• HASA state surfing championships • Idaho becomes a WAC member • BYUH women nominated • Hawai‘i Sailers win National Title HASA state surfing championships About 100 surfers from the neighbor islands are competing in the Hawai‘i Amateur Surfing Association’s
• HASA state surfing championships
• Idaho becomes a WAC member
• BYUH women nominated
• Hawai‘i Sailers win National Title
HASA state surfing championships
About 100 surfers from the neighbor islands are competing in the Hawai‘i Amateur Surfing Association’s state championships held on O‘ahu.
Finals in all the divisions will run today with about 12 surfers from Kaua‘i still alive for a chance to advance to the American Surfing Championships, June 13-17 or the National Scholastic Surfing Association Championships, June 18-26, and then the U.S. Surfing Championships, July 23-25.
Kaua‘i’s Bethany Hamilton won her first round heat in the girls division, but was eliminated in the second round.
Idaho becomes a WAC member
The Western Athletic Conference Board of Directors announced that an invitation for membership has been issued to and accepted by the University of Idaho to join the conference as a full member, effective July 1, 2005.
Currently a 10-member conference, the WAC will consist of nine members: Boise State, Fresno State, Hawai‘i, Idaho, Louisiana Tech, Nevada, New Mexico State, San Jose State, and Utah State when competition begins for the 2005-2006 season.
BYUH women nominated
Two Brigham Young University-Hawai‘i female athletes, Chelsea Smith of the women’s cross-country team and Adrienn Hegedus of the women’s tennis team have been named nominees for the 2003-2004 NCAA II Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year.
The winner will be announced later in June and will be presented with the award at a press conference at Columbia University in New York City on June 21.
Hawai‘i Sailers win National Title
CASCADE LOCKS, Ore. – The University of Hawai`i Rainbow sailing team won the ICSA North American Coed Dinghy Championships Friday.
The Rainbows claimed their first-ever title in the coed dinghy division, with their only other national title coming in 2001, in the women’s division.
