For a cowgirl or any girl … better yet, any person, Hailey Onaka has things figured out.
Onaka owns 12 all-around saddles – in rodeo, that’s the big prize – she graduated from Makua Lani last month with a 4.0 grade point average, she has scholarships to compete and study at her dream school, Cal Poly, in picturesque San Luis Obispo, Calif., and she already has her career profession picked out. She wants to be a lawyer.
If life sounds like a day at the beach for Onaka, that was certainly the case Tuesday as she relaxed at Kua Bay, soaking in not only the sun and the surf but also a weekend in which she became the first four-time winner at the Hawaii High School Rodeo Association finals.