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Ben McQuown had to travel a long way to honor his only Division I offer. After two years at Lower Columbia Community College in Washington, the 2008 Waianae alumnus crossed the country to North Carolina to play baseball at Campbell University.
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It's a good thing Kristin Lim says she doesn't need a lot of sleep. In the midst of competing for a second NCAA Division III tennis singles championship, the Claremont McKenna senior goes to school and her job, and she recently completed an internship.
Dae Yang Kim, Moanalua '09: The Washington junior retired all three batters he faced in the eighth inning and was credited with his first win in two years with the Huskies, who beat Gonzaga 11-8 on Wednesday.
Its biggest nemesis stands in the way of Long Beach State's first MPSF tournament final in seven years.
Harley Holt, Kamehameha '10: The Cal State Northridge junior allowed three hits and one walk in two shutout innings of relief in a 9-4 win over Hawaii on Saturday.
For most pitchers, getting yanked from the starting rotation would be a huge disappointment. For Harley Holt, it's been the best thing to happen to him this season.
Zac Fujimoto, Maryknoll ’08: The Loyola Marymount senior hit .500 (6-for-12) with a double and a run scored to help the Lions take two of three against San Diego over the weekend.
You'll have to excuse Joslyn Eugenio for not wanting to attend her graduation in May. A senior at Saint Martin's (Wash.) University, Eugenio has a real shot at leading the Saints softball team to an NCAA Division II regional this year.
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Today’s senior night festivities for the Harvard water polo team will be especially emotional for one junior in particular.
Harley Holt, Kamehameha ’10: The Cal State Northridge right-hander recorded the final two outs for his first save in a 3-1 win over Utah Valley on Sunday. Holt pitched out of the bullpen twice in the series, allowing no runs on two hits in 22⁄3 innings with one walk and three strikeouts.
Zac Fujimoto has started 104 games in three years at Loyola Marymount. Not once has he ever taken one of those games for granted.
While Matthew Shuichi Westmoreland was working his way up the junior tennis rankings in Hawaii, he was always entertaining to watch, but you were never quite sure what was so appealing.
Campbell (N.C.) earned its first national ranking ever on Monday when Collegiate Baseball listed the Fighting Camels at No. 29 in its weekly poll.
Kristi Oshiro went through much of the fall unsure of the direction of the East Carolina softball program.
Ivan Dilda, Mid-Pacific ’12: The Pepperdine left-hander made his collegiate debut in a 6-2 loss to Seton Hall on Friday, allowing one hit in 21⁄3 scoreless innings with one strikeout.
What motivates Moana Tuipulotu to get out of bed before dawn and jump into a pool when it's 30 degrees outside?
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In less than a month, Christel Simms will push herself out of the water one final time.
Kansas outfielder Michael Suiter (Punahou ’11) hit .385 (5-for-13) with four runs, two RBIs and two walks, and Justin Protacio (Mid-Pacific ’11) had two hits, drew four walks and drove in three runs as the Jayhawks split a four-game series with Nevada over the weekend.
Violet Alama is healthy again. That isn't good news for the rest of the Big West. The Cal State Northridge senior won her first conference player of the week award on Monday after averaging 13.5 points and 10.5 rebounds in two games over the weekend.
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps junior Brett Watanabe (‘Iolani ’10) singled, walked, scored twice and drove in a run in a 12-0 win over Whitman (Wash.) and pitched 11⁄3 shutout innings with two strikeouts in an 8-3 loss to the Missionaries in a doubleheader split last week.
For the last two months of her freshman season, Katie Manuma was relegated to benchwarmer. Wait, what?
Tracking Hawaii's athletes all over the nation
When Joshua Wong visited Willamette (Ore.) while in high school, tennis wasn't even on his radar.
Former Kalani basketball standout Violet Alama will get two more chances to beat the hometown team when Cal State Northridge hosts Hawaii on Saturday in a Big West women's basketball game at the Matadome in Northridge, Calif.
The ‘Iolani boys soccer team hasn't lost all season, and it wasn't about to suffer its first defeat with a state berth on the line.
