When Coach Mike Denney was tasked to rebuild the wrestling team he knew he would have to leave no stone unturned in his effort to recruit the most talented kids around the country to build a top-notch wrestling team. However, even he was somewhat surprised when he ended up recruiting Hawaii native Brandon Oshiro.

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January 28, 2012 OIA West results from Kapolei

January 28, 2012 OIA Dual Meet results from Nanakuli

January 28, 2012 OIA Dual Meet results from Kalani

January 28, 2012 ILH Standings

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Boys Championship

Punahou defeats Kamehameha-Kapalama 36-24 to win the Boys Championship
Campbell defeats Moanalua 57-14 for third place
Pac-5 defeats Pearl City 34-33 for fifth place

Boys Consolation

St. Louis beats Iolani 36-25 to win the consolation bracket

Girls Championship

Pearl City defeats Campbell 48-18 to win the Girls Championship
Farrington defeats Aiea 36-18 for third place

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Pool 1

St. Louis beats Leilehua 60-18
Punahou beats St. Louis 76-6
Punahou beats Leilehua 81-3

Pool 2

Kamehameha beats Farringto 62-18
Iolani beats Radford 43-24
Farrington beats Radford 52-33
Kamehameha beats Iolani 51-13
Farrington beats Iolani 39-36
Kamehameha beats Radford 46-17

Pool 3

Pac-5 beats Kaiser 36-28
Campbell beats Punahou B 55-24
Pac-5 beats Punahou B 51-24
Campbell beats Pac-5 51-27
Campbell beats Kaiser 67-7
Punahou B beats Kaiser 44-35

Pool 4

Moanalua beats Damien 63-15
Pearl City beats Damien 48-18
Moanalua beats Pearl City 32-30

Championship Bracket Round 1

Punahou beats Farrington 64-11
Campbell beats Pearl City 54-15
Kamehameha beats Leilehua 59-9
Moanalua beats Pac-5 41-33

So that sets up these semi final showdowns: Punahou vs. Campbell and Kamehameha vs. Moanalua.

Girls competition begins tomorrow @ 10:00am. Boys semi finals expected to start around noon.

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2011 HAWAII WRESTLING OFFICIALS ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP TOURNAMENT
At Leilehua High School

Friday, December 16, 2011 & Saturday, December 17, 2011

BOYS RESULTS

Team:
1) Lahainaluna 194 points  2) Kamehameha 162  3) Campbell 146 5  4) Mililani 136  5) Punahou 115  6) Pac-Five 113 5  7t) Leilehua 102  7t) Pearl City 102  9) ‘Iolani 91  10) Moanalua 88  11) Baldwin 79 5  12) Farrington 69 5  13) Maui 62 5  14) Kapolei 57  15) Radford 54  16) Kamehameha-Hawaii 51  17) Kealakehe 49 5  18) King Kekaulike 44 5  19) Kaiser 40  20) Kaimuki 39  21) Waianae 32  22) ‘Aiea 31  23) Damien 30 5  24) Konawaena 26  25) Waialua 25 5  26) Kea’au 24 5  27t) Nanakuli 24  27t) Saint Louis 24  29) Waiakea 21  30) Castle 17 5  31) Kalaheo 17  32) Kalani 16  33) Roosevelt 12  34) Kailua 11

