Mid-Pacific names
Villa athletic directorBill Villa has been selected to succeed Don Botelho as athletic director at Mid-Pacific Institute.
Villa was the athletic director at ASSETS school the past nine years and is the Interscholastic League of Honolulu's girls basketball coordinator. He will move over to MPI in July.
"I'm very excited about the new challenge of working with a larger program," Villa said.
Villa takes over for Botelho, who retires as MPI athletic director in August.
"Bill knows the ILH inside and out and that was one of the areas we were looking at in making the selection," MPI principal Rich Schaffer said.
Botelho was athletic director at Damien for nine years before moving to MPI, where he has worked 28 years.
He will continue to coach Pac-Five football and remains the state football coordinator for the Hawaii High School Athletic Association.
Villa will assist in the selection of the new ASSETS athletic director and hopes to name a replacement by the end of June.
Football rule changed back: The ILH yesterday rescinded a rule limiting varsity football teams to suiting up 65 players or less for games.
The rule was one of several instituted last year in the hope of restoring competitive balance to the league.
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Wilton meets BYU
president in ProvoA promise was made and a promise was kept.
Hawaii coach Mike Wilton met with Brigham Young President Merrill Bateman and athletic director Val Hale yesterday regarding the head volleyball coaching position at the university.
BYU coach Carl McGown resigned at the end of this season. McGown recommended Wilton and five other candidates as possibilities for the vacancy.
Wilton guided Hawaii to the 2002 national championship and is the most tenured coach in the program's history. His meetings with BYU officials were part of a promise he made in January when he agreed to talk with officials.
"Talks were good," Wilton said.
"There's more tomorrow. There's some information that I need that I won't get until next week. I'm still figuring out what the process is.
"There's still a lot of things I need to know, hopefully I'll find out more tomorrow. When they send me the information, I'll know more. I won't be making any decisions about anything until next week sometime."
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BYUH's Gaspar gets academic award
Brigham Young-Hawaii tennis player Petra Gaspar was named to the Verizon All-District All-Academic team yesterday.Gaspar was the national Player of the Year and carries a 3.42 grade point average.
Kaffka scores for Hawaii at WACchampionships
Hawaii scored its first point of the Western Athletic Conference outdoor track and field championships at Rice University when Nicole Kaffka finished eighth in the heptathlon yesterday.Kaffka scored most of her points in the high jump, where she jumped 1.64 meters for the third-best score. Steph Rombach of SMU won the event with 5,268 points.
Honolulu Polo Club to take on Kentucky
The Aloha Blue Grass Derby Cup Tournament, featuring players from the Louisville (Ky.) Polo Club, is scheduled for Sunday at the Honolulu Polo Club field in Waimanalo.Gates open at 1 p.m. followed by the match at 2:30 p.m.
More softball honors for UH's Judd, Porter
Hawaii softball players Kate Judd and Stacey Porter were named to the Louisville Slugger West Region first team yesterday.The two Australian nationals were named all-Western Athletic Conference earlier this week. Judd, a junior shortstop, earned her second consecutive WAC Player of the Year award after leading the league in batting with a .354 batting average.
Sailing Canoe Series starts again tomorrow
Some 15 sailing canoes are expected to compete in this weekend's Kahakuloa Challenge and North Shore Molokai Challenge, the fourth and fifth races of the Aston Sailing Canoe Race Series.The Kahakuloa Challenge is tomorrow with a 1 p.m. start time.
The course is from Kahului to Fleming Beach on Maui. Sunday the sailing canoes leave Fleming Beach at 8 a.m. and finish at Kaluakoi, Molokai.