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Nanea Estrella
Lahainaluna H Wrestling H Track and field
Alfred Failauga
Waipahu H Football
Chenoa Frederick La‘akea Gonsalves
Kapaa H Soccer H Football H Volleyball
Kamehameha-Hawaii H Track and field H Soccer

Nanea Estrella only two girls to Alfred Failauga’s top eight marks in Perhaps no 2020 events and the 100 The Hall of Honor winning the Division
completed her register four rushing records will single-game rushing graduate had more to meters in the same has become a family II state champion-
high school pins in the 2020 be eclipsed some- yardage, going over lose from COVID-19 state meet, making affair for the Gon- ship in soccer as a
wrestling career state tourna- day, but his spot 200 yards seven shutting down the her the state’s first salves folks from junior and reaching
with her fourth ment. Estrella among the immor- times and over the spring season than back-to-back Gato- Kauai. the sport’s state final
state title, mak- capped her out- tals in the Hall of century mark 29 Chenoa Frederick. rade Award winner La‘akea Gonsalves two other times. He
ing her only the standing career Honor will remain. times. He led The Kamehameha- since Victoria Chang joins his father, was a captain for all
second Maui girl with a pin of Failauga extended Waipahu to a state Hawaii senior had 20 years ago. Matthew, and his of his teams and
to accomplish Kamehameha Oahu’s career rush- title as a junior. eight individual gold Frederick has ruled uncle Gregory in the reached state finals
the feat behind judo champion ing mark by more Failauga excelled medals from the state the triple jump for the elite club. Matthew twice in volleyball
fellow Lahain- Skye Realin. than a thousand during the state track and field cham- last four years, the was inducted in 1991 and once in football
aluna standout STEVEN ERLER / 2019 Estrella was yards, churning out tournament, compil- pionships in her second girl to win it and Gregory was but fell short on
and Hall of judged the 5,795 in 39 games ing 698 yards and pocket when the 2020 three successive accepted in 1989. each occasion.
Honor inductee Lalelei Mataafa in state’s best wrestler in her senior to break former STEVEN ERLER / 2019 six touchdowns to event was called off. times. No girl has ever La‘akea Gonsalves Gonsalves was
2016. year, topping Hawaii Prep World’s Mililani standout sit second behind Even without her se- won it four times. followed the same named to the HH-
Unlike Mataafa, Estrella won her ti- pound-for-pound list after residing in and fellow inductee Vavae Malepeai’s fellow 2020 Hall of Honor inductee nior season, Freder- Rather than pre- blueprint as his fore- SAA’s all-tournament
tles in four different weight classes, the top three for three years. 4,549 from 2013-15. The durable Ma- Joshua Tihada of Lahainaluna in ick was one gold pare for track and fathers, excelling in team in soccer three
beginning with the 117-pound crown She helped Lahainaluna to the rauder compiled the yardage on an those categories despite playing half away from tying Hall field season all year, three sports. He COURTESY HHSAA times and was
as a freshman and finishing on the top team title as a freshman in 2016, but unheard of 940 carries, 250 more than as many games. of Honor members JAMM AQUINO / 2018 Frederick excelled in helped his teams to dubbed most out-
of the podium at 132 pounds. Only the Lunas fell short in her final three any running back before him. He was a generational talent for Heidi Freise, Prestine soccer in the winter nine KIF championships with his final standing as a junior when he scored
three girls made it the distance in Es- seasons. Failauga’s shining moment came in Waipahu, the first Marauder boy to Foster and Zhane Santiago for most months. She helped the Warriors to volleyball the lone goal against Saint Louis in
trella’s 15 state matches, and she Estrella is just as accomplished on his senior year against Castle, when be named to the Hall of Honor since individual golds. two state championship matches and season shut down because of the the title tilt for Kapaa’s first state title
pinned five of her opponents in the the national level as a Cadet National he toted the rock 31 times for 342 fellow football player Peter Viliamu in She probably wouldn’t have was named to the HHSAA’s all-tourna- COVID-19 pandemic. in the sport in six years.
first period, four of them in her senior Team member and will move on to yards (fifth all-time on Oahu) and five 1989. Failauga is still searching for a stopped there, as Frederick won four ment team as a senior. For all of his success on Kauai, he Gonsalves, a decorated Eagle
season as she was on the mat for only compete for national power Menlo touchdowns. college to attend and wants to play gold medals as a junior. She was the Frederick will attend the University proved that his Warriors can hang Scout, will attend Chaminade and
5 minutes, 34 seconds. She was one of College while majoring in marketing. Failauga owns seven of Waipahu’s Division I football. first girl to win all three jumping of Hawaii. with teams from bigger islands by play soccer there.