Individual:
108 pounds: 1) Braydon Akeo (Mililani)  2) Treylan Kobayashi (Waialua)  3) Brandon Perez (Campbell)  4) Jahffrey Akina (Baldwin)  5) Christian Balagso (Lahainaluna)  6) Josten Saribay (King Kekaulike)
114: 1) Isaac Diamond (Mililani)  2) Kahi Tihada (Lahainaluna)  3) Gerald Dionio (Maui)  4) Jared Oshima (Campbell)  5) Dylan Uno (Kaimuki)  6) Jansen Panlasigui Domingo (Lahainaluna)
120: 1) Cassidy Oshiro (Pac-Five)  2) Sage Aoki (Konawaena)  3) Christian Carbajal (Lahainaluna)  4) Logan Yamamoto (‘Iolani)  5) Brendan Chang (Pac-Five)  6) Jordan Kondo (Punahou)
125: 1) Joshua Terao (Pac-Five)  2) Bryant Fukushima (Punahou)  3) Jacob Blanco (Waiakea)  4) Sky Kekona Souza (Kamehameha-Hawaii)  5) Jonathan Kamaka (Kamehameha)  6) Sturlinge Rivera (Leilehua)
130: 1) Holden Takahashi (‘Iolani)  2) Gabriel Iereneo (Pearl City)  3) Cody Uyejo (Mililani)  4) Branden Gallagher (Radford)  5) Jacob Palimoo (Moanalua)  6) Joshua Crimmins (Punahou)
135: 1) Chase Tantog (Mililani)  2) Cheyden Quiocho (Kea’au)  3) Todd Murakawa (Punahou)  4) Ferdinand Magbual (Lahainaluna)  5) Keamalu Richardson (Kamehameha)  6) Vidlijay Kannys (Kaiser)
140: 1) Austin Bloch (King Kekaulike)  2) Keanu Richardson (Campbell)  3) Nathan Inovejas (Lahainaluna)  4) Allin Franco (Kealakehe)  5) Aaron Andrade (Kamehameha)  6) Alec Donner (Kaiser)
145: 1) Derek Lee Loy (Moanalua)  2) Cory Okuda (‘Aiea)  3) Tyson Kuahine (Kamehameha)  4) Evan Uehara (Punahou)  5) Sean Chan (‘Iolani)  6) Zackary Kijek (Kaiser)
152: 1) Blake Cooper (Pearl City)  2) Joshue Rivera (Farrington)  3) Kristian Vaana Kikuyama (Pearl City)  4) Jonathan Watkins (Leilehua)  5) Chanse Uyeda (Lahainaluna)  6) Bryan Peralta (Punahou)
160: 1) LJ Remillard (Punahou)  2) Jonah Hoshino (Kamehameha)  3) Giovani Perez (Lahainaluna)  4) Nathan Penalver (Campbell)  5) Dillon Takeshita (Moanalua)  6) Sang Yoon Kim (Moanalua)
171: 1) Ikea Ikehara (Kamehameha) 2) Chaeden Grace Reyes (Farrington)  3) Spencer Kiehm (‘Iolani)  4) Justin Taylor (Lahainaluna)  5) Troy Williams (Castle)  6) Nathanael Sardinha (Campbell)
189: 1) Totauhelotu Lotulelei (Maui)  2) Jeffrey Sanchez (Mililani)  3) Danny Welds Ebanks (Baldwin)  4) Joshua Coston (Lahainaluna)  5) Troy Vore Ho (Leilehua)  6) Tinei Makaiau (Kamehameha)
215: 1) Kahu Sebala (Campbell)  2) Jacob Lewis (Damien)  3) Santonny Johns (Leilehua)  4) Nelson Rodrigues (Nanakuli)  5) Paul Takafuji (Baldwin)  6) Wayne Alibin (Lahainaluna)
285: 1) Hayden Wills (Kamehameha)  2) Kapone Carter (Kapolei)  3) Tyman Hayashi (Pac-Five)  4) Benjamin Bourque (Pearl City)  5) Hinano Kaaialu (Kamehameha)  6) Winton Palik (Kealakehe)
GIRLS

Team:
1) Punahou 135 5  2) Pearl City 115  3) Kamehameha-Hawaii 108  4) Farrington 85  5) Mililani 79  6) Kamehameha 74  7) ‘Aiea 68  8) Kapolei 63  9) Lahainaluna 57  10) Campbell 50  11t) Leilehua 42  11t) Nanakuli 42  13) Kalaheo 39 5 14) Roosevelt 36  15) Waiakea 25  16) Moanalua 21  17t) Pac-Five 20  17t) Waialua 20  19) Konawaena 18  20) Radford 16  21) Castle 15  22) ‘Iolani 11  23) Kealakehe 10  24) Kalani 4  25) Waianae 3

