Warrior Beat: Hawaii athletics graduation day
Three former UH basketball players — Sheriff Drammeh, Brocke Stepteau and Jack Purchase — earned degrees today and are ready for the next phase of their lives.
Drammeh has reached an agreement with a sports agency in Europe and is expected to play professionally over there.
Purchase is headed back to his native Australia to audition for the professional league over there. The free-agent period is coming up.
Stepteau is exploring options in basketball and music. He is accompanying Purchase to Australia, although there are no concrete plans to continue playing. But a couple weeks ago, Stepteau’s album “Ascension” was released a couple weeks ago. It’s available on several platforms, including at Apple ITunes — Ascension
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The baseball graduates:
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And UH’s shutdown cornerback, Rojesterman Farris II, is now a college graduate. But not to worry, he still has a season of eligibility remaining.
Congratulations to all the graduates. Awesome !!!
There were other proud graduates as well. I saw Zeno Choi.
119 student-athletes graduated today. Here’s the link for the list: https://hawaiiathletics.com/news/2019/5/4/untitled-story.aspx
(15 from football; great going guys)
hip, hip, hooray
hip, hip, at last
hip, hip, hooray
graduate at last
congratulations to all the graduates, but especially to the student-athlete who must make an extra effort to complete their education and move on with life —
yep, no more spring break, summer break, winter break — depending where they decide to “work”, holidays may be few and far between — yep, work 5 or more days a week and 8 or more hours per day
ah, the joys of being out of school!!!
Congrats to all of the grads!
Good job men! What ever comes next, may you blessed with success!
BROCK SHOULD TRY THE JAPAN MARKET; SHERRIFF WOULD BE A NATURAL FOR THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTRS.
Lava:
Zeno’s in line to be a police officer, I think .
Austin Webb already has landed a job in Salt Lake City.
What it’s all about. Congratulations to all the athletes, you’ve earned this!
What’s this …
June Jones on the move again?
Gotta go where the money’s at.
Hawaii real busy with offers …
DE Ioholani Raass was offered by Hawaii
DE Mark Blocker was offered by Hawaii
LB Caleb McCullough was offered by Hawaii
DL Leshaun Bell was offered by Hawaii
OL Andres Dewerk was offered by Hawaii
WR Jamir Shepard was offered by Hawaii
OL/DL Marcus Miller was offered by Hawaii
ATH Brody Hughes was offered by Hawaii
WR Marcus Libman was offered by Hawaii
ATH Keyshawn Smith was offered by Hawaii
ATH Isaiah Afatasi was offered by Hawaii
LB Austin Nichols was offered by Hawaii
OL Caadyn Stephen was offered by Hawaii
DE Xavier Carlton was offered by Hawaii
OL Cade Bennett was offered by Hawaii
WR/DB Tyson McWilliams was offered by Hawaii
DE/TE Nusi Malani was offered by Hawaii
JUCO OL Riden Leong was offered by Hawaii
OL Mose Vavao was offered by Hawaii and Utah State
Note: DE Mark Blocker committed.
JUCO OL Riden Leong was offered by Hawaii.
6’5, 320. Orange Coast CC.
Maryknoll 2018 (Basketball?)
Has offers from Iowa Sate and TCU (tweets).
June Jones to XFL? I wish him the best. Hopefully he can bring some UH alum into the mix. I hope this league doesn’t fade like the AAL and the old XFL.
I guess Noa’s brother is not island bound—see:https://www.dailycal.org/2019/05/12/former-cal-receiver-kanawai-noa-announces-transfer-to-nebraska/
Congratulations to all of the UH student-athlete graduates! So proud of all of you. You worked hard in the classroom and blessed the fans with your talents on the filed, on the court, in the pool and in the ocean – Thank you! *Sidenote – Brock’s mom looks like she could be his sister!
# 15 – Boola
Check out # 12 – OL Mose Vavao was offered by Hawaii and Utah State.
He also has offers from YALE, Harvard, Columbia, Air Force …
He must be a GEM !!!
while Kanawai Noa would have been a good addition, perhaps concentrating coaching efforts to others rather than a one-and-done player is better use of staff time and effort
Noticed Austin Webb was one of the graduates. Glad he was able to remain on scholarship and graduate after suffering a serious staph infection his sophomore year.
Stephen, wasn’t today the last day of the spring signing period for men’s basketball? I’ve been following UH basketball for more years than I want to admit and can’t remember the team ever having this many available scholarships uncommitted at the end of the signing period. What’s the story?
Nebraska 0 draft picks, Hawaii 2 draft picks. Nuff said.
I really hope the XFL is successful. I think they have to be on one of the 4 major networks to be successful. No one wants to go to some cable channel to watch a game, the was Alliance’s downfall.
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