Athletic administration

Reydan “Tita” Ahuna received a promotion with a new title at Punahou, the school announced on Friday. Ahuna is the new athletic director for middle school and coaches’ professional development. She joins Kale Ane and Jeff Meister as a third athletic director at the school. She was previously an athletics associate. Ahuna is a former University of Hawaii volleyball star captain who won a Division I national title as a senior under head coach Dave Shoji in 1987. She also […]

It’s the nature of high school sports. Coaches leave. Coaches are hired. There’s been some movement lately. Kailua has a new girls volleyball coach and Radford has a new boys basketball coach. Chantilly Pratt-Maiava is the new Kailua girls volleyball coach, according to Surfriders athletic director Ramona Takahashi. She is a volleyball lifer, having played since the age of 3. Pratt-Maiava went on to play for McKinley before transferring to Kaimuki, where she graduated from in 2000, and eventually played […]

Before the state’s decision makers get down to serious business at the Hawaii Athletic Directors Association meeting at Hilton Waikoloa Village in June, they hope to see some of the athletes they are working for getting their own development. The HHSAA is looking for the state’s best and brightest to attend its first Student-Athlete Leadership Conference June 6-7 in Kona. HIADA sessions will be going on at the same time, but the real business doesn’t begin until later in the […]