Individual:
98 pounds: 1) Thai Ha Sloan (Punahou)  2) Likolehua Manuel (Kalaheo)  3) Sarah Grace Alagria (Pearl City)  4) Maia Phanthadara (Roosevelt)  5) Kimberly Mesick (Punahou)  6) Malia Refamonte (Lahainaluna)
103: 1) Megan Aina (Kamehameha-Hawaii)  2) Alanda Nguyen (Farrington)  3) Candice Segi (‘Aiea)  4) Kaelynn Canyete (Kapolei)  5) Rachel Tolentino (Pearl City)  6) Jadelynn Tubon (Campbell)
108: 1) Lauren Dias (Mililani)  2) Charee Wong (Waialua)  3) Cara Nakayama (Waiakea)  4) Breanne Takaesu (Pearl City)  5) Holly Ann Kogachi (Punahou)  6) Kiyana Tells (Campbell)
114: 1) Samantha Higa (‘Aiea)  2) Quinn Nagatani (Mililani)  3) Nicole Taniguchi (Punahou)  4) Shayna Marie Oliver (Farrington)  5) Chloe Nagasawa (Pac-Five)  6) Mikaela Sakamoto Matsumoto (Moanalua)
120: 1) Bree Rapoza (Kamehameha)  2) Janae Lynn Oliver (Farrington)  3) Myisha Davis (Kapolei)  4) Alyssa Greenleaf (Kalaheo)  5) Kori Lynn Kunioka (Punahou)  6) Keila Davids (Campbell)
125: 1) Kaimiloa Evans (Pearl City)  2) Precious Jaramillo (Lahainaluna)  3) Shana Dilliner (Kamehameha)  4) Harmony Pacheco (Kamehameha)  5) Ashley Mercado (Leilehua)  6) Amber Hakkei Nagaoka (Castle)
130: 1) Mindy Chow (Punahou)  2) Elizabeth Chong (‘Aiea)  3) Jina Miyamoto (Lahainaluna)  4) Keani Sebala (Campbell)  5) Lindsay Villarmia (‘Aiea)  6) Khrysten Gameng (Campbell)
140: 1) Morgan Yamaguchi (Mililani)  2) Zoe Hernandez (Punahou)  3) Uilani Freitas (Leilehua)  4) Chantel Pohina (Kamehameha-Hawaii)  5) Shannon Paaina (Pac-Five)  6) Jessi Arnold (Kapolei)
155: 1) Joslynn Kahala Minczer (Nanakuli)  2) Jocelyn Tabion (Kapolei)  3) Alexia Marie Osburn (Kamehameha-Hawaii)  4) Courtney Castillo (Radford)  5) Dioan Cantiller (Farrington)  6) Tiara Kaye (Punahou)
175: 1) Jasmine Iuta (Kamehameha-Hawaii)  3) Matauaina Toomalatai (Pearl City)  4) Reydell Ewaliko Kauhane (Nanakuli)  5) Jaclyn Agbayani Kupa (Leilehua)  6) Nalani Stanley (Kamehameha)
220: 1) Sanoe Spencer (Pearl City)  2) Brianna Jeffries (Roosevelt)  3) Aimee Shiraki (Konawaena)  4) Kayla Yin (Campbell)  5) Alexandra Fautanu (‘Iolani)  6) Heather Thomas (Nanakuli)

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I asked the reader to share his thoughts on this:

OC16 has been a proud promoter of high school athletics for some time, but I ask to promote the little guys with big hearts. Wrestlers and Judokas across the state of Hawaii devote their lives to their sport as much as any other athlete in their respective sports. I believe that it is about time that these sports are given what they deserve. Wrestling and Judo has taken the backseat to almost every single sport that you can name. You give coverage to athletes of different sports but, I request that you give coverage to what I call, “Gladiators and Warriors.”

These warriors compete fiercely against each other to test each others stamina, speed, power, technique, and above all, heart. They compete in a sport where losses are taken much harder and the taste of victory is much sweeter. You can’t pass the ball when you’re in trouble and nobody throws a block for you; the result of a battle is determined by you, and only you. All the countless hours of training and studying tape, will be tested once you step onto the mat.

The Wrestler and Judoka not only worries about training in their respective sport, they worry about dieting. They try to stay on strict diets that’ll give them the edge to battle. Choices like ice cream and candy go out the window in the pursuit of perfection. Sacrifices need to be made to reach the ultimate goal, victory.

