The 2015 fall sports season is coming to an end for our Navigator Athletes. IPA students competed in bowling, cross country, football, sporter air riflery, and volleyball (girls) bringing home one league championship (Intermediate Girls Volleyball) and one league individual champion (top Junior Varsity Boys shooter).
Bowling:
Sophomore Brandi Chun finished the season in 3rd place overall in ILH* varsity girls Bowling while taking on Hanalani last Friday. Varsity teammates Shania Bravo (’18), Joelle Pang (’16), and Miriam Wiggli (’18) also bowled at the final ILH match of the season. Junior Varsity bowlers Rylyne Bravo (’19), Reaksmeynita Lon (’18), Alyssa Okimoto (’18) and Catherine Otaka (’18) took on Pacific Buddhist Academy in their final match.
Our bowlers are participating in the Jared Kaufmann Post Season Memorial Tournament this week (October 20-23) at the Hickam Bowling Center.
Michael Lee (’16) is shown above celebrating Senior Night at a bowling match. He will compete in the HHSAA State Bowling Championships on Kauai next week along with Brandi Chun (’18) who is currently ranked 3rd in the ILH for girls.
Chun will travel to Lihue, Kauai for the HHSAA** State Bowling championships on October 29 and 30 at the Kauai Bowl. Senior Michael Lee will also travel to Kauai to compete in the state championships; Lee finished with a rank of 16 among ILH varsity boys. Students on IPA’s bowling teams are coached by parent Denton Chun.
Cross country:
IPA cross country runners competed in nine meets throughout their season; at the final regular season ILH meet at Central Oahu Regional Park (CORP) on October 17, our runners had strong showings across all levels in two distances, the 2-mile and the 5,000 meters (5k).
In the boys intermediate 2-mile, Ashton Yamamura (’20) shaved over a minute off of his time since the beginning of the season clocking in at 15:03.92; Kailer Suerth (’21) was not far behind at 15:27.62. IPA’s Breana Higa-Alexander (’21) ran 17:50.99 in the girls intermediate 2-mile, improving her time by nearly 10 minutes from the season start.
Seventh grader Breana Higa-Alexander (wearing teal shoes) picks up the pace at an ILH cross country meet.
Junior varsity runner Madison Yamamura (’18) crossed the girls 5,000 meter finish line at 30:34.9. Fellow sophomore Carley Matsumoto ran in the varsity division girls race pulling in at a cool 8:00-minute-plus pace for a time of 24:35.9. Frank Condello III (’18) continued to dial down closer to a 6:00-minute mile pace with a time of 18:51.78 in the boys varsity 5,000 meters. Tyler “Tomo” Arai (’16), Kasey Nunies (’16), Ian McDonald (’20), Francesca Saraniti (’21), and Andie Ladoux (’21) also put in miles with the cross country team this year.
Seven runners are registered to compete in the ILH Championships this weekend. Higa-Alexander, Suerth, and Ashton Yamamura will run in the intermediate 2-mile. In the junior varsity 3-mile distance Condello, Matsumoto, Jaymee Weisberg (’18), and Madison Yamamura will all run hoping to post personal best times. IPA’s cross country coach is Duke Ota who is assisted by Sabine Yamamura.
Football (Pac5):
Students at IPA who played football this fall did so as athletes on Pac 5^ teams. IPA student Luke Garcia (’21) played on the Pac 5 intermediate football team. The team played games against St. Louis, Iolani, Kamehameha, Punahou, Damien and St. Francis ending the season in second place with a 3-3 record.
The varsity team had games against Damien and St. Francis all of which were played at Aloha Stadium. Varsity finished the season in 3rd place with a record of 3-3. IPA students Nathan Bek (’18), Nicholas Garcia (’17), Casey Nakamura (’16), Andrew Peacock (’16), Aaron Villamor (’16), and Jacob Weinhardt (’18) were part of the Pac5 Wolverines.
Seniors A. Villamor, A. Peacock, and C. Nakamura put in an awesome effort against Damien in their last game as players on Pac-5’s Varsity team on October 17 at Aloha Stadium.
