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UH aims to launch own TV channel Hawai‘i residents may be able to tune in to a University of Hawai‘i television channel in the not-so-distant future. While athletics and sports-related content would be the biggest draw, the channel could also host academic content and student-run shows.

Vice Chancellor for Administration, Finance and Operations Kathleen Cutshaw said that UH is “in support of this UH channel concept, as we envision it will give us enhanced opportunities for messaging the richness of all that UH Mānoa has to offer.”

In an e-mail to the Star-Advertiser, Oceanic VP Norman Santos said that Oceanic will be “launching a channel dedicated to all things University of Hawai‘i.” The channel would be available statewide.

The idea is not a new one. Gerald Kato, an associate professor at the School of Communications, says that the idea of a UH channel “has been kicked around before, popping up every now and then,” but it has never gone beyond that.

While the idea is under discussion, the concept is only in the beginning stages.

Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw explained, “We have not yet had any detailed meetings with Oceanic on how this might be rolled out,” and that the only headway made was that “Oceanic and UHM have simply agreed that there is merit in such partnership and we will be organizing shortly to investigate these opportunities.”

Currently, UHM hosts two shows monthly. One show, “bibliOvision,” is orchestrated by the department of English, while the Ethnic Studies Department hosts “Island Connections,” a call-in show. Both shows are aired on ‘Ōlelo 55.

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O B S TAC L E S At present, UH has a contract with Oceanic that runs through 2014, but negotiations to alter the contract are likely to take place in October. UH originally partnered with KFVE, which later joined with Oceanic in the 1980s to broadcast games.

Now viewers can opt to watch games through pay-per-view, and the income is split between UH and Oceanic/K F V E. The current contract yields $500,000 ew million a year to the school and a few nnually. The new dollars to Oceanic annually. contract would bypasss K F V E, making Oceanic the producer. A ny changes as a re expected to be result of negotiations are in place for three years. hat thiss One hurdle is that would put a considerable responsibility on UH to generate content outside of airing athletic events.

“I’m not sure what kind of content the university could provide,” said Kato. “We’d need considerably more funding to fill more than an hour a week. It’s an expensive proposition.”

Kato has previously broadcast a public access show with UH students, and described the undertaking as time consuming and

labor intensive, whereas airing sports is “scheduled and predictable, and generates revenue and interest.” Other shows would require much more production and effort to attract and keep viewers.

Christine Kirk-Kuwaye, coordinator of leadership development for Student Life and Development, said that a year ago the student-chartered Broadcast Communications Author-

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can put on a television show,” Kirk-Kuwaye said.

Kirk-Kuwaye said she has not heard any discussion from students about producing television broadcasts, but “that doesn’t mean other students wouldn’t be interested.

A student-run broadcast could give communications students an opportunity to work in the field and represent the school, as well as bring more to the communications department.

“I’d love to have that, wonderful things could be done with students and the system,” said Kato.

“But we just don’t have that kind of budget to sustain such a thing right now.”

In any event, UH cannot make a move until confi rming that the Mountain West Conference will let them continue with pay-per-view. If UH is denied, the question then remains whether it is worth running a channel, as pay-per-view would be the biggest money-maker.

A DVA N TAG E S Ann Auman, a professor in the School of Communications at UHM, said that even raising the idea is beneficial, as it comes in time for the Asian-Pacific Cooperation Summit. APCS will come to Hawai‘i in November, and President Obama will be in attendance.

“Any news that showcases UH and what we have to offer, all the things we’re doing here, could help. We need to show the connections we have in our area of expertise,” Auman said.

Auman predicts that sports would likely be the biggest attraction. “Sports will be a big thing because [UH] knows there’s an audience there and it’s entertaining. It’s good to see our athletes out there, working hard. They don’t get the attendance they deserve at events.”

The renewed interest in a UH channel may have been inspired by the University of Texas’ January deal with ESPN to start a Longhorns sports channel, which will air material 24 hours a day. UT negotiated a deal that would yield $10 million for the fi rst year and $300 million over the next 20 years.

