2012 ATHLETE PROFILES: No. 14 Kaleo Kanahele Birth Year: 1996 Home: Oklahoma City, Okla. Birth Year: 1996 Height: 5-7 Hometown: Oklahoma City, Okla. High School: Edmond Santa Fe High School
American Zonal Championships where the team won gold. 2010 – Was the youngest player on the team, age 14, to compete for the U.S. at the Sitting Volleyball World Championships. She appeared in seven sets over the course of the Tournament and tallied one kill, 0.14 per set, and five service aces, 0.71 per set.
PERSONAL: Born Kaleo Okalani Kanahele on June 11, 1996, in Oklahoma City, Okla. … Parents are Iubile and Charla DyeKanahele… Has a brother named Johnathan Wong and a sister name Kau’i… Was born with a left clubfoot. The day after she was born, they started casting it into shape. The cast was changed every two weeks until she was nine months old. At this time it was decided to have reconstructive surgery where they would perform a tenotomy and put pins through the toe and heel to set the heel bone in place. Her toes turn inward, her foot will always be shorter and wider than the other, a small calf MAJOR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: 2012 - Volleyball Mas- muscle, and she has limited flexibility… Has played volleyball ters in The Netherlands (gold). 2011- Parapan American Zonal since she was nine years old. At age 10 she started playing for Championship in Sao Paulo, Brazil (gold)... Competed with the Oklahoma Peak Performance 12s team in 2007, in 2008 the U.S. Women's Sitting Team in China in four exhibition matches team took 42nd in the USA Volleyball Girls’ Junior National against the Shanghai club team. 2010 - Helped the U.S. WomChampionships and in 2009 the team took 18th... Has played en's Sitting Team in winning silver at the Sitting Volleyball World basketball since age 7... Has also played softball since she was 8; Championships in Oklahoma... Contributor on the U.S. Women’s she was a first baseman for Oklahoma Reign who in 2009 took Sitting Team that won gold at the Parapan American Champion- 2nd at the NAFA 12 and under Nationals… Likes to read, listen to ship (Colorado). music and eat… Her favorite music group is Kings of Leon... She has never let her disability slow her down... At 16, she is the INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS: 2012 - Helped U.S. Women to a 4 youngest player on the U.S. Women's Sitting Volleyball Team... -0 record and a gold medal at the Volleyball Masters in The Says to “work hard, go for your dreams and don’t ever believe Netherlands. 2011– Named best setter at the 2011 Parapan anyone that says you can’t do it.”
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