With the ILH title at stake, Punahou didn't allow much time for any big-game anxiety to build. The Buffanblu scored less than a minute into Tuesday's match at Saint Louis and clinched a second straight ILH boys soccer championship with a 6-0 win over the Crusaders.
Washington State freshman Lia Galdeira (Konawaena '12) scored a game-high 22 points with five rebounds and two steals, and guard Dawnyelle Awa (Konawaena '12) made her first collegiate start and finished with seven points, six steals, four rebounds and four assists in a 76-73 overtime win over Oregon State on Sunday.
Nik Streng knows all too well how to avoid temptation. Whether it's time spent at home during Christmas break, or when the rest of his college buddies are out during the weekend, Streng knows he can never give in.
A look at some of Hawaii's mainland college athletes in baseball, basketball, gymnastics, soccer, swimming, volleyball, and track and field.
Tracking Hawaii's athletes around the nation.
By Billy Hull
Notah Begay III will become the newest full-time member of the NBC/Golf Channel broadcast team at this week's Sony Open. Begay's brother Clint played golf at Hawaii Hilo.
Bowl recap • Notes
The only other time Boise State’s women’s swim team competed in Hawaii, Jennifer Cahill and Shanelle Choi were seniors in high school.
A look at the 13 bowl games involving players who graduated from local high schools
The first thing to stand out from this year's All-Hawaii Grown team is the defense. Seven of the 11 members chosen to the team still have a game to play as the bowl season kicks off next weekend.
Football • Men's Soccer • Women's Soccer • Women's Basketball
Sarah Palmer got a quick taste of what the NCAA final four was like as a freshman. Now the Texas junior is hungry for more.
Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o (Punahou ’09) made six tackles and receiver Robby Toma (Punahou ’09) had two catches for 37 yards in their final home game as the Fighting Irish beat Wake Forest 38-0 on Saturday.
Boise State safety Jeremy Ioane (Punahou ’10) made two solo tackles in a 49-14 win over Hawaii on Saturday
The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation got one thing right. The Air Force men's soccer team finished exactly where it was predicted to end the regular season, earning the No. 3 seed in the conference tournament last weekend.
Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota (Saint Louis ’11) went 20-for-23 for 304 yards and four touchdowns and ran for 96 yards on 15 carries in a 62-51 win over Southern California on Saturday.
For Mari Miyashiro and the Utah State Aggies to achieve their goal, they'll have to do something unprecedented.
Tracking Hawaii's athletes around the nation.
Castro Masaniai wasn’t interested in rehashing Oregon State’s first loss of the season Saturday. That’s just not the way things are done in Corvallis, Ore.
Oregon freshman quarterback Marcus Mariota (Saint Louis ’11) was named a semifinalist for the Davey O’Brien Award on Monday.
Nicole Painter wasn't sure she was a Division I caliber distance runner. When a chance to walk on at Nevada popped up, however, she figured she had nothing to lose. Now a senior, the 2009 Mililani High graduate has accomplished something rarely seen in D-I.
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Three weeks into her freshman season in 2009, Meleana Shim experienced that moment.
Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota (Saint Louis '11) finished for a 21-for-32 for 169 yards and a touchdown and rushed for 56 yards and a second score in a 51-26 win over Washington State on Saturday.
Semisi Tokolahi's commitment to Washington at the end of 2008 was surprising for many reasons. For one, the defensive tackle prospect had never been to the mainland.
Notre Dame senior Manti Te’o (Punahou ’09) was named the Chuck Bednarik player of the week by the Maxwell Football Club on Tuesday.
Kelly Pang can look back now and joke about it. "It's funny because every year from eighth through 12th grade, I was on crutches," she said.
A look at Hawaii's college athletes across the United States in football, women's volleyball, women's golf and men's water polo.
In his first three years at UCLA, Dalton Hilliard has been to two bowl games and won a division title in the first year of the Pac-12 Conference. Ask him to describe those three years and it's not the kind off accomplishments he was hoping for.
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In 2010, Pacific (Ore.) fielded its first football team in nearly 20 years with a strong Hawaii presence.
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Just three weeks into her final year with Hofstra, senior libero Kylee Maneja is poised not just to break the mark for career digs but shatter it completely.