Kato observed, “Primarily, many universities across the country that have started a university channel focus largely on sports, for cable purposes and commercial value.”

Regardless of the variety of content, Kato said a channel would “provide some kind of identity on television that people could easily access. It could be great.”

Weight of war Gear that protects troops also injures them H AL BERNTON The Seattle Times (MCT) Before venturing out on patrol in Iraq, Spc. Joseph Chroniger would wrap his upper body in armor, then sling on a vest and pack that contained batteries for his radio, water, food, fl ashlight, ammunition and other gear. With his M4 rifl e, the whole get-up weighed 70 to 80 pounds – and left him aching.

His body hurt the most when his squad came under attack and he tried to run or dive on the ground. His neck and shoulders would burn as if on fi re.

Since returning to Western Washington two years ago, Chroniger has been diagnosed with bone spurs in the vertebrae of his neck caused by a degenerative arthritic condition. Sometimes, the pain is intense, and he dreads getting out of bed in the morning. “ This is ridiculous,” Chroniger said. “I’m only 25 years old. A rthritis is supposed to happen when you get old. W hat ’s it going to be like when I’m 50 or 60?”

Chroniger’s injury is a symptom of the overloaded U.S. combat forces that have served in the long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In 2001, an Army Science Board study, noting that weight carried by soldiers could decrease mobility and increase fatigue and injury, recommended

no soldier carry more than 50 pounds for any length of time. The Army chief of staff hoped to approach that goal by 2010. But the loads combat soldiers typically carry remain far above that goal.

That weight has helped fuel an avalanche of musculoskeletal injuries that are eroding the combat readiness of the military. Long after the fighting ends, injuries such as Chroniger’s will remain a painful and expensive legacy of these wars.

Nearly one-third of all medical evacuations from Iraq and Afghanistan from 2004 through 2007 resulted from musculoskeletal, connective-tissue or spinal injuries, according to a study led by a Johns Hopkins University researcher.

That was more than double the number of evacuations from combat injures.

The number of soldiers medically retired from the Army with at least one musculoskeletal condition increased nearly 10-fold from 2003 to 2009, according to Army statistics.

The heavy loads contribute to rising numbers of Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans retiring with degenerative arthritis, cervical strains and other musculoskeletal injuries. Disability benefits paid for these injuries by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) exceed

$500 million annually, according to estimates done by The Seattle Times. That fi gure is expected to grow as tens of thousands of new veterans apply to the VA for compensation.

For years, the Army only had an estimate of how much weight foot soldiers carried in combat.

In 2003, Col. Charles Dean, a military-equipment expert, formed a sevenman team to conduct a detailed study of weight worn in the combat zones of eastern Afghanistan. “What we were proposing was highly irregular, and my chain of command had to pass this all the way to the generals to get approval,” Dean said.

Dean, who is now retired, wanted his team to share an infantry soldier’s life, packing the same loads and facing the same dangers.

In Afghanistan, the team joined soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division.

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night-vision goggles, sleeping bags, eating utensils and every other item carried by soldiers, down to ID cards.

The team stayed in Afghanistan for three months, collecting data from more than 750 soldiers with a range of different jobs.

Dean said many soldiers had no idea how much weight they were carrying.

“They were very interested in helping out,” Dean said. “If anybody could help ease the burden to them, that was great news.”

When soldiers headed out on extended foot patrols, their average load ranged from 87 pounds to 127 pounds. When they came under attack and dropped their rucksacks, most of their fi ghting loads still exceeded 60 pounds.

To help soldiers cope with the pain of musculoskeletal injuries, medical providers often prescribe opiates.

“Primary-care providers ... have had very limited tools in their toolbox. It’s medications for the most part, and maybe physical therapy, but very little to offer in

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addition to that,” said Col. Diane Flynn, chief of the department of pain management at Madigan Army Medical Center.

Through the war years, the use of these drugs has escalated.

A 2010 Army report found 14 percent of soldiers had prescriptions for opiates. The Army also is concerned the availability of pain drugs through medics widens the potential for abuse.

