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ON MOANA: White Bermuda Tank, Hollister $45; White pearl earrings, American Eagle $4; Light-wash High Rise Shorts, Hollister $50
Describe your toughest competition:
What is your biggest accomplishment?
The 2014 International Surfing Association World Just being chosen to be on the Hawai’i Junior Junior Surfing Championship in Ecuador was Surf Team this January was a huge honor. really tough because the top 8 under-18 surfers from 32 various countries were in the event. What are your must-haves for surfing?
How did you overcome that challenge? As a team, we had the world’s best coaches, including Billabong coach and team manager Rainos Hayes, Kahea Hart and Bert Ishimaru and good equipment, like boards. Imai [DeVault] and I both use Kazumas, and [Matt Kinoshita] is good about getting all of our shapes and stuff. A good mindset also comes into play because in everything that you do, you need to just have a positive attitude.
A Dakine leash and Kazuma surfboard, Vertra sunscreen, wax, boardshorts or a wetsuit, and a Spam musubi for postsurf.
Describe your toughest competition:
The 2014 International Surfing Association World Junior Surfing Championship in Ecuador was really tough because the top 8 under-18 surfers from 32 various count.
How did you overcome that challenge?
As a team, we had the world’s best coaches, including Billabong coach and team manWhat is your biggest ager Rainos Hayes, accomplishment? Kahea Hart and Bert Just being chosen to be Ishimaru and good on the Hawai’i Junior equipment, like boards. Surf Team this January Imai [DeVault] and I was a huge honor. both use Kazumas, and [Matt Kinoshita] is good about getting all of our shapes and stuff. A good What are your must-haves for surfing? A Dakine leash and Kazuma surfboard, Vertra mindset also comes into play because in everysunscreen, wax, boardshorts or a wetsuit, and a thing that you do, you need to just have a positive attitude. Spam musubi for post-surf.
Describe your toughest competition:
The 2014 International Surfing Association World Junior Surfing Championship in Ecuador was really tough because the top 8 under-18 surfers from 32 various countries were in the event. As a team, we had the world’s best coaches, including Billabong coach and team manager Rainos Hayes, Kahea Hart and Bert Ishimaru and
What is your biggest accomplishment?
Just being chosen to be on the Hawai’i Junior Surf Team this January was a huge honor.
What is your biggest accomplishment?
Just being chosen to be on the Hawai’i Junior Surf Team this January was a huge honor.
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or a 16-yearold, he’s probably been to more countries than the average teen. Actually, he has been to more countries than the average teen, ranging from Bali, to Japan, to Tahiti, to Ecuador, Imaikalani Mark Patrick DeVault has surfed some pretty nice international waves. Though he is still at a young age, DeVault, “Imai” to his friends, has created quite a name for himself. Though he seems like any typical senior at Kamehameha Schools Maui in Pukalani, DeVault has seen a life filled with daily trips to the beach, extended vacations due to good swells, and a passport filled with stamps from countries all over the world. DeVault grew up all over Maui, but likes to call the North Shore home. He surfs all over the islands, but said that his home break is Ho’okipa Beach Park. DeVault is the second oldest of four, his siblings all being girls. His younger sisters, Kawai (15) and Lehiwa (12), used to surf competitively as well, but found other interests over the years. They still surf as a family, however, with their father, Patrick DeVault. Like many professional athletes, DeVault started surfing at the young age of 4. Shortly after, he was already testing the waters
in competitions. “The first contest I did…was the Keiki contest at the Cove in Kīhei,” DeVault said. “I was really scared to do it, but my dad told me that if I did, he’d buy me my first custom surfboard. So I did it and lost in my first heat.” Classmate Tyra Kuia remembers seeing
mostly in the top four. At the 2008 NSSA Championships in San Clemente, Calif., however, DeVault placed second in the mini-groms division, his first break into the top three, and in 2011, DeVault won the Hawai’ i State Surfing Competition. So far this year, DeVault has won his best
