Collins-Parker honored by NCAA

Former Hawaii volleyball All-American Deitre Collins-Parker, the current volleyball coach at Cornell, received the NCAA Silver Anniversary Award on Thursday at the NCAA Honors and Delegates Celebration in Washington, D.C.

The award, given in conjunction with the NCAA Convention, honors former student-athletes who successfully completed collegiate careers in various sports and have excelled in their chosen professions on their 25th anniversary of completing their athletics eligibility.

Collins-Parker, who also played one season of basketball, joined Mark Fusco (Harvard, ice hockey), Earl Graves Jr. (Yale, basketball), Darrell Green (Texas A&M-Kingsville, football and indoor/outdoor track and field), Kathy McMinn (Georgia, gymnastics) and Steve Young (Brigham Young, football) as the 2009 recipients. 

UH finishes strong in Wenner meet

Hawaii hosted the Peter Wenner Rainbow Invite this weekend, with two UH teams finishing in second place in their division.

A total of 20 teams competed in the two-day event, named after the former Rainbows sailor who lost his life in a boating accident last November.

UH fielded four teams, including three on the coed side. The Hawaii Red team finished second behind Brown in the coed division. Western Washington was third, followed by the Hawaii Blue team and UC Santa Barbara.

  In the women's JV division, Hawaii finished second to Brown, with Western Washington third and Washington fourth.

PACWEST PLACE

BYU-Hawaii players earn honors

Brigham Young-Hawaii's Lucas Alves was named PacWest men's basketball player of the week.

The junior forward averaged 23.0 points and 7.5 rebounds in back-to-back victories for the Seasiders. Alves shot 66.7 percent from the floor, including 4-for-6 on 3-pointers.

» BYUH senior forward Latoya Wily earned the honor on the women's side, averaging 28.0 points and 19.0 rebounds over a two-game stretch.

Wily led the league in both scoring and rebounding for the week as the Seasiders went 2-0.