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The Department of Parks and Recreation, along with the University of Hawaii football staff, will host a free youth camp set for Wednesday at Vidinha Stadium. The camp will run from 10 a.m. to noon, with registration beginning at 9 a.m. Walk-in registration will be accepted on the day of the event.
The camp, geared for youths from age 5 through eighth grade, will focus on offensive and defensive techniques that will provide the youths exposure to both sides of the ball.
Camp participants are asked to wear athletic shorts and shoes, along with a shirt, and download a waiver form at www.kauai.gov/summerprograms. Football equipment is not needed.
For more information, please call Parks and Recreation at 808-241-4468.
UH Hilo volleyball adds two D-I transfers
Hawaii Hilo women’s volleyball head coach Gene Krieger added two former NCAA Division I players to his roster, along with an assistant coach to his staff.
Sophomores Brooke Earkman (Long Beach State) and Bria Beale (UC Irvine) will join the Vulcan squad when practice begins Aug. 5. Earkman and Beale played one year for the 49ers and Anteaters.
Also, former Rainbow Wahine player Tai Manu-Olevao joins Krieger’s coaching staff. A two-time first-team All-Big West selection who played for UH from 2012 to 2015, Manu-Olevao returns to the islands after having spent the previous two years playing professionally overseas.
UH Hilo begins its season at home, hosting the Hawaii Challenge on Aug. 23-25.
Albert named academic All-American
UH men’s tennis player Felix Albert was selected to the 2018 Google Cloud Academic All-American Division I Men’s At-Large teams, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America on Thursday.
It’s the second straight season that Albert earned Academic All-America honors. He was selected to the third team last year.
He is just the third student-athlete from UH to earn at least two Academic All-America awards, joining Annett Wichmann (2007-09; women’s track and field) and Costas Theocharidis (2002-03; men’s volleyball).
On track to graduate this fall with a double major of finance and international business, Albert received All-Big West second-team honors in both singles and doubles this season. He played all singles matches on the No. 2 court, having gone 5-9 overall.
Hawaii prep softballers to Hokkaido
The Maui Pearls and East Honolulu girls softball teams will compete in the first Hokkaido Hawaii Girls Softball International Aloha Games event, set for June 23 and 24, in Ishikari City, Hokkaido, Japan.
The benefit event will feature the two local nonprofit softball organizations along with several Hokkaido high school softball teams in a friendly, recreational matchup to promote international sportsmanship.
The event will take place at the Ishikari Sports Complex in Hokkaido.
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