For some soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (P TSD) and other mental wounds, the combination of chronic pain and opiates to treat their physical injuries can help push them deeper into despair.

Orrin Gorman McClellan, a veteran of the war in eastern Afghanistan, returned to his family home on Whidbey Island with severe P TSD. He took an opiate he obtained online, but it failed to relieve his muscle and back pain.

In May 2009, he committed suicide at the age of 25. McClellan’s mother believes the physical pain contributed to his suicide.

“One of the things that he was

angry about was that he always hurt. He never really got a break,” Judith Gorman said.

The Army also is trying to reduce the use of opiates for pain. An Army report recommended the increased use of alternatives, including chiropractic care, massage, meditation and acupuncture.

At Madigan, Shashi Kumar, a doctor trained in acupuncture treating Chroniger, says these treatments have helped many patients substantially reduce pain and narcotics use.

After some 15 minutes, she took out the needles and helped the patient back to his feet.

Chroniger said he felt better, not so tight, and will undergo three more sessions. But at Madigan and elsewhere, the Army has few staff trained to offer these therapies, and military insurance does not pay for most of these alternative services from civilian providers.

“That’s really one of the things that’s holding us back,” said Flynn, the Madigan doctor who directs the pain center. “We have such limited access to other than what we call traditional medicine.”

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Civil unions mean more than gay rights L INDSY OGAWA Opinions Editor

Hawai’i’s 2011 Valentine’s Day gift may have come a few days late for some, but the state’s civil unions bill is far better than any bouquet of roses.

On Wednesday, the state House approved the bill that will allow heterosexual and same-sex couples to enter in civil unions and receive the same rights, benefits and responsibilities as a married couple under state law.

While I applaud Hawai’i for this decision, the approval of the bill signifies much more than a step forward for gay rights.

For one, this bill is a leap towards equal rights in all aspects.

It parallels the same importance and similar issues of the AfricanAmerican Civil Rights Movement and women’s rights when they were allowed to vote.

It represents this country’s progressive attitude, a country whose former president, Bill Clinton, signed the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act which denied same-sex couples the federal benefits granted to heterosexual married couples.

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After facing disappointment last legislative session, Hawai‘i civil unions supporters emerge victorious.

Act has still not been repealed, despite promises from President Obama’s administration. Until it is, civil unions can be recognized by states, but not by the federal government.

Once Gov. Neil Abercrombie signs the bill this week, Hawaiʻi will be only the seventh state in the U.S. that provides state-level spousal

rights to same-sex couples. And until all states in America legally allow same-sex marriages or civil unions, there is much work to be done.

However, this bill also gives rights to long-term heterosexual couples who do not wish to be “married.” The biases held by so many, and the pressure to get married because it is the “normal” and

“safe” thing to do, may no longer hold true for long-term couples.

People who have passionately opposed civil unions in fear of corrupting the sanctity of marriage may have it all wrong. Allowing civil unions can strengthen the divinity of marriage by giving people choices.

This is not to say that the term

“civil union” should mean something less than “marriage” — another reason gay couples should also be able to get married under the name of marriage.

People can get married because they want to, not because they feel they have to for financial reasons or societal pressures. Marriage is no longer the only option. Civil union couples will be able to have the same benefits as married couples, such as joint tax returns and Social Security survivor payments.

In addition, these “same benefits” include the rights for separation in the same family court as married couples who get a divorce.

When it comes down to it, talk about civil unions is all about choices. Hawaiʻi’s bill further highlights the unconstitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act which discriminates against a certain type of people.

A law focused on discrimination should not be difficult to declare unconstitutional, yet old ideologies seem to die hard in the U.S. Hawaiʻi has taken a huge step towards ending discrimination, but we must not forget that the rest of America still has a lot of catching up to do.

Seize the day Time for change in Middle East foreign policy SAR AH WRIGHT Design Editor Bahrain, the latest Middle Eastern country to erupt in protest, has also experienced some of the most bloodshed. Police action against anti-government protestors left several dead and injured yesterday.

