Good things came in threes for the new class of the Hawaii Sports Hall of Fame. Their credentials include three Super Bowl rings, three Olympic medals and three MLS Cup championships.

Brandon Brooks, Brian Ching, Bryan Clay and the Kemoeatu brothers, Chris and Ma’ake, were selected last week and will be inducted May 3 at a banquet at Honolulu Country Club.

All five represent a golden era in Hawaii sports, the first decade of the 21st century.

Ma’ake Kemoeatu’s football peak, a Super Bowl win during a second stint with the Baltimore Ravens, came in 2013. But most of his NFL career was during the ’00s, starting in 2002 with the Ravens who picked him up as an undrafted free agent from Utah.

Anything Ma’ake did on the field, though, was eclipsed by his donation of a kidney to his brother Chris in 2014.

That feel-good human interest story recently took a controversial turn.

Chris, along with another future NFL player, Aaron Francisco, led Kahuku to a landmark win over Saint Louis in 2000 in the state championship game — the first for a Hawaii public school team. After college at Utah, he won two Super Bowls with the Pittsburgh. But, according to his attorney, Michael Green, Chris Kemoeatu is now suing the Steelers for injecting him with Toradol during his NFL career, claiming team doctors knew the painkiller could cause kidney problems for him.

The Kahuku graduates are joined in this class by another public school product from the windward side. Clay, a Castle alumnus, is by far the most successful track and field athlete from Hawaii, ever.

Clay beat the odds in many ways. He was asthmatic as a child, came from a state with almost no track and field tradition, and he was undersized for a decathlete. But he won the silver medal in Athens in 2004 and gold in Beijing in 2008. He also won the world championship in 2005.

Now retired, he makes appearances as a motivational speaker.

Ching is also the best-ever in his sport from Hawaii. The Kamehameha graduate from Haleiwa played 12 years in Major League Soccer, and was on the U.S. National Team for eight years. He won a championship in 2003 with the San Jose Earthquakes, and then when the franchise moved to Houston, two more in 2006 and 2007. He was on the 2006 World Cup team but never got into a match, and was a late cut from the 2010 team, partly due to a lingering injury.

Ching now is the managing director of the Houston Dash women’s pro team.

Brooks was the Star-Bulletin Hawaii high school basketball player of the year after leading Punahou to the state championship in 1999, but he would make his mark internationally in water polo.

He earned All-America honors at UCLA four times, and as a goalkeeper helped the Bruins to two national championships. In the 2008 Olympics, Brooks started for the U.S. team that won the silver medal. He has been the head coach of the UCLA water polo team since 2009.