May 31, 2024
The Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Foundation recently gifted 32 scholarships to students from across the state who are making waves in ocean and water sports. Courtesy photo
The Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Foundation recently gifted 32 scholarships to students from across the state who are making waves in ocean and water sports. Kamehameha Schools Kapālama’s Makana Fake received the Duke Award, the evening’s top student scholarship award of $12,000 in recognition of an exceptional Hawaiʻi high-school senior who exemplifies the character and values of Duke Kahanamoku.
Two of Maui’s high school students were the top finalists for the prestigious Duke Award, including:
Kainalu Teeters, a senior at Maui Preparatory Academy, who transferred schools this year due to the Maui wildfires but still considers himself a “Luna for Life.”
Max Moquin, an accomplished ocean athlete graduating from Seabury Hall on Maui.
For the first time, Duke’s Night included the Duke Lifesaver Award, honoring a young person from Hawaiʻi who has demonstrated a meritorious act in or around the water to prevent drowning or injury. Kamehameha Schools Kapālama student Camden Fong received the award after sacrificing his chance to score points during a surf meet at Maili Point to help a surfer on the rival team who had lost his board.
Hawaiʻi’s top competitors, Mark Towill, Wyatt Jones, and Shelley Oates-Wilding, also took the stage to share advice the students could carry into competition and throughout life.
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