Kevin Hashiro has been Chaminade University's Sports Information Director since March 2013. He is the primary media relations contact for Silverswords athletics and all 12 of its teams and maintains GoSwords.com, the official website for Chaminade Athletics, overseeing two site relaunches in July 2014 and June 2021. He also handles all statistical information and athletic social media sites. Previously, he was CUH's Event Manager and Special Assistant to the Athletics Director from August 2011 to March 2013.
Hashiro, who was voted by his athletic communications peers as the 2023 Pacific West Conference Sports Information Director of the Year, served as the primary on-site media coordinator in three Pacific West Conference Championships held on O'ahu which include the 2023 Men's and Women's Basketball Championships, the 2021 Men's and Women's Cross Country Championships and the 2017 Men's and Women's Golf Championships. He also helped to coordinate the new Chaminade Athletics logo and branding marks which was introduced in the summer of 2023.
Hashiro also oversees all historical and career statistical information. In 2021, after several years of research, he put together the Chaminade women's volleyball record book, the first update of the sport since 1995. He also updated historical information for men's and women's cross country for the first time since 2004 and also compiled the first-ever record books and historical data in men's and women's soccer and women's basketball. The next project that is close to completion is softball, a sport that has been at CUH since 1988.
Before coming to Chaminade, Hashiro was the Director of Operations for the University of Hawai‘i-Manoa women’s basketball team during the 2008-09 season. He also served as Wahine basketball's sports information director during the team's NCAA Tournament season of 1997-98 and helped guard Nani Cockett gain All-American status.
Hashiro has an extensive history of O'ahu sports, primarily with a radio broadcasting background. He was the producer for the highly-acclaimed Bobby Curran Show, a morning sports talk show on KKEA (ESPN 1420AM) in Honolulu from 1998-2008, while adding the title of Program Coordinator in 2007. He was also the radio voice for the UH Rainbow Wahine basketball team from 2000-2008, and was elevated as the team’s full-time broadcaster in 2002, providing both home and road calls. He was also the home radio broadcaster for the 2002 UH men’s volleyball team, which went on participate in the NCAA Division I National Championships that season. He also broadcast UH softball, bringing the action back to Hawai'i during the team’s surprising run during the 2007 Regional in Los Angeles and the Knoxville Super Regional. Hashiro had also filled in for UH men’s basketball and women’s volleyball on occasion.
Hashiro has also done numerous high school sports broadcasts over the years for Starcomm Sports Radio, ranging from football to baseball, calling several Hawai‘i state championship games in boys and girls basketball, boys and girls volleyball, baseball and softball. He was part of the Aloha Stadium Stars football announcing program, founded by the legendary broadcaster, the late Les Keiter, and has called several Hawai‘i state football championships for the program. He also did road games on KCCN radio for the Hawaiian Islanders of af2, the Arena Football League's developmental league, during its inaugural season in 2002.
The Kahului, Maui, native is a graduate of the University of Hawai‘i-Manoa with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and is a member of the College Sports Communicators (formerly known as CoSIDA).