For the first time in 21 years, a freshman will start the season at quarterback for the Ducks, as Mariota won a long battle with sophomore Bryan Bennett for the job vacated by Darron Thomas, who decided to turn pro in the offseason after his junior year.
If things go according to Kewby Meyer's plan, his trip back home next week will have much bigger stakes.
Four years ago, Jeeter Ishida would have considered 20 innings a solid few weeks of work.
Individually, Cat Goya and Megan Yoshimoto will go down as two of the best women's tennis players ever at Pacific (Ore.).
But could they have done it without each other side-by-side?
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Kalei Contrades' wide array of talents were on full display Sunday.
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Nicole Sakamoto has a month to cement herself as the best golfer ever at James Madison.
Sakamoto, a 2008 Kalani graduate, already holds single-season and career marks for the lowest scoring average since the school kept statistics beginning in 1993.
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Playing water polo is only half the reward. When Nanea Fujiyama was awarded the Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Ambassador of Aloha scholarship, it allowed her to continue her water polo career at Occidental College in California.
"Worst to first." A reminder sits above Brad Lawson's bed. He sees it every morning when he wakes up.
Baseball • Men's Golf • Softball • Women's Tennis • Women's Track and Field • Men's Volleyball
With less than a month remaining in her college golf career, Tamara Surtees went to the one place that matters most.
Home.
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When asked what position she plays, Kylie Ahlo responded with an unusual answer. "Wherever Gary needs you," she responded. Gary is Loyola Marymount head softball coach Gary Ferrin, who recruited Ahlo out of ‘Iolani.
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The journey from Tallahassee to Honolulu can build up an appetite. So Courtney Senas has some definite plans when the Florida State softball team arrives in town.
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One canceled trip back home was his decision.
The other he had no control over.
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Ka‘ili Smith famously grew up playing baseball instead of softball until high school.
Men's Basketball • Baseball • Men's Golf • Women's Gymnastics • And more
Stanford senior Brad Lawson (‘Iolani ’08) was named conference and national men’s volleyball Player of the Week by the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation and the American Volleyball Coaches Association for his performance in a pair of road victories over ranked teams last weekend.
Baseball • Men's Basketball • Women's Golf • Women's Gymnastics • Women's Track & Field • And more
Air Riflery • Men's Basketball • Women's Swimming • Men's Volleyball • And more
Roll out the list of accolades and it's a mystery why colleges were so skeptical.
Men's Basketball • Women's Swimming • Men's Volleyball • And more
Josh Taylor always knew he wanted to go to the mainland for college.
Men's Basketball • Women's Basketball • Men's Track & Field • Men's Volleyball • And more
For the third year in a row, Michelle Yoshida is busy playing tour guide.
And she doesn't mind it one bit.
As the Kansas State women's volleyball team rushed the court last Friday, one thought came to Kuulei Kabalis.
Forty-eight players who graduated from high schools in Hawaii will represent 14 different FBS schools involved in 13 bowl games this holiday season. Only the Maaco Las Vegas Bowl features local players on both teams.
When it comes to the actual rivalry, most Brigham Young football players don't view it the same way it is seen here in Hawaii.
Football • Women's Volleyball • Women's Soccer • Women's Basketball
» Washington State freshman linebacker Chester Sua (Kaimuki ’11) had a game-high 11 tackles, including a career-best seven solo stops, in a 30-27 overtime loss to Utah on Saturday. Defensive end Jordan Pu‘u Robinson (Baldwin ’09) assisted on a tackle, while Utes junior Tevita Finau (Kahuku ’06) had two tackles, including one for loss.
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It's a good thing Kristin Lim says she doesn't need a lot of sleep. In the midst of competing for a second NCAA Division III tennis singles championship, the Claremont McKenna senior goes to school and her job, and she recently completed an internship.
Dae Yang Kim, Moanalua '09: The Washington junior retired all three batters he faced in the eighth inning and was credited with his first win in two years with the Huskies, who beat Gonzaga 11-8 on Wednesday.
Its biggest nemesis stands in the way of Long Beach State's first MPSF tournament final in seven years.
