Hawaii Grown

Pepperdine junior Hana Lishman, a 2016 Punahou alumnus, and Kansas State incoming freshman Teana Adams-Kaonohi, who enrolled in January after attending Punahou, have been selected to the U.S. Women’s Collegiate National Team — Anaheim roster. The final selections for the 28-member team were made today and announced by USA Volleyball. Both players will train June 23-29 at the American Sports Center in Anaheim, Calif., the official host city for the U.S. Women’s and Men’s National Volleyball Teams. The program will hold […]

Cal State Bakersfield’s Chris Hipa and Cydney Curran are used to facing each other on the big stage. For two straight years during their prep softball days in Hawaii, Curran and Campbell got the best of Hipa’s higher-seeded Kamehameha teams at the HHSAA state championships. The Sabers beat the top-seeded Warriors 5-0 in the quarterfinals in 2014. Then in 2015, Campbell won 7-1 in the semifinals before it went on to win first of three consecutive HHSAA titles. When it […]

Utah’s Saige Ka’aha’aina-Torres is one of two setters who have been selected to the United States Women’s Collegiate National Team that will play in Japan in May. Ka’aha’aina-Torres, the 2017 Honolulu Star-Advertiser player of the year out of ‘Iolani who was a freshman on the Utes’ indoor team in the fall, is one of three Utah players selected to the 12-member squad. Athletes were selected after participating in open tryouts March 1-3 in Colorado Springs, Colo. The team will play […]

Hilo native and St. Joseph alum Edgar Barclay had a homecoming he’ll always remember, and one the team on the other side would like to forget. The Cal State Bakersfield junior hurled a shutout against Hawaii on Sunday in a 2-0 win for the Roadrunners. Barclay took a perfect game into the sixth inning and finished with 10 strikeouts while surrendering just one hit and a walk. “It felt good to be at home. Our team had a chance to […]

UCLA junior Austin Matautia was taken off the court on a stretcher on Saturday and will miss the rest of the season with a “season-ending ankle injury,” the school confirmed Tuesday. Matautia, a 2016 Moanalua alumnus who transferred after playing two seasons at Hawaii, suffered the injury in the third set of a sweep of Penn State. Damn shame for @AustinMatautia – get well soon! pic.twitter.com/x2aF3RUuKB — MPSF Bias (@MPSF_Bias) March 10, 2019 The 6-foot-4 outside hitter had started all […]

We’re two weeks into the NCAA Division I baseball season and three weeks into the softball season. Here is a quick roundup of some of Hawaii’s homegrown talent currently playing on the mainland. BASEBALL >> Cole Cabrera, Punahou ’17: The Cal Poly starting left fielder finished 3-for-8 with three walks, three runs scored and an RBI in three losses to California over the weekend. >> Pikai Winchester, ‘Iolani ’15: The Grand Canyon senior designated hitter finished 4-for-14 with a double, […]

Southern California junior Kyle Suppa is in the midst of his best string of college golf, and like any successful amateur athlete, he can’t help but think about a professional career at times. “It’s definitely something I think about quite a bit,” Suppa said Tuesday. “Being able to prepare my game once I leave school and be able to make it at a professional level.” The 2016 Punahou alumnus was featured in Wednesday morning’s Hawaii Grown feature in the Star-Advertiser, […]

Alabama sophomore quarterback Tua Tagovailoa was very clear with his message after the Crimson Tide’s stunning 44-16 loss to Clemson in the College Football Playoff national championship game tonight in Santa Clara, Calif. “Just five words. Good is not good enough,” Tagovailoa told reporters in the postgame press conference. The 2017 Saint Louis graduate, who finished second in the Heisman Trophy voting this year, finished 22-for-34 for 295 yards and two touchdowns with two interceptions. Tagovailoa threw a pick-6 on […]