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Below are some notes on a few players playing collegiate sports on the mainland from Hawaii. A full-page Hawaii Grown section will run in next Wednesday’s Star-Advertiser. To submit an athlete for publication, email Billy Hull at bhull@staradvertiser.com. BASEBALL >> Mason Quinlan, Kamehameha ’16: The Puget Sound junior first baseman was named both the Northwest Conference position student-athlete of the week and the Logger Club Logger […]

McKenzie Milton is upbeat and doing rehab and he’s aiming at trying to make it back on the field by 2020, according to recent articles on OrlandoSentinel.com. Milton, the UCF quarterback and former Mililani star, is recovering from a devastating knee injury suffered on a hit in a game against South Florida last November. Milton describes his thoughts about the actual injury and what he has been doing since. God and his faith have been a big part of his […]