Linebacker commits to Warriors
The defensive leader of one of the nation’s top high school football programs — linebacker Zach Bowers of Chandler (Ariz.) High — told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser he has accepted a scholarship offer from the Warriors.
“When I got there, I felt the family aspect of it,” said Bowers, who visited Hawaii this past weekend. “Everyone welcomed me with open arms. Talking with (assistant head coach/linebackers coach Mark) Banker and going over the defensive scheme, it felt like the perfect fit.”
Shaun Aguano, Chandler’s head coach and a 1988 Kapa‘a High graduate, said Bowers was “comfortable with the culture there and that family environment. He felt comfortable in committing.”
Bowers, who will be a senior this fall, may sign a letter of intent in December.
The past two seasons, Chandler followed Arizona 6-A state championships with victories in national bowl games. In December, Chandler beat Miami (Fla.) Northwestern, 55-20, in the GEICO Bowl Series. Each year, the top 20 high school teams qualify for a lottery in which four teams are selected to play in two bowls.
Bowers started at outside linebacker in 2016 and middle linebacker in 2017.
“He has in incredible IQ for football,” Aguano said. “He plays hard every down. He’s our leader in our defense this year. He has an incredible work ethic in the weight room. He’s just a great kid. UH is getting a great kid.”
Bowers has a 4.0 cumulative grade-point average. He also received offers from Syracuse, Nevada, Air Force, Army, Brown and Dartmouth.
Wow! Welcome to the Warriors, Zach! One would expect poaching attempts from PAC-12. Stay strong. Oregon State will try, but he’s too smart for that school.
Ooh. I posted first. Where are you all?
Zach attack! Reminds me of another Zach…Thomas. Nice commit!
Go Coaches! Recruit’em. Commit’em. Sign’em!
Go Warriors!
Just came through the dust cloud…
This is a great commit for Hawaii. Linebacker is a position that needs new players down stream. According to 247, Bowers also received offers from Oregon St, Penn, S Dakota St, Northern Arizona, and New Mexico St. So yes, Oregon St is in the picture.
ST,
I went to the last 3 games of Mets-Dbacks series and there were a contingent of boisterous Mets fans that occupied the right field bleachers. I even saw one fan near my section wearing a jersey with Agbayani on it. They got loud and started booing when a Yankee fan entered their section. Pretty electric atmosphere.
“The family aspect”. Ohana. Awesome. Welcome Zach.
Hope we can keep him! Is there a “Zach Hammer” in UH’s future?
PLAY WARRIOR, ZACH!
How big is this Zach kid? Don’t see anything on height and weight…
Nice commit, glad to see the commits starting to happen.
Zach Bowers is 6′ 1″ and 215#
found this clip – are many others. hope this works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkwN8gteUE8
Welcome Zach; this is such great news for our team!
I just reserved a block of 500 seats at the UH football road game at San Jose St (50-40 yard line seats right behind our Warriors) on Sept 29. To do this, I had to pay for 125 tickets upfront as a deposit. Can you help me out by buying your tix now ($40). Mahalo.
tomkitaguchi@yahoo.com or text 415-324-0585
PS: Also taking orders for SDSU & Fresno.
Manoa Mist:
He said he’s 6 feet, 215-220 pounds. He said he was clocked at 4.62 in 40
like Haka – reminds me of another Zach we had a long time ago whose signature was “crossed arms” after a good play!
Zach B seems be to a lot faster than ZO, but too early to tell
looks like a great addition to the 2019 class
The busier than ever ST writes another column …
University of Hawaii basketball hires two to complete its coaching staff
By Stephen Tsai
June 18, 2018
Updated June 18, 2018 1:50pm
ST:
still young with the probability of adding 2 or 3 more inches
video clip was impressive show casing his speed, quickness, and strength — thanks, ai-eee-soos!
I do hope that young Chevon is taking a crash course in studying the offensive plays giving him a chance to compete for #1 or #2.
comment by someone about the run ‘n shoot versus the SEC – i think UCF did fantastic against some very tough ACC and SEC schools last year — looking forward to more in 2018!
maddog50:
stay cool with your “heat wave”!
100 and 101 degrees in Chicago — yikes!!!
I do hope that all the media, including PHil Steele’s prediction for 2018, is a driving force for the Warriors — last in the Pacific Division of the MWC?
away game at Colorado St will be very interesting — someone said it will be on national TV
I thought UH first game was to be played in Hawaii? rules change as we went down under last year — my one and only opportunity to see Australia — good times!!!
Way to go, Mazie.
Speak truth to power.
#20 … “A-House” … CBSSN … 1:30 PM HST
As great news as this is I’ll “celebrate” when he signs that LOI …
LIVE ALOHA / PLAY WARRIOR / DEFEND THE ROCK … GO ‘ BOWS … !!!!!
A-House it’s cooled off now. Went to a White Sox game Sunday, like an oven outside. Anyway congrats and welcome to Zach-that’s two down 23 to go! GoWarriors!!!!
16.
Jessie Nakanishi will miss the opportunity of coaching Matt Owies.
Welcome aboard Coach Nakanishi.
Tell Sheriff Drammeh to stop taking threes.
Drive to the basket.
Draw fouls.
If Drammeh works as hard on offense as he does on defense, he’ll be Big West second team.
Mike Trotter played and coached at Dartmouth.
He must be smart.
Dartmouth is ranked #122 in the CWUR World University Rankings.
2018-19 UH basketball roster posted, including
Zoar Nedd, Boys basketball All-State Fab 15
Huthifah Abdel Jawad, McKinley 2016, San Diego Mesa JC
http://hawaiiathletics.com/roster.aspx?path=mbball&roster=648&sort=class,
#25:
what happened to the other 7 footers? did not qualify? went to another school?
A-House, they were on the roster, but got removed as they are not officially enrolled yet I don’t think. Same for the incoming shooting guard. They will be official shortly.
26 & 27…oops, 5 players that were there yesterday have been removed.
#24 Nakanishi is not supposed to do any coaching, that’s what got Gib the crook into trouble by having Kerry Rupp coach.
Probably removed from the roster because they were not assigned a jersey number. Once they get a number, they will probably be placed back on the roster.
reminds me of corey paredes.
One of my pet peeves with the athletics web site is the lack of speed in updating and overall lameness. I’m sure this one drives Cappie crazy – for baseball and softball the rosters don’t state what side the players bat from and what arm they throw with.
32.
Nobody takes pride in getting the won/loss record of the softball team correct.
I go to the Big West site to crosscheck.
Savich = Koh I Nor
New UH men’s basketball assistant coach, Jabari Trotter ,arrives in Honolulu today. Never set foot in Hawaii, but was in his mother unborn when she visited many years ago.
Cappie, true but they should take pride in being timely and accurate. A school doesn’t need P5 money to do that. I personally just want to know if someone bats lefty or righty and they can’t even do that.
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