Christina Hicks
Punahou H Water polo H Swimming
Caiyle Kaupu
Konawaena H Basketball
Legend Matautia Elena Oglivie
‘Iolani H Volleyball
Punahou H Football H Wrestling H Judo H Track & field

Like so many ened the career The Konawaena she missed only It’s official, the teammate, he Elena Oglivie three Gatorade Ha-
Punahou water polo record of 36 held by girls basketball pro- three shots from boy has lived up made his mark in was one of the best waii Player of the
players before her, Kamehameha’s gram continues to the field and scored to his name. individual sports. volleyball players Year awards. 2007
Christina Hicks’ high Nanea Fujiyama. Her pump out excellence. 37 points against a Punahou’s He won two state in the history of Hall of Honor in-
school athletic career 13 goals in a single Caiyle Kaupu is tough Kahuku Legend Matautia championships in the state, now she ductee Kanani Her-
was marked by per- tournament was the the school’s latest squad. That threat- follows former wrestling and an- is one of the best ring of
fection. most by any player inductee in the Hall ened the state re- teammate Duke other in judo. The athletes. Kamehameha is the
Hicks led her Buf- since Brittney Garri- of Honor, joining a cord of 38 points by Clemens into the COVID-19 pan- Oglivie was in- only other girl to
fanblu to unbeaten gan of Kamehameha long list of girls who Kalina Obrey of Hall of Honor. demic robbed ducted into the win three of them.
seasons in the first eight years ago. have represented the Kamehameha, but He is known him of a chance Hall of Honor as She didn’t play in
three years of her For all of Puna- Wildcats on the hard- Kaupu left the con- primarily as a to defend his the first ‘Iolani vol- the state tourna-
career but didn’t get hou’s dominance wood. test with 50 sec- football player judo title and add leyball player ac- ment her senior
to have that mark in the pool, Hicks The program was onds left. and will compete a gold medal in cepted into the season when the
tested when her is just the third shut out of the honor The annual BIIF in the sport on BRUCE ASATO / 2019 track and field. elite club since UH Raiders failed to
senior campaign was Buffanblu water polo last year after land- boss was the the next level at San Matautia com- star Kanoe qualify, but she did
wiped out by the player inducted in ing five inductees in Gatorade Hawaii Diego. The middle linebacker was a peted on the track and field team for Kamana’o in 2003. compile some team
COVID-19 pandemic. STEVEN ERLER / 2019 the Hall of Honor, the previous three CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / 2019 Player of the Year starter from the moment he joined three years, spinning the discus 151 Oglivie wasted JAY METZGER / 2019 glory with a gold
The Buffanblu have joining Emalia years before she and was named to the varsity after being the captain of feet, 7 inches to beat his personal re- no time once she hit medal in the World
won every state water polo title since Eichelberger in 2016 and Aisha Price came along. She led her team to the Star-Advertiser’s Fab 15 all four his JV team. By the time his prep cord by 3 inches at the state champi- the high school scene, ending her ini- Championships for the USA Youth
2008. in 2009. three HHSAA title-game appearances, years of her career. Only fellow in- football career was over, Matautia onships. He settled for second, tial year as the first freshman to win National Team.
Hicks scored 13 of her team’s 44 Hicks, who finished her prep winning as a freshman and a sopho- ductees Brandy Richardson of Kala- rose to first-team All-State and was though, a fraction of an inch behind the Star-Advertiser’s Player of the Oglivie finished her high school ca-
goals in last year’s state tournament, career with a 3.79 GPA, will follow more before slipping as a junior and heo, Nani Cockett of Kamehameha awarded Punahou’s prestigious teammate Kennedy Freeman. As if he Year award locally and being named reer with a sterling 4.02 grade-point
and is fourth in her program’s his- Eichelberger to Stanford, where she senior. Her teams never finished and Chanelle and Cherilyn Molina of McEldowney-Mattias Award along didn’t have enough to do, Matautia the freshman of the year nationally average at demanding ‘Iolani and will
tory with 20 tallies. Had she repli- intends on majoring in human biol- below third place. Konawaena have done that. with fellow 2020 Hall of Honor also competed in the shot put. by prepvolleyball.com. Oglivie kept move on to further challenge herself
cated her output in the lost 2020 ogy or biomechanical engineering Kaupu’s shining moment came in Kaupu will attend UC Irvine but inductee Christina Hicks. He plans to major in Electrical going from there, leading ‘Iolani to at Stanford after having her choice of
tournament, she would have threat- with an eye on the 2024 Olympics. this year’s state semifinals, where has not decided on a major. For all of Matautia’s value as a Engineering at San Diego. two state titles and finishing with colleges to attend.

