5 New Members Be part of UH Sports Circle of Honor within the Class of 2026

HONOLULU – University of Hawai’i Athletics has introduced the 41^st class of the UH Sports Circle of Honor, which incorporates Monika Eggens (water polo), Rich Miano (soccer), Barbara (Mitchell) Anderson (swimming), Costas Theocharidis (males’s volleyball), and Ben Yee (contributor).
 

The official enshrinement of the Class of 2026 will happen throughout the Green & White Celebration on Friday, Oct. 16, at Bankoh Arena at Stan Sheriff Center. For extra info and desk gross sales, go to www.koaanuenue.org.
 
Eggens turns into the primary water polo participant to be enshrined in this system’s 29-year historical past. Miano is the 38^th soccer participant to be inducted, whereas Theocharidis is the sixth honoree from the lads’s volleyball program. Yee, coming into within the “Contributor” class, is the 11^th supporter to be honored. Anderson, who swam for UH within the Seventies, is acknowledged as this 12 months’s “Legend” class honoree.
 
Established in 1982, the Circle of Honor acknowledges people and groups which have contributed to the expansion, historical past, and custom of UH Athletics. Including this 12 months’s honorees, the Circle of Honor now boasts 138 particular person and 13 crew inductees. Plaques honoring these legends are proudly displayed on the inside partitions surrounding the primary concourse of Bankoh Arena at Stan Sheriff Center.
 
Biographies of the Circle of Honor Class of 2026 inductees are listed under: 
 
Monika Eggens is likely one of the all-time greats in UH water polo historical past throughout her four-year profession … a three-time ACWPC All-American (second crew 2010, first crew ’11 and ’13)  and two-time first-team All-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (2010 and ’11) … Big West Player of the Year in 2013 and first-team All-Big West … Big West Championship MVP and NCAA Championship All-Tournament crew in 2013 … UH’s all-time objectives chief (247) … solely UH participant to attain 100 objectives in a season (101 in 2013) and averaged a document 3.06 objectives per match in 2013 … holds the UH single-match document with 9 objectives … redshirted in 2012 to coach with Canada’s nationwide crew … performed for Canada within the 2020 Olympic Games and tied for second on the crew with 10 objectives in Tokyo … helped Canada win silver on the 2011, ’15 and ’19 Pan Am Games.
 
A 3-year varsity letterman from 1982-84, Rich Miano was an Associated Press honorable point out All-America and first-team All-Coast in 1984 … a two-time first-team All-WAC choice in 1983 and ’84 … led the crew in tackles in 1983 and ’84 together with 110 complete tackles in ’84 … tied for the crew lead in interceptions in 1983 … a three-time Warrior Club honoree, together with Warrior of the Year in 1984 … named the crew’s Most Valuable Defensive Scout in 1980 … performed within the 1985 Hula Bowl … chosen within the 6^th spherical of the 1985 NFL Draft by the New York Jets … loved an 11-year NFL profession with the Jets and Philadelphia Eagles … served as assistant coach at UH below head coaches June Jones and Greg McMackin from 1999-2011 … served as shade analyst for UH soccer broadcasts on Spectrum Sports from 2014-25.
 
Barbara Mitchell was UH’s first swimming nationwide champion, capturing the AIAW National Championship within the 200-yard particular person medley in 1975 … in her first season in Mānoa, was rated within the Top 20 within the girls’s division for collegiate swimmers and was named an AIAW All-American within the 200 IM and honorable point out within the 400 medley relay … the next 12 months, she certified for the AIAW Championships and positioned 15^th within the 200 IM (2:14) and sixth within the 200 breaststroke (2:09) and was named honorable point out All-America in each the 200 breast and 400 medley relay … completed her profession at Washington as a four-time All-American … previous to UH, competed within the 1972 Olympic Trials and her efficiency within the 200-meter breaststroke certified her to signify the USA within the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany as a 16-year-old … was a four-time state champion within the 100-yard breaststroke and a two-time highschool All-American … inducted into the Pacific Northwest Swimming Association Hall of Fame in 2005.
 
Costas Theocharidis was UH’s first two-time AVCA Player of the Year and the one participant in program historical past to earn first-team All-America honors 4 occasions … led UH to the 2002 NCAA Championship (later vacated) and was named the match’s Most Outstanding Player … named AVCA Player of the Year in 2001 and ’03 and Newcomer of the Year in 2000 … chosen as an Academic All-American in 2002 and ’03 and MPSF Player of the Year in 2001 and ’03 … four-time All-MPSF choice … led UH to 86 wins in 4 seasons … recipient of the varsity’s Jack Bonham Award in 2003 … completed as UH’s all-time chief in kills (2,198) and kill makes an attempt (4,510) and ranked No. 2 in kill common (5.51) and repair aces (121) … additionally ranked within the Top 10 in block assists, complete blocks, and digs.
 
Ben Yee was one of many founding members of the UH soccer crew’s booster membership, Nā Koa … he together with former head coach Bob Wagner and boosters Alec Waterhouse and Ed Wong, based the membership in 1987 … the membership supplies assist for most of the program’s wants not funded by the athletics division price range … his involvement with the athletics division dated again to the Seventies and for 4 a long time, he volunteered his time to assist the soccer program by means of a number of head coaches starting with Larry Price … following his retirement from Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, he joined this system as administrative assistant below Wagner and helped kind Nā Koa quickly after … the soccer program’s Most Inspirational Award was created and named in his honor in 1995 and is introduced yearly to the participant who exemplifies braveness and management throughout the season.
 
 

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