Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 6, Number 1, 1 January 1989 — Lahainaluna Pair Boost Records [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Lahainaluna Pair Boost Records

High school track and field athletes Mark and Kele Perkins last fall led the Lahainaluna High School cross-country team to an all time high placing in the school's history. The brothers placed second and third in the Maui Interscholastic League championships in fall 1988, and then led the way to a tenth plaee finish for Lahainaluna among all the state's public and private schools at the Hawai'i state cross-country championship meet on Kaua'i in November. In the boys' division of the state meet, the Perkinses had Lahainaluna at 20 points in the team scoring, after a seventh plaee finish by Mark and a 13th plaee finish by Kele. Punahou eventually won the meet with an amazingly low 41 points. This placement resulted in Mark's representing Hawai'i in the Western regional invitational meet in Fresno, California on December 3. There he placed 49th out of approximately 150 other seniors, representing other western states. For the regional competition, Mark Perkins was sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Lanee Nanod of Wailuku, Maui, and by Kamalu'uluolele Publishers of Honolulu. Nanod is eoaeh of the Lahainaluna team.

The brothers, originally from Makaha, and a senior and junior respectively, began theirrunning careers at Tonga High School in Nuku'alofa, Tonga. Mark hopes to eonhnue his running career at either the University of Oregon, in Eugene, or at Cornell University, in Ithaca, N.Y. He was recently invited by Columbia University in New York City to apply for admission there. He plans to study architecture. Mark is editor-in-chief of the Lahainaluna School newspaper, Ka Leo Luna, captainof Lahainaluna's track team, and a member of Maui's allstar cross-country team. He was selected as the representative of Junior Leaders for the Youth Legislature Program for the Lahainaluna seniors. He is listed in Who's Who Among American High School Students, 1988-89, and is also the school reporter for Lahaina's newspaper, the Lahaina News. The boys' parents are Roland F. Perkins and Dr. Leialoha Apo Perkins. Dr- Perkins is a lecturer in Hawaiian and Pacific literature at Leeward Community College. They are grandsons of Margaret K. Apo, state board of education member and Peter A.S. Apo, chairman of the Waianae neighborhood board. Approximately 40 percent of the calories in the average American diet are from fat, the American Heart Association says. In order to decrease the risk of atherosclerosis, heart attack and stroke, the AHA recommends less than 30 percent of ca!ories eome from fat.

Mark 'Umi Perkins