HPU Men’s Basketball Senior Night vs. Fresno Pacific

HPU Men’s Basketball Senior Night vs. Fresno Pacific

Feb 14, 2023

HPU MEN’S BASKETBALL SENIOR NIGHT VS FRESNO PACIFIC

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HPU Women’s Basketball Senior Night vs. Fresno Pacific

HPU Women’s Basketball Senior Night vs. Fresno Pacific

Feb 14, 2023

HPU WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SENIOR NIGHT VS FRESNO PACIFIC

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HPU Baseball Opening Day vs. Minnesota Crookston

HPU Baseball Opening Day vs. Minnesota Crookston

Feb 11, 2023

HPU Baseball Opening Day vs. Minnesota Crookston

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GAME 1 | HPU 8, Minnesota Crookston 6

GAME 2 | HPU 9, Minnesota Crookston 8

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Sharks Weekly Review: Women’s Acrobatics and Tumbling (1/25/23)

Sharks Weekly Review: Women’s Acrobatics and Tumbling (1/25/23)

Jan 27, 2023

Sharks Weekly Review: Women’s Acrobatics and Tumbling

By: Paul Brecht

HONOLULU — For the first time live and in-person during the new year at the DSE Hawai’i E-Sports Arena in the Aloha Tower Marketplace, Sharks Weekly returned with new host Jeff Rich, VP of marketing and communications at Hawai’i Pacific University, talking to the HPU acrobatics and tumbling team. 

Rich was joined on a new day, with Sharks Weekly taking place on Wednesday mornings at 9:00 AM going forward, by HPU Acrobatics coach Peyton Smith, senior Arianne Grevesen and first-year student Breanna Corral-Vargas.

The conversation begins with some background on how collegiate acrobatics and tumbling came to be, how many schools currently carry it as a varsity sport and how it provides more opportunities to women to compete in collegiate athletics despite having experience in sports other than acrobatics.  

Rich then brings in the players, as Grevesen introduced herself to listeners by providing her background of sports before college. Corral-Vargas repeated the exercise, then discussed her academic goals for the future. 

The conversation shifts back to Smith and the head coach’s background, coming from the East Coast to Hawai’i and her work as an assistant coach and now a head coach. Grevesen and Corral-Vargas then discuss the trials and tribulations that come from being a student-athlete at the college level.   

Going into the second segment, the crew shifted the discussion to their journeys to the island and HPU specifically, with Grevesen coming all the way from New Jersey and Corral-Vargas coming from California.  

Grevesen talked about her attraction to the island and what she has loved during her time in Hawai’i. Corral-Vargas explained the importance of sports in her college decision and how she has adapted in her first year on the island. 

The crew then answers a few questions outside of sports, as coach Smith talked about what she would do with her time if she were independently wealthy. Corral-Smith showed her musical taste, talking about her go-to karaoke song. 

Grevesen’s chosen question of “favorite sandwich” was one that required an answer from everyone and a pair of segments to contain the complexity of the answers. 

The senior defended her hometown state of New Jersey’s niche sandwich, as Corral-Vargas went with an all-time classic and Smith went with her own choice. Rich joined in on the fun at the end, sharing his favorite sandwich before turning the conversation to how the team focuses on nutrition. 

The trio continues the third segment with each guest answering about their dream place to go live for a period of time. The answers, all strong, did go all over the world.  

The schedule for acrobatics came up next, when Smith talked about how the Sharks compete against some of the top programs in the country before heading into the show’s final segment. 

The final conversations of the day ranged over the expectations and schedule coming up for this season and this acrobatics team, along with where the eyes of the Sharks are in terms of competing and program-building. 

The show closed with the guests answering one last easy-going question, the imaginary friend from history that each would choose. The answers ranged from geniuses to heroes, all of which inspiring in their own rights.

You can catch Sharks Weekly every Wednesday at 9:00 AM HST on HSRN 95.1 FM/760 AM, at hawaiisportsradio.com or in our podcenter following the completion of the show.

Sharks Weekly Review: HPU Softball (12/19/22)

Dec 22, 2022

Sharks Weekly Review: HPU Softball (12/19/22)

By: Paul Brecht

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HONOLULU – Happy holidays from the crew at Hawaii Sports Radio Network and the HPU softball team, as Ku’ulei Agbayani filled in this week for usual Sharks Weekly host Jason Genegabus for an in-studio sit down with Sharks softball head coach Jarnett Lono.

The duo kicked off the interview discussing the “time off” that finally comes for the softball coaching staff during the holidays and how it is a very brief break in the schedule and the maintenance that goes into keeping the fields ready for when the season kicks off.

Lono then discussed her love for the San Francisco 49ers and where her love for the “Bang Bang, Niners Gang” originated. While discussing favorite teams, Lono talked about her grandmother’s love for the Atlanta Braves contributing to her playing baseball growing up and eventually bringing her into the world of softball.

With experience as both a high-level softball player and as a head softball coach, Lono also illustrated what she believes to be important as a coach and what players both need and look for during their time playing the sport at the collegiate level.

