SCHOLASTIC ATHLETE MICAH JIO Micah Jio is a two-sport superstar in baseball and basketball. During his senior year at Maui High School, he was named the Maui Interscholastic League Division 1 Player of the Year in baseball and a D-1 All-Star in basketball. He’s also incredibly smart, earning a 4.0 GPA and was the valedictorian […]

BEST OF MAUI 2016: Best Maui Sports Activities Parks and Recreation Revealed Here are our readers’ votes on the county’s best sports and leisure. We tallied up all of your votes and posted them right here.  Here you’ll find Maui’s Best Grom and where you can find the best SUP equipment and what best beaches […]

Most people think surfing kind of sums up pretty much everything sports-related in Hawaii, but there’s so much more, like paddling, swimming, yoga… Wait, yoga is a sport? Anyway, this is where you’ll read about our readers’ favorite groms, gyms and beaches to barbecue, because grilling is most definitely a sport. Best Yoga Teacher James […]

Best Scholastic Athlete Nick Wright Nick Wright can swim. He broke all kinds of Maui County swimming records while competing for Baldwin High School and Seabury Hall High School, as well as the Hawaiian Swim Club (whom he swam with for a few years). This past March, he placed first in the 100-meter fly at […]

BEST HIKE Bamboo Forest Fifteen minutes in the limelight is so overrated. What’s way better (and what MauiTime readers deem is the isle’s best hike) is a day bathed in chartreuse crepuscular rays you explore the perennial evergreen of East Maui’s “Bamboo Forest.” Early en route to Hana, you can’t miss the spot–rentals and Maui […]

SPORTS & LEISURE BEST PUBLIC POOL Kihei Aquatic Center The budget crunch has led to reduced hours at all County pools, including Kihei Aquatic (now closed Wednesdays). But at least it’s still open—providing a very alluring, very free option for those days when surf and sand just feel a tad too daunting. There are ample […]

PUBLIC POOL Kihei Aquatic Center Though Kihei’s very cool, very free pool carried the day (with its West side counterpart placing second), plenty of smart-ass readers logged votes for “the ocean.”  We get where you’re coming from—that big, beautiful expanse of salt water is plenty inviting. But sometimes all the sand and tides and unpredictable […]

BEST SWIMMING BEACH Big Beach Swimming at Big Beach is like a bad relationship—you think that if you can just get past the break, you’ll be fine. The water at Big Beach is calm and placid…on a flat day. Other days you’ll experience the awesome force of Big Beach’s spectacular shore break. On those days […]