MPI, Carolyn Pearce '07 win at Kaimana Awards
MPI placed second in the ILH Division I at the Kaimana Awards, hosted by HMSA, on Saturday, June 23, at the Hawaii Convention Center.
A beautiful crystal trophy was presented to high school principal Rich Schaffer during the ceremony. For the Kaimana Awards, point totals are given for sportsmanship, athletic participation (the percentage of high school students playing ILH sports was 59% at MPI), student-athlete grade point averages, and community service hours of all high school students at MPI. “This allows for students who are not involved in athletics to also contribute to the point totals and connects our entire high school to the award,” said athletic director Bill Villa.
Kamehameha took first place honors and Maryknoll was third overall. There were awards for division I and II for the ILH, OIA, BIIF, MIL, and KIF--the 5 leagues that make up the Hawaii High School Athletic Association.
Introduced in August 2005, the HMSA Kaimana Awards & Scholarship Program recognizes all-around accomplishments by high schools, rewards individual student-athletes with scholarships and supports excellence in coaches' education. The program is administered by the Hawai'i High School Athletic Association, and success is measured in the areas of athletics, academics, sportsmanship and community service.
Points are tallied throughout the year for the school awards, and the individual winners were selected from a pool of more than 200 applicants.
In total, 21 students received scholarships from HMSA for their personal achievement in academics, athletics, and community service. 2007 MPI graduate Carolyn Pearce was one of the scholarship honorees.
Eighteen students were presented with $2,000 awards; HMSA awarded three $3,000 scholarships to students whose achievements surpassed the others. Carolyn was one of the recipients of this distinguished award. She was visiting family in Australia and could not attend the ceremony, but a video interview with Carolyn was shown to the audience. Proudly accepting the awards on Carolyn's behalf was her mother Susanne M. Pearce, a Mid-Pacific Trustee.
“It was a proud moment for Mid-Pacific Institute and our athletic programs,” Villa said.
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