Dr. Edison H. and Sallie Y. Miyawaki Family Athletics Center
Chaminade University of Honolulu announced a $1 million gift from Dr. Edison H. Miyawaki at a recent annual booster club event. The money will go toward the construction of a new athletics training, locker room and sports medicine building.
The new facilities, located mauka of the McCabe Gymnasium, will replace and greatly expand the current locker and sports medicine facilities and improve accommodations for visiting teams and game officials.
Expected to be completed by fall 2017 along with the coaching office complex now in progress, the building will be named the Dr. Edison H. and Sallie Y. Miyawaki Family Athletics Center.
“We are thankful for Dr. Miyawaki’s commitment to our students and our intercollegiate athletics program said Chaminade president, Marianist Brother Bernard Ploeger.
Chaminade athletics director William “Bill” Villa thanked the donor for his years of support.
Miyawaki is chairman of the university’s Intercollegiate Athletics Gala, which has grossed well over a $1 million since its inception.
“He has been an outstanding and generous leader, inspiring us to press forward in achieving our shared vision for a great intercollegiate athletics program,” Villa said.
Chaminade sponsors 10 intercollegiate sports teams including teams in men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross country, men’s golf, men’s and women’s soccer, women’s softball, women’s tennis and women’s volleyball. More than 10 percent of Chaminade’s day undergraduate students participate in intercollegiate athletics.
All teams compete in the Pacific West Conference.