Hall pass: Tiyana Hallums

Voters in the Star-Advertiser’s postseason awards say Tiyana Hallums was never the best volleyball player in the state, but she may have been on the best team of all time.

Hallums was third on the Star-Advertiser’s Fab 15 volleyball list as a junior and second on the rankings as a senior behind Punahou’s McKenna Granato.

She was behind teammate Alohi Robins-Hardy and Kahuku’s Adora Anae in 2013. Hallums will join Robins-Hardy in the Enterprise/HHSAA Hall of Honor on June 7 at the Dole Cannery Square’s Pomaikai Ballroom.

She will share a stage with teammate Sarah Lau, giving that 2013 state championship Kamehameha team three players in the Hall of Honor.

To find another prep volleyball team with three girls so honored, you have to go back to the 1991 Kamehameha squad, which lost two matches but beat McKinley for the state title.

That team boasted of Hall of Honor members Nani Cockett, Aulii Ellis and Kalei Arnold.

Hallums travels in fast company, but she can certainly keep up. After Robins-Hardy graduated, the 5-foot-9 fighter was supposed to carry the load. With stars like Lau and Mia Heirakuji, Hallums led Kamehameha into the state tournament as the heavy favorite even after losing their setter, Kama Akeo, to injury.

She continued to lead the Warriors in kills even through the final, where Kamehameha lost to Punahou after beating them for the ILH title earlier in the year. Granato was named the Star-Advertiser’s player of the year after the match, pushing Hallums to second after spending the entire year as the presumptive favorite.

Robins-Hardy, Lau and Hallums are connected in ways much deeper than a state championship. Their fathers all went to Highlands Intermediate and Leonard Lau and David Hallums grew up on Palamoi Street.

Tiyana Hallums, who has pledged her allegiance to Gonzaga for volleyball, showed off her leaping ability when she came out of nowhere to finish second in the long jump at the ILH JV championships in her sophomore year.

She didn’t pick it up again until her junior season, but qualified for states in the long jump, triple jump and high jump with a fifth-place finish in the long jump. She qualified for all three events again as a senior, but only placed in the triple jump.

She was the first to place in two jumping events in Kamehameha history, something not even Nani Cockett or Kalei Arnold can say.

Hall of Honor Members