Coach Jimmy Wins NWCA Award

Congratulations to coach Jimmy Takatsuka, who was named the 2008-2009 Assistant Coach of the Year for Region 8 by the NWCA (National Wrestling Coaches Association).  Region 8 consists of the following states:  Hawaii, California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona.  This is a well deserved award, and we can all be very proud of him and the [...]

Boys & Girls Win at Officials’ Tournament

This past Friday and Saturday the Punahou Boys and Girls Wrestling teams competed in, and won, the Official’s Scholarship Wrestling tournament.  Though the wrestling was predictably at a pre-season level, there were both bright spots and exposed weaknesses that were revealed that we now can work on and improve upon. Placewinners were, for the Girls: [...]

Success at the 2009 Brute-Adidas Nationals

This past weekend we took 9 of our best wrestlers to the Brute/Adidas Nationals in Kansas City, MO.? This tournament has wrestlers from across the country, but mostly the Midwest (for obvious reasons), compete against each other within the same grade level. Weight classes all had a 3 lbs allowance from the NFHS weight classes.? [...]

Results thus far

Aloha all- My apologies for the tardiness of this first update, this season and school year are going way faster than I can keep up with. ?Our wrestlers have had, on paper, a successful start to the season. ?You all know me well enough to know what I mean. ?We’ve won some tournaments and duals, [...]

Mahalo for Parents Night

Aloha Parents- I wanted to express my appreciation to all of you as well on behalf of the coaches.  Thanks to those who made and/or brought food, helped organize, helped clean-up, and in general helped to make our Parent’s Night a successful evening.  As I stated during the presentation it is impressive how much the [...]