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Charlie Ann Kaleihonialoha Limasa
was born in Lihue, Kauai, Hi, on May 20th, 2005, to Laurence Lauleneke Limasa Jr. and Kimberley Ann Limasa. She is a swimmer, surfer, powerlifter, artist, and truck enthusiast.

Early Life
The name Charles comes from her great-grandfather on her mother's side of the family, hence the name Charlie was given to the baby of the family. However, traditionally her father's side of the family called for a Hawaiian name gifted by one of the elders. In turn, Charlie was gifted with the name Kaleihonialoha with the deeper meaning of the lei kissed with love, because she connected her intermediate family as a lei connects and becomes one. Charlie was set to be born on the same exact day as her half-sister Taylor, only ten years later. Fortunately for Taylor, Charlie was born 6 days earlier at seven pounds and eleven ounces while they were visiting family on Kauai at the Wilcox Medical Center. Her Aunty Malia Nobrega gave her the name Kaleihonialoha because she could see the disconnect between the family of 5 up until Charlie had been born. Charlie is the youngest of 4 in total, Kaimana Chong-Limasa, Taylor Marciel, and Joshua Chong-Limasa.

One night summer night, when Charlie was five years old her eldest brother, Kaimana was kicked out of the house, and on his way to his friend's house where he planned to stay the night, he got into a car accident. It was later determined that he had died on impact. Her father being a firefighter had been on duty that night and was the first to arrive at the scene. Each year Charlie visits her brother's grave along with the rest of her family for Kaimana’s birthday and death date. She loves to bring him Kūlolo each time as she remembers it was something he enjoyed while growing up

Charlie attended Holy Family Catholic Academy for preschool and kindergarten and Kapolei Elementary from 1st to 5th grade. She then attended 6th grade at Myron B. Thompson Academy, as this school permitted more time for her to focus on her athletic career.

Swim Career
Her father was a stellar athlete excelling in Football as a running back, track and field as a sprinter, and surfing. He had the mentality and understood the life of a top-ranked athlete. Naturally, when his daughter excelled in swimming he took it upon himself to do all that he could from his years of experience to help Charlie become the best swimmer she could. Charlie climbed the ranks fastly and by the end of her first year as a club swimmer, she was ranked amongst the top five percent of girls her age. With many eyes on her, Charlie trained day in and day out to keep producing time to satisfy her demanding father. This caused a drift between Charlie and her father. She saw him as a dictator telling her, to dictate her entire life so she could be a top athlete. He saw it as if she is doing something amazing that not many people can do and he was going to everything in his power to make her even better because he knew what it was like to be a top athlete. Charlie and her father, Laurence, had much strain on their father-daughter relationship because if she did not perform he would get upset which in turn would make her sad. As the years went on they eventually stopped talking altogether, until eventually, they both sat down to talk it out. They realized athletics were the problem and vowed to never let it get in the way of their relationship again.

High School/College
Charlie’s high school career was primarily focused on swimming. She was still training day in and day out, before and after school, and when she got home, she worked out with her dad. Things were starting to get good and she was starting to perform really well. Unfortunately, COVID lockdowns were set in place and Charlie’s career came tumbling down as well as her home life. Out of all Charlie’s family members, her dad was the only one working meaning he had to carry everyone financially including her siblings. Meaning Charlie had to give up swimming for a little because her family could not afford it. However, out of all this bad Charlie found a new passion in surfing. If she was not at home sleeping the only other place you would have been able to find Charlie was at the surf break located in Waikiki called Queens or at the break infamously known as Sandys blasting music from her Tacoma.

Hobbies
Charlie’s love for cars started at a considerably young age. Her dad had a 4-car garage complete with a 64’ impala, skyline, hellcat, and a 69’ lifted k10. The k10 is what originally sparked Charlie’s interest in trucks. She grew up with more of a male influence meaning things like big lifted trucks were normal for her. In fact, her first-ever car was 2005 lifted Tacoma. Over time charlie was able to save up enough money to buy a 73’ f350 and 98’ Tacoma. Working on trucks or cars, in general, brings her a lot of peace because she knows her way around a car and is comfortable in that kind of setting.

Current
As for right now Charlie is keeping her head down and is focused on achieving her first set of goals she will graduate both high school and college by May of this year. She plans on working hard and not getting distracted. To take some of the pressure off she likes to draw in her brother Kaimana’s old sketchbook, and she finds comfort in going to the gym. Charlie’s family has always been considerably fit so it was natural that Charlie took a liking to working out alongside her dad and brother. She pushes herself outside of her comfort zone every day at the gym. Charlie is planning to enter upcoming powerlifting meets as she feels that she is ready to compete as her brother currently is and her father once had.

Looking Forward
Charlie’s plans for after high school has changed so many times due to factors like COVID and family affairs. Her dream plan is to graduate from Kamehameha with both her high school diploma and her Associate of Art diploma from Hawaii Pacific Univerity. She then plans on continuing her academic career with Hawaii Pacific University where she will finish her first year filled with pre-requisite classes, after that she is looking to transfer over to Chaminade College where she will enter the accelerated nursing program so she can finish her academics early and start her career much earlier than the majority of her classmates. Charlie is focused on achieving these goals that she has set because she saw how hard COVID was for her family and knew how fast something like that can happen. So, like her dad, she is looking into going into the medical field because she knows there will always be jobs for her, and she will be able to take care of her family as her father had if anything like COVID were ever to happen again.