#Yamamoto Track & Field Facility

Coaches like to think they know everything. Sometimes it’s the athletes who know better. Either way, predicting the outcome of a high school track meet is hardly scientific and highly difficult. Welcome to the girls division of the Maui Interscholastic League.

In two words: Instant classic. Problem is, very few of the estimated 1,000 athletes and fans who were in attendance Saturday, would be able to describe the record-breaking feats of Baldwin High School’s La’akea Kahoohanohano-Davis more succinctly.

It’s championship week for Maui Interscholastic League track and field athletes, which means fans of the sport will get one last opportunity to see some of the state’s most talented boys compete in their respective specialties, while enjoying the much-anticipated girls duel between Baldwin and Seabury Hall.

Track and field athletes from the Maui Interscholastic League took advantage of windy conditions Friday, posting some of the year’s fastest times in the sprints and relays.

Three teams from the girls division scored over 100 points at the Maui Interscholastic League Junior Varsity Track and Field Championships last Friday, pushing back the outcome in the team standings to the final event of the meet — the 4 x 400 relay.

it was the competition that brought on the success that Baldwin High School enjoyed in both the boys and girls divisions at the finals of the Victorino Ohana Invitational.

There is talented, and then there is La’akea Kahoohanohano-Davis — the Baldwin High School jump specialist who enjoyed a breakout performance of epic proportions Saturday.

Seabury Hall’s Ava Shipman scored a team-high 32.5 points to help the Seabury girls win its their sixth straight Yamamoto championship, which began with the school’s first ever team title in the sport in 2011. The Spartans outscored runner-up Baldwin, 142 to 117, with seven underclassmen.

For the third time in as many weeks, track and field participants from the Maui Interscholastic League took advantage of optimum conditions Friday en route to producing 11 No. 1 marks in the state, including seven in the boys division.

Seabury Hall’s Ava Shipman was the Maui Interscholastic League’s top individual performer in the girls division at track and field Meet #2 Friday at the Yamamoto Track & Field Facility.

Baldwin High School’s Laakea Kahoohanohano-Davis, the state’s defending champion in the boys long jump, appears to be healthy and ready for the start of the 2016 track and field season.

The Seabury Hall girls track team, a dozen strong, continued its epic climb over and above the rest of the Maui Interscholastic League.

Some of the pieces were missing, some are broken, but few noticed the difference in Saturday’s version of the Baldwin High School boys track team.

Baldwin High School’s Kaitlin Smith and La’akea Kahoohanohano-Davis were the top qualifiers at Friday’s Maui Interscholastic League Track and Field Championship trials.

Despite an onslaught of distractions, the Maui Interscholastic League’s top track and field teams leaned on their top performers Saturday at the finals of the Victorino Ohana Invitational.

The Baldwin High School boys and Seabury Hall girls did what they do best on Friday — win Maui Interscholastic League track and field championships.

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.

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.