#Maui Interscholastic League

The Under Armour Next Camp at King Kekaulike Stadium on Saturday was the final stop of 14 on the camp tour. The camp, which included several NFL players or retirees as coaches, was the brainchild of Baldwin High School graduate JoJo Dickson.

The blueprint to attract students to St. Anthony, the alma mater of Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen and Major League Baseball two-time champion Shane Victorino, has been developed over the past year and is being implemented for K-12 for the 2025-26 school year.

While life has been difficult for Mike Victorino after losing his reelection bid for Maui County mayor in 2022 and taking on new health challenges, he has the love and support of his family and a strong will to see his great grandchildren grow up.

Wehiwa Aloy became the first Mauian to win the Golden Spikes Award, and he’s also likely to become the first from the Valley isle to be selected in the first round of the MLB draft.

Rodney Yap, Pat McCall and Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen were all at a youth football camp put on by the Los Angeles Rams 53 years ago, becoming part of a generation of Rams fans on Maui.

On Tuesday, 400 flag and tackle football players from Maui County schools took part in a clinic with the Los Angeles Rams at War Memorial Stadium as part of a four-day Mauicamp.

Jaxon Grossman, a 6-4, 220-pound right-handed pitcher, took the 2024 season off before becoming a national junior college champion at Salt Lake Community College. The 2022 King Kekaulike High School graduate is likely to be selected next month in the Major League Baseball draft.

Kamehameha Maui, Maui High and King Kekaulike all have more than 50 athletes out for spring football practice, numbers rarely seen in the Maui Interscholastic League for the voluntary workouts.

The Coach Soichi Sakamoto Invitational swim meet has been a staple on the Hawai’i sports calendar for most of the past 49 years. This year it drew 232 swimmers from around the state and two teams from the Mainland.

Kamehameha Schools Maui Cody Gardanier went from never having competed in track and field before his senior year to state champion in the boys high jump on May 9.

Many referees, umpires and other sports officials in Maui County are retiring as they become too old to keep up with the action or are quitting after a few years for reasons that include being tired of the verbal abuse from coaches, players and fans.

The state pole vault record of 15 feet, 3 inches had stood since 1997, when it was set by St. Anthony’s Bubba McLean, and later tied by Waiākea’s Eric Cabais-Fernandez in 2019.

One day after a pair of dramatic victories to reach the Division 1 baseball semifinals, Kamehameha Maui and Baldwin both were eliminated from playing in tonight’s championship game at Maehara Stadium in Wailuku.

One year after Maui High and Baldwin were in the state baseball championship game, two Maui Interscholastic League teams — Baldwin and Kamehameha Maui — are in the state semifinals at Maehara Stadium in Wailuku.

Seniors Bailey Nagasako and Briana Maio-Silva will lead Baldwin High at the state softball tournament before going on to play for the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

A total of 77 surfers — 36 girls, 41 boys from 11 Maui Interscholastic League schools — competed at Lahaina Harbor on Saturday in the first official event inside the burn zone created by the deadly wildfire on Aug. 8, 2023.

The Spartans senior is headed to UCLA after winning a third straight MIL boys individual title. Baldwin senior Anessa Riglos won her third straight MIL girls championship.

The Warriors had a chance to clinch the league title on Saturday, but gave up a three-run lead and lost to the Bears, 6-4. Tuesday, Kamehameha Maui beat Baldwin 8-0 to claim its second league baseball championship. The Wally Yonamine Foundation/HHSAA state tournament is set for May 7-10 at Maehara Stadium.

Ben Martin, a longtime Maui paddling official, was announced as the first official from the outrigger canoe paddling realm to be inducted into the Hawaiʻi Sports Officials Hall of Fame.

The Spartans are headed to the Wally Yonamine Foundation/HHSAA Division II state tournament May 8-10 on O’ahu.