HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - When watching a Warriors football game, pay more attention to what you hear, not what you see.

“All our plays are called in Hawaiian. Our stunts, our blitzes are called in Hawaiian. A Native Hawaiian ʻōiwi edge that we have over the other teams, giving us that extra 12th man on the field,” said head coach Kealoha Wengler.

Wengler previously spent 15 years at Oahu’s Ke Kula Kaiapuni ʻO Ānuenue, a Hawaiian immersion school where he helped start its first ever football team in 2006.

Wengler then took that background with him to Kamehameha Hawaiʻi in Keaʻau.

However, getting the entire coaching staff and players to only speak ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi on the sidelines took about five years, incorporating little by little.

“It wasn’t an easy process, especially for our coac

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