Hawaii soccer team top playmaker Calvin Turner says he will return for 2021 season

The University of Hawaii soccer team’s top playmaker – Calvin Turner – will return to the Rainbow Warriors for the 2021 season.

Turner announced his decision to stay at UH on Twitter.

Turner transferred to UH after Jacksonville dropped out of his football program after the 2019 season. Turner, who was Jacksonville’s quarterback for three years, had a 2020 season for the Warriors, playing wide receiver, carrier. ball, the wild quarterback and the comeback. Turner led the Warriors with 133.4 yards per game and scored a record 70 points (66 of them on his 11 touchdowns).

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the NCAA approved a waiver allowing players to retain their 2020 class status in 2021. This means Turner, who was senior in 2020, will be a fifth year senior this coming season.

Turner rejected the option of applying for the 2021 NFL Draft.

UH coach Todd Graham said Turner would benefit from another year of Division I football.

“Calvin is a guy, for me, who will be the most dynamic guy in the league next year,” Graham told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser in a telephone interview. “He can be a first team All-American. … I can’t wait to train him and the rest of the guys and compete for a championship in 2021. ”