Jade Savusa transferring to Tennessee State
By Dennis Anderson
Advertiser Staff Writer
The Siblings Savusa are going in opposite directions for college.
Jade Savusa (Mid-Pacific '00 of 'Ewa Beach), who was the only basketball player in the Interscholastic League of Honolulu to outscore Monica Tokoro, will transfer from Ventura (JC) in California to Tennessee State. But she is going on a softball and academic scholarship, not basketball.
"Little" brother Jordan Savusa, who just graduated from Mid-Pacific, has signed with Western Oregon for football. Jordan is a 6-foot-3, 285-pound offensive tackle who played organized football for the first time last season.
Coaches chose him second-team All-ILH and he played in the senior all-star game.
Jade, object of an on-campus recruiting struggle between the basketball and softball coaches at Ventura, chose softball and was chosen second-team all conference, playing third base.
"I got basically a full-ride, between academics and athletics," Jade said. Tennessee State is an NCAA Division I program located in Nashville. She earned an AA degree from Ventura with a 3.0 GPA and will be a sports psychology major.
OTHER SIGNINGS
• Soccer: Patrick Boltz (Punahou '98 of Kane'ohe) is returning to the collegiate game at Montana State-Billings after a three-year absence.
Boltz, catalyst of Punahou's 1998 state championship team, played one season and red-shirted a season at Seattle Pacific University. Since 2000, he has worked in Seattle, taken some classes part-time, played some in an adult amateur league and "learned to live on his own," said his mother, Debbie. "Now he is ready to play again."
Montana State-Billings coach Doug Seigle said Boltz is "a big, strong (6 feet, 195 pounds) player who is a great organizer and communicator in the back. He'll definitely give our defense a solid presence and help us play the physical style that we like."
• Volleyball: Chad Miller, second-team all-state for Iolani last season, will play at UC-Irvine.
• Tennis: Michael Okada (Lahainaluna) is headed for St. Andrews Presbyterian in North Carolina on a part-athletic, part-academic scholarship engineered by Doris Sullivan of Hawai'i Athletic Prep Academy. Okada reached the quarterfinals of doubles in the state tournament.
• Football: Levi Wyman, two-time all-division offensive lineman from 'Aiea, will attend Whitworth in Spokane, Wash. He was honorable mention all-state last season.