Agbayani welcomes listeners back for the second segment (13:48) by having Coach Lono discuss the 2021-22 season coming out of COVID-19, the challenges that came with the period and how the team was able to survive having just 13 players, only two of which saw time pitching.

Before talking about the incoming recruits, Lono touched on the returning players for her team for this upcoming season. The most excitement from Lono came when discussing her four “super seniors” that she expects to be big contributors for the Sharks in 2023.

The conversation then shifts to the style and method to which HPU softball tries to use when recruiting. Lono, a former middle-infielder herself, admitted an affinity for the “more athletic” softball players who have the ability to play the backbone of the Sharks defense up the middle.

The show’s third segment (24:32) moves the discussion over to the upcoming season’s worth of competition and any games that might mean a little bit more to the Sharks and Coach Lono this season.

Lono then puts the goals of the Sharks out over the airwaves, talking about the goals of the HPU softball team in both the conference and overall for the 2023 spring season. She also takes time to name all the players expected to help contribute this year.

The Sharks’ skipper then took a trip back to the old days, as she told which teams from her playing days she still has a target on now that she coaches at her alma mater. 

The show’s final segment (37:25) has Agbayani and Lono dive into winter break’s effects on the college athletes that have their season come up in the spring and the way that they need to take care of themselves when they return back to school.

Sharks Weekly wraps up with Lono giving one last message of her hopes for the season ahead and what she promises from her and her coaching staff to the kids competing at the end of the day.

You can catch Sharks Weekly every Monday at 9:00 AM HST on HSRN 95.1 FM/760 AM, at hawaiisportsradio.com or in our podcenter following the completion of the show.

Sharks Weekly Review: Men’s Soccer (12/12/22)

Sharks Weekly Review: Men’s Soccer (12/12/22)

Dec 13, 2022

Sharks Weekly Review: Men’s Soccer

By: Paul Brecht

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HONOLULU – Halfway through the month of December and wrapping up on the year, Sharks Weekly host Jason Genegabus was joined this week once again by the HPU men’s soccer program – represented by head coach Chris Fisher and graduate transfer midfielder Dominic Toone. 

The trio started the show off discussing the holiday season and the future upcoming plans that come with Christmas and the new year on the way. While Fisher told Genegabus how he is going to start his Christmas shopping soon now that he’s back on the island from a recruiting trip, Toone shared with the listeners his upcoming travel plans to head back to the east coast for a little while.

Genegabus then moved the conversation to update HPU men’s soccer fans on what has happened since the program last joined Sharks Weekly. The Sharks found a nice deal of success during conference play, which was attributed to multiple things by Fisher.

The second half of the season wasn’t all perfect, as both Toone and Fisher mentioned discipline issues that needed to be corrected during the season. Injuries also continued to rack up as the schedule went on for the Sharks, helping contribute to a couple of losses that the team wanted a chance at again.

The second segment (9:08) starts with Genegabus discussing the e-sports limits that the two HPU men’s soccer representatives had and both admitted to be unable to keep up with the current HPU e-sports team that just had a dominant showing this past weekend at the DSE Hawaii E-Sports Arena. 

The Genegabus hard-hitting question to come next?

Best purchase of 2022, go.

Toone, after briefly buying himself time, concluded that the car that he and his roommate bought together was the most useful. Coach Fisher, while admitting it may sound a little lame, talked about how adding a lawn to his home was the best purchase of his year.

The conversation then shifted back to the end of the 2022 season and the win over rival Chaminade, then how Fisher had grabbed his 100th career win and how this season compared to previous years he had coached. 

Toone then was asked about his acclimation period to HPU, coming from Division I North Carolina Wilmington over on the east coast. As a graduate student, Toone’s experience was a bit different as an older, more experienced player.

The segment closed up with the trio discussing the best way to go about contacting Fisher and trying to get a chance to play at the next level, then Toone’s plans to stay involved with the program now with his eligibility done and his masters’ program with another year to go.

Sharks Weekly host Jason Genegabus opened the show’s third segment (20:30) by asking Toone what part of the day he does his best work at, then flips the question over to Fisher.

Fisher got to discussing his coaching of multiple levels of soccer and the love for the game that comes with seeing so many levels of the game.

“With the younger kids, you actually see their development,” said Fisher. “That kid just got that much better in one year and I played a small role in that.”

Toone said that coaching could be in his future following his playing career, though his interest leans more with helping the next generation grow their love for the beautiful game if soccer instruction is in his future.

The group then turns the discussion back to the way HPU is able to recruit and some advice for young players looking to play at the next level following their high school careers.

The final segment (33:40) began with the “immortality water/age pause” question from Genegabus, seeing when both Toone and Fisher would push the “pause” button on aging further.

Fisher then discusses the outlook on the fall 2023 season schedule, with non-conference scheduling dominating the early conversation.

World Cup 2022 found itself in the middle of the final conversation, as Genegabus got the scoop from the two soccer representatives from HPU and how they see the final four teams breaking down, giving their championship predictions.

You can catch Sharks Weekly every Monday at 9:00 AM HST on HSRN 95.1 FM/760 AM, at hawaiisportsradio.com or in our podcenter following the completion of the show.

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