UH recruits coaches, businesspeople to search for new athletic director

Three current University of Hawaii coaches will be among a 14-member search advisory committee to assist in the selection of a new athletic director at Manoa, the school said on its website.

Former Board of regents chairman Howard Karr is the chairman and football coach Norm Chow is vice chairman.

The other members are:

>> Keith Amemiya, executive administrator and secretary, UH Board of Regents;

>> Laura Beeman, UH women’s basketball head coach;

>> Bob Harrison, CEO and president, First Hawaiian Bank;

>> Peter Ho, Chairman, president and CEO, Bank of Hawaii;

>> Bonnyjean Manini, chair, UH Mānoa Faculty Senate Executive Committee;

>> Mike McCartney, president and CEO, Hawai’i Tourism Authority;

>> Diane Nakashima, APT representative UH-Manoa;

>> Peter Nicholson, faculty athletics representative, UH Manoa;

>> Mark Polivka, chairman, ‘Ahahui Koa Ānuenue;

>> Teena Rasmussen, regent emeritus, UH Board of Regents;

>> Dave Shoji, Wahine volleyball coach Dave Shoji;

>> And a student representative to be named.  

 UH said the committee would decide whether a search firm is also used.