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TWO mainland recruits have signed national letters of intent to play for the University of Hawaii Wahine soccer team next year. Mainland recruits
sign with HawaiiSasha Araya-Schraner from Mt. Carmel High School in San Diego, and Tasha Rowe from Boulder High School in Boulder City, Nev., bring the number of recruits signed for this fall to five.
Araya-Schraner has been a defender, midfielder and striker. The 5-foot-6 versatile player helped her team to two Palomar League championships.
"She is a clever player. Her experience will definitely help us out," UH head coach Pinsoom Tenzing said.
Araya-Schraner also was recruited by Baylor, Cornell and Washington State.
Rowe made recruiting trips to Idaho State, the University of San Francisco and visited UH in December.
"I liked the place and I heard Hawaii has a great engineering program," Rowe said.
"If something happened and I couldn't play soccer anymore, that's where I would want to finish school."
Rowe has been in the Nevada Olympic Development Program for four years and attended camp the past two summers.
She plays club soccer with the NFC Tabagators, winners of five consecutive state titles. She can play the midfield or operate as a striker.
"Tasha is a front runner with good quickness and she's a good finisher," Tenzing said.
Earlier high school recruits signing were Kahuku striker Natasha Kai, Moanalua goalkeeper Erin Chow and Aiea midfielder Joelle Sugai.
Kim Sandhoff was named to the All-Southeast region third-team by Soccer Buzz Magazine, as voted by NCAA Division I women's soccer coaches. It is the second consecutive year the senior striker was named to the All-Southeast third-team.
"Kim is very deserving of this award and had a great career at East Carolina University," Lady Pirate head coach Rob Donnenwirth said. "She set the benchmark for new players and toppled all of the school's offensive records."
Sandhoff (Pearl City High School) shattered school season and career records for goals, assists and points.
She also finished in a tie for fifth in assists (15) and fourth in assists a game (0.79) among NCAA Division I schools during the 2000 season. The Waipahu resident also notched six goals (two game-winning goals) and had a school-record 60 shots.
Soccer Buzz Magazine cited two other players from Hawaii. Shari Nishikawa (Iolani) was named to the West Region All-Freshman team. She was a midfielder/defender for the Loyola Marymount Lions. Shanelle Piano (Mililani), a sophomore defender for the Nevada Wolf Pack, was a first-team pick for schools with first-year programs in 2000.
Ticket sales for the 2002 World Cup, the most complex in the history of the event, start today. Sales begin simultaneously on the international market and in the host countries, South Korea and Japan.
The Olympic Stadium in Munich, Germany, host for the 2006 World Cup opener, could see no action at all after its designers objected to plans for its $180 million renovation.
The stadium, which was built for the 1972 Olympics, is landmarked and needs the approval of its designers for any changes.
Bayern Munich and TSV 1860 Munich share Olympic Stadium and want it made into a modern soccer arena. But residents in the area, track and field supporters and national heritage officials say the stadium would lose too much of its original character and design if it became a purely soccer arena.
