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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Tuesday, June 9, 2009

ISLE FILE
Pitt's Dixon at Punahou clinic


Advertiser Staff

Pittsburgh men's basketball coach and former Hawai'i assistant Jamie Dixon will be one of the featured coaches today at the Punahou Summer Camp coaches clinic.

The clinic will be held today and Thursday from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Punahou. Dixon is scheduled to appear only at today's session.

The clinic will bring basketball coaches from all islands and all levels to share philosophies. Vince Goo, Greg Tacon, Dan Hale, Byron Mello, Alan Lum and Mike Taylor also will be speaking.

HIGH SCHOOLS

HBA NAMES BOYS, GIRLS HOOPS COACHES

George Weeks, who has coached Kalani High's girls basketball team the past two seasons, has been named boys basketball coach at Hawai'i Baptist Academy.

Weeks guided the Falcons to an Oahu Interscholastic Association championship in 2008 and a third-place finish this past season.

Weeks also is the former boys varsity basketball coach at Menlo School (Calif.) from 1999-2004, where he led the Knights to one league title, two runner-up finishes and to the California Interscholastic Federation Central Coast Sectional quarterfinals and semifinals during his tenure.

Meanwhile, Keith Sugiura has been named HBA's girls varsity basketball coach. Sugiura, the school's assistant athletic director, has coached the boys and girls varsity volleyball and basketball teams at HBA on different occasions over the past 14 years. This past season, he led the boys varsity basketball team to its first ILH Division II championship since 1996.

GOLF

HPU'S RUMPF IS FRESHMAN OF YEAR

Hawai'i Pacific's Connor Rumpf won Pacific West Conference Freshman of the Year honors for men's golf, the conference office announced yesterday.

Rumpf, of Portland, Ore., helped the Sea Warriors to a fourth-place finish at the PacWest championships.

"Connor had a tremendous freshman year of collegiate golf," HPU coach Darren Vorderbruegge said. "I think he is completely deserving of this award. He had the right mindset to continue to improve his game, and I believe he will accomplish great things at HPU and beyond."