Kysen Terukina
Kamehameha H Wrestling H Soccer
Joshua Tihada
Lahainaluna H Football H Basketball
Christmas Togiai
Kamehameha H Basketball H Volleyball H Football
Roman Wilson
Saint Louis H Football H Track and field

It took an back team ti- It’s one thing equalled only The COVID-19 pan- judged tops in the Roman Wilson seconds for the
eternity, but a tles as a junior to win four by BJ Batts of demic brought a lot state since fellow has been Ha- state record.
Terukina has and senior, and championships Saint Louis. of ‘what-ifs’ to the lo- Hall of Honor in- waii’s fastest His speed
finally cracked has been in an individual Tihada cal sports scene, but ductee Micah Chris- schoolboy for translated to
the Hall of ranked No. 1 sport, it is quite rushed for the biggest one might tenson in 2011. He the past two the football
Honor. on Hawaiiprep- another to do it 3,504 yards in have come a few averaged 14.1 points, years, now he is season, where
Kysen Teruk- world.com’s in a team sport. his career with weeks prior. 6.1 rebounds and 2.6 among the fast- Wilson helped
ina was in- pound-for- Joshua 67 TDs but his Kamehameha blocks per game be- est in state his- the Crusaders
ducted into the pound rankings Tihada and highlight might basketball star fore his injury. tory. to a fourth
elite class this ever since fel- 18 other La- be tallying the Christmas Togiai Like Christenson Wilson joins straight state
year, the first low slammer hainaluna se- winning score suffered an ACL tear before him, Togiai speedsters like title and a na-
male Kame- Corey Caban- niors did just in the epic in the state semifi- also represented his Shane Victorino, tional ranking.
hameha wres- JAMM AQUINO / FEB. 22
ban of Saint that, ending all JAMM AQUINO / 2018 seven-overtime nals, and his un- school as a Fab-15 Bryan Clay and Wilson was a
tler to make it Louis punched four of their championship beaten Warriors went volleyball player and Adrian Murrell in JAMM AQUINO / 2019 receiver for
since Dane Pestano in 2013. He is his ticket to the Hall of Honor. football seasons with a state Division game against Konawaena in his on to lose the cham- earned three varsity the Hall of Honor three of the
from the first family of As if to distract himself from the II crown. The Lunas class of 2020 is sophomore year. pionship game with- letters in the sport. despite losing the chance at breaking championships, totalling 103 recep-
Hawaii wrestling, but the only one enormity of the task at hand, Teruk- the only one from a public school to Tihada also played defense, start- out him. He played two years their records. tions, 1,948 yards and 22 touch-
to complete the grand slam with ina decided to split his senior season win four straight state titles. ing his career on that side of the ball Even without the of football and earned Wilson reigned as the state cham- downs. He led the Crusaders in
four state titles. between wrestling and soccer. He Tihada is the most successful and was a captain and point guard on elusive title, Togiai’s JOHN LUJAN / JAN. 9 ILH honorable men- pion in the 100 meters in his junior receiving yards in his junior and se-
Terukina is the sixth boy to com- quickly took to his new sport, earn- running back in HHSAA history, the school’s successful basketball career added up into tion as a junior before year, running it in 10.68 seconds nior seasons and was a first-team All-
plete the slam and the first from his ing first-team ILH honors and scoring earning the single-game mark of 310 team as a junior and senior. a spot in the Hall of Honor. giving up the game to concentrate on before helping the Saint Louis State selection both years.
storied program. He won at 113, 120, a game-winning goal the same day as yards in his final contest and career The student with a 3.417 grade- Togiai swept Star-Advertiser, basketball and volleyball. 4x100-meter relay team to a state Wilson, a four-star prospect with a
126 and 132 pounds and was the top taking first in the Hawaii Officials marks in touchdowns (19), rushing point average will move on to UNLV, Gatorade and MaxPreps Player of the Togiai had a 3.8 grade-point aver- record in the event as the only school 3.57 grade-point average, intends to
seed in his bracket every year. He Wrestling Tournament. yards (1,087) and carries (176). It where he will play for the football Year awards, his second straight sea- age. His plan is to attend Embry-Rid- to break 41 seconds. His final track play football and run track for Michi-
also won four ILH titles. Terukina will move on to wrestle helped that he played in nine HHSAA team and major in compressive son in the newspaper’s Fab 15. He dle Aeronautical University and train meet was canceled by the COVID-19 gan next year. He will major in com-
Terukina contributed to back-to- for national power Iowa State. games in his long career, a number kinesiology. was the first Kamehameha boy to be to become a commercial pilot. pandemic needing to shave just 0.05 puter engineering.

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