Hawaii Storm basketball clinich June 18-19 ADVERTISING Hawaii Storm basketball clinich June 18-19 Former Punahou girls basketball coach Mike Taylor will host the 2nd annual Hawaii Storm Basketball Clinic from June 18-19 at the Kamehameha’s Koaia Gym. The clinic will
Hawaii Storm basketball clinich June 18-19
Former Punahou girls basketball coach Mike Taylor will host the 2nd annual Hawaii Storm Basketball Clinic from June 18-19 at the Kamehameha’s Koaia Gym.
The clinic will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day and is open to first through 12th graders. Registration is $75, and space is limited. Players will receive a Hawaii Storm T-shirt. Deadline is May 31.
Taylor guided the Buffanblu to seven HHSAA state titles. He is an assistant for the Nike California Storm, Team Taurasi program, one of just 32 elite Nike-sponsored club basketball programs in the U.S. In 2014, Team Taurasi, which featured WNBA draftee Lia Galdeira, won the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League National Championship.
For more information, email hoopdreamshawaii@yahoo.com.
BIIF qualifiers for state golf tourney
The HHSAA state girls golf tournament will be held Monday-Tuesday, May 2-3 at Wailua Golf Course on Kauai.
The golfers from BIIF team champion Waiakea automatically qualified. They are two-time BIIF champion Kaley Saludares, Kaelyn Uchida, Jillian Mitsuda, and Tia Kualii.
Other individual qualifiers are Anne Nakamoto, Waiakea; Sunny Sakai, Hilo; Tori Hironaga, Waiakea; Juby Aipoalani, Hilo; Chloe Waters, Kamehameha; and Anela Dalton, Keaau.
The state boys golf tournament will be held Wednesday-Thursday, May 4-5 at Wailua.
The golfers from BIIF team champion Kamehameha automatically qualified. They are Kala’i Pomroy, Preston Ching, Pono Yanagi, John Andrade, and Kua Manuia.
Other individual qualifiers are Shon Katahira, Waiakea; three-time BIIF champion Trevor Hirata, Waiakea; Riley Kaneshiro, Hilo; Matt Rosato, Makua Lani; Marc Agpawa, Waiakea; Brayden Teshima, Waiakea; Trey Nakagawa, Waiakea; Loa Ng, Makua Lani; Cody Pinzon, Hilo; and Kobe Toledo, Waiakea.
Kauhi new Waiakea girls hoops coach
Brandon Kauhi was named the Waiakea girls basketball coach on Wednesday.
Kauhi, a 1998 Hilo graduate, was a basketball standout back in the day. His name is still in the HHSAA state record books with 28 points against Mililani in a consolation final. That was tied for the third-highest total.
He has a long connection to coaching and playing basketball in Hilo. Kauhi has served as a Waiakea assistant coach for the boys and girls basketball teams in the past. He was Waiakea boys assistant for the 2015-16 season.
Kauhi is the president and coach of the B-Elite Basketball club team, which started in January 2014.
He’s waited quite a while to land his first BIIF head coaching job, making several stops along the way.
Kauhi was a Kamehameha girls volunteer coach during the 2014-15 season and a Kamehameha assistant coach from 2009 to 2014.
Before that, he was a Waiakea boys assistant from 2007 to 2009 and a girls assistant from 2004 to 2009.
Nobu Yamauchi Hawaii RBI League
Nobu Yamauchi Hawaii RBI League is looking for players for the 18-under Regional
baseball team, which will be competing in the RBI West Regional July 20-25 in Anaheim,
Calif.
Each August, Major League Baseball sponsors the RBI World Series. Winners of regional RBI tournaments meet for the chance to win championships. This year the World Series will be held Aug. 1-8.
Over the past 15 years, Hawaii RBI has sent teams to the RBI World Series seven times.
For more information, contact James Hirayama at 808 557-5307 or jameshirayama@aol.com.
Deadlines for golf local qualifiers
The deadlines are approaching for several USGA National Championship qualifiers. The qualifying dates are:
• May 7: U.S. Open Local qualifier at Ka’anapali Golf Course, Maui. Registration deadline is April 27.
• May 9: U.S. Open Local qualifier at Hokuli’a, Kailua-Kona. Registration deadline is April 27.
• May 16: U.S. Women’s Open Sectional qualifier at Waialae Country Club, Oahu. Registration deadline is May 4.
• June 28: U.S. Girls Junior Amateur qualifier at Turtle Bay, Palmer Course, Oahu. Registration deadline is June 1.
• June 28-29: U.S. Junior Amateur qualifier at Turtle Bay, Palmer Course, Oahu. Registration deadline is June 1.
• July 2: U.S. Women’s Amateur qualifier: Poipu Bay Golf Course, Kauai. Registration deadline is June 15.
For more information, visithttps://champs.usga.org/index.html.
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