2012 ILH Championships

All 3 teams (JV/Vars/Girls) won their respective league championships this past Saturday…though only our JV team performed to the best of their abilities. Our JV team put together an outstanding tournament, and truly set the bar for the Vars and Girls to step up to moving forward to this weekend’s state tournament.  We had several […]

ILH Championships

This past Saturday saw every Punahou wrestler competing for their respective ILH Championship.  The intermediate team had a frustrating start, losing several matches in the last few seconds by giving up a big move…they were able to rebound slightly and finish the tournament tied for first with Kamehameha.  We expect there will be several good […]

ILH Week 3 Wrap Up

The boys and girls varsity teams finished the ILH dual meet regular season on Friday.  The girls wrestled relatively well again and defeated both Kamehameha and Pac-5.  The boys wrestled only Pac-5 and again finished with a win.  Of note, Pac-5 has a few extremely solid wrestlers in each line-up, and unfortunately we did not […]

Solid Improvement for ILH Week 2

The girls team wrestled much better this past weekend and beat Kamehameha and Iolani, who both were missing a few girls from their lineup. We were also able to get some of our other girls exhibition matches, and they all battled hard in every position. It’s nice to see them making progress, and we certainly […]

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 […]