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In a meet that was feared might not happen a day earlier due to weather, history was made as Mid-Pacific earned a share of a state track and field championship for the first time in the school’s history Saturday at Kamehameha.
The Mid-Pac girls earned the tie with Punahou when freshman Miwa Takashima’s final triple jump pulled the Owls into a tie with the Buffanblu, who had just gone ahead minutes earlier with second-place points in the pole vault by Kaya-Alani Smith.
The Island Movers/HHSAA Track & Field Championships trials on Friday were shortened due to lighting and thunder, and a makeshift tentative schedule was set for Saturday’s finals. A modified system using times from trials to determine winners for running events was used to allow the meet to be completed in one day.
The girls from Punahou and Mid-Pac scored 62 points each, with Kahuku third with 44. Millani was fourth with 38.
Punahou got its share of the win with a team effort, including a meet record 47.87 seconds in the 4×100 relay (Olivia Schiel, Maya Yoshimura, Hayden Wong, and Emily Sparks) and the 4×800 (Ali Yamamoto, Avery Tanaka, Reina Lee and Lauren Oliver), which ran 9:43.30.
Destiny Look provided most of the points for MPI, with victories in all three jump events and the 100 and 300 hurdles. She completes her career as one of the best high school athletes in the state’s sports history, and will move on to Southern Methodist University to compete in the heptathlon.
“I’m so proud of her, and last year she didn’t have much help. This year, she had support, including a clutch jump from a freshman,” Look’s coach, Rick Hendrix, said. “Also, I want to say I’ve got a great support staff.”
There was much less team drama in the boys meet, but plenty of star power.
Moanalua distance runner James Millare also made history by anchoring the boys 4×800 meter relay and winning the 1500, 800 and 3000 meters for the second year in a row, as Na Menehune successfully defended its boys championship, with plenty of points to spare.
Moanalua scored 87, Baldwin was second with 54 and Mililani third with 46.5.
“I’m just glad we’re not a one-hit wonder, considering what we lost with graduation,” Moanalua coach Earl Kishimoto said.
But Moanalua had Millare — one of the finest distance runners in Hawaii high school history — and sprinter and jumper Jayden Grevious also keyed Moanalua’s boys win, with victory in the 100 meters (10.8) and 200 and second in the long jump to Punahou’s Dane Kellner.
“I’m super happy that we could do it back-to-back,” Grevious said. “And glad that I could win my events because I had an injured foot when I got tripped up at the the 4×4 in the OIA meet last week.”
Violet Schaut of Konawaena set a meet record with 12.03 in the 100 meters, but other schools with depth stayed ahead of the 2025 team champions. Schaut also won the 200 later in the meet.
With 7 of 17 events scored, Punahou had surpassed the 24 points scored on Friday by Farrington’s 1-2-3 discus throwers, with 28. Mid-Pacific was tied with Farrington, and Kahuku fourth with 20 and Kona fifth with 18.
Moanalua’s boys led early with 41, Punahou second at 30 and Mililani third at 26.5.
Most of the Trojans boys early points were from taking the top three spots of the 110 hurdles with Les Cabrera Hopkins leading the way with 15.06.
“I’m not perfect in any of my races, but I felt good today, Cabrera Hopkins said.
The Buffanblu boys were bolstered by a record performance in the pole vault by Punahou’s Keala Utsuki of 15 feet, 5 inches.
“Usually we have more warmups, but because of the weather situation it was different,” Utsuki said. “But it was still great to set the meet record. I felt like I barely cleared it.”
Millare did not come close to his state meet record of 3:53.16 set last year in the 1500 meters, but he took the lead with about 500 meters to go and won in 4:03.14.
Millare had also anchored Moanalua’s winning 4×800 meter relay run about an hour earlier.
Look won the girls 100 meter hurdles in a time of 14.59 seconds.
“I stumbled out of the blocks,” she said. “But it worked out OK.”
With Sadie Krueger winning the 1500 meters, both of Moanalua’s 1500 champions of 2025 successfully defended their titles, but with neither breaking the records they set last year. But Krueger did break her own meet record by winning the 800 meters in 2:10.38. Her previous record of 2:12.21 was also eclipsed by second place Freya Carlsen from Seabury Hall, who ran 2:11.74.
Kamehameha’s Kalei Harbottle bounced back from no mark in the discus to a state meet record of 64-feet, 7.5 inches that has him in the top 15 in the nation.
