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DENNIS ODA / 2017
The Punahou girls team cheered together after the Interscholastic League of Honolulu championships at Patsy T. Mink Central Oahu Regional Park in April 2017. The tennis complex will be renamed the Jarand M.Y. Iwase Tennis Complex.
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The tennis facility at Patsy T. Mink Central Oahu Regional Park will be renamed the Jarand M.Y. Iwase Tennis Complex in honor of the late tennis player and coach, under a resolution approved Wednesday by the Honolulu City Council.
Iwase, 38, died May 20 at his home in Las Vegas.
He was a highly ranked tennis player at ‘Iolani School and then at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Later he played with the U.S. Tennis Association and coached a number of tennis and soccer teams on Oahu, including at the high school level and at the Central Oahu park.
He was the son of state Public Utilities Commission Chairman Randall Iwase. Resolution 18-134 states Randall Iwase was instrumental in the development of the Central Oahu park when he was a Council member representing the Mililani area.
Last year the Council renamed the swimming facilities at CORP the K. Mark Takai Veterans Memorial Aquatics Center in honor of the late congressman, a champion swimmer at Pearl City and UH.
Also Wednesday the Council approved Resolution 18-100, renaming the visitor center at Ho‘omaluhia Botanical Garden the Paul R. Weissich Education Center in honor of the man who led the Honolulu Botanical Garden from 1957 to 1989. Weissich was instrumental in the development of the Ho‘omaluhia facility in Kaneohe.