With fall camp underway, Marcus Kemp’s days begin with a 5 a.m. wakeup before reporting to the University of Hawaii campus for a 6:30 practice.

What better time for a fresh start?

“It’s easy when you’re excited about what you’re doing,” Kemp said.

“We haven’t been able to put on the helmets, strap it up and play for a while, so I think … it was easy to get up at 5 and come out. Maybe as camp goes on and wears on your body it gets a little harder, but right now it’s really exciting.”

Once geared up and stretched out, the senior wide receiver took his position at the head of the rotation on the right side of the offensive formation and earned a mention from first-year head coach Nick Rolovich for his opening-day performance on Monday.

“I think Marcus Kemp should have a pretty good year for us,” Rolovich said in his post-practice press gathering. “He’s one (of the standouts).”

After leading the team in receiving yards the past two seasons, Kemp checked in for his final fall camp eager to refine his role in the system installed by the new coaching staff and open up his now healthy stride.

Kemp, a 6-foot-4 target on the outside, led the Rainbow Warriors with 563 yards on 36 receptions. He appeared in all 13 games despite being slowed by a knee injury suffered in the first month of the season.

Kemp caught 12 passes for 238 yards in UH’s first three games, including a 79-yard touchdown in UH’s season-opening win over Colorado, before injuring his left knee during a shutout loss at Wisconsin.

With the knee still not at full strength, he came off the bench in seven of the remaining nine games and went over 50 yards once in that span, a five-catch, 105-yard performance against Fresno State.

“I was never 100 percent, but sometimes they needed me to go in, so I never took a real break. That’s why it never healed,” Kemp said. “But I was able to play through it. Take some medication, wrap it up, put a knee brace on and play through the season.

“I haven’t really been injured like that, so being restricted was really hard for me. I wanted to be out there with my teammates, especially with the season we had last year. I felt bad that I couldn’t help.”

Kemp, who led the Warriors with 797 yards as a sophomore in 2014, said he was back to full speed for spring practice, when Rolovich and the staff installed the foundation of the offense. He returned for the fall looking to sharpen the details heading toward the Warriors’ trip to Australia for their Aug. 27 opener against California.

“I think during the spring we were focusing on coming together as a team, and getting the basics of the schemes in,” Kemp said. “In the summer we were focusing a little more on the technique and now as the fall comes were going to focus on how exactly to be precise with everything we do.”

Kemp and junior Ammon Barker were first in the order at the wideout spots through the first two days of practice and both turned in tough catches in Tuesday’s practice. Devan Stubblefield, UH’s second-leading receiver with 351 yards last year, Keelan Ewaliko, Makoa Camanse-Stevens and Isaiah Bernard are among those rotating behind them.

Although the receivers are learning a new system, “experience is huge at that position,” offensive coordinator Brian Smith said.

“When you have talented guys who have experience playing the position it gives you an opportunity to lean on those guys. It’s definitely much more comfortable for the quarterbacks knowing they have guys they can count on.”