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DeVault on the first day of the sixth grade with his sweeping sun-bleached bangs, golden tan and laid-back style. She thought to herself, “He looks like a surfer….” Little did she know, he was going to be one of the best surfers of our generation. DeVault continued to practice and compete over the years, surfing in contests like the Hard Rock Café State Surfing Championships and the National Scholastic Surfing Association Championships, and placing
awards to date. In April, he took home team gold when he went with the Hawai’i Junior Surf Team to the shores of Ecuador for the International Surfing Association World Junior Championship. Teams from all over the world, including France, Brazil and Australia, were there to claim the title of World Champion. Individually, DeVault placed 4th and won a copper medal in the Boys Under-18 division against Peru’s Lucca Mesina and Brazil’s Elivelton Santos
and Luan Wood. A few months later, DeVault got the call every surfer dreams of. Surf photographer Seth de Roulet asked him if he wanted travel to Indonesia with the Moniz brothers, Noa Mizuno, Benji Brand and Kaulana Apo to be shot for Surfing Magazine. Without hesitation, he said, “Yes.” So, DeVault and the rest of the crew spent two weeks on a boat surfing the Mentawai Islands. “We’re going to be in a surf movie,” he said, “and in Surfing Magazine’s next issue we have a whole spread.” After the shoot, DeVault met up with the Kamehameha Schools tri-campus Surf Team to compete at the NSSA Championship in Dana Point, Calif. Here, he won his first national title, the NSSA Open Mens Champion. Not only did he win the title and the medal, but his first-place finish also contributed a ton of points to the overall score. “It felt really great to finally win a national title,” DeVault said. “I’ve been competing in the NSSA nearly my entire life.” This was the seventh time that DeVault had competed in the NSSA Interscholastic Championship, but the first time medaling. He was the only representative of KS Maui, but he said he “wasn’t alone out there.” “Not just one [person pushed me throughout the competition]. The entire team helped me, and
ON MOANA: White Bermuda Tank, Hollister $45; White pearl earrings, American Eagle $4; Light-wash High Rise Shorts, Hollister $50; Tan booties, American Eagle $35
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astronomo story + photographs Maile Sur
ON MOANA: White Bermuda Tank, Hollister $45; White pearl earrings, American Eagle $4; Light-wash High Rise Shorts, Hollister $50
Describe your toughest competition:
What is your biggest accomplishment?
The 2014 International Surfing Association World Just being chosen to be on the Hawai’i Junior Junior Surfing Championship in Ecuador was Surf Team this January was a huge honor. really tough because the top 8 under-18 surfers from 32 various countries were in the event. What are your must-haves for surfing?
How did you overcome that challenge? As a team, we had the world’s best coaches, including Billabong coach and team manager Rainos Hayes, Kahea Hart and Bert Ishimaru and good equipment, like boards. Imai [DeVault] and I both use Kazumas, and [Matt Kinoshita] is good about getting all of our shapes and stuff. A good mindset also comes into play because in everything that you do, you need to just have a positive attitude.
A Dakine leash and Kazuma surfboard, Vertra sunscreen, wax, boardshorts or a wetsuit, and a Spam musubi for postsurf.
Describe your toughest competition:
The 2014 International Surfing Association World Junior Surfing Championship in Ecuador was really tough because the top 8 under-18 surfers from 32 various count.
How did you overcome that challenge?
As a team, we had the world’s best coaches, including Billabong coach and team manWhat is your biggest ager Rainos Hayes, accomplishment? Kahea Hart and Bert Just being chosen to be Ishimaru and good on the Hawai’i Junior equipment, like boards. Surf Team this January Imai [DeVault] and I was a huge honor. both use Kazumas, and [Matt Kinoshita] is good about getting all of our shapes and stuff. A good What are your must-haves for surfing? A Dakine leash and Kazuma surfboard, Vertra mindset also comes into play because in everysunscreen, wax, boardshorts or a wetsuit, and a thing that you do, you need to just have a positive attitude. Spam musubi for post-surf.
Describe your toughest competition:
The 2014 International Surfing Association World Junior Surfing Championship in Ecuador was really tough because the top 8 under-18 surfers from 32 various countries were in the event. As a team, we had the world’s best coaches, including Billabong coach and team manager Rainos Hayes, Kahea Hart and Bert Ishimaru and
What is your biggest accomplishment?
