HIGH SCHOOLS
Kaimuki names Lee new athletic director
Advertiser Staff
Fred Lee, who has spent 19 of the last 20 years at Kaimuki High as student or coach, is the Bulldogs' new athletic director.
Lee replaces interim athletic director Ricky Shimokawa, who took over last year when Raymond Fujino left for a position in the Department of Education.
Lee, 34, graduated from Kaimuki in 1985 and returned two years later as an assistant football coach while earning his bachelor's degree in education and Hawaiian studies at University of Hawai'i.
He was head football coach from 1996-98 and led the Bulldogs to the O'ahu Interscholastic Association's Blue Division championship in 1998. He also was head track coach for five years.
Lee taught Hawaiian language at Kaimuki from 1993 until his appointment as athletic director.
He is married, with two children.
Lee's appointment by principal Gary Oyama was effective Aug. 9.
SWIMMING
Tough week: Although two of them swam their best times, no one in Hawai'i's three-male delegation to USA Swimming's Summer National Championships made it to a final event.
The weeklong meet ends today at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., but the Hawai'i swimmers are finished.
Hongzhe Sun, 17, a junior at Iolani School, swam personal bests of 55.76 seconds in the 100-meter butterfly and 2:04.39 in the 200 butterfly but placed 29th and 41st respectively.
Mark Eckert Jr., 16, a sophomore at Iolani, swam a personal best of 2:07.64 in the 200 backstroke yesterday in a special time trial to choose members of a senior national team, but missed the cut by 8/10ths of a second.
Eckert was disqualified from his only championship event, the 400 individual medley, on Thursday for using a butterfly kick during the breaststroke leg. "I don't even remember doing it," he said.
Sun, whose 17th birthday was Thursday, placed 30th in the 100 backstroke in 58.72 and 54th in the 200 backstroke in 2:10.31, both well off his personal bests. Sun previously had qualified for the Junior National team.
Caleb Rowe, 19, of Maui placed 19th in the 200 breaststroke, his best event, in 2:20.74 and 32nd in the 100 breaststroke in 1:05.33.
Eckert said the competition was better than his previous national meets because U.S. teams for World and Pan-Pacific championship meets were being selected this week.
