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Maui Style Wrestling began in the 1990s; now it has a pint-size Tulsa Nationals champion
The Sacred Hearts School third-grader won the title last month, the first ever for a Maui wrestler at the prestigious tournament
Monday Morning MIL: Family feeling as coaches, athletes with Maui ties return for wrestling meet
The 55th annual Garner Ivey Maui Invitational Wrestling Tournament brought the Forest Grove High School teams from Oregon, led by Baldwin High School alumnus Guy Takahashi. Also at the meet was Frank Johnson, the Linfield University head coach, who was recruiting the talent at the meet that also included high school teams from around the state.
Retirement? Nah, Maui teacher and coach Kevin Grant wins national wrestling title
At 59 years old, many men might begin thinking about retirement and savoring their twilight years. Not Kevin Grant.
HHSAA Chevron Wrestling State Championship, Feb. 17-18
More than 400 athletes from 52 schools will compete during the state’s largest high school wrestling event this weekend.
2 Maui Athletes Make 2016 Enterprise/HHSAA Hall of Honor
Two Maui athletes were recognized as inductees into the 2016 Enterprise/Hawaii High School Athletic Association’s Hall of Honor.
Mataafa and 8 Other Luna Wrestlers Reach Semis
Lahainaluna High School’s Hercules Mataafa pinned both his opponents Friday and remains one win from a possible rematch with Kamehameha-Kapalama’s Dane Pestano, the wrestler who denied the Maui Interscholastic League champion a state gold medal a year ago in the boys 215 pound weight class.
MIL’s Best Wrestlers Take On Rest of the State
Two boys and two girls wrestlers from the Maui Interscholastic League received No. 1 seeds in the Chevron State Championships to be held Friday and Saturday at the Neal Blaisdell Arena on Oahu.
Camara’s Goal Lifts Lahainaluna over Kamehameha Maui, 1-0
By Rodney S. Yap Lahainaluna High School’s Noah Camara couldn’t have picked a better time to score his first prep goal. The 5-foot-3, 108-pound junior midfielder accounted for the only goal of the match Tuesday night, when his shot at the 54-minute mark ricocheted past Kamehameha Maui’s goal keeper and padded the Lunas’ lead in […]
Five Disciplines of MMA
By Lisa Teichner There are many martial arts disciplines and technically any combination of them would be considered mixed martial arts. However, there are varying opinions as to precisely which combination of disciplines make for the most effective and successful MMA fighter. Let’s start with five of the most common disciplines you will see when […]
BJ Penn Prepares for his Upcoming Fight with Jon Fitch at UFC 127
By Lisa Teichner Stan Rosario is the Producer and Senior Editor of BJ Penn.com and Prodigy Productions. He has been in all of BJ’s training camps since 2004, documenting them along the way, including the camp that is getting BJ ready for Jon Fitch. Rosario did not go on the trip down under for UFC […]
