A soft tennis team composed of students from the O‘ahu Interscholastic Association will tour Japan this summer from June 13, 2007 to June 27, 2007 with the United States Soft Tennis Association (USSTA).
The team will include Kaiser’s Nina Ho, Angela Kim, Chase Shikada and Brantly Yakabe and Roosevelt’s Gabriella Fortunato, Lani Husson, Saralyn Morita, Tyrus Lum, Christopher Raker, Allen Yeung and Timothy Ho.
‘Aiea’s Henry Fujioka, Roosevelt coaches Gary Okada and Matthew Mitsuyuki and Kaiser coaches Kristie Yamamoto and Christina Abelaye will accompany the team, which will visit Nara, Osaka, Kyoto, Shiga, Wakayama, Himeji, Hiroshima, Iwakuni, Miyajima Island and Tokyo. Each individual taking this trip pays for his/her own trip.

WATANABE NAMED 'IOLANI SOFTBALL COACH

Lance Watanabe has been named 'Iolani varsity softball head coach.
For the past four years, he’s been 'Iolani’s batting instructor under Chris Shimabukuro.
“Lance is a great guy and great coach and I have all the confidence that the 'Iolani softball program is in good hands,” said Shimabukuro, who resigned in March.
Watanabe, a 1982 Waipahu graduate, was the Wai'anae varsity softball coach from 1995 to 2003 and was named O‘ahu Interscholastic Association West Coach of the Year in 1996-97. He also was the All-State Coach of the Year in 1996.