BYU–Hawaii News

Staff | University Advancement | 1 May 2006 Two former Seasiders, and former teammates, were recently announced as the new men’s and women’s head soccer coaches, respectively, at Brigham Young University Hawaii. Jeff Miller, a former standout and team MVP, will begin to rebuild a men’s program that was dropped while he was an assistant during the 2000 season. The women’s team also announced a new head coach—Justin Wagar, who spent the past season as the interim head coach of the women's soccer team at Utah Valley State College. Wagar will have the task of building a program from the ground up as BYU-Hawaii adds women's soccer to its athletic program for the 2006-07 academic year.

BYU-Hawaii Athletic Director Ken Wagner said the school is excited about the new coaches and expressed confidence in their abilities to build their respective programs.

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Elder Yoshihiko Kikuchi, a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy since 1977, shared words of encouragement and a powerful testimony during special meetings on April 20 with Korean and Japanese students at BYU-Hawaii. Read Full Story

Visiting BYU Professor Victor L. Ludlow took about 80 members and guests of the BYU-Hawaii Women's Organization luncheon meeting through a Jewish Passover seder on April 21 in the Aloha Center and explained the symbolic significance of the traditional meal to the group. Read Full Story

Staff | University Advancement | 21 April 2006 Laie, HI - Brigham Young University Hawaii has named former Hawaii State High School "Coach of the Year" Wendy Anae as the new head coach for its fledgling women's basketball team. Anae will have the task of building a program from the ground up as BYU-Hawaii adds women's basketball to its athletic program for the 2006-07 academic year.

Anae coached this past season at Timpview High School in Provo, Utah, where she took her young team to the Final Four in the Utah State High School Girl's Tournament. However, she is no stranger to Laie and the North Shore, having coached the Kahuku Red Raiders for three years from 2003-05 after serving as an assistant coach at Kahuku for four years previous to being named head coach.

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Brigham Young University Hawaii art student Kisslan Chan was one of only 15 people to receive the Purchase Award, the top prize given at the Seventh InternationalArt Competition held in Salt Lake City, Utah on March 24th, 2006. More than 900submissions were entered into the competition, an event sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and held at the Museum of Church History and Art. Read Full Story

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Jorjana Brown delivered the final BYU-Hawaii entrepreneurship lecture of the school year April 11 on how she has grown her scrapbooking business from a small retail start-up into a manufacturing company that's part of a multibillion-dollar international industry. Read Full Story

Mike Foley | University Advancement | 28 March 2006 Dr. Keith Roberts, BYU-Hawaii Vice President of Academics, recently announced that Dr. Clayton Hubner will succeed Dr. Brent Wilson as dean of the University's School of Business, effective August 1, 2006.

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BYU-Hawaii junior history major Spencer McBride's research paper on "The Catholic Conquest of California" won the "best undergraduate" prize on March 18, 2006, during the annual conference of the five major Hawaii universities in the regional chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honor society. Read Full Story

Bill Spencer, president of the Hawaii Venture Capital Association, compared entrepreneurship in the 21st century to "an extreme sport without risk of bodily harm." Read Full Story