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Parade to honor UH, prep teams
Advertiser Staff
Three University of Hawai'i teams will be honored at a Parade of Champions Sunday in Waikiki.
The parade will start at 4 p.m. from Fort DeRussy (corner of Saratoga and Kalakaua) and end at the site of Sunset on the Beach (corner of Kapahulu and Kalakaua).
The UH football, women's volleyball and women's soccer teams, which all won Western Athletic Conference titles, will be honored.
Eight championship high school football teams will also be honored, including state champions Leilehua (Division I) and 'Iolani (Division II).
Entertainment will be provided by Imua, Augie T, Vili the Warrior, Nalani of Na Leo and Willie K.
SURFING
STAND-UP AT MAKAHA
The QuiksilverEdition Ku Ikaika Challenge — the world's first big-wave contest for the sport of stand-up paddle surfing — started its holding period this week at Makaha Beach.
The event will run on a day when wave-face heights reach 20 feet at Makaha. Contest officials have between today and Feb. 29 to complete the contest.
In stand-up paddle surfing, the surfers stand on the board at all times, and stroke into waves with a canoe-like paddle.
Twenty-four competitors have already been invited to the contest, and eight others will join them from a trials division to form a field of 32.
Among the invited competitors: former surfing world champions Kelly Slater of Florida and Tom Carroll of Australia, former windsurfing world champ Robby Naish of Kailua, paddleboarding world champ Jamie Mitchell of Australia, and former world tour surfers Rob Machado of California and Luke Egan of Australia.
The contest is a benefit for the Junior Lifeguard Foundation on O'ahu's West Side. The winner's check of $4,000 will be donated to the foundation.
