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Clackamas Print
Brother and sister:
I Jeff Sorensen
II The Clackamas Print
Editors ’ note: This is the first
part of a three-part series on the
Kamahoahoa siblings, Malia and
Ryan.
Success in sports is sometimes
defined by something other than
stats and leader boards. Sometimes,
to a player, it’s defined by little
moments in a game that have a
deeper meaning off the court.
Clackamas freshman volley
ball player Malia Kamahoahoa,
with her younger brother Ryan
cheering from the crowd, had
one of those moments this season
...a moment, according to their
story, which might never have
happened.
Bryan and Jackie Kamahoahoa,
Ryan and Malia’s parents, met
playing volleyball in the service.
Both parents now coach volley
ball, and Ryan and Malia’s oldest
sister, Lelani, plays volleyball pro
fessionally. This family ... likes
volleyball.
Malia began playing volleyball
at a young age, but she has other
interests in addition to sports.
With her sister staying focused
primarily on volleyball, and her
older brother, Derek, busy on the
football and wrestling teams in
high school, Malia’s love of art
and music made her the “odd man
out” in her family
“I was the ‘darker child.’ My
parents never really understood
me, and I definitely had my time
in high school where it was ...
‘fun,’” she admits. “They don’t
get the tattoo or the lip ring, and
they never will. They’ll never
really understand it, and that’s
okay. I love them, and I know they
love me.”
In spite of her interest in the
arts, there was
something
about
Malia
that her family
understood very
clearly: Malia
loved sports.
“I was her
first
coach,”
said
Jackie.
“She was a little
10-year-old, and
I coached a 14-
and-under team.
She was the
youngest player
out there.”
In
addi
tion to volley
ball, Malia also
played junior
varsity basket
ball for Oregon
City
High
School
when
she was only a
freshman.
“By nature,
she’s just ath
letic. No matter
what ball she
picked up, from
when she was
little, she was
very gifted ath
letically,” Jackie
said.
After a year on the basketball
team, Malia had to make a choice.
She could stick with basketball,
or she could continue to play for
Nike’s prestigious-volleyball club,
where - her mom explained - she
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a lot, and Malia hates to run, so
wasn’t a hard decision for her.”
After juggling four years <
Nike and high school, Malia grai
uated class of 2002 and moved
Los Angeles for a few years whei
she lived with a friend and spa
time with her sister. She also in
tially had no intention of comir
back.
averaging 7.89
assists per game.!
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had secured a spot on their ‘top
team’ at 14 and played until she
graduated high school.
“Maha wasn’t willing to give
up volleyball, which was her first
sport. After her first year, we said,
‘You probably need to pick one or
the other,’ because her knees just
weren’t able to withstand both of
them,” she said. “Oregon City runs
art, as well as
sports.
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in assists for the I
NWAAC champion]
ship tournament,!
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Kamahoahoa
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If he’s not teaching or help
ing out at the Writers’ Club,
Clackamas instructor James
Grabill is often busy composing
his own work.
“I began thinking of writing
as a part-time job I’d always
have in addition to my money
making job,” said Grabill, who
has been hanging around the
English Department for the past
16 years.
Grabill has published nine
collections of his
poems and two
collections of
essays. Of these
works, four vol
umes have been
finalists for the
Oregon Book
Award, and in
1995, he won
with his book
Poem Rising Out
of the Earth and
Standing Up in
Someone.
Attending
Grabill’s class
for the first time, GRABILL
a student might
find a timid and soft-spoken char
acter with shaggy hair. Grabill is
very much a product of the ‘60s
and is affected as much by musi
cians as writers.
In tire age of rock and roll and
the political chaos of the Kent
State riots, not far from where
he lived, Grabill recalls candlelit
meetings, where he and friends
would talk, play instruments and
sing together. In the midst of
the charged and confused youth
of America, Grabill looked to
express his own energy through
writing, as he “gave himself to
the process,” to find “intensified
meaning.”
Inspired by the poetry of
T.S. Eliot, he began writing as
a senior in high school and soon
found himself behind the type
writer more and more.
“My mom used to get angry
at me, in fact, if I wouldn’t come
out of my room when I was in the
middle of writing something,”
said Grabill.
Though Grabill has experi
mented with different genres of
writing, he considers poetry clos
est to his heart
“Some poetry is like classical
music. Some is like progressive
jazz. Some is similar to sappy
mood music. Some is like Indian
reggae. Some is like folk,” he j
said
. It was also poetry which led
him to teaching, and eventu
ally to Clackamas. Grabill now
teaches a variety of writing and
literature courses.
“Most of the classes I teach I
have been favorites at one time
or another, including Creative
Nonfiction [and] Poetry,” he said,
adding however, that Shakespeare
is the most j
“enjoyable and
fulfilling.”
“The plays,” |
he said, “are |
packed
with |
riches. The lan-1
guage teaches I
about some of
the origins ofj
our present-day |
English. The I
material speaks |
to the roots of I
our souls, and I
the students add I
so much.”
Aloyal envi
ronmentalist, |
Grabill is excited about a class I
he is currently co-teaching called
“Pathways to Sustainability.” I
The course explores the effects
of climate change and is “a look
at what has become the prima
ry challenge of our time,” as
described by Grabill.
Students find Grabill to be a
huge support, and he encourages j
individuals with an interest in]
writing to join the Writers’ Club I
on campus, welcoming writers of
all types and skill levels.
“I think everyone who writes
has a unique reason ... I do think j
everyone has a voice, everyone j
has subject matter, and anyone
can choose the path of poetry.
What everyone doesn’t have, for I
whatever reason, is imperative to
follow the path,” he said.
Grabill suggests writers to
practice the way a musician
does: by learning “one’s rhythms, j
phases and times of peak perfor
mance.”
“Be open, humble, unique,]
assertive ... and here, everyone
would need to continue on their ■
own.”-