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The Warriors received a donation of three specially made footballs intended to improve grip. The High and Tight football will sound when a players depresses five pressure-point errors. Volunteer Peyton Yanagi will demonstrate: Grip video * * * * *
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Quarterbacks > Dru Brown, Cole Brownholtz, Kyle Gallup, Hunter Hughes, Cole McDonald, Beau Reilly, Ikaika Woolsey, Aaron Zwahlen. > Outlook: The Warriors will start with double drills this week in the hope of choosing a No. 1 quarterback by the end of the Aug. 13 scrimmage. Woolsey, a senior, is the only QB on the roster who has played in an NCAA game. He also is on his sixth offensive coordinator since joining in January 2012. While Woolsey, Reilly and […]
The Warriors’ training camp opens today with more than 100 players expected to report this afternoon. There will be medical examinations, orientation sessions, meetings and a speech from the team’s new character coach. The first practice starts at 6:30 tomorrow morning.
Nick Rolovich has completed his staff with the hiring of Mikah Franz as intern for special teams. Franz is a 2012 Lahainaluna High graduate who earned a business degree at Washington. He worked under Washington assistant coach Keith Bhonapha, a former UH defensive back.
The training-camp lodging will feel like home to many UH football players. That’s because it will be home. Coach Nick Rolovich will allow players who don’t dorm during the year to live in their off-campus apartments and houses during training camp. The rest will stay in their dorm rooms. The Warriors open training camp on Sunday. The first practice is Monday. In past years, all the players would live in the dorms (or dance studios, in the fiscally lean years) […]
Olivia “Oli” Vea is the Warriors’ new video coordinator. Vea, who succeeds Dory Kong, joined the Warriors as student manager in 2010. She eventually served as a graduate assistant and then video specialist. “Oli is a hard worker,” head coach Nick Rolovich said. “She’s very good in the department as far as getting things done and communication. I think she’s earned the opportunity.” * * * * * The past spring’s interns — John Estes, Marc Moody, Makana Garrigan and […]
* * * * * * Joey Nuuanu-Kuhiiki was prepared for life without football. Despite graduating from Waianae High with a 3.5 GPA, he did not have the money to pay for college. That changed yesterday when Nuuanu-Kuhiiki received a football scholarship from the Warriors. “When I told my mother, she started crying because she knew what I was going through,” said Nuuanu-Kuhiiki, who will be the first member of his family to attend a four-year college. Nuuanu-Kuhiiki, who was […]