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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 going doesn’t get tough at Makawao. It already IS tough, every day, running on a campus that exists on hills. Ava Shipman’s dreams didn’t come crashing down the day she finished second in the state cross country championships. Her senior season began with that heartbreak, however, and rather than douse […]

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. Whatever the obstacle, KJ Pascua kept moving forward. At 5-foot-6, the ‘Iolani running back repeatedly charged into defensive fronts to earn first-team ILH all-star honors each of the last three years. He helped the Raiders win a Division II state championship as a sophomore, went over 100 yards nine times 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. 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 […]