Maui Sports

The University of Hawai’i plans to name a new athletic director Friday, according to a press release sent to the media from the Chancellor’s office.

University of Nevada Las Vegas linebacker John Lotulelei earned First Team All-Mountain West honors Tuesday as part of the conference’s official postseason awards.

The Boston Red Sox is on a mission to sign Shane Victorino and sources are reporting the Maui-borned free-agent has agreed to play out field for the sum of $39 million over three years.

Linebacker Manti Te’o of Notre Dame became the first Hawaii-born player selected as a finalist for the Heisman Trophy on Monday.

The 2012 event, the Passman Shane Victorino Foundation Celebrity Dinner & Golf Classic, presented by Tommy Bahama, is set for Thursday in Wailea.

The season came to end for the University of Hawai’i Rainbow Wahine volleyball team, losing to Washington 20-25, 25-20, 19-25, 27-25, 15-11 on Saturday in the second round of the NCAA Tournament at Alaska Airlines Arena in Seattle.

The University of Hawai’i Warrior football team sent out its senior class in style with a 23-7 victory over South Alabama Saturday night in the season finale at Hawaiian Airlines Field at Aloha Stadium.

Maui Now caught up with Lahainaluna co-head coach Bobby Watson for a final season-ending, question-and-answer interview.

Mauinow.com caught up with Lahainaluna co-head coach Garret Tihada for a final season-ending, question-and-answer interview.

Football is big in the small town of Lahaina in West Maui.

Maui basketball fans were treated to the transformation of the Illinois basketball team this week at the EA SPORTS Maui Invitational.

He was an All-State quarterback for Kamehameha and led the Warriors to back-to-back state football championships. He also earned the Stan Bates Award, given to the top male scholar-athlete in the Western Athletic Conference. He received All-WAC and All-America honors at UH, where he graduated in Pre-law. He played five seasons in the NFL for the Atlanta Falcons.

Although Illinois basketball is only five games into the John Groce era, the early-season progress report is as bright as the sun shining on West Maui.

The giant-killers from St. Louis Heights on Oahu were at it again. This time Chaminade knocked off Texas, 86-73, before a prime-time televised audience opposite Monday Night Football at the Lahaina Civic Center.

If the first game of the 29th edition of the EA SPORTS Maui Invitational is any indication of what’s to come over the next two days, tournament officials can expect television ratings to spike to record numbers.

Southern California will be looking for its first 3-0 start since 2000-2001 season when it opens with unbeaten Illinois (3-0) in Monday’s opening-round night cap of the 2012 EA SPORTS Maui Invitational at the Lahaina Civic Center.

For the first time in school history, the Lahainaluna High School football team and its cheerleaders competed on Oahu, on the same day, in their respective state competitions.

Lahainaluna High School handled its business on Oahu like it has done all year on the Valley Isle — with a shutout, it’s seventh of the season.

Kahuku Red Raiders improve to 11-0 and advance to face Punahou (8-2) at 7 p.m. on Nov. 22 in a HHSAA Division I rematch of last year’s title game.

The work that has helped produce the outstanding numbers that have come to define this particular Lahainaluna High School football team started a year ago.