The third annual Nike Hawaii Coach of the Year football clinic will be held Feb. 27-28 and March 1 at the Turtle Bay Hilton Hotel on Oahu's North Shore. Football coaches to conduct clinic
Coaches expected to speak include Tom Holmoe of California, Pat Hill of Fresno State, Bob Simmons of Oklahoma State, Fred vonAppen of Hawaii, Wes Susan of Linfield College, Steve Morton and Randy Hart of Washington, Al "Buzz" Preston and Bill Doba of Washington State and Jerry Fornelia of King Kekaulike High School on the Big Island.
The clinic starts Friday, Feb. 27 at 4 p.m. with the High School Coach of the Year speakers.
The cost for preregistration (until Feb. 15) is $70 per coach. The late-registration cost (after Feb. 15) is $80. A special room rate of $115 per night for each coach is available.
For more information, call assistant clinic director Rick Sakata at 775-8162 (Big Island) or clinic director Earl Browning at 1-502-425-2937.
STEWART WINS BODYBOARD MEET: Mike Stewart of Kailua-Kona won the 16th annual Morey World Bodyboarding Championship for the 11th time Sunday, braving monstrous waves at the Banzai Pipeline to beat Brazilian star Guilherme Tamega, Hawaii's Kainoa McGee and South Africa's Alistair Taylor in the final.
Stewart picked up the $6,000 winner's prize. Tamega took second place, and $4,000, while clinching his third straight World Tour title, with winnings of $22,675.
McGee ($2,700) was third and Taylor ($2,100) fourth.
The waves reportedly swelled from 10-20 feet high at the start of the day to 40 feet for the final, the largest surf ever for a bodyboarding event.
CENTRAL WASHINGTON ALUMNI AFFAIR: The Central Washington University Alumni Association will sponsor a special gathering for its 200-plus alumni who live in Hawaii tomorrow from 7-9 p.m. in the Diamond Head Terrace Ballroom of the Outrigger Reef Hotel.
Admission is $10. The event is open to all CWU alumni, friends of the university and basketball fans.
Central Washington's basketball team will play Brigham Young-Hawaii Thursday night at Laie and will take on Hawaii Pacific Saturday night at Mid-Pacific Institute.
For more information, call the CWU office of alumni relations at 1-800-752-4378.
TORCO, KURISU ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICANS: Two Hawaii residents - senior defensive backs Kala Torco of Whitworth (Wash.) College and Mark Kurisu of Linfield (Ore.) College - have been named 1997 NAIA Football All-America scholar-athletes.
Torco, from Kaneohe, had a 3.63 grade point average in Sociology/Philosophy.
Kurisu, from Wahiawa, had a 3.57 GPA in Elementary Education.
UH-HILO 'HALL OF FAME' GAME: Former basketball player Jim DeGroot, former volleyball players Peka Malae and Lyndell Lindsey, and public relations specialist Walt Southward will be inducted into the City Bank/Hawaii-Hilo Hall of Fame at halftime of the Vulcans' basketball game against Alaska-Fairbanks Saturday night at Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium.
There also will be a Hall of Fame luncheon at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Hawaii Naniloa Resort's Kilohana Room. Tickets are $20.