Updated at 8:31 p.m., Thursday, April 26, 2007
Kealakehe soccer coaches get 5-year state tourney ban
Advertiser Staff
Kealakehe High School boys soccer head coach Urs Leuenberger and assistant coach Miles Nakahara have been banned from coaching in any Hawai'i High School Athletic Association tournament for five years after a unanimous vote by the HHSAA's executive board today.According to a memo from HHSAA executive director Keith Amemiya to Kealakehe principal Wil Murakami, "Nakahara is being banned for, among other things, numerous acts of inappropriate behavior on Feb. 15, 2007 at the HHSAA Boys Soccer State Championships at Waipi'o Peninsula Soccer Park on O'ahu."
According to the memo and several witness accounts, "Nakahara's actions included, but were not limited to ... verbally abusing and challenging ... (the) tournament director to a fistfight ... yelling and swearing at Kalani High School's assistant athletic director ... yelling at, swearing at, threatening and physically confronting, including repeatedly putting his index finger very close to the face of and repeatedly poking the chest of the HHSAA's boys soccer coordinator ... yelling at and being confrontational with (the) Roosevelt athletic director ... yelling, swearing at and being confrontational with (the) HHSAA boys soccer officials coordinator ..."
The memo added that "Leuenberger is being banned for, among other things, his failure to control the actions of Nakahara."
