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Just For Kicks Al Chase |
Youth teams busy
competing at
nationalsThree Hawaii youth soccer teams have been competing in national championship tournaments this past week.
The Real Hawaii Futbol Club Under-12 girls and the Mililani Soccer Club Under-13 boys participated in the United States Club Soccer National Championships at Cary, N.C., competing in the premier and first divisions, respectively.
This was the first time Hawaii is represented in this event and both teams did well. Real Hawaii won the division by going 1-0-2. Mililani finished second.
Real Hawaii team members are Dayna Akiu, Mari Carmichael, LeiAnn Chun, Ashley Deguchi, Lauren Fukuyama, Ashley Ann Haruki, Sophia Hollis, Kylie Ann Kanda, Melody Lee, Karli Look, Rachel Marumoto, Koala Matsuoka, Mari Miyashiro, Chelsea Miyake, Michelle Nakasone, Erika Nana, Erin Park and Kearsten Sego.
Real Hawaii is coached by Lisa Nakagawa, Steve Miyashiro and Leland Look and the club director is Sean Richardson.
This year the team also won the Hawaii State U12G's Championship, HYSA OL U14G league Championship, Tide American Cup U12G's Championship, and MISO Jr.'s U12G's league Championship.
The Mililani boys are coached by Tom Powell and Jeff Yamamoto.
Team members are Rory Yamamoto (Mililani), Noah Ogata (Mililani), Matthew Dutson (Pearl Harbor), Austin Wakinekona (Nanakuli), Parker Powell (Haleiwa), Jared Domingo (Kapolei), Alan Albertazzi (Mililani), Gareth Gomez (Aiea), Alexander Prideaux (Hickam), Paul Nakamoto (Mililani), Cory Nakagawa (Mililani), Ken Hayashi (Mililani), Philip Sakaba (Mililani), Kyle Suan (Mililani), Michael Anduha (Mililani), Aaron Miyamoto, (Wahiawa) and Micah Borja (Mililani).
For more information on the final day of play at the USCSNC, see Hawaii Beat.
The Honolulu Soccer Club Bulls Under-19 boys team plays in today's final of the United States Youth Soccer National Championships at Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The Bulls qualified by winning the Far West Regional title last month.
The Bulls play CASL '84 CASL Elite (N.C.) in the final. The other regional winners in the event were the Baltimore (Md.) Bays and Scott Gallagher (Mo.)
CASL handed the Bulls their only loss, 1-0 Thursday.
The Bulls strikers are Akihida Adachi (Japan), Nathan Amous (Mililani, Carlton College), Max Anton (Kalaheo), Duke Hashimoto (Iolani, Southern Methodist) and Satoshi Mitsuda (Punahou, Boston College).
The midfielders are Justin Kim (Mililani), David Gualdarama (Kamehameha, New Mexico), Brandon Tano (Kamehameha, UC Irvine), Richard Higa (Mid-Pacific, UMass), and Bret Shimizu (Stanford).
Defenders include Stephen Carlson (Punahou, Loyola Marymount), Matthew Fischer (Washington), Scott Shiraishi (Iolani, UC Irvine), Kenshiro Uki (Pearl City, Whitworth) and Ryan Wisdom (Westmont).
Charged with guarding the nets are William Cooper (Kalaheo) and David Semenza (Punahou, Brown).
The competition began with more than 129,000 players on 7,200 teams in 55 state associations.
Congratulations to the Hilo All-American girls team that won the Under-16 division in the AYSO National Games recently at Lancaster, Calif.
See the Columnists section for some past articles. Just for Kicks runs every other Sunday in the Star-Bulletin.
Al Chase can be reached at achase@starbulletin.com