The Maui High girls basketball team is the 2025 Maui Interscholastic League champion. The team is seeded fourth in the state tournament beginning early February. Courtesy photo

Maui High girls basketball coach Victor Aguirre knows what he’s seeing — a team going 14-0 to take an Maui Interscholastic League championship — is a rarity.

And he’s coaching them.

“It feels great,” Aguirre said of the team’s success this season. “It’s been a goal of mine to win an MIL title.”

The Sabers are entering the state tournament seeded fourth. They are scheduled to play at 7 p.m. Feb. 6. against the winner of the Waiakea-Campbell game at Kamehameha Schools Kapalama on Oahu.

Additionally, Kamehameha Maui will play Mililani High School at 4 p.m. Feb. 3 at Kamehameha-Maui’s campus in Upcountry Maui with the winner advancing to the Feb. 6 competition bracket.

Aguirre said his Maui High team is getting better with each game.

“They’re in a good place,” he said of the Sabers. “They’re really close as a team. They’re really energetic. They’re really competitive.”

The team has a balanced offense with sophomore Darcee Seegmiller, senior Kyra Okuyama and junior Naiara Bal generally scoring in double-digits.

A side feature to the Maui High girls basketball games has been the presence of several alumni from Maui High’s 1999 team, which also won the MIL championship, cheering from the sidelines including Maren Kanekoa, Sanna Kauhane, Mahie Atay and Rachel Kondo.

“It was awesome to see our alumni support our students,” Maui High athletic director Michael Ban said. “We want to invite other alumni as well.”

Aguirre said he’s enjoying working with the 2025 girls basketball team.

“They made it a pleasure with their awesome attitude,” he said.

Aguirre said he’s looking forward to the next few years of girls basketball competition because most of the players on this year’s roster are freshman and sophomores.

After this year’s tournament, the Sabers are losing Okayama as a starter, but Aguirre also expects at least a couple of good prospects to join the team.

“The future is good at least for the next three years,” he said.