Farrington’s Cassera Togia White doubled in the shot put (41-3.25) and discus (151-1).
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The Mid-Pac girls earned the tie with Punahou when freshman Miwa Takashima’s final triple jump pulled the Owls into a tie with the Buffanblu, who had just gone ahead minutes earlier with second-place points in the pole vault by Kaya-Alani Smith.
The Island Movers/HHSAA Track & Field Championships trials on Friday were shortened due to lighting and thunder, and a makeshift tentative schedule was set for Saturday’s finals. A modified system using times from trials to determine winners for running events was used to allow the meet to be completed in one day.
The girls from Punahou and Mid-Pac scored 62 points each, with Kahuku third with 44. Millani was fourth with 38.
Punahou got its share of the win with a team effort, including a meet record 47.87 seconds in the 4×100 relay (Olivia Schiel, Maya Yoshimura, Hayden Wong, and Emily Sparks) and the 4×800 (Ali Yamamoto, Avery Tanaka, Reina Lee and Lauren Oliver), which ran 9:43.30.
Destiny Look provided most of the points for MPI, with victories in all three jump events and the 100 and 300 hurdles. She completes her career as one of the best high school athletes in the state’s sports history, and will move on to Southern Methodist University to compete in the heptathlon.
“I’m so proud of her, and last year she didn’t have much help. This year, she had support, including a clutch jump from a freshman,” Look’s coach, Rick Hendrix, said. “Also, I want to say I’ve got a great support staff.”
There was much less team drama in the boys meet, but plenty of star power.
Moanalua distance runner James Millare also made history by anchoring the boys 4×800 meter relay and winning the 1500, 800 and 3000 meters for the second year in a row, as Na Menehune successfully defended its boys championship, with plenty of points to spare.
Moanalua scored 87, Baldwin was second with 54 and Mililani third with 46.5.
“I’m just glad we’re not a one-hit wonder, considering what we lost with graduation,” Moanalua coach Earl Kishimoto said.
But Moanalua had Millare — one of the finest distance runners in Hawaii high school history — and sprinter and jumper Jayden Grevious also keyed Moanalua’s boys win, with victory in the 100 meters (10.8) and 200 and second in the long jump to Punahou’s Dane Kellner.
“I’m super happy that we could do it back-to-back,” Grevious said. “And glad that I could win my events because I had an injured foot when I got tripped up at the the 4×4 in the OIA meet last week.”
Violet Schaut of Konawaena set a meet record with 12.03 in the 100 meters, but other schools with depth stayed ahead of the 2025 team champions. Schaut also won the 200 later in the meet.
With 7 of 17 events scored, Punahou had surpassed the 24 points scored on Friday by Farrington’s 1-2-3 discus throwers, with 28. Mid-Pacific was tied with Farrington, and Kahuku fourth with 20 and Kona fifth with 18.
Moanalua’s boys led early with 41, Punahou second at 30 and Mililani third at 26.5.
Most of the Trojans boys early points were from taking the top three spots of the 110 hurdles with Les Cabrera Hopkins leading the way with 15.06.
“I’m not perfect in any of my races, but I felt good today, Cabrera Hopkins said.
The Buffanblu boys were bolstered by a record performance in the pole vault by Punahou’s Keala Utsuki of 15 feet, 5 inches.
“Usually we have more warmups, but because of the weather situation it was different,” Utsuki said. “But it was still great to set the meet record. I felt like I barely cleared it.”
Millare did not come close to his state meet record of 3:53.16 set last year in the 1500 meters, but he took the lead with about 500 meters to go and won in 4:03.14.
Millare had also anchored Moanalua’s winning 4×800 meter relay run about an hour earlier.
Look won the girls 100 meter hurdles in a time of 14.59 seconds.
“I stumbled out of the blocks,” she said. “But it worked out OK.”
With Sadie Krueger winning the 1500 meters, both of Moanalua’s 1500 champions of 2025 successfully defended their titles, but with neither breaking the records they set last year. But Krueger did break her own meet record by winning the 800 meters in 2:10.38. Her previous record of 2:12.21 was also eclipsed by second place Freya Carlsen from Seabury Hall, who ran 2:11.74.
Kamehameha’s Kalei Harbottle bounced back from no mark in the discus to a state meet record of 64-feet, 7.5 inches that has him in the top 15 in the nation.
Farrington’s Cassera Togia White doubled in the shot put (41-3.25) and discus (151-1).
Hawaii Prep World
For high school sports record books, visit .
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