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Posted on: Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Five awarded All-America wrestling honors


Advertiser Staff

Five high school senior wrestlers earned All-America honors from Wrestling USA Magazine.

'Iolani's Keiko Akamine and Olivia Fatongia and Kahuku's Kala'e Johnson and Ione Kamakaala were recognized on the girls list.

Fatongia was a two-time 220-pound state champion while Akamine won the 103-pound title in 2008. Johnson finished second at 108 last year and was fourth this year while Kamakaala was fifth this year at 125.

Punahou's Reid Oshiro received honorable mention honors. He was a two-time state 125 champion.

KA'U'S EDWARDS TOPS IN TRACK AND FIELD

Ka'u High junior Jacob Edwards, who won both hurdles events at this year's state championship meet, has been named Gatorade Hawai'i Boys Track & Field Athlete of the Year.

The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the track, distinguishes Edwards as Hawai'i's best boys track and field athlete, according to a press release.

Edwards won the 110-meter hurdles in 14.93 seconds and the 300-meter hurdles in 39.34 at the May 15-16 state track championships on the Big Island. He also placed fifth in the triple jump with 44 feet, 2 1/2 inches and seventh in the long jump with 21-1, helping the Trojans to a seventh-place finish.

The 6-foot-2, 210-pound Edwards, who also plays football and soccer, has maintained a 3.63 grade point average, volunteered in community clean-ups and mentored elementary school students as an advocate for drug- and violence-free behavior.

'SELECT' CAMP SET FOR SUNDAY

The "Hawai'i Select" boys basketball program, which featured some of the state's top high school players in the 1980s and '90s, has been revived and will host a youth clinic Sunday at Le Jardin Academy in Kailua.

The clinic is open to boys and girls ages 5 through 13, and two sessions are available (8 a.m. to 11 a.m. and noon to 3 p.m.).

Skills covered include ball-handling, shooting, passing, offense with and without the ball, defense and rebounding.

Former University of Hawai'i and Kalaheo standout Alika Smith will be the camp's featured instructor, along with fellow Hawai'i Select coaches Ryan Hogue and Walter Marciel.

The cost is $30 per session or $50 for both.

Proceeds will go toward the Hawai'i Select team's participation in the Vision Sports main Event tournament in Las Vegas from July 22 through July 26. The Hawai'i Select team features 10 players from seven different schools in the O'ahu Interscholastic Association, Interscholastic League of Honolulu and Big Island Interscholastic Federation.

For more information, call Hogue at 392-6359 or e-mail him at rhogue@aop.net. Walk-up registration will also be available on Sunday.