Maui Sports

Maui’s own Eli Hanneman, the current No. 1 ranked surfer on the Hawaiʻi Qualifying Series, received a wildcard into his first-ever Championship Tour event for a three-day competition at the Surf Ranch in Leemore, California.

Renner Chumley, a 9th grader at Maui Preparatory Academy, is headed to the IMG Junior World Golf Championship in San Diego, California, July 12-16, 2021.

This years recipients are Anson Cabello, a student at Kamehameha Maui High School; Lana Calibuso-Kwee, Baldwin High School graduate; and Joy Callinan, Seabury High School graduate.

Results are in from the 27th annual Pōhai Nā Keiki Nalu surf contest held on Saturday, June 12, 2021 at Launiupoko in West Maui.

As the summer softball season begins to heat up, USA Softball of Hawaii/Oahu Junior Olympics has instituted mandatory COVID-19 screenings for more than 1,200 players, umpires and coaches using ALTRES’ Wellness Tracker.

This yearʻs field is set with 47 entries, including two Hawaiʻi-based entries: Gib Black’s Lurline and Bob Pethick’s Bretwalda 3.

The 2021 Sentry Tournament of Champions raised $526,760 worth of donations for more than a dozen Maui nonprofits this year.

With Phil Mickelson’s victory yesterday at the PGA Championship, the 50-year-old golfing legend qualified for the 2022 Sentry Tournament of Champions to be held at the Plantation Course at Kapalua on Maui.

The County of Maui Department of Parks and Recreation announces the beginning of Family Swim at all Maui County pools starting June 1, 2021.

Mayor Michael Victorino was among those who greeted University of Hawaiʻi volleyball player Colton Cowell during a surprise homecoming at Kahului Airport on Thursday afternoon.

Former University of Hawaii quarterback Colt Brennan has died, according to multiple media reports. Brennan was 37-year-old.

Following the success of Special Olympics Hawaii’s first Paradise Plunge, the fundraiser returns to make waves this summer for its second event.

Reagan James Miles, 15, of Kīhei, Maui, earned the 2nd Alternate spot to the 2021 US Open final qualifier event during a local qualifying event held on Lei Day at the King Kamehameha Golf Club.

Maui’s Riley “The Perfect Storm” Dutro takes on Iowa’s Eric Shelton in an upcoming event on Saturday, May 8 at 1 p.m. HST. Dutro makes his Caged Aggression XXXI debut and is looking for his 15th professional win.

The County of Maui Department of Parks and Recreation will begin accepting applications for Fall 2021 Tri-Annual Permits – for leagues and recreational programs – on Saturday, May 1 through 4 p.m. on Friday, May 7. Permit applications are limited to those for use of pools, fields and tennis courts during the period of Aug. 1 to Dec. 31, 2021.

In its 36th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company today announced Hunter Shields of Maui High School as its 2020-21 Gatorade Hawai‘i Boys Cross Country Player of the Year. Shields is the first Gatorade Hawai‘i Boys Cross Country Player of the Year to be chosen from Maui High School.

Hideki Matsuyama and Jordan Spieth qualified for the 2022 Sentry Tournament of Champions after their recent PGA TOUR victories. Matsuyama and Spieth have qualified to join the other 14 TOUR winners next January in paradise when the Sentry Tournament of Champions returns to The Plantation Course at Kapalua.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Boards of The Oʻahu Hawaiian Canoe Racing Association and Nā Wāhine O Ke Kai have cancelled the 2021 championship canoe races: Hawaiian Airlines Nā Wāhine O Ke Kai (scheduled for Sept. 26) and Hawaiian Airlines Molokaʻi Hoe (scheduled for Oct. 10).

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa launched a campaign to raise funds for a project retrofitting the Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex. Funds raised for the complex will benefit UH Football by bringing home games from the Aloha Stadium to the UH Mānoa campus.

Carissa Moore (HAW) and Italo Ferreira (BRA) won the Rip Curl Newcastle Cup presented by Corona today, the second stop on the World Surf League 2021 Championship Tour, in three-to-five foot waves at Merewether in New South Wales, Australia.