Konawaena’s Chanelle Molina will be inducted into the Enterprise / HHSAA Hall of Honor on Sunday at 5 p.m. at the Dole Cannery’s Pomaikai Ballroom. Above are a few shots of the Kona great through the years. And here is the elite list of athletes she will join:
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Fifty high school seniors declared their future plans by signing letters of intent on Wednesday morning in another pristine and beautiful setting at the Honolulu Elks Lodge in Waikiki. That’s the good news. The bad? This was the final LOI signing event hosted by PIAA, a non-profit organization that will shut its “doors” soon to due a lack of funding. For now, the overflow crowd at the Elks […]
‘Iolani jumped two spots to No. 2 in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser boys basketball Top 10 this week. The Raiders have been as high as No. 1, but are now one spot behind the Kaiser Cougars. Saint Louis, which suffered a 73-63 loss to Kamehameha on Friday, dropped one spot to No. 2. Kamehameha rose two spots to No. 4, and Punahou fell three spaces to No. 6. In the girls poll, the biggest change was Maryknoll moving up one spot, […]
Kahuku has put the word out that it is looking for applicants for its head girls volleyball coaching job. It might just be a formality. The interim head coach from last year, Mounia Tachibana, told Hawaii Prep World on Friday that she will be reapplying. Because she was an interim coach, Kahuku is following protocol by posting the job opening. It’s possible Tachibana will be hired again. Tachibana succeeded Lee Lamb and the Red Raiders went 14-3 overall and 12-2 […]
‘Iolani’s Bailey Choy is the Gatorade Hawaii Volleyball Player of the Year, the Gatorade Company announced Tuesday. The award recognizes athletic excellence, academic achievement and exemplary character on and off the field. The 5-foot-9 senior setter finished the season with 574 assists, 197 digs and 15 aces in leading the Raiders to the Division I state final. She is also the Honolulu Star-Advertiser All-State player of the year and the Interscholastic League of Honolulu player of the year. Choy, who […]
Despite another in a long line of all-ILH state finals in girls volleyball, a bunch of new names led the way this year. ‘Iolani’s Bailey Choy was judged the best player in the state in the Star-Advertiser’s 2015 Fab 15 published on Sunday (subscription required), the first time a player was named player of the year from a team that failed to win the state title since Kanoe Kamanao was named the best in the land by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin […]
With the Star-Advertiser’s All-State volleyball Fab 15 out today, here is a list of all of the teams for both the Honolulu Advertiser and Honolulu Star-Bulletin over the years. The 2000 Honolulu Advertiser team is not included. There are plenty of great names in the chart from Glennie Adams in the tail end of University’s dynasty to Chanelle Molina’s second selection this year. In between are the greatest prep volleyball players the state has ever seen, but how would they […]
Head coach Chris Blake hit a milestone on Halloween, when his Kamehameha girls volleyball team held off ‘Iolani for the Division I state championship. Blake (2005-10, ’13, ’15) passed Dan Kitashima, one of his mentors, with his eighth state title. Kitashima compiled seven state victories (1991-92, 1994-95, 1997-99) in his time as the Warriors’ coach. Kuuipo Lum (1969-70, 1977, 1982-83) was the coach for the five others of the 20 state crowns in school history. “I was fortunate to be […]