Heart of a Champion

Though our preparations for the state tournament this weekend are not yet done, I feel compelled to recognize two remarkable young men. On Friday, 14 boys and 8 girls will step onto the mat, representing Punahou School in what we hope to be a very successful weekend of wrestling. But there will be two young [...]

A great article to re-read before States

Kalani Simpson does a great job capturing the spirit of our state tournament: http://starbulletin.com/2004/03/06/sports/simpson.html

2008 ILH Championships

Overall, we put in a solid performance yesterday, sweeping the ILH Team Championship for the Boys and placing a respectable third for the Girls. It’s the second time in as many years that the Boys have won the ILH Championship at all three levels (INT, JV and VARS). JV put in the standout performance yesterday, [...]

RESULTS: February 16 – Punahou sweeps ILH Dual Tournament

We wrestled well at all levels yesterday, sweeping the ILH Dual Meet Tournament. The Girls wrestled particularly well, upsetting defending ILH champs Iolani to win the tournament. JV bounced back from a poor performance last week to beat Damien and Kamehameha. And Varsity continued to roll, beating Kamehameha in the finals and finishing the regular [...]

ILH Dual Meet Tournament Schedule – February 16

Location: Kamehameha Weigh-in: 8:30am Wrestling Begins at 10:00am The first four dual meets will begin @ 10:00am. Subsequent matches will be run on the next available mat. We do not have any first round matches. Our first scheduled matches are    GIRLS vs. Kamehameha, which should start between 10:45 and 11:15    JV will wrestle [...]

RESULTS: February 9th Duals

We wrapped up the dual meet portion of our ILH season with a solid (though not outstanding) performance. Girls wrestled well but went 1 – 1, beating Pac-5 and losing a close one to Kamehameha. At JV, we struggled and Iolani wrestled well. We wrestled 11 (of 14) matches, with 3 forfeits. Just counting the [...]

Video Highlights from The Clash

Robin keeps cranking out very cool media clips. If you’ve ever done these things before, you’ll know just how much work’s involved — Thanks Robin! Here’s the latest highlight clip from Minnesota: Highlight clip compiled by Robin Chow

Braddah Ray

Looking at Rick Dang’s pictures from The Clash reminded me of a great story that I should’ve written about earlier. When we checked in to the hotel, there was a message waiting for us at the front desk — “Call Ray Kealoha”, with a couple of phone numbers. Neither Matt or I knew who Ray [...]

RESULTS: February 2nd Duals

The distractions of the week have always made our duals on carnival weekend difficult. This week was no exception. JV wrestled poorly against a very scrappy Kamehameha squad and dropped their first dual meet of the season, 30 – 31. The girls didn’t do too poorly, though missed an opportunity to step up against defending [...]

INTERMEDIATE Wins ILH Championship for 5th Straight Year

Congratulations to the INTERMEDIATE team, winning their 5th straight ILH Championship and 6th in the last 7 years! Final Standings Punahou 192 St. Louis 122 Kamehameha 100 Pac-5 59 Iolani 9 Damien 6