Maui Sports

The “Maliko Downwind Run, a celebration of the ocean the cultures that surround it,” will take place Friday through Sunday, May 1 to 3, at Kanaha Beach Park.

Photos by Rodney S. Yap For complete story and results on MIL Junior Varsity Track and Field Championships. Women – Team Rankings – 16 Events Scored =============================================================================== 1) Seabury Hall 133 2) Maui High 83 3) Kamehameha 71 3) Baldwin High School 71 5) Maui Prep 51.50 6) King Kekaulike 28 7) Kihei Charter 18 […]

The Baldwin High School boys and Seabury Hall girls did what they do best on Friday — win Maui Interscholastic League track and field championships.

Ten student athletes at the Kamehameha Schools Maui campus signed national letters of intent on Wednesday, April 15, 2015, bringing to 14 the total number of athletes from the school that signed letters this year. The group on Wednesday included five football players, two swimmers, two soccer players and a softball player.

The six primary beneficiaries of the 2015 event include: the Boy Scouts of America – Maui County Council; the Friends of the Children’s Justice Center; Hale Makua Health Services; the J. Walter Cameron Center; Ka Lima O Maui; and the Lahainaluna High School Foundation.

Maui Now has learned that the Seattle Seahawks are on island, apparently as part of a players camp before the official off-season program begins.

Ian Walsh’s Menehune Mayhem celebrated its 12th Anniversary on Saturday, April 4, in 3- to 6-foot surf at the Pavilions at Hookipa Beach Park.

Bigger, better, stronger. The Maui Big Boyz Football League is all of the above, and currently in midseason of its fifth year.

It was meant to be a “fun” midseason track meet when Baldwin High School introduced the Ken Kamakea Memorial Invitational to Maui Interscholastic League nine years ago.

The Kamehameha Relays showcased a blend of talented up-and-coming underclassmen making their marks alongside a handful of gritty seniors prepared to risk guts for glory.

And now for a word about Ava Shipman, Seabury Hall’s answer for the departure of the state’s most formidable running duo in the history of Hawaii track and field.

As expected, the Baldwin High School boys and the Seabury Hall girls ran away with the team titles Saturday in the finals of the 62nd annual Satoki Yamamoto Invitational.

Leahey, who is an ESPN sportscaster, and talk show host on Maui’s ESPN 900 AM, is being honored for his work over the years, which also included time as the former sports director and anchor at KHON2 and sports anchor at KITV.

Maui Sports Conditioning in Kahului will be closing its doors in June 2015.

More than 300 student athletes, representing 12 schools from Kapalua to Kula, earned 270 medals Saturday in the 90th Annual Kiwanis Track and Field Meet.

For the second time in three weeks, Baldwin High School’s Kainoa Tom took an ordinary practice meet and made it relevant by raising the pole-vault crossbar to heights rarely seen in Hawaii.

Maui’s Kanoa Awai-Dickson will pursue an Engineering degree on a rodeo scholarship at Mid-Plains Community College.

Practice makes perfect, and perfect practice makes champions.

Despite a torrential downpour at noon in Central Maui on Saturday, more than 70 Maui County football players relocated to the Baldwin High School Gym for the free “Get Better” camp hosted by Hawaii’s quarterback guru Vince Passas.

Two of the state’s best track and field athletes killed it Friday in their respective specialties at the opening meet of the 2015 Maui Interscholastic League season.