Kealakehe has forfeited its 2008 Division I football championship due to a “;clerical error”; that permitted an ineligible student-athlete to participate.

Big Island Interscholastic Federation president Robert Dircks made the announcement in a press release, noting that the school sent a self-disclosure report to the league about a fifth-year student on the team. BIIF bylaws state that student-athletes have only four consecutive years of eligibility after entry into the ninth grade.