I didn't think of looking for beefcake in Hawaii 50% of the population is Asian/Pacific Islander, and it's always summer, so isn't it all beefcake, all the time?
But I had to look into Manoa, the ritzy neighborhood of Honolulu just north of Waikiki, with its High School Row: a dozen high schools and colleges, all lined up on either side of Waialae Avenue.
1. Chaminade University. Private, Roman Catholic (Father Chaminade was a priest). It offers special Native Hawaiian programs. The Silverswords (great team name) play volleyball, tennis, golf, and softball, but no swimming.
Come on, you're a half mile from the ocean!
2. Kaimuki High School. Public, founded in 1943, the 35th best high school in Hawaii. A lot of tragedies and scandals in its news.
It offers canoeing, but no swimming.
Are you kidding?
3. Saint Louis School. Roman Catholic, founded in 1846, when it was known as the College of ʻĀhuimanu, At least it offers swimming, but its big star is a wrestler, Corey Cabanban. Four-time state wrestling champ, all-American, wrestler of the year according to
Wrestling Magazine. He graduated in 2018.
4. The University of Hawaii at Manoa. (Manoa is not a town, it's a neighborhood). 17,000 students. You can major in Filipino, Ilocano, Tahitian, Vietnamese, Sanskrit, Thai, Hindi, and of course Hawaiian.
5. The Mid-Pacific Institute. Sounds like someplace where you would study reiki or holistic medicine, but it is actually a college preparatory high school offering a degree called an International Baccalaureate, which is not actually a B.A. degree. It was the first school in the U.S. to supply Ipads to all students.
Their sports team isn't the Pac-5s. That's the name of the conference.
6. Punahou, the exclusive college prep school, the alma mater of Joan Blondell, Buster Crabbe, surfer Gary Lopez, ebay founder Pierre Omidyar, and Barack Obama. It also specializes in sending athletes to the Olympics. Over 3,000 students.
7. Maryknoll School. Private Catholic k-12, admits boys and girls, founded in 1927. Former teen idol Glenn Medeiros was vice principal. He has also been a professor at Chaminade University, and now he's the headmaster of Saint Louis School.
8. McKinley High School. Public, 1700 students, motto "Ike Makaukau Aloha."
I couldn't find any good photos, so here are some unhappy runners from Honoka'a
9. Roosevelt High School, not to be confused with the one in Des Moines. I like the King Kamehameha crown.
10. Hawaii Pacific University, a private, nondenominational, nonprofit university with 3,700 students.where you study mostly business and STEM subjects. They don't have any teams, but there are intramurals, and the Aloha Tower Fitness Center.
