Prep Notebook

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Wednesday, May 22, 1996


Pac-Five track coach Marshall plans to leave

By Pat Bigold, Star-Bulletin



Leo Marshall, who for 17 years coached the Pac-Five cross-country and track teams, said this week he will leave the state at the end of next month.

Marshall, 46, said he will step down as vice-president of Maryknoll Schools and accept a position as assistant headmaster at South Kent School in Kent, Conn.

"I hate to leave Hawaii, but this is a wonderful opportunity," said Marshall.

The Pennsylvania native coached the Wolfpack to two boys' cross-country titles, a girls' cross-country title and a boys' track and field championship in the Interscholastic League of Honolulu.

Runners coached by Marshall have won the ILH boys' mile championship eight of the last nine years. At the state level, Matt Stevens has captured the last two state mile titles for Pac-Five.

Marshall's coaching also has produced the last two state 800-meter champions, Clayton Mills, in 1993 and 1994, and Matt Korpita, in 1995 and 1996.

South Kent is an all-boys boarding school of 128 students. Marshall said he won't be coaching there, although the campus has its own cross-country course.



GIRLS' BASKETBALL JAMBOREE

A team of top local high school girls' basketball players will get together for a game against a team of present and former University of Hawaii Wahine on Saturday at the Iolani School gym.

The third annual Mufi Hanneman Basketball Jamboree will be free to the public.

However, donations will be accepted by the Gender Equity Sports Club, an organization formed to promote balance between female and male sports programs in Hawaii's schools.

The prep all-stars vs. Wahine contest will begin at 2 p.m.

The high school stars are two-time ILH player of the year Tiana Fuertes of Iolani; her teammates, Tesa Ho, Karyn Fitisemanu and Cori Takesue; Radford's Nikki Appleberry and Tehani Fiatoa; Kamehameha's Rachel Watson and Boo Arnold; McKinley's Darolyn Custodio; Punahou's Ki'i Spencer-Vasconcellos and Lisa Kowal; Kapaa's Cian Carvalho; Campbell's Summer Aona; Aiea's Tracy Doiguchi; Hilo's Dayna Gambill and Onaona Miller; Castle's April Parks; Waipahu's Roina Suaava, and University High's Dayna Thom.

The Wahine team includes Tania Brunton, Nani Flores, Melanie Azama, Jennifer Hurt, Tita Ahuna, Lynette Liu, Fran Villarmia and Jill Nunokawa.



HHSAA EXECUTIVES VOTE TODAY

The executive board of the Hawaii High School Athletic Association was to meet today at Aloha Stadium to give final approval or disap

proval to proposals recommended at the recent Hawaii Interscholastic Athletic Directors' conference on Kauai.

It will be outgoing HHSAA executive director Ed Kiyuna's final appearance before the executive board after 18 years at his post.

Dwight Toyama, who is currently athletic director at Kaimuki, will become executive director on July 1.

The members of the HHSAA executive board, made up of high school principals around the state, are Al Nagasako of Nanakuli, Kamehameha's Tony Ramos, Norman Minehira of Leilehua, Kauai's Linda Tanoue, Baldwin's Wallace Fujii and Dan Sakai of Waiakea.



JUNIOR OLYMPICS BID

Kamehameha junior Dane Sardinha has been invited to the trials for the United States Junior Olympic baseball team.

The all-star catcher will travel to Joplin, Mo., for the trials that will be held July 20-28.

If Sardinha, who will also represent Hawaii and the PONY League in Pine Bluff, Ark., June 23-30 in the national amateur all-star baseball tournament, makes the cut, he will practice Aug. 1-8 in Florida before flying to Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, for a series of games.



NEW ATHLETIC DIRECTOR

Deems Utsumi has been named to succeed Les Pelletier as athletic director of Lutheran High School. Pelletier had served since 1993.

Utsumi is a 1982 graduate of the University of Hawaii and has been a teacher and coach at Lutheran since 1987. He has coached girls' volleyball and boys' and girls' basketball.

The ILH member school has coaching vacancies for basketball, volleyball, bowling and cheerleading.

Interested parties may fax resumes to 949-5302.




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