View Tube - Paddles Up!

Posted on: February 26, 2008 at 11:55:07 am
Paddles Up!

In the ideal world we'd add every sport to the TV schedule. But since my company credit card has a restricted limit...it takes time to bring in new sports offerings.

The "new" much deserving sport we are bringing to you is the HHSAA State Canoe Paddling Championships.

The event itself is Friday at Ke'ehi Lagoon - but - the TV broadcast will be the next day, Saturday. Time on Saturday about 9pm - following our tripleheader of Pacwest Softball. Additional encore showings will be on Sunday at 11am and 8pm.

It would be nice to show the races live but time and logistics don't allow it now. Hopefully a 30-minute recap show with feature stories will do the schools justice.

I've covered a few of these championships and think they're great.

First they're easy to follow, prelims, quarter, semi's, finals all flow along quickly. Then a sprint down and back with lots of close finishes at the line. All done in one half day!

Even better this championship features a coed division to go along with the boy's and girl's categories. Great to see the guys and gals work together in a crew for their school. In some regards, I think this is true school spirit in action since they share the same boat for the race.

Could you imagine any other high school sports coed? I guess tennis has mixed events so that's not a stretch. Volleyball? Hmmm... But I digress, paddlers and fans of outrigger canoe races, enjoy this new TV offering on OC16.

Aloha and have a great day!

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Comment from: Chicken Grease [Visitor]

I'm being serious here: you know what'd be the überrest of 'riffics? School chess championship! I mean, heck, it would take a while, but, you know, you have an overhead cam', have the right play-by-play announcers (they can give chess tips and strategies during lulls) . . . can turn out real nice!

It'd be a good way to highlight the athlete that doesn't get the print or airtime normally. Cheap to show, too, no?

Oh . . . ooh, woo . . . I am the poster who is first!!!!!

02/26/08 @ 15:57

Comment from: arch [Visitor]

ILH sailing doesn't have boy/girl divisions. A boat can be boy/boy, girl/girl, or girl/boy. It's all the same. No other high school sport that I know of is like this.

02/29/08 @ 06:12

Comment from: Dave [Member]

Hey Arch,

Great point about ILH sailing! It so nice to see mixed teams in action, working together to represent one school.

03/03/08 @ 10:39

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