As is becoming its habit, the Obama administration, speaking through Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, conveyed concerns about the government’s actions. It also stayed in character by failing to make a de-

cisive statement aligning the United States either with or against Bahrain’s current government.

It is no coincidence that Bahrain, like Egypt, Yemen and Tunisia, is historically allied with the United States.

President Barack Obama, publicizing sometimes conflicting messages of stability and democracy, has strayed little from the Middle East policies of Truman and Eisenhower. Even Obama’s most vocal Republican critics have had little to say about the protests, or the U.S. response. They claim to be helping the nation present a united front by supporting the president — while taking informal but symbolic trips to Israel.

The United States’ hands have

been tied in the Middle East since it aligned itself with Israel after WWII. Israel is seen as an affront to Arab nationalists across the Middle East, and when the U.S. promises to act as an impartial negotiator, but instead acts as an advocate for the Israeli state, sentiment toward the U.S. among both governments and citizens of Middle Eastern countries becomes understandably bitter.

Since the U.S. has taken upon itself the responsibility to act as an international police force, it should maintain a degree of impartiality.

And when we clearly have national interests in a region — oil, humanitarian concerns and our ties with Israel, in this case — we should

stay out of negotiations.

It is too much to ask the United States not to take a position in matters of international importance, especially since inaction is its own type of action, as Obama discovered during the Egyptian protests. However, it should be understood that stability may not lead to democracy.

Farideh Farhi, a UH Mānoa political science professor and Iranian expert, commented on the political situation in the Middle East in an e-mail interview.

“Given events in the region, the Obama administration should engage in a thorough review of the U.S. approach to the Middle East,” Farhi said. “With the democratic

wave and the people’s insistence to have a say in the policy direction of their respective countries, the U.S. can no longer rely on unquestioned support of servile autocratic leaderships whose domestic and foreign policies are deeply unpopular with their own population.”

The Obama administration stands at a turning point in international politics, as revolution reshapes critical nations in the Middle East. The only question is whether Obama and Clinton will continue to embrace policies built around the dual-superpower world of the Cold War, or if they will — finally — push the U.S. into the 21st century in regard to the Middle East.

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DEMILIZA SAR AMOSING Contributing Writer Three years before releasing their hit song “Apologize,” the band OneRepublic struggled to keep the group together.

“We were stuck in Los Angeles trying to figure out if our career was going to go anywhere,” said guitarist Zach Filkins. “It really seemed like all the chips were against us.”

The band’s career skyrocketed after “Apologize” placed in the Top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 10 consecutive weeks, climbing all the way up to No. 2 on the chart. This opened more touring opportunities for them, including a stop in Hawai‘i.

The OneRepublic concert will be held at the Waterfront at Aloha Tower on Feb. 21

from 8 to 11 p.m.

OneRepublic’s music style is a combination of the band members’ different musical infl uences.

Filkins explained, “Brent [Kutzle, bass and cello] is infl uenced a lot by composers from cinematic movie soundtracks. Ryan’s [Tedder, vocals] interests lie more in Top 40 pop songs and Drew [Brown, guitar] is very much into a little more obscure rock bands and also likes British rock bands. I like whatever comes along my path.” The band incorporates each favored style into its music to create its own unique blend.

It is not only their sound that keeps hold of their fans, but also the messages the songs convey. The band likes to write songs based on the human condition so ev-

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eryone can relate to them.

“We want our songs to be unifying and representative of what we all go through at one point or another,” Filkins said.

The band receives feedback from their fans through Internet communities.

Among other things, fans told the OneRepublic band that their songs “helped people through difficult or dysfunctional relationships.” After listening to the songs, people with suicidal thoughts said they decided to give life another chance. This kind of feedback is what keeps the band going.

Despite their achievements, the band does not think they have reached their full musical potential. OneRepublic wants to continue writing better music and to keep playing shows.

“My personal goal is to headline an arena tour,” Filkins said.

This is the fi rst time the band will be playing in Hawai‘i.

“Hawai‘i is defi nitely the highlight of our year,” Filkins said.