Sporter Air Riflery:
Eight of IPA’s 20 shooters, almost half, were in the ILH “Top 20” which earned them spots at the ILH Individual Championships this past weekend at Mid Pacific Institute. The Navigators brought home 5 medals from the match: 2 gold, 1 silver, and 2 bronze. Medaling for IPA were Ashton Altares (’16), Chelsea Carbonel (’18) and Jordan Carrancho (’18). Altares took 4th place overall in Varsity boys standing position while Carbonel took 4th place overall in JV girls kneeling position. Carrancho ends the season as ILH JV boys champion ending in 1st place; he also placed 1st in the kneeling position and 2nd in the prone position.
IPA sporter air riflery team members J. Carrancho, A. Altares, and C. Carbonel with their medals from the 2015 ILH Individual Championships.
Christy Munakata (’19), Kyra Kobashigawa (’18), Alyssa Okimoto (’18), Elise Pangelinan (’18), Jessica Sato (’16), and Rachel Yoshida (’16) rounded out the junior varsity and varsity girls teams. Shooting for the boys teams were Connor Carson (’19), Stephen Cleveland (’19), Paul John Coronel (’18), Jason Fukuba (’18), John Gillette (’17), Christopher Gionson (’18), Alexander Kawelo (’17), Taylor Kimura (’16), Nicolas Novak (’18), Zachary Tocher (’17), and Jake Yeager (’17).
Next up is the HHSAA state championships (2015 Civilian Marksmanship Program Air Riflery Championships) at Kamehameha Schools on Maui, October 27. IPA team members Altares, Gillette, and Sato will compete. Head coach of the IPA riflery teams is Mike Axelrod who is assisted by fellow parent Guy Yeager.
Girls Volleyball:
IPA’s Intermediate Girls Volleyball team dominated the courts during the 2015 fall season.
IPA competed at all levels this fall in girls volleyball fielding intermediate, junior varsity, and varsity teams. Our teams competed with outstanding results and show great promise for next year as well. The intermediate girls team finished their season in first place with a record of 11 wins and 1 loss.
Girls on the junior varsity volleyball team get instruction from Coach Tommy Reyes-Huynh during a break.
Girls on the IPA junior varsity team included Alyanna De Vera (’18), Sienna Delano (’19), Elizabeth Lyons-Best (’18), Peyton Pedrozo (’18), Alyssa Petrovich (’18), Kirsten Posiulai (’19), Alexia Sadoyama (’19), and Amber Springer (’19). Our junior varsity girls pushed through finishing the season with 1 win and 6 losses for a seventh place record. Head coach for the junior varsity girls is Tommy Reyes-Huynh.
IPA’s varsity girls volleyball team acknowledges the other team at the end of a match.
Varsity girls came tantalizingly close to a league championship ending with 10 wins and 2 losses for a second place overall finish. Varsity team members included Shaina Duran (’17), Nicole Finucane (’19), Katie Gordon (’17), Caitlin Komatsu (’17), Taylor Kodani (’17), Cyanne Moreland (’18), Juliette Peacock (’18), and Kalena Spotkaeff (’17). Head coach for the varsity girls is Stan Vincent.
The girls on the Intermediate Volleyball team played as a cohesive unit (including matching hairstyles) and each now has a league Champion medal. Team members: Anjolie Anno (’20), Chelsea Ancheta (’20), Gabrielle Lum (’20), Malia Reyes-Huynh (’20), Mia Chapman (’20), Serena Steinhoff (’20), Zemarya Leama (’21), and Kaitlyn Taaca (’21).
Coaches for the intermediate volleyball team were John Kaaikala (head) with assistance from Frederic Ponce and Casey Takashima.
*ILH = Interscholastic League of Honolulu
**HHSAA = Hawaii High School Athletics Association
^Pac 5 is a unique athletic program made up of a consortium of 19 independent schools banding together to field teams for competitive sports in the ILH. The program began in 1971 with four independent schools forming a JV football team. The Pac 5 program gives IPA students an opportunity to participate in a sport when the school doesn’t field an entire team itself.
