Maui Sports

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.

“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.