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Shokudo, Japanese for “cafeteria,” mixes local favorites with traditional Japanese fare. The restaurant is illuminated in soft light and appointed with modern furniture to give off a tranquil ambience.

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M AY SALCEDO Staff Writer Shokudo Japanese Restaurant and Bar fuses traditional Japanese cooking with Eurasian cultures. This casual family-dining experience encourages sharing food at the dinner table.

Although the restaurant features predominantly Japanese cuisine, different cultures have made an imprint on the dishes.

The pork with Japanese scallions appetizer combines Chinese char siu pork and ponzu sauce. The sushi pizza, another crowd favorite, incorporates sushi rice and seafood cooked pizza-style.

The restaurant brings back the traditional cooking style of ishiyaki, a 500-degree Fahrenheit hot-stone cooked meal that continues to cook at the dinner table. Ishiyaki is used to cook rice bowls such as the Korean-Japanese hybrid suki-

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Although there are more than 60 dishes to choose from, the honey toast is most commonly recommended. Collin Luo, who comes to the restaurant several times a month, said that he goes to Shokudo for the honey toast. This legendary dessert consists of toasted bread drizzled with honey and topped with ice cream.

If the dinner menu is a little pricey, check out happy hour before dark (4-6 p.m. daily) and after dark (10:30 p.m.-12 a.m.

Sunday to Wednesday). Both menus provide food and drinks up to $4 each; however, the $4 food and drinks before dark are only available at the bar.

The neo-Japanese atmosphere and wide range of food choices makes this a hot spot for dates. Since the restaurant is such a high-traffic hotspot, it is advisable to book a reservation.

The service gets slow on busy nights, but the workers

make up for it with smiles, courtesy and enthusiasm for the food.

“You believe in what you sell, so it’s good,” said Carolyn Conroy, who has worked as a waitress at Shokudo for fi ve years. “To me, it’s always important that you do familystyle here so you can spread [the food] and it brings you guys kind of closer together.”

The restaurant emphasizes a dining experience that brings the family together and values a fun and exciting dine-out experience.

“I believe in the company’s values and mission … I really enjoy the people,” said Shokudo manager Justin Mizufuka, who has been working at Shokudo since 2006.

From the moment the employees greet you with the fi rst “irrashaimase” (“welcome” in Japanese), to the “thank you for coming,” Shokudo will leave you full and satisfied.

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SETH L ILLEY KTUH Correspondent

Breath is something we take for granted. We breathe subconsciously. It is essential to living, and we don’t even think about it. One thing you learn as a musician, however, is how to use your breath as a tool. Anyone who plays a wind instrument uses this skill and is forced to use it by the conventions of the instrument. But how do we breathe through other kinds of instruments?

Jonas Tauber has learned to regulate his breathing. His breath fl ows through his body, moving organically into his own stringed instrument, the cello. You can hear his swift intakes of breath as he plays, making the cello a part of his body.

Tauber can be heard on “Port Saïd Street,” his new album with Francis Coletta. Both Tauber and Coletta play their instruments instinctively and with fervor.

It’s easy to pass the album off as “easy listening” without actually listening to it. While it avoids the blatant tension and speed of bebop and free jazz, it has no less passion and requires no less skill in execution. It would be an insult to place such fi ne music in a genre famous for soullessness. You could call the album smooth jazz as long as you suspend any misconceptions of that genre.

The album is a fine collection of music. Coletta plays guitar beautifully, with Tauber chopping and riffing skillfully in perfect harmony. It’s obvious the two just like making music, pure and simple. It’s very stripped down — just the two, but with such fullness it almost seems like a quartet with piano and drums. Each player is equally adept at his instrument: Coletta often riffs over Tauber’s chops, and Tauber reciprocates over chords from Coletta.

The album begins with a pleasantly boppy number (“Surfi n’ On the Neck”), bringing to mind smoky speakeasies.

Tauber plucks his cello in a head-bobbing pizzicato, and Coletta’s fi ngers fl y over the fretboard.

The next song, “Vasilé,” changes the mood completely, with Coletta strumming mellow chords and Tauber darkening the mood with ethereal harmonics.

