Homegrown Report
Harvard QB Rose named All-Ivy League
By Dennis Anderson
Advertiser Staff Writer
Harvard's Neil Rose of Mililani (University '98/Pac Five) was the unanimous first-team quarterback on the All-Ivy League team.
Rose was responsible for 20 touchdowns passing and rushing as he led Harvard to its first undefeated, untied season in 88 years.
Although on track to graduate next spring, Rose has decided to use a medical redshirt year for a season-ending 1999 injury and return to Harvard in 2002.
That would allow him to add to his school career passing records of 4,511 yards and 33 touchdowns.
MORE FOOTBALL
- Eastern Washington
Quarterback Fred Salanoa (Radford '96) of 'Aiea was chosen second-team All-Big Sky Conference.
Salanoa finished his senior season with a school-record 3,057 yards passing, ranking seventh in NCAA Division I-AA in total offense (286.0 yards per game) and 14th in passing efficiency (143.7).
He also set school season records of 228 pass completions and 26 touchdown passes, and helped Eastern Washington set 43 school records, nine conference records and two Division I-AA records for offense.
He was chosen national I-AA Player of the Week for his career-best 367-yard, four-TD game against Connecticut on Sept. 8.
- Northwest Conference
Linfield (Ore.) guard Darryl Agpalsa (Kamehameha '98) of Waikele was chosen to the first-team offensive line and five other players from Hawai'i were included on the coaches' all-conference team.
Agpalsa, who overcame his size (5-10, 225) with textbook blocking technique, helped Linfield (7-2) tie for the conference championship and extend its all-divisions national record to 46 consecutive winning seasons.
He has a year of eligibility remaining but has indicated he may choose to graduate with his class in May.
Named to the second-team All-NWC offense were:
Puget Sound (Wash.) junior running back Chad Mahoe (Kamehameha '99) of Kailua; Puget Sound senior wide receiver Brian Siu (Punahou '98) of East Honolulu and Willamette (Ore.) junior offensive lineman Issac Parker (Kamehameha '98) of Wahiawa.
Despite playing for a winless team, Mahoe ranked seventh in conference rushing with 47.3 yards per game while Siu was third in pass receptions (5.22 per game), fourth in receiving yardage (60.2) and fifth in all-purpose yardage (rushing, receiving, punt and kickoff returns) at 102.6 yards per game.
Whitworth (Wash.) senior offensive lineman Kawika Johnson (Damien '97) of Pearl City and senior defensive end Shane Lyman (Kamehameha '97) of Kalihi received honorable mention.
JUDO
- U.S. Senior National Team
Taylor Takata (Iolani '00) won his first gold medal in a Senior International Judo tournament. He took first place in the 60 kg (130 pounds) division at the Pan American Union Judo Championships in Cordoba, Argentina, Nov. 20.
Former Hawai'i resident Amy Tong won bronze in women's 78 kg.
Takata, who trains full-time at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, defeated competitors from Ecuador, Puerto Rico and Venezuela. "All of the matches were really close but luckily I was able to win," he said.
Takata and Tong earned spots on Team USA by ranking first in their weight divisions at the U.S. Open Championships in Las Vegas last month.
VOLLEYBALL
- Loyola Marymount (Los Angeles)
Sophomore middle blocker Kea Kimball (Kamehameha 2000) of Kaunakakai, Moloka'i, was chosen first-team All-West Coast Conference.
After she was moved to the middle at the start of the conference season, Kimball hit .336 with 3.6 kills per game, and averaged 3.13 digs and 0.94 blocks per game either first or second for the Lions in each category and substantially higher than her preseason numbers playing a less familiar outside position. Loyola finished 15-10; 8-6 in the WCC.
- BYU (Utah)
Sophomore Uila Crabbe of Mililani, a teammate of Kimball's on Kamehameha's state championship teams of 1998 and '99, was chosen first-team defensive specialist on the All-Mountain West Conference team.
Crabbe started all 28 matches for the 20-8, 19th-ranked Cougars and was second on the team in digs with 2.51 per game. BYU, which finished third in the Mountain West, opens play in the NCAA Tournament tomorrow against Utah State in Salt Lake City.
SOCCER
- West Coast Conference
Gonzaga (Wash.) senior defender Zach Scott (Maui '98) of Haiku was chosen first-team all-conference. Scott helped Gonzaga reach the NCAA Tournament for the first time, where the Bulldogs lost to Portland 1-0 in the first round to finish 9-5-2.
Saint Mary's (Calif.) sophomore Chelsea Montero (Kamehameha '00) of Mililani received honorable mention on the all-conference team. Montero, twice named to national teams of the week, helped the Gaels reach the second round of the NCAA Tournament, where they lost to Stanford 3-1 to finish 15-3-2. Freshman Sarah Takekawa (Kailua '01) scored Saint Mary's goal against Stanford, her sixth of the season.
DIVING
- Saint Louis (Mo.)
Junior Kristi Cottral (Punahou '99) of Wai'alae Iki was named Conference USA Diver of the Week after she took first place on both the 1-and 3-meter boards for the first time in her career in a meet against Southwest Missouri State.
Cottral's career bests are 353.45 (1-meter) and 393.25 (3-meter) at the Midwest Classic last February. She is also scoring high academically, with a 3.8-plus grade-point average as a pre-medicine major.