Harley Holt, Kamehameha '10: The Cal State Northridge junior allowed three hits and one walk in two shutout innings of relief in a 9-4 win over Hawaii on Saturday.
For most pitchers, getting yanked from the starting rotation would be a huge disappointment. For Harley Holt, it's been the best thing to happen to him this season.
Zac Fujimoto, Maryknoll ’08: The Loyola Marymount senior hit .500 (6-for-12) with a double and a run scored to help the Lions take two of three against San Diego over the weekend.
You'll have to excuse Joslyn Eugenio for not wanting to attend her graduation in May. A senior at Saint Martin's (Wash.) University, Eugenio has a real shot at leading the Saints softball team to an NCAA Division II regional this year.
Baseball • Women's Golf • Women's Gymnastics • Softball • Men's Tennis • Women's Tennis • Men's Volleyball • Women's Water Polo • Women's Basketball • Men's Track and Field
Today’s senior night festivities for the Harvard water polo team will be especially emotional for one junior in particular.
Harley Holt, Kamehameha ’10: The Cal State Northridge right-hander recorded the final two outs for his first save in a 3-1 win over Utah Valley on Sunday. Holt pitched out of the bullpen twice in the series, allowing no runs on two hits in 22⁄3 innings with one walk and three strikeouts.
Zac Fujimoto has started 104 games in three years at Loyola Marymount. Not once has he ever taken one of those games for granted.
While Matthew Shuichi Westmoreland was working his way up the junior tennis rankings in Hawaii, he was always entertaining to watch, but you were never quite sure what was so appealing.
Campbell (N.C.) earned its first national ranking ever on Monday when Collegiate Baseball listed the Fighting Camels at No. 29 in its weekly poll.
Kristi Oshiro went through much of the fall unsure of the direction of the East Carolina softball program.
Ivan Dilda, Mid-Pacific ’12: The Pepperdine left-hander made his collegiate debut in a 6-2 loss to Seton Hall on Friday, allowing one hit in 21⁄3 scoreless innings with one strikeout.
What motivates Moana Tuipulotu to get out of bed before dawn and jump into a pool when it's 30 degrees outside?
Tracking Hawaii's athletes around the nation
In less than a month, Christel Simms will push herself out of the water one final time.
Kansas outfielder Michael Suiter (Punahou ’11) hit .385 (5-for-13) with four runs, two RBIs and two walks, and Justin Protacio (Mid-Pacific ’11) had two hits, drew four walks and drove in three runs as the Jayhawks split a four-game series with Nevada over the weekend.
Violet Alama is healthy again. That isn't good news for the rest of the Big West. The Cal State Northridge senior won her first conference player of the week award on Monday after averaging 13.5 points and 10.5 rebounds in two games over the weekend.
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps junior Brett Watanabe (‘Iolani ’10) singled, walked, scored twice and drove in a run in a 12-0 win over Whitman (Wash.) and pitched 11⁄3 shutout innings with two strikeouts in an 8-3 loss to the Missionaries in a doubleheader split last week.
For the last two months of her freshman season, Katie Manuma was relegated to benchwarmer. Wait, what?
Tracking Hawaii's athletes all over the nation
When Joshua Wong visited Willamette (Ore.) while in high school, tennis wasn't even on his radar.
Former Kalani basketball standout Violet Alama will get two more chances to beat the hometown team when Cal State Northridge hosts Hawaii on Saturday in a Big West women's basketball game at the Matadome in Northridge, Calif.
The ‘Iolani boys soccer team hasn't lost all season, and it wasn't about to suffer its first defeat with a state berth on the line.
With the ILH title at stake, Punahou didn't allow much time for any big-game anxiety to build. The Buffanblu scored less than a minute into Tuesday's match at Saint Louis and clinched a second straight ILH boys soccer championship with a 6-0 win over the Crusaders.
Washington State freshman Lia Galdeira (Konawaena '12) scored a game-high 22 points with five rebounds and two steals, and guard Dawnyelle Awa (Konawaena '12) made her first collegiate start and finished with seven points, six steals, four rebounds and four assists in a 76-73 overtime win over Oregon State on Sunday.