The song is slow, almost mournful.

The album is full of mood shifts, from the bright and bouncy “Nica’s Dream,” to the contemplative “Body and Soul,” to the passionate title song.

The mood changes keep the songs from running into one another; each song is distinct. What I love about the recording is that they don’t try to hide Tauber’s breathing: You know he puts himself into his music when you can hear him mark a phrase with a breath. It’s this sort of unfi nished sound that makes listening to the album like a live performance.

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’Bows dive into conference championships JAKE CAMARILLO Senior Staff Writer For the University of Hawai‘i men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams, February isn’t about love — it’s about winning conference championships.

Although the Rainbow Warriors (Conference USA) and the Rainbow Wahine (Western Athletic Conference) compete in different leagues, their championships fall on the same four days (Feb. 23 to 26), which forces the coaching staff to split in half.

“I have to choose every year who I go with; so, right off the bat, half the team goes without their head coach,” said Victor Wales, who is the head swimming coach for both teams.

Wales will head to San Antonio, Texas with the women’s team, while the other coaches go with the men to Houston, Texas.

“Because we have such a big staff, that’s okay — we’ve got great leadership in both the men’s and women’s team,” Wales said.

Still, it ’s difficult to be separated.

“The meets are simultaneous, so I’m getting updates texted to me from what’s going on in one meet,” Wales said. “It’s tough because I don’t know why they were successful or why they weren’t.”

Despite not competing in the same venue, the teams say they feel ready.

“It’s always nice to have the men’s support, or the women’s support for the men’s,” senior Rainbow Wahine swimming team captain Amanda McTeague said. “It’s nice to be all together, but we’re prepared for being separated.”

For the WAC Championships, McTeague said the team has goals to accomplish.

“We’d love to place in the top

three; last year we came in sixth,” McTeague said. “So to come back and be one of the top teams would be a good goal for us.”

Senior men’s swimming team captain Ilia Reyes also has winning on his mind for the Rainbow Warriors.

“We’ve been coming in second for the last two years, and last year was the fi rst year that we actually had a better chance,” Reyes said. “This year we have an even better chance, because the teams are pretty much dead even.”

The divers have a different perspective on the championship meets than the swimmers do.

“For the swimmers, most of them, it’s their last meet of the year,” diving head coach Mike Brown said. “For the divers it’s an important meet, but not the most important, because two weeks later, we go to Minnesota for our qualifying meet for nationals.”

The zone qualifiers that follow the conference championships are the only meets at which divers can earn berths into the NCA A championships.

Although the conference is not the most important meet, senior diver Emma Friesen, who won the 1-meter NCA A title in 2008, is still looking forward to it.

“We’re all feeling like it’s coming up pretty quick, but we’re excited,” Friesen said. “We’ll all be ready to peak by next week.”

And after redshirting the 2009-2010 season, Friesen wants to go out with a bang.

“I’m looking forward to fi nishing off my senior season strong, but we’ll get up to looking at NCA A qualifiers later,” Friesen said. “It’s a great meet to go to because we’re with the swimmers.

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FRIDAY, FEB. 18, 2011

Reyes grew into leadership JAKE CAMARILLO Senior Staff Writer Who would have thought that a boy from Moloka‘i would become the leader of the Rainbow Warrior swimming team?

That’s the story of senior swimmer Ilia Reyes, who is from Kaunakakai, Moloka‘i.

“I have three older sisters, and my parents urged them to swim,” Reyes said. “When I was nine, I kind of grew up doing what they were doing and fell into swimming as well.”

Without any competitive swim meets or clubs in Moloka‘i, Reyes and his siblings travelled to other islands to swim.

“We would have to fl y to Maui every time to do a swim meet and we’d just do our thing and come back home,” Reyes said.

After only two years at the club level, 11-year-old Reyes moved to O‘ahu and attended K a m e hameha

Schools-Kapalama.

