Punahou football

Kahanu Kia will always remember this month of September. On Wednesday, a day after Notre Dame made a scholarship offer to the Punahou senior, Stanford came up with an offer of its own. “It’s all good. It’s definitely exciting. Man, I like everything about Stanford. It’s the best in the business. They have everything academically and athletically. They have everything,” the 6-foot-2, 210-pound senior said on Thursday afternoon. Former Punahou defensive back Alaka‘i Gilman plays for Stanford. “Alaka‘i, I texted […]

UCLA, California and Virginia have become the 15th, 16th and 17th FBS schools to offer football scholarships to Punahou junior Tevarua Tafiti. The 6-foot-3, 208-pound defensive end already has offers from Hawaii to the Pac-12 to the Big Ten to the Big 12 and ACC, as well as Notre Dame. The Bruins and Golden Bears made their offers formalized on Tuesday, which saw an explosion of offers across the country, particularly for underclassmen. Virginia followed suit on Wednesday. The phone […]

(Update: Stanford offered a scholarship to Kia later in the day, the 15th school on his list.) Summer was serene and mostly silent for Kahanu Kia. The daily workouts were a grind, the clanging of 45-pound plates and the churning of cleats on grass. Notre Dame changed the mood for Kia, offering a football scholarship to the 6-foot-2, 210-pound linebacker on Tuesday night. “Every offer is different for me in what they bring to the table, but shoot, it’s Notre […]

After 17 football scholarship offers, Kilinahe Mendiola-Jensen of Punahou decided the time had come. Early Friday morning, the senior defensive back selected UNLV as his future football home. Mendiola-Jensen released a video at 7:10 a.m. on his Twitter page featuring two minutes of his highlights as a youth and high school player, then closed it with the UNLV logo. “I feel amazing. This is an awesome experience for me. I’m real excited. I can’t wait to see what happens next,” […]

This doesn’t happen often, especially in the COVID-19 pandemic era. With 17 scholarship offers and no football season until 2021, Punahou senior Kilinahe Mendiola-Jensen is taking a bold step forward. The talented cornerback announced on Wednesday that he will make an oral commitment to one of the universities on Friday morning. This comes one month after Arizona became the first and only Pac-12 Conference program to make an offer to the 6-foot-2, 158-pound playmaker. Since then, Nevada offered a scholarship […]

When one Ivy League team steps up, the others take notice. Christopher Paige is noticed, all right. Penn became the second Ivy school to make a football offer to the Punahou wide receiver. The quest by Penn came just six days after Columbia opened up a potential roster spot for Paige. The 6-foot-2, 185-pound senior-to-be now has seven FBS/FCS schools in pursuit of his talent. His other offers are from Air Force, Army, Columbia, Navy, Northern Colorado and Valparaiso. Punahou […]