ISLE FILE
Herring, Yogi on national team
Advertiser Staff
Seniors Kanani Herring of the Kamehameha Schools and Sydney Yogi of Punahou have been selected to the USA Youth National Team that will compete in the World Championships at Tijuana and Mexicali, Mexico from July 31 to Aug. 11.
Herring, a 5-foot-10 outside hitter, is the reigning two-time Advertiser State Player of the Year. Yogi, a 5-foot-2 libero, was named to The Advertiser's All-State first team last season.
They will train at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. until July 29, then will depart for Mexico with the tournament starting two days later.
SAILING
BUCKLEY CHINA-BOUND
Former University of Hawai'i sailor Shandy Buckley will be going to Qingdao, China for the 2008 Olympic Games.
Buckley, who competed in nearly 30 regattas for UH from 2003-06, and her team from New Zealand qualified for an Olympic berth at last week's ISAF World Championships in Portugal.
More than 1,300 sailors from 76 nations competed in the event, which is the principal qualification regatta for the 2008 Games, with 75 percent of all national places decided.
Buckley and teammates Sharon Ferris and Raynor Smeal finished sixth overall in the Yngling class, well inside the top 10 countries earning berths. A Yngling is a three-person boat that received the ISAF international class status in 1979 and was chosen as the Olympic women's keelboat for 2004 and 2008.
"Shandy was asked by Sharon Ferris, the skipper of the New Zealand Yngling team, to join them last year," UH head coach Andy Johnson said. "It was a difficult decision for Shandy and she left school to pursue her dream of sailing in the Olympics. It looks like she made the right decision and we're extremely happy for her."
REINRAG2 SAILS AHEAD
On a day when dying winds hampered some of the big boats, Tom Garnier's Reinrag2, a J/125 in Division 4 followed a southerly breeze that swept it 232-nautical miles and into first place overall on corrected handicap time for the entire fleet of the Transpacific Yacht Race.
Reinrag2's 24-hour run trailed only Mag 80's 237 miles and Fred Detwiler's 233 on the TP 52 Trader.
Meanwhile, a day after it logged 297 miles, Roger Sturgeon's STP 65 Rosebud managed only 167 miles before yesterday's 8 a.m. roll call.
BEACH VOLLEYBALL
STOLFUS HELPS U.S.
Former University of Hawai'i player Hans Stolfus teamed with Ty Loomis to beat Venezuela's Jackson Henrique and Igor Hernandez, 21-17, 21-18, yesterday to earn a berth in the quarterfinals of beach volleyball at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Stolfus of Costa Mesa, Calif., and Loomis of Newport Beach, Calif., improved to 2-0 in pool play. They play Puerto Rico today in their final pool-play match.
"Once we got ahead, we were able to put some pressure on them and they felt it," Stolfus said of the Venezuelans. "It was a tough match — they play really well together and definitely made us earn each point."
