Maui Sports

“While there have been dragsters who have gone quicker and faster, we are the first team to go in the sixes at over 200 mph with a full bodied/suspended door car at our weight of 2,800 pounds,” Howeth shared.

Marcus Mariota’s quarterback coach, Vince Passas, will be having a free clinic for all high school and intermediate skilled athletes at War Memorial Stadium on Saturday, Feb. 28.

Playing tough matches in their league every week, helped the Kalani High School boys soccer team survive a physical quarterfinal match on Neighbor Island soil Saturday.

Deciding to stay in-house, Maui High School hired veteran teacher Keith Shirota on Wednesday to be the school’s next head football coach.

Keiki pre-registration for the Lahaina Canoe club opens on Monday, Feb. 16, 2015, between 7:30 and 9 a.m at Hanakaʻōʻō (Canoe Beach) in Kāʻanapali. Registration is free and open to children in grades 4 to 12.

Maui High School’s David Bui decided Tuesday to quit coaching football for the Sabers in favor of coaching baseball for his son’s Little League team.

Photo Gallery of State Canoe Paddling Championships held Saturday, Feb. 7, at Kahului Harbor. All photos by Rodney S. Yap.

Although noticeably undersized in comparison to its competition, the Seabury Hall girls paddled big in the biggest regatta of the year, earning a second-place finish and heaps of respect.

The Valley Isle Road Runners will be hosting the third annual For the Love of Maui 5K Run on Sunday, Feb. 15, beginning at p.m. at South Maluaka Beach, which fronts the Mākena Beach & Golf Resort off Mākena Road in South Maui.

Kahului Harbor has staged many regattas over the years. Saturday, however, will be the first time hosting the best prep outrigger canoe paddlers in the 50th state and the 48 high school teams they represent.

By Maui Now Staff The Hawai‘i High School Athletic Association and First Hawaiian Bank are presenting the Canoe Paddling State Championships in Kahului Harbor on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015. Forty-eight high school teams from across the islands will race head-to-head for the state title. Opening ceremonies will begin at 9:30 a.m., with the competition kicking off at […]

By Maui Now Staff American Jared Donaldson, 18, played extraordinary tennis on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015, to take home the trophy at this year’s Royal Lāhainā Challenger. Donaldson defeated Nicolas Meister 6-1, 6-4. Donaldson started off strong with a first set lead of 4-0. He took the first set, and dominated the first half of the second set, leading Meister 5-2. […]

Jared Donaldson and Nicolas Meister are competing for $ 50,000 in prize money in today’s Royal Lahaina Challenger finals.

The U.S. Tennis Association Hawai‘i Pacific Section has announced the USTA Men’s Royal Lāhainā Challenger, a world-class tennis event to be held Jan. 25 to Feb. 1, 2015.

Kolten Wong talks about his favorite Big Island spots, pre-game rituals, his relationship with Shane Victorino and even his opinion on Marcus Mariota…

Four shots behind with four holes to play, Patrick Reed made two birdies and holed out from 80 yards for an eagle Monday, and then closed out his unlikely rally by making an 18-foot birdie putt to beat Jimmy Walker in a playoff at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions.

With all the conditions golfers have to contend with, keeping it simple at The Plantation Course is proving to be the best strategy for Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama.

The beat down continued Saturday at The Plantation Course. The good news is there is no winner-by-technical knockout. The bad news is Mother Nature is busy dealing with cold fronts on the mainland and has no plan to downgrade the epic conditions contributing to the logjam atop the 2015 Hyundai Tournament of Champions’ leaderboard.

And now for a lesson on putting. That was the theme Friday during first-round action of the 2015 Hyundai Tournament of Champions, as the elite winner’s-only field assassinated a defenseless Plantation Course, led by Russell Henley’s bogey-free, 8-under-par 65.

The University of Hawai’i baseball program will conduct a free coaches clinic Saturday, Jan. 10, at the University of Hawai’i Maui College.