Athletic administration

It’s Christmas in April for Hawaii’s high school girl athletes. House bill 1259 SD1 has passed through House and Senate committee and will move on to the full Hawaii House and Senate for a vote sometime next week. The bill includes many capital improvement projects across the state for construction of girls athletic locker rooms. The bill comes five months after a lawsuit was filed by the ACLU, alleging gender-based bias and unequal treatment of female athletes. If the vote […]

Kalani dedicated its new athletic facility Friday. The 19,300 square-foot facility includes a new girls athletic locker room, a training room and a wrestling/judo room. The dedication included a ceremony, guest speakers and a guided tour. According to the Department of Education in a news release, it’s the school’s first girls locker room, and it includes lockers, access to hot showers and an area for game planning. “This new locker room is an essential part to our growing athletics program,” […]

Gone is Gerber Fieldhouse on the Saint Louis School campus, and it is being replaced by a new sports complex. Groundwork of the final phase of the Clarence T.C. Ching Athletic Center — construction of a new gymnasium — is being done now. According to Glenn Medeiros, the school president, plans were originally drawn up in 2010. However, the work was put on the shelf for a while due to low enrollment. “Enrollment had gone done to about 550 students, […]