Hawaii Beat

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Monday, May 12, 1997

Bonham awards to Ljungquist, Oswalt

The University of Hawaii athletic department has named seniors Carlton Oswalt and Angelica Ljungquist this year's Jack Bonham Award winners.

The award is the most prestigious award given by UH and is presented annually to the top male and female senior athletes who best exemplify the ideals the late UH assistant athletic director stood for - academic excellence, public service, leadership and character.

Bonham was killed in a plane crash in 1974.

Oswalt, a four-year starter at place-kicker for the Rainbows' football team has maintained a 3.3 cumulative grade point average after posting a 4.0 in the fall semester. He is majoring in sports medicine/exercise and has been a UH Scholar-Athlete all four years.

He is a member of Athletes in Action and devotes his spare time to the Hawaii Food Bank, Ala Moana trash pick-up and numerous autograph and speaking engagements.

Ljungquist is UH's first four-time NCAA All American and the 1996 Player of the Year. She holds a cumulative GPA of 3.34 in political science. She is the first women's volleyball player selected to the GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-American second team.

The co-captain was a leader on and off the court and is very active in her church.

UH VOLLEYBALL RECORDS: The University of Hawaii men's volleyball team set five individual records and eight team records during the 1997 season.

Senior setter Curt Vaughan now holds the records for career (4,557) seaons (1,758) and single match (115 vs. BYU in the season finale) assists. Junior Rick Tune, who has said he will not return for his last year, set two single season blocking marks: block assists (142) and total blocks (162).

As a team, the Rainbows set school records for kill attempts (4,495), block assists (670) and total blocks (753). Also set were assist marks for a a match (122 vs. BYU) and season (2,197) as well as digs in a season (1,223).

The five-game March 5 loss at Pacific had the most combined points scored (66-69).

Hawaii also broke its national attendance records for overal (142,732) and per match average (7,930).

KAHALE NAMED: All-state volleyball player Pono Kahale, a senior at Kamehameha Schools, was one of 18 high school players named to the USA Youth National Volleyball Team announced recently.

Kahale will begin training in August at the USA Volleyball headquarters at Colorado Springs, Colo. A dozen players will earn spots on the U.S. traveling squad that will play in Italy and Brazil.