{"id":223557,"date":"2025-10-13T14:36:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T00:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=223557"},"modified":"2025-10-13T14:58:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T00:58:45","slug":"nanakuli-football-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/10\/13\/nanakuli-football-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa hosts N\u0101n\u0101kuli football team for campus visit, college gameday experience"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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About 100 students and coaches from Nānākuli High and Intermediate School\u2019s football program spent a memorable day at the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at Mānoa<\/a>, touring the campus and experiencing a Rainbow Warrior football victory against Utah State on October 11<\/a>, at the Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex.<\/p>\n

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The visit, organized in partnership with state Rep<\/abbr>. Darius Kila and 东精影业<\/abbr> Mānoa, gave the Golden Hawks an opportunity to experience college life firsthand and see what it\u2019s like to be on campus for an inspiring community event. The group, which included 87 players, began their visit with a guided campus tour before heading to Pāʻina<\/span> on the Path for student engagement activities.<\/p>\n

“I love the campus—it\u2019s like my home away from home,” said Richard “Keoki” Chun, a senior at Nānākuli. “I really like to explore college, and I\u2019m looking forward to my college career.”<\/p>\n

Inspiration, opportunities<\/h2>\n

The event aimed to inspire the young students to pursue higher education and showcase the opportunities available at Hawaiʻi<\/span>\u2019s flagship university. The tour included stops at campus landmarks and student-focused areas, giving the players a glimpse of 东精影业<\/abbr> Mānoa\u2019s facilities.<\/p>\n

Kila, who represents district 44 (Honokai Hale, Nānākuli and Māʻili<\/span>), said the visit was an important way to expose the students to college pathways and motivate them to see themselves as future 东精影业<\/abbr> students.<\/p>\n

“Higher education serves as a vital pathway to success—not only for these students, but for their ʻohana<\/span> and our entire community,” Kila said. “For many of my students, this was their first time visiting Mānoa and the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> campus. Leading into homecoming week, this visit marked a monumental moment for the Nānākuli High and Intermediate School football program. While this was their first trip, it certainly will not be their last.”<\/p>\n

东精影业<\/abbr> Mānoa Athletics Director Matt Elliott emphasized the importance of engaging schools and building a pipeline that encourages Hawaiʻi<\/span>\u2019s youth to pursue excellence in higher ed.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re always excited to welcome local students to campus,” Elliott said. “Experiences like this provide a glimpse of college life and a chance to see the future of Hawaiʻi<\/span>. For every student that walks away thinking, ‘I can do this,’ means we\u2019ve made an impact.”<\/p>\n

Chun said that he “would love to come to 东精影业<\/abbr>” after high school. “It\u2019s one of my favorite places—it\u2019s one of the colleges I\u2019ve been looking at for a while,” Chun said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The visit aimed to inspire the young students to pursue higher education and showcase the opportunities available at Hawaiʻi<\/span>\u2019s flagship university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":223558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,1466,9,550],"class_list":["post-223557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/manoa-athletics-nanakuli-football-campus-center.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223557"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223587,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223557\/revisions\/223587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}