The Iolani Boys Water Polo team upended the previously undefeated Punahou Buffanblu 8-5 at their home pool Friday evening to capture first in the ILH Tournament and force a winner-take-all matchup with regular season champion Punahou for the overall title on Wednesday, November 12th at Kamehameha at 5:30pm. (There is NO STATE TOURNAMENT for boys water polo, so this is THE final game.)
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It was a season of “firsts” for the Iolani Girls Water Polo team this year as they picked up their first ILH championship, made their first state tournament appearance and won their first ever state championship defeating the Kahuku Red Raiders 11-4 in the finals of the 2007 Hawaii Girls Water Polo State Tournament. The win also marked the first state title for Iolani School in 2006-07. Not since 1985 has Iolani been shutout of winning at least one state championship during an entire school year.
The Raiders finished their season at 10-1 and will graduate seven seniors from their “short-handed” roster with two sophomores returning next season to defend their title.
Iolani is coached by by third-year head Linda Look and assistants Neil Kuioka ‘00 and Ian Kusao ‘02.
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The Iolani Girls Water Polo team advanced to the semifinals of the 2007 Hawaii Girls Water Polo State Tournament with a 17-7 opening round win against Kamehameha-Hawaii.
They will face #4-seed Lahainaluna today at 5.00pm at the Veterans’ Memorial Aquatic Center at Central Oahu Regional Park. Should they pick up the win, they will advance to the finals which will be played at 2:00pm on Saturday.
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In the 2007 Hawaii State Tennis Tournament on Maui, several players for Iolani are still alive and playing in quarterfinal action today. On the boys side, the doubles team of Marcus Pearman and Kyle Shiroma (#3 seed) and David Imanaka and Braxton Sato (#6 seed) will be competing in the quarterfinals this morning at 10:30am. For the girls, the #5-seed Sara Yoshinaga will be competing in singles play along with the #3-seeded doubles team of Nikki Castel and Jaime Young. Semifinal action will be played later this afternoon with the champions to be determined on Saturday morning.
More information on the 2007 Hawaii State Tennis Championships »
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Head coach Bob Morikuni ‘90 and assistant Brandon Flores ‘90 will be playing for another championship tonight when their McKinley Lady Tigers take on the Campbell Sabers for the OIA White Division Championship. After leading the McKinley boys team to the 2007 Hawaii State Division II Championship, the two coaches moved immediately into the girls season where they led the Tigers to a 11-1 regular season record and, with their semifinal win over Waialua on Wednesday night, have already secured a state tournament berth.
The OIA White Division Championship game will be televised live on OC16 tonight at 5:30pm.
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UPDATE: Iolani defeated Punahou 9-8 in sudden-death overtime… Read More »
As the ILH Champions, the Raiders will be the #1 seed in the 2007 Hawaii Girls Water Polo State Tournament which begins this Thursday at CORP.
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The Iolani Girls Water Polo team will face the Punahou Buffanblu in the title game of the ILH postseason tournament on Monday, May 7th at 6:00pm at Iolani. Winning the tournament title would secure the ILH championship for the Raiders who won the regular season with a record of 5-1. Their only blemish came in a loss to the Buffanblu after they had already clinched the regular season.
Should they fall tomorrow, Iolani will have a second opportunity to win the championship the following day (against Punahou). In the ILH, the regular season champion and the tournament champion playoff for the overall title if they are not the same team (somewhat like baseball).
The Iolani Girls Water Polo team consists of just nine players, quite a small roster for the physically demanding seven-on-seven sport, but has managed to hold their own this season, making it through their first 5 games undefeated and taking down both Punahou and Kamehameha in the process. Read more about the “Short-Handed” Raider squad »
The Raiders are led by third-year head coach Linda Look and assistants Neil Kuioka ‘00 and Ian Kusao ‘02.
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The Iolani Girls Water Polo team picked up a big win yesterday defeating the Punahou Buffanblu 10-6 in a battle of two unbeaten teams in the ILH.
After a 2-1 first quarter, the Raiders opened the game up at the start of the second scoring 4 consecutive goals to build a lead that they would never relinquish.
Iolani was led by seniors Jade Look and Ashley Nickle who scored three goals apiece in the win. They are now 3-0 and have a one game lead over rival Punahou.
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Before a sold out crowd that had people standing in line as early as 2 hours before the show, Iolani School closed out their 3-day production of Disney’s High School Musical on Saturday night at Hawaii Theatre with a “fun” performance that left an indelible smile on nearly every adult, student and child in attendance.
In starring roles for the production were several of the school’s top athletes including water polo player Josh Busse and volleyballers Risa Ka’awa and 2006 ILH Player of the Year Brad Lawson.
Busse and Ka’awa starred as the play’s two main characters, “Troy Bolton” and “Gabriella Montez”, while Lawson played a supporting role as “Zeke Baylor”. For those that don’t know, besides being rated among the top in his class nationally in volleyball, Lawson is also a member of the school’s elite “Hokuloa” chorus. In December of 2005, he performed a solo in the school’s annual Christmas concert at St. Andrew’s Cathedral. Listen here »
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You know, Mr. Chaney, the lower school math teacher… the water polo coach. I’m sure you remember. He did coach for 19 years…
Since leaving Iolani, Aaron Chaney has become a top-level water polo referee having officiated the 2004 Olympic Games (Athens) and each World Championship since 2001. He is also the head coach of the 5-time defending CIF champion Corona del Mar (Southern Cal) girls’ water polo team.
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The Iolani Boys Water Polo Team fell to Punahou yesterday 10-7 in the championship playoff for the “overall” ILH title at Kamehameha. There is no state tournament for boys water polo, so this loss ended their season.
The ILH Division I currently consists of 4 teams, Iolani, Punahou, Kamehameha & Pac-5 and the season is broken down into two parts, the “regular season” and the “tournament.” In the “regular season” each team plays every other team twice with the team with the best record becoming the “regular season” champion. Though Iolani split with Punahou during that time, a mid-season loss to Pac-5 allowed the Buff-n-Blu to take the “regular season” crown. In the “tournanment”, teams are seeded according to their finish in the “regular season.” Iolani, seeded 2nd, was able to make it through the opening round and defeat Punahou in the championship game thereby winning the “tournament” crown. So… in this case, since the “regular season” champion and the “tournament” champion were not the same team, there was a single championship playoff for the “overall” title.
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