Kapaa High School golfers Bryden Salvador and Naea Oda, the Kauai Interscholastic Federation individualist honors, were named to the KIF Golf All Star team last week. During the KIF 36-hole qualifying match played at the Wailua Golf Course in April,
Kapaa High School golfers Bryden Salvador and Naea Oda, the Kauai Interscholastic Federation individualist honors, were named to the KIF Golf All Star team last week.
During the KIF 36-hole qualifying match played at the Wailua Golf Course in April, Salvador copped the KIF boys individualist title with a 36-hole 147 (74-73), nine strokes ahead of Kauai High School’s Trevor Kua (75-81-156), one of the Red Raider leaders for the boys golf team which also earned the KIF title earlier.
Kua joined Salvador on the KIF Boys Golf all Star team along with Jamie Amimoto who finished third in the final KIF qualifying round at 161 (83-78).
Alton Amimoto, the Kauai High School boys golf coach, said the best six scores over the KIF golf season and the two qualifying round scores is the basis for determining the all stars. The honor going to the top six boys and top six girls.
Based on this criteria, Kua topped the boys all stars with a 79. Salvador and Amimoto followed a stroke back at 80 each, followed by Kapaa golfer Kainalu Gandia at 81. Jacob Viquelia and Keith Jose, both Kauai juniors, rounded out the boys at 83, and 86, respectively.
On the girls’ course, Kapaa senior Oda carded the top score at 82, the lone Warrior girl golfer winning the KIF girls individualist title on a 166 (86-80) over Kauai’s Hiilani Alana, who finished at 182 (86-96) and Island School’s Kari Whitworth who carded a 189 (97-92).
Based on the criteria for the KIF All Stars, Oda topped the leaderboard at 82 followed six strokes back by Alana at 88 and Whitworth at 96, tying Waimea’s upcoming golfer Samantha Nichols who will be a junior when she takes the field next season.
Waimea’s Kawena Warren finished with a 99 and Dillyn Sakai of Kauai, winning the girls team title earlier in the season, carding a 111.