Nik Streng knows all too well how to avoid temptation. Whether it's time spent at home during Christmas break, or when the rest of his college buddies are out during the weekend, Streng knows he can never give in.
A look at some of Hawaii's mainland college athletes in baseball, basketball, gymnastics, soccer, swimming, volleyball, and track and field.
Tracking Hawaii's athletes around the nation.
By Billy Hull
bhull@staradvertiser.
Notah Begay III will become the newest full-time member of the NBC/Golf Channel broadcast team at this week's Sony Open. Begay's brother Clint played golf at Hawaii Hilo.
Bowl recap • Notes
The only other time Boise State’s women’s swim team competed in Hawaii, Jennifer Cahill and Shanelle Choi were seniors in high school.
A look at the 13 bowl games involving players who graduated from local high schools
The first thing to stand out from this year's All-Hawaii Grown team is the defense. Seven of the 11 members chosen to the team still have a game to play as the bowl season kicks off next weekend.
Football • Men's Soccer • Women's Soccer • Women's Basketball
Sarah Palmer got a quick taste of what the NCAA final four was like as a freshman. Now the Texas junior is hungry for more.
Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o (Punahou ’09) made six tackles and receiver Robby Toma (Punahou ’09) had two catches for 37 yards in their final home game as the Fighting Irish beat Wake Forest 38-0 on Saturday.
Boise State safety Jeremy Ioane (Punahou ’10) made two solo tackles in a 49-14 win over Hawaii on Saturday
The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation got one thing right. The Air Force men's soccer team finished exactly where it was predicted to end the regular season, earning the No. 3 seed in the conference tournament last weekend.
Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota (Saint Louis ’11) went 20-for-23 for 304 yards and four touchdowns and ran for 96 yards on 15 carries in a 62-51 win over Southern California on Saturday.
For Mari Miyashiro and the Utah State Aggies to achieve their goal, they'll have to do something unprecedented.
Tracking Hawaii's athletes around the nation.
Castro Masaniai wasn’t interested in rehashing Oregon State’s first loss of the season Saturday. That’s just not the way things are done in Corvallis, Ore.
Oregon freshman quarterback Marcus Mariota (Saint Louis ’11) was named a semifinalist for the Davey O’Brien Award on Monday.
Nicole Painter wasn't sure she was a Division I caliber distance runner. When a chance to walk on at Nevada popped up, however, she figured she had nothing to lose. Now a senior, the 2009 Mililani High graduate has accomplished something rarely seen in D-I.
Tracking Hawaii's athletes
Three weeks into her freshman season in 2009, Meleana Shim experienced that moment.
Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota (Saint Louis '11) finished for a 21-for-32 for 169 yards and a touchdown and rushed for 56 yards and a second score in a 51-26 win over Washington State on Saturday.
Semisi Tokolahi's commitment to Washington at the end of 2008 was surprising for many reasons. For one, the defensive tackle prospect had never been to the mainland.
Notre Dame senior Manti Te’o (Punahou ’09) was named the Chuck Bednarik player of the week by the Maxwell Football Club on Tuesday.
Kelly Pang can look back now and joke about it. "It's funny because every year from eighth through 12th grade, I was on crutches," she said.
A look at Hawaii's college athletes across the United States in football, women's volleyball, women's golf and men's water polo.
In his first three years at UCLA, Dalton Hilliard has been to two bowl games and won a division title in the first year of the Pac-12 Conference. Ask him to describe those three years and it's not the kind off accomplishments he was hoping for.
Football • Women's Volleyball • Women's Soccer
In 2010, Pacific (Ore.) fielded its first football team in nearly 20 years with a strong Hawaii presence.
Football • Women's Volleyball • Women's Soccer • Women's Cross Country
Just three weeks into her final year with Hofstra, senior libero Kylee Maneja is poised not just to break the mark for career digs but shatter it completely.
For the first time in 21 years, a freshman will start the season at quarterback for the Ducks, as Mariota won a long battle with sophomore Bryan Bennett for the job vacated by Darron Thomas, who decided to turn pro in the offseason after his junior year.
If things go according to Kewby Meyer's plan, his trip back home next week will have much bigger stakes.
