Who were the biggest UH stars in WAC era?
May 26th, 2012
By dreardon
By dreardon
Today’s column looks at the biggest highlights of University of Hawaii sports during its 33 years in the WAC as the Warriors, Rainbows and Wahine exit the conference. What about individual athletes? Who were the biggest UH stars in WAC competition.
Al Noga. Jason Elam. Colt Brennan. Anthony Carter. Kolten Wong. Kim Willoughby. Kanani Danielson. Natasha Kai. National champions like Emma Friesen and Amber Kaufman.
Those are just a few. Who were UH’s best in the WAC?
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Quick Reads
May 27th, 2012 at 12:41 am
The 1980 CWS team. First year in the WAC and in with a bang. Chuck Crim, Brian Duquette, Ricki Bass, Thad Reece, Colin Tanabe, Kimo Perkins.
May 27th, 2012 at 1:02 am
2009 WAC Freshman of the Year.
2010, 2011, 2012 WAC Pitcher of the Year.
Two WAC regualr season titles and one WAC tourney title.
All as the go-to ace…
Stephanie Ricketts.
May 27th, 2012 at 4:17 am
4-time first team all WAC
3-time WAC Player of the year
WAC Freshman of the Year
4-time WAC champion
Kanoe Kamana`o
May 27th, 2012 at 5:34 am
So many great players and moments, but I will always remember such players as my all-time favorite, Gary Allen, plus Will Haslip and my favorite basketball player, Chris Gaines RIP. So many memories of my childhood and now adulthood. I thank UH and all of it’s athletes for giving me many fond memories.
May 27th, 2012 at 5:35 am
Oops, meant “its” athletes, not “it’s”.
May 27th, 2012 at 11:44 am
All great athletes who really made huge marks in the WAC. Kanoe Kamana’o in particular is emblematic of UH Wahine volleyball … she was consistently spectacular, just like the program.
May 27th, 2012 at 7:36 pm
Bill Blanchette. Junk-ball ace + best hitter on a team that I think went regionals. Michael Carter? Travis Sims?
May 27th, 2012 at 11:12 pm
Bembu got it right. I would add Michael Carter and Travis Sims to the list. Plus Heather Bown and Tee Williams for Wahine Volleyball.
May 28th, 2012 at 2:23 am
1980 CWS…lets not leave out the whole team.
Rick Bass, OF
Chuck Crim, P
Howard Dashefsky, 1B
Bryan Duquette, P
Jay Erdahl, OF
Les Kakazu, INF/OF
Sam Kakazu, P
Wes Kimura, P
Alan Lane, P
Joel Lono, P/OF
Gordon Muramaru, INF
Wade Mauricio, INF
Larry O’Connor, 1B
Mark Olmos, P
Greg Oniate, OF/DH
Kimo Perkins, 3B
Thad Reece, 2B
Scott Roberts, P
Glenn Silva, P
David Smith, P
Collin Tanabe, C
Eric Tokunaga, SS
Kevin Williams, OF
The coaches
Les Murakami
Coop DeRenne
Jim Fujimori
Dave Murakami
Carl Furutani
Ron Nomura
May 28th, 2012 at 2:24 am
tanabe, perkins and tokunaga made all tourney team.
May 28th, 2012 at 2:25 am
however, we can never leave out the guy who’s performances inspired the uhad to build the les murakami stadium.
derek tatsuno…yup the house that tats built.
May 28th, 2012 at 2:26 am
garret “the byu beater” gabriel
May 28th, 2012 at 2:27 am
allen allen and juval katz
May 28th, 2012 at 2:27 am
robin ah mow and heather bown
May 28th, 2012 at 4:57 am
Only thing about Tats, Wahines like Teee and the Men’s Vball- not in the WAC yet or in the MPSF.
May 28th, 2012 at 9:38 am
robin…that’s correct. seems so long ago. in tats’ defense he paved the way for the les and our wac existence (okay football, too).
May 28th, 2012 at 9:41 am
mike campbell…1st round pick/7th overall. made it to the bigs over nine years. too bad shoulder problems prevented him from realizing a more successful career.
May 28th, 2012 at 10:05 am
Gary Allen, David Toloumu and the defense. They played in the WAC for a couple of years.
May 28th, 2012 at 10:06 am
Mike Campbell made it to the starting rotation of the Mariners. I think Scott Karl probably had the best career of a starting pitcher. Chuck Crim had several outstanding seasons as a setup reliever and closer.
May 30th, 2012 at 6:10 am
Niko and Al Noga
May 30th, 2012 at 4:56 pm
Fab Five!
May 30th, 2012 at 4:57 pm
Oops not WAC era
May 30th, 2012 at 6:32 pm
Not sure what happened to pitcher, Steven Wright after he was drafted (by Cleveland?) , but I managed to find my way to the stadium whenever he was pitching at home. Never saw Tats pitch, but the old guys in the stands say he was 10 times better than Steven Wright – all i can say is Wow!
May 30th, 2012 at 6:49 pm
Best in my 20 years (1989 – 2009) was Colt Brennan. Close behind Colt IMHO were Jeff Ulbrich and Chad Mighty Mouse Owens. Honestly the other sports were a blur to me as a football nut, but A.C. and Alika are always remembered fondly. Riley Wallace for speaking up when Bob Wagner got canned. Heather Bowen is amazing. Julian Sensley, Karl English and all the guys that put a 22 point lickins on Maui Invitational bound, #4 rated, Tom Izzo and Michigan State. So many to consider . . . lucky we live Hawaii.
June 17th, 2012 at 5:48 pm
How come you dont have your site viewable in mobile format? cant see anything in my netbook.