Wrestling and Judo are not just sports, they are lifestyles that only a select few can endure. OC16, ask yourselves this, “What’s wrong with giving these sports a shot to say, I AM”…..

So, mat fans…your thoughts?

We’ll post full results here after we’re able to compile them. For now, the brackets can be found here:

Hopefully the comment stream below can give us some realtime updates.

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Vladislav (Izzy) Izboinikov

12^th  ANNUAL FALL WRESTLING CLINIC

at

Farrington High School Gym

Vladislav Izboinikov, US National Women’s Assistant Coach Coached US Women’s Olympic Wrestling Team 2008 Women’s World Team Coach 2006, 07, 08, 09, 10, 2011 Women’s Freestyle Resident Coach at the U.S. Olympic Training Center Bronze medalist at the Moscow College National Championships in 1992

COST: 

Three Day Pass is $50          Or a           One Day Pass is $20 

Required:  2011-2012 USAW Membership is $35 

Make checks payable to HUAWA

Clinic times:

 Download registration form here.

For our youth sports community, fundraising is essential not only to offset the cost of travel to outer islands or the mainland, but also for teaching important life lessons.

A successful fundraiser is all about spreading the word to a larger audience. The social networking era successfully enhanced traditional fundraising efforts by allowing people to instantly and repeatedly announce their event to a larger audience. However, most fundraisers are still limited by geographical boundaries since family and friends from the mainland or overseas are likely unable to participate in localized fundraising events or sales.

Hawaii-grown company Savingspoint may have found a solution to this problem. Savingspoint is an online tool that enables users, such as youth sports teams, to create financial savings goals, share these goals with a broader audience via social networking, and to accept credit card and e-check donations from this broader audience. The result of this is an efficient and effective mechanism to raise money for specific events such as outer-island pre-season tournaments and States, and even national tournaments, while still maintaining the importance of teaching our youth valuable lessons on team building, patience, and financial planning.

Donations are held in a bank account on behalf of the user, where they are FDIC insured and earn interest. When it comes time to use the funds, they can be withdrawn and transferred directly to a registered bank account and are available for use within a couple of business days.

Tools such as Savingspoint are a great alternative to, or can at least supplement traditional fundraising methods by allowing teams to take advantage of social networks and also involve a broader audience in their fundraising efforts.

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Here’s an interview of David Terao (Mid Pacific ’11) from the American University wrestling team’s newsletter. David was interviewed by Steve Fittery.

Steve: Can you tell us a little about your hometown?

David: My hometown, Honolulu, was a great place to grow up in. Hawaii itself is very diverse, yet not too large, which allows for pursuit of multiple interests.

S: Are there any memorable moments from your childhood?

D: I definitely remember my first Judo practice at Shobukan Judo Club in Hawaii. It was a great experience and it eventually lead to becoming a competitive athlete in both Judo and wrestling.

S: Can you tell us about your family members?

D: My parents are Lindy and Debra Terao. I also have a brother named Joshua.

S: Where did you attend high school? What were some of your high school accomplishments?

D: I attended high school at Mid-Pacific Institute in Honolulu, Hawaii. I won two high school wrestling state championships as well as four high school judo state championships.

S: What a stud! So what clubs/organizations have you been a part of in high school?

D: In addition to being a high school wrestler and judoka, I actively practiced jujitsu as well as breaking (break dancing) and surfing for fun.

S: Can you tell us why you chose American U?

D: American University offers a quality academic program as well as a wide range of courses, which for me is very enticing, since I’m not completely sure about what my major should be. In addition, Washington D.C. has so much to do and plenty of opportunities.

S: What is your favorite thing about Washington, DC?

D: First off, Washington DC is the American capital, which already makes it an appealing place to live in. In addition, Washington DC offers numerous internships and unique career opportunities that can’t be found anywhere else.

S: What is your favorite move that you use in order to take someone down?

D: A foot sweep to an ankle pick.

S: What do you like about wrestling here at American?

D: I love the atmosphere that’s present in the wrestling room. American has multiple All-Americans and many more quality wrestlers that in turn will help me better myself as a wrestler and an individual.

D: Something people may not know about me is: I started wrestling my freshman year of high school, and I was probably the least skilled kid on the team at that time.

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