Rest in Peace Mark Wells! Star Basketball Player

[1stwahine]

Dead Maui Man identified as ex-basketball star of the 1982 Charminade Basketball Team that defeated top-ranked Virginia Cavaliers. It is considered the greatest upset in College Basketball History.(taken from kgmb.com)

I knew Mark Wells! A handsome man who although a druggie, was always clean and knew how to dress well. He was articulate and I would often try to tell him to get help. He refused, said the demons were to strong! I never did ask him why he started, everybody has their own stories to tell. Some prefer to keep it to themselves. Unfortunately, it eats them inside even more.

Read the rest @http:www.hawaiistories.com/lynn/

Have a beautiful day everyone!

[pzarquon]

The Star-Bulletin had a good piece on Wells yesterday.

Drugs dimmed Chaminade star (http://starbulletin.com/2005/01/05/news/story4.html)
Gary T. Kubota, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, January 5, 2005
Wells, 44, gained national prominence when his Chaminade University team defeated Virginia and its 7-foot-4 center Ralph Sampson in 1982 in one of the biggest upsets in college basketball history. But Wells' life after basketball prominence was a slide into substance abuse and petty crimes. It ended with him as a suspect in an alleged sex assault, and the victim of multiple gunshot wounds on a remote north Maui hiking trail.

[Miulang]

Here's the story from the Maui News about Mark Wells:
http://www.mauinews.com/story.aspx?id=4646

Miulang

[Miulang]

Another story about Mark Wells in today's Maui News, this time, it's an email interview with his sister in Delaware, who said she had a feeling something was wrong when he didn't call her during the holidays:

http://www.mauinews.com/story.aspx?id=4744

Miulang