Kalaheo football

Nelson Maeda got three years worth of more relaxed football seasons. Those days are over. Maeda, the former Castle and Kailua head coach, is the new Kalaheo head man. He believes he found the right fit. “I had to give this situation a lot of hard thought,” he said. “One really big thing that had to fall in place for me to return to be a head coach was I did not want to be put in a situation where […]

Kalaheo High School is accepting applications for its head football coaching position after announcing that Darrell Poole has retired after eight seasons in charge of the Mustangs program. “Darrell Poole has retired from coaching football at Kalaheo after 7 years as the Head Varsity Football Coach and many years being part of the Mustang Ohana,” the school said in a press release. “Kalaheo would like to thank Coach Poole for all his years of service to our student athletes.” Poole […]

2019 RECORD >> 0-10 overall, 0-8 OIA Division II HEAD COACH >> Darrell Poole is 18-54 in eight seasons at Kalaheo KEY UNDERCLASSMEN IN 2019 >> S/WR Riis Webber, 5-9, 160, Fr.; QB Isaiah Akiu, 5-6, 145, So.; DB/SB Bryson Johnson, 5-5, 130, Jr.; DB/WR Sheldon Mejia, 5-5, 125, So. KALAHEO THROUGH THE YEARS: 1974-2019 HISTORICAL EQUIVALENT: 1978 Aiea The good thing about hitting rock bottom is that there is nowhere to go but up. The Kalaheo Mustangs went winless […]

It would have been exceptionally easy to fold up the tent at halftime trailing a first-place team by 38 points, the role of spoiler already long gone. The Kalaheo Mustangs chose the hard road all the way to the end of their winless season. They fought to the finish of a 38-6 loss to Kaiser at Kailua on Friday night, with senior tight end/linebacker/wildcat quarterback Jordan Neufeldt fittingly punching in the 1-yard score in the final seconds. A moment of […]