There, h is sw i m m i ng sk il ls shone, but t he t ra n sit ion to K a meha me ha wasn’t easy. “ T h e first two weeks was rough for me, being away from home,” Reyes said. “But after those two weeks, I was like, ‘All right, I can do this.’”

A NEW KIND OF WA R R I O R Reyes won multiple high school state championships at Kamehameha, which earned him national attention. He received recruiting letters from Division II and Division III colleges, but Reyes wanted better.

He wanted to go to a winning Division I program.

Reyes turned to Davis Kane, a friend and teammate at Kamehameha. Kane was swimming for the Rainbow Warriors, and Reyes asked him about the University of Hawai‘i.

“I did it for a year and really liked it,” Kane said. “I knew that it was someplace where [Reyes] could have fun, stay at home, as well as get faster competitively in swimming.”

For Reyes, it came down to going to California or staying at home. He contacted Victor Wales, UH’s swimming head coach.

“He gave me the opportunity to walk on and see what I got,” Reyes said. “He said my times were okay, but to be at a Division I level, I had to work hard for it.”

But it was decided: Reyes would continue his education and swimming at UH. Academically, Reyes said that the transition to college was easy, but for swimming, it was a whole different level.

“Coming from Moloka‘i, winning states, you kind of come into RUSSELL TOLENTINO/ KA LEO O HAWAI‘I

Senior swimmer Ilia Reyes started his career at UH as a walk on. Since then, he earned a scholarship, was named team captain and is one of the university’s top swimmers.

college thinking you’re fast. Then, at the fi rst practice, I was like, ‘wow, I suck,’” Reyes said. “It humbled me and brought me onto a level where I could look up to more people.”

During high school, Reyes said he wouldn’t attend ever y practice.

“For me, out of the six practices we had, I’d go to maybe two or three of them,” Reyes said. “My whole high school career was like that. I was kind of nonchalant about it.”

But at UH, he realized it would take more commitment to be the best.

“Even if you ask him, he did more in his fi rst month when he got here than he did the year previous to being here,” Wales said.

“Sometimes it’s hard to be a talented athlete in Hawai‘i, because your scope’s limited.”

Wales and the rest of the coaching staff saw potential in Reyes, and began suggesting of competing at national and Olympic trials.

To do so, however, Reyes learned what it took to get to that level.

He began training harder, and immediately noticed the difference in intensity between high school and collegiate swimming.

“The fi rst year was the hardest year. It was a different kind of training. A lot more intense and a lot more yardage,” Reyes said.

In his sophomore year, Reyes improved and went to the men’s conference championships. He wasn’t scored by his coaches, but had his best times.

“I trained that summer, got my national cuts and got on scholarship,” Reyes said. “From there on, I just got better and better.”

ʻH E ʼS A L E A D E Rʼ After being named a team captain his junior year, the expectations for Reyes grew higher — both in and out of the pool.

For example, if guys aren’t showing up to practice, coaches ask Reyes where they are, and he then gets them all together.

“They expect a lot, and they hold me to the standard,” Reyes said. “I don’t want to say [the younger swimmers] look up to me, but when I was a freshman, I could look up and say, ‘I want to be like the senior guys. I want to be just as fast as them.’”

Reyes’ impact as a leader has also been noticed on the women’s swimming team.

“His work ethic and determination to do well impacts the other swimmers,” Rainbow Wahine senior team captain Amanda McTeague said. “I see him helping other guys with their starts because he’s known for having a really good, fast start. It’s nice to see that he’s there to lend a helping hand.”

Wales said Reyes’ leadership is holding up to his standard.

“My expectations for him ... he’s come pretty close to fulfi lling, which not many athletes do, to be honest,” Wales said. “Coaches should have extremely high expectations for their athletes.”

But perhaps more importantly, Wales noticed Reyes’ growth not only as a swimmer, but as a student and person as well.

“He really understands the importance of an education,” Wales said. “He’s become a scholar-athlete, and he’s done some great things in the pool.

“He’s bettered himself from when mediocre used to be good enough for him, and he realized he’s not a mediocre person,” Wales continued. “He’s a leader, and leaders lead. That’s what sets him apart in my mind.”