Hawaii Sports

Eleven team title streaks in state competition came to an end in the 2018-19 athletic calendar, but many endured and others more were created. After the dust was settled in the final competition this month, Punahou still owns the four longest active championship streaks in all HHSAA sports — girls tennis (17 straight years), girls water polo (12), boys volleyball (eight) and girls cross country (seven). However, the Buffanblu had a lengthy one, girls golf, snapped at six years at […]

Punahou hauled in six spring sports championships to double its previous total for the school year and finish with 12. The ILH captured 35 of 45 state team championships, and private schools (including a D-II title won by Hawaii Prep of the BIIF) accounted for 36 of the 45. ‘Iolani earned the second most 2018-19 state crowns with five, followed by Kamehameha and Hawaii Baptist (three in D-II and one in D-I) with four each. With three, Moanalua had the […]

There are currently at least five lawsuits in the courts that have to do with Hawaii high school sports. Here are updates on each of them: KAISER >> A Kaiser football player’s parent, Gregory Tartamella, is going to court as the defendant in a jury trial. The charges are assault, terroristic threatening and harassment of now ex-football coach Arnold Martinez. The case stems partly from an incident in fall 2017 in which Tartamella was caught on video yelling at Martinez. […]

In the event that you have not opened up Tuesday’s print edition of the Star-Advertiser (or thumbed through the online edition), or stumbled upon last week’s first notice on Hawaii Prep World, let this be your digital reckoning. Esports has arrived in Hawaii high schools. Or, in some cases, it will very soon. Schools across the state are into their second week of competition as of today. But many of the players are still awaiting their first actual competition of […]

Private schools have won 80 percent (24 of 30) of the state championships through the fall and winter seasons of 2018-19. And of those 24 private-school championships, 23 were by ILH schools and one by Hawaii Prep, a private school on the Big Island. State titles will be determined in 15 more sports this spring to conclude the school year. For all of 2017-18, private schools won 67 percent of the state titles (31 out of 46). Twenty-five of those […]

Twenty-three schools around the state will participate this week in the first esports competition under a pilot program developed by the Hawaii High School Athletic Association. According to a news release, the HHSAA has partnered with PlayVS for “Season Zero” of esports competition beginning Tuesday. Esports is basically an organized competition of different multiplayer video games. Under the pilot program, schools will participate in three different games a week and can put together as many teams as they want. Each […]