Hawaii Sports

Before he became Hawaii’s athletic director, Young Suk Ko of McKinley was quite an athlete. He starred in football, basketball, baseball and track and field for the school while climbing up the ranks of the boy scouts. On this day in 1939, Ko put the shot 50 feet, 2 inches to break the record by more than five feet as McKinley won a track and field meet at Alexander Field. Three other records were broken that day. Ko went on […]

Larry Khan-Smith is probably best known for his running exploits with the UH football team, but he made his mark on the state as a jumper. On this day in 1986, the boy who is still perhaps Campbell’s greatest athlete broke OIA records in the triple jump and long jump at Kaiser. By the time he was finished with his senior season, Khan-Smith was all over the HHSAA record books with five gold medals. >> He repeated in the long […]

On this day in 1992, Sani Apuakehau won the 100 meters and the long jump to propel Kamehameha to the ILH track and field championship over Punahou. Apuakehau ran the 100 meters in a disappointing 11.3 seconds and flew 21 feet, 2 1/4 inches in the long jump. Other winners for Kamehameha included Marcus Taum in the 400, Cameron Ahana in the 300 hurdles, Brandon Toro in the 200, Drake Parker in the discus, Che Schmidt in the triple jump […]