Sports anchor Taryn Hatcher leaving Hawaii News Now

Taryn Hatcher is leaving Hawaii News Now after three years as a sports anchor, reporter and producer.

Hatcher, 25, said she will announce her plans when they are finalized later this week.

“We are extraordinarily proud of Taryn,” Hawaii News Now general manager Rick Blangiardi said. “We’ve had three wonderful years with her. We knew when we hired her right out of Rutgers University at the ripe old age of 22, that she was just at the outset of what promised to be a great career. Her first three years with us have been terrific.”

This past year, Hawaii News Now shifted its on-air sports emphasis from regular segments on newscasts to reporting on breaking news and special-interest stories. Hatcher and reporter David McCracken provide sports-related updates on HNN’s web site.

Hatcher also was co-host and co-producer of “The Nick Rolovich Show,” a weekly half-hour program on the University of Hawaii football team.

Hatcher will work at HNN until mid-July.

Blangiardi said he has not decided on HNN’s plans for sports following Hatcher’s departure.

The local sportscast landscape has changed in the past 16 months. In February 2017, KITV’s Robert Kekaula moved from sports director/anchor to news anchor. Last July, Collin Harmon was not renewed as HNN’s sports anchor. This month, sportscaster Sam Spangler departed KHON to move to Hawaii island.