Just being chosen to be on the Hawai’i Junior Surf Team this January was a huge honor.
What is your biggest accomplishment?
Just being chosen to be on the Hawai’i Junior Surf Team this January was a huge honor.
moana astronomo story + photographs Maile Sur
ON MOANA: White pearl earrings, American Eagle $4; White lace Lily dress, Hollister $80
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ON MOANA: White Bermuda Tank, Hollister $45; White pearl earrings, American Eagle $4; Light-wash High Rise Shorts, Hollister $50
Describe your toughest competition:
What is your biggest accomplishment?
The 2014 International Surfing Association World Just being chosen to be on the Hawai’i Junior Junior Surfing Championship in Ecuador was Surf Team this January was a huge honor. really tough because the top 8 under-18 surfers from 32 various countries were in the event. What are your must-haves for surfing?
How did you overcome that challenge? As a team, we had the world’s best coaches, including Billabong coach and team manager Rainos Hayes, Kahea Hart and Bert Ishimaru and good equipment, like boards. Imai [DeVault] and I both use Kazumas, and [Matt Kinoshita] is good about getting all of our shapes and stuff. A good mindset also comes into play because in everything that you do, you need to just have a positive attitude.
A Dakine leash and Kazuma surfboard, Vertra sunscreen, wax, boardshorts or a wetsuit, and a Spam musubi for postsurf.
Describe your toughest competition:
The 2014 International Surfing Association World Junior Surfing Championship in Ecuador was really tough because the top 8 under-18 surfers from 32 various count.
How did you overcome that challenge?
As a team, we had the world’s best coaches, including Billabong coach and team manWhat is your biggest ager Rainos Hayes, accomplishment? Kahea Hart and Bert Just being chosen to be Ishimaru and good on the Hawai’i Junior equipment, like boards. Surf Team this January Imai [DeVault] and I was a huge honor. both use Kazumas, and [Matt Kinoshita] is good about getting all of our shapes and stuff. A good What are your must-haves for surfing? A Dakine leash and Kazuma surfboard, Vertra mindset also comes into play because in everysunscreen, wax, boardshorts or a wetsuit, and a thing that you do, you need to just have a positive attitude. Spam musubi for post-surf.
Describe your toughest competition:
The 2014 International Surfing Association World Junior Surfing Championship in Ecuador was really tough because the top 8 under-18 surfers from 32 various countries were in the event. As a team, we had the world’s best coaches, including Billabong coach and team manager Rainos Hayes, Kahea Hart and Bert Ishimaru and
What is your biggest accomplishment?
Just being chosen to be on the Hawai’i Junior Surf Team this January was a huge honor.
What is your biggest accomplishment?
Just being chosen to be on the Hawai’i Junior Surf Team this January was a huge honor.
moana
astronomo story + photographs Maile Sur
ON MOANA: White pearl earrings, American Eagle $4; White lace Lily dress, Hollister $80
ON MOANA: White Bermuda Tank, Hollister $45; White pearl earrings, American Eagle $4; Light-wash High Rise Shorts, Hollister $50
Describe your toughest competition:
What is your biggest accomplishment?
The 2014 International Surfing Association World Just being chosen to be on the Hawai’i Junior Junior Surfing Championship in Ecuador was Surf Team this January was a huge honor. really tough because the top 8 under-18 surfers from 32 various countries were in the event. What are your must-haves for surfing?
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Describe your toughest competition:
The 2014 International Surfing Association World Junior Surfing Championship in Ecuador was really tough because the top 8 under-18 surfers from 32 various countries were in the event. As a team, we had the world’s best coaches, including Billabong coach and team manager Rainos Hayes, Kahea Hart and Bert Ishimaru and
What is your biggest accomplishment?
Just being chosen to be on the Hawai’i Junior Surf Team this January was a huge honor.
What is your biggest accomplishment?
Just being chosen to be on the Hawai’i Junior Surf Team this January was a huge honor.
What is your biggest accomplishment?