Maui Sports

The Hawaii Interscholastic Athletic Directors Association (HIADA) chose two Maui County teenagers as state’s winners of the 2021 NIAAA Student-Athlete Scholarship Essay Contest.

The student-athletes are quarantining at their places of residence and will be monitored by the athletic departmentʻs medical team and academic support staff. The 13 student-athletes who live on campus will be temporarily relocated off-campus today to quarantine and be cared for. None of the student-athletes who have tested positive have in-person classes this semester or live on campus.

Central Pacific Bank and Lahainaluna High School PTSA hosted the 13th Annual CPB Legacy Cup Golf Tournament in support of Lahainaluna High School’s Class of 2021 on April 3, 2021.

The Maui Jim Maui Invitational revealed the 2022 tournament field for its 39th annual tournament slated for Nov. 21 through 23, 2022. Arkansas, Arizona, Cincinnati, Creighton, Louisville, Ohio State, San Diego State and Texas Tech will convene at the historic Lahaina Civic Center in 2022.

Wailea Golf Academy Director of Instruction Claude Brousseau, PGA Master Professional, has been inducted into Marquis Who’s Who, a biographical registry of individuals and innovators who have demonstrated professional integrity and outstanding achievement in their respective fields.

Special Olympics Hawaiʻi launched its first-ever Virtual High Five Campaign that aims to help and support local athletes with intellectual disabilities who have all been impacted by the unprecedented shutdown of in-person sports. The community can “send a virtual high five” by making a minimum donation of $5 by text now through the end of April.

The Hawaiʻi State Department of Education this week released guidelines for safely restarting student athletic programming for high schools that meet certain criteria beginning Monday.

The Kōkua Pool, located at the Kahului Community Center in Kahului, will reopen for lap swimming beginning March 1, 2021.

A Maui council resolution will be heard on Friday urging Governor David Ige to create a task force to establish protocols to safely resume organized sports and recreational activities in Hawai‘i.

Up to 15 scholarships valued at $5,000 each will be awarded to high school seniors graduating in 2021.

Maui Ocean Center, in partnership with Run for Fitness, is hosting its 10th Annual Maui 5K Run and Walk. The 2021 event, from March 1-7, will be virtual.

It will cost about $6 million to retrofit existing facilities at the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa in order to host Rainbow Warrior football games over the next three seasons, the University announced.

John John Florence and Carissa Moore claimed the 2020 Vans Triple Crown championship titles on O‘ahu’s North Shore to close out the 2020 winter season. Vans hosted the surfing event with a couple of firsts including entirely hosting the event online and expanding the event to both men and women.

The Waiehu Municipal Golf Course Wastewater Improvements Project will begin construction today (Monday, Jan. 25), and continue through Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021.

“We wish to clarify that the Maui County Department of Parks and Recreation did not deny a permit application from Maui Interscholastic League for the use of War Memorial and Maehara Stadiums.”

The Department of Parks and Recreation will temporarily close the basketball court at Pāʻia Park for repair and renovation work beginning Feb 1, 2021. The basketball court will reopen after the project’s expected completion in early March.

The Waiehu Municipal Golf Course has revised the telephone numbers that should be called to reserve a tee time.

The Maui Interscholastic League has reached a decision to cancel the MIL Fall and Winter season sports which includes air riflery, basketball, bowling, cheerleading, cross country, football, canoe paddling, soccer, girls volleyball, swimming/diving, wrestling, JV Softball, and JV Baseball.

The Hawaiʻi High School Athletic Association is forgoing its March 2021 state championships under their modified calendar, affecting air riflery, basketball, bowling, cheerleading, cross country, outrigger canoe paddling, soccer, swimming and diving and wrestling, which are all slated to begin Jan, 4, 2021.

The field includes three FedExCup champions, 28 of the top 30 from the 2019-20 FedExCup standings as well as eight of the top 10 in the Official World Golf Ranking.