#King Kekaulike High School

Seven Rotary Clubs on Maui presented a $5,000 Hawaiʻi Rotary Youth Foundation scholarship to outstanding graduating seniors. Each club conducted interviews with multiple candidates and chose one recipient for the award.

The Ian Walsh Menehune Mayhem Foundation (IWMMF) announced its 2026 scholarship recipients. Eight outstanding student athletes have received $3,750 scholarships for their College or University expenses.

The Hawai‘i Department of Transportation congratulates the 2026 Hawai‘i Bridge Builder Competition champions, Ian Payba and Jeter Hondo of Maui High School.

The annual three-student, team competition is a full-day of intense academic tests on an extensive range of topics related to Japan, including contemporary Japan, culture and traditions, geography, politics, history, Japan-Hawaiʻi ties, language, and more.

The Upcountry Maui Rotary Club has announced its Students of the Month for December, recognizing two high school seniors for academic achievements, leadership and community service.

After Taimane Mata’afa Grove, a freshman at Maui High School, made quick work of Kalea Markulis of Lahainaluna with a pin in 93 seconds in the 125 girls championship match, Te’ata Mata’afa Grove was able to shift her focus to her title match at 135 that would take place minutes later. 

The Upcountry Winter Fest presented by the Kekaulike High School Foundation is returning this year, bringing a sparkling array of winter activities, live entertainment, and seasonal delights to Upcountry, Maui.

Approximately 180 students from Maui, Hawaiʻi and Oʻahu will converge at a single undisclosed location for celebration of Fall 2025 Japan Day, the Japan-America Society of Hawaiʻi announced. Attendance at the event is by invitation only.,

Update: (9:03 p.m., Sept. 29, 2025) Jacob Pescador has been located and returned home. The Maui Police Department thanked the public for their assistance.

The hale pāpaʻi program has been running since August 2024 and the one-week free class offered in conjunction has attracted more than 400 students, 70 of whom were high school students this summer, according to Talia Purdy of the school’s academic affairs support staff. 

In the first overtime game in King Kekaulike High School football history which dates to 1995, Kanoa Kuailani scored on a 5-yard touchdown run to end a 34-28 win over Baldwin at King Kekaulike Stadium. Kuailani, a 6-foot, 190-pound junior, entered the 2024 season as Na Ali’i’s starting quarterback, but missed the rest of the season after being injured in the first Maui Interscholastic League game against Baldwin.

Aurum Maui opened in July and the kitchen staff is loaded with University of Hawai’i Maui College culinary program graduates — 10 of 21 kitchen staffers are UHMC graduates.

Maui High beat Kealakehe 21-6 on Saturday at King Kekaulike Stadium, Baldwin beat Hilo 17-13 on Friday at Wong Stadium on Hawai’i island, and King Kekaulike beat Honoka’a 9-7 at Honoka’a on Saturday. Lahainaluna travelled to Wai’anae and got beat 41-21 Saturday night, while Damien Memorial School beat Kamehameha Maui 33-17 at Kana‘iaupuni Stadium on Friday.

After diverting nearly 2,000 pounds of textile waste from the landfill last year, The Sewing Hui, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to sewing for the Maui community, is expanding its efforts this year with new educational programs, deeper sustainability goals, and a growing island-wide impact.

This summer, nine students from Maui High, King Kekaulike and Baldwin high schools participated in Mahi Pono’s paid summer internship program, where they propagated nearly 2,000 culturally significant plants for residents who lost their home gardens that included cherished lei plants during the 2023 wildfires.

Having two players from Maui drafted in the same year is rare — in 1999, Wehiwa’s dad Jamie Aloy and future World Series champ Shane Victorino were chosen in the same draft.

Reese Yap is instructing the first Beauty Operator Program at the University of Hawaiʻi Maui College, with 13 students aged 19 to 61 learning hands-on beauty courses to become licensed as an esthetician and/or nails technician.

Maui’s Sumiko Inaba will battle undefeated Dakota Ditcheva (14-0-0) on Sunday in a Professional Fighters League bout for flyweight women (125 pounds).

The Hawaiian Style Volleyball Club’s boys under-15 team won the national title on Saturday in Minneapolis, a feat a longtime Maui volleyball coach says has never been done before.

The Under Armour Next Camp at King Kekaulike Stadium on Saturday was the final stop of 14 on the camp tour. The camp, which included several NFL players or retirees as coaches, was the brainchild of Baldwin High School graduate JoJo Dickson.