HAYDEN HAWES
2018 Hawaii State High School All Tournament Team
Listed in the Top 100 Players in the Nation
to watch by Top Drawer Soccer, winter 2018
Hayden is named Hawaii’s Co-Defensive Player of the Year by Scoring Live, March 2018
Hayden makes the Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s First Team
March 26, 2018
Scoring Live announces their Frist team and Players of the year for the State of Hawaii.
Co-Defensive Players of the Year: Hayden Hawes, Baldwin, Sr. and Sikhea Jim, Hawaii Prep, Jr.
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Maui County Mayor Alan Arakawa awarded Hayden and the entire state champion Baldwin Soccer team with certificates of achievement.
Finalist for Scoring Live Distinguished Athlete Award – May 2018
Co-Defensive Player of the Year: Hayden Hawes, Baldwin, Sr. and Sikhea Jim, Hawaii Prep, Jr.
The state’s two best individual defenders came from the state’s two best teams.
ScoringLive’s All-Hawaii co-Defensive Players of the Year are Baldwin’s Hayden Hawes and Hawaii Prep’s Sikhea Jim.
Hawes, a senior defensive midfielder, anchored a Baldwin that allowed nine goals over a 13-game season. After allowing seven goals through its first seven games, it held opponents to just two goals in its final six contests.
“He was one of the stronger defenders in the back,” Trifonovitch said of Hawes. “He’s big, strong and very physical, but it’s what you do to win games. He scored the header on us on the corner kick and he did very well. He’s a good, strong, central defender.”
Hawes, who earned All-Hawaii Honorable Mention distinction last year, scored three goals and had four assists this season.
“With Hayden, we really wanted to be cognizant of him on restarts,” Lau said. “Even though he didn’t score versus us, you saw what he did the next night against Punahou when he did score on that header.”
Jim, a junior center-back, paced an HPA defense that posted five shut outs and sealed the deal in a pair of one-goal state tournament victories over Iolani and King Kekaulike.
“He’s kind of like Hawes in that he’s another big, strong guy who is good in the air and able to stop the point of attack,” Trifonovitch said of Jim, a repeat First Team All-Hawaii selection. “The thing that impressed me most about both Baldwin and HPA is they didn’t just blast balls around. Their defenders were able to win balls. They didn’t just head it out, kick it out or blast it out, they were able to get the balls out to their midfielders and move it upfield.”
Lau agreed with Trifonovitch’s assessment of the pair.
“They’re both very strong, central defenders and they provide good leadership. I think what they both offer is the word presence. They both have a presence about them and they’re both options when it comes to restarts in the attacking third,” Lau said.
Both Hawes and Jim were named to the Division I all-tournament team at February’s state tournament.
Punahou’s Christopher Espinoza and King Kekaulike’s Zakariya Woolley — a pair of senior center backs — were also considered for defensive player of the year.
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Hayden Hawes has played soccer all year around since he was 6 years old. He played for 2 club teams in Kihei, Maui before settling in to Maui United at the age of 8. He has been with Maui United ever since training with Chuck, Brent and Blake Nunes. He was also very talented baseball player, but always chose to forgo the all-star baseball team to play soccer.
After a strong performance in the 2015 pre-season Thanksgiving cup on Oahu, Hayden made the Baldwin High School varsity team as a freshman and played in many of the varsity games. By the time he was a sophomore he earned the varsity starting position as center back playing every game, until they got several goals ahead. He continued as a starter in his Junior year only allowing 3 goals all season including the playoffs on Oahu where they made it to the semi-finals.
Hayden is named Captain of the Baldwin Bears for his senior season!
Hayden gets his Head on the Ball vs. Maui High.
Halfway through the season Hayden is the teams second leading scorer. Not bad for a defender!