Soccer

Hawaii Prep’s Emi Higgins was named as the Gatorade Hawaii Player of the Year in girls soccer this week. The award recognizes outstanding athletic excellence, high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character on and off the field. The 5-foot-9 sophomore forward and midfielder led Ka Makani to an 11-2-2 record and the Division II state championship in 2017. She scored 19 goals, including seven of Hawaii Prep’s nine tallies in five postseason games. She also had seven assists. Higgins […]

The Seattle Sounders announced Wednesday that Kapolei alum Shandon Hopeau has signed a professional contract with the club’s reserve team that plays in the United Soccer League. Hopeau, a two-time OIA West player of the year, signed directly from Sounders Academy, where he scored four goals in his first two games. He played with S2 last season and earned a starting job and was good enough during league play that he was invited to train with the Sounders’ MLS squad […]

The face of high school boys soccer changed a little bit this year. Punahou’s Duncan McKenna gave his school its fifth player of the year award, and second in a row, but that is where the normalcy ended. McKenna was one of only six seniors named on this year’s Star-Advertiser Stellar Eleven, the fewest ever after nine seniors graced last year’s team. The entire team was released in Sunday’s Honolulu Star-Advertiser which you can read here. The change was not […]

The Honolulu Star-Advertiser All-State girls soccer team was released in Sunday’s newspaper. You can read it here. Below are some notes on a few of the selections. >> The OIA had the player of the year the previous two years with Sunshine Fontes of Pearl City and Mililani’s Tia Furuta. It was the first time the ILH had not had the player of the year two years in a row since Baldwin had Nicole Garbin (2001) and Mahie Atay (2002) […]

The ILH released its boys soccer all-star teams over the weekend. Punahou senior forward Duncan McKenna was named the offensive most valuable player while ‘Iolani senior defender Tasman Turner earned defensive most valuable player honors. Saint Louis’ Rick Sandry was the coach of the year. ILH All-Stars Offensive most valuable player—Duncan McKenna, Sr, Punahou Defensive most valuable player—Tasman Turner, Sr, ‘Iolani Coach of the year—Rick Sandry, Saint Louis FIRST TEAM GK—Ian Withy-Berry, Jr, Punahou F—Tanner Shimomoto, Sr, ‘Iolani; Kaimipono Halemano, […]

State champion ‘Iolani swept the ILH girls soccer awards that were announced recently. Senior Kylee Kim-Bustillos was named the offensive most valuable player and classmate Kawaiuluhonua Scanlan was named the defensive MVP. Kristin Masunaga was named the coach of the year. The full teams are listed below. ILH All-Stars Offensive MVP—Kylee Kim-Bustillos, Sr, ‘Iolani Defensive MVP—Kawaiuluhonua Scanlan, Sr, ‘Iolani Coach of the year—Kristin Masunaga, ‘Iolani FIRST TEAM GK—Alexis Schmidt, Soph, Sacred Hearts F—Mia Watanabe, Fr, ‘Iolani; Makamae Gomera-Stevens, Sr, Kamehameha; […]

The soccer season is over and another fine display of talent was there for the viewing at Waipio Peninsula Soccer Stadium the last two weeks. Wouldn’t you know that Punahou would earn its 20th boys title and second in a row in the 44 years of the state tournament. The Buffanblu flew under the radar, somehow, before swooping in and gobbling up the hardware. They didn’t win their league and the odds seemed to favor other teams — like second-seeded Interscholastic […]