Four years ago, Jeeter Ishida would have considered 20 innings a solid few weeks of work.
Individually, Cat Goya and Megan Yoshimoto will go down as two of the best women's tennis players ever at Pacific (Ore.).
But could they have done it without each other side-by-side?
Baseball • Men's Golf • Softball • Men's Tennis • And more
Kalei Contrades' wide array of talents were on full display Sunday.
Baseball • Men's Golf • Women's Gymnastics • Softball • And more
Nicole Sakamoto has a month to cement herself as the best golfer ever at James Madison.
Sakamoto, a 2008 Kalani graduate, already holds single-season and career marks for the lowest scoring average since the school kept statistics beginning in 1993.
Baseball • Men's Golf • Women's Gymnastics • Softball • And more
Baseball • Softball • Men's track and field • Women's track and field • Men's Volleyball • Women's Water polo
Playing water polo is only half the reward. When Nanea Fujiyama was awarded the Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Ambassador of Aloha scholarship, it allowed her to continue her water polo career at Occidental College in California.
"Worst to first." A reminder sits above Brad Lawson's bed. He sees it every morning when he wakes up.
Baseball • Men's Golf • Softball • Women's Tennis • Women's Track and Field • Men's Volleyball
With less than a month remaining in her college golf career, Tamara Surtees went to the one place that matters most.
Home.
Baseball • Women's Basketball • Women's Gymnastics • Softball • Women's Tennis • Men's Volleyball • And more
When asked what position she plays, Kylie Ahlo responded with an unusual answer. "Wherever Gary needs you," she responded. Gary is Loyola Marymount head softball coach Gary Ferrin, who recruited Ahlo out of ‘Iolani.
Air Riflery • Baseball • Women's Basketball • Women's Golf • Men's Tennis • Women's Track and Field • Men's Volleyball • Women's Wrestling
Air Riflery • Baseball • Basketball • Golf • Women's Gymnastics • And more
The journey from Tallahassee to Honolulu can build up an appetite. So Courtney Senas has some definite plans when the Florida State softball team arrives in town.
Baseball • Basketball • Tennis • Track & Field • Volleyball • And more
One canceled trip back home was his decision.
The other he had no control over.
Baseball • Women’s Gymnastics • Softball • Women's Swimming • And more
Ka‘ili Smith famously grew up playing baseball instead of softball until high school.
Men's Basketball • Baseball • Men's Golf • Women's Gymnastics • And more
Stanford senior Brad Lawson (‘Iolani ’08) was named conference and national men’s volleyball Player of the Week by the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation and the American Volleyball Coaches Association for his performance in a pair of road victories over ranked teams last weekend.
Baseball • Men's Basketball • Women's Golf • Women's Gymnastics • Women's Track & Field • And more
Air Riflery • Men's Basketball • Women's Swimming • Men's Volleyball • And more
Roll out the list of accolades and it's a mystery why colleges were so skeptical.
Men's Basketball • Women's Swimming • Men's Volleyball • And more
Josh Taylor always knew he wanted to go to the mainland for college.
Men's Basketball • Women's Basketball • Men's Track & Field • Men's Volleyball • And more
For the third year in a row, Michelle Yoshida is busy playing tour guide.
And she doesn't mind it one bit.
As the Kansas State women's volleyball team rushed the court last Friday, one thought came to Kuulei Kabalis.
Forty-eight players who graduated from high schools in Hawaii will represent 14 different FBS schools involved in 13 bowl games this holiday season. Only the Maaco Las Vegas Bowl features local players on both teams.
When it comes to the actual rivalry, most Brigham Young football players don't view it the same way it is seen here in Hawaii.
Football • Women's Volleyball • Women's Soccer • Women's Basketball
» Washington State freshman linebacker Chester Sua (Kaimuki ’11) had a game-high 11 tackles, including a career-best seven solo stops, in a 30-27 overtime loss to Utah on Saturday. Defensive end Jordan Pu‘u Robinson (Baldwin ’09) assisted on a tackle, while Utes junior Tevita Finau (Kahuku ’06) had two tackles, including one for loss.
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