Har-Ber wrestlers Kinalisa Lokot (from left) and Quinzy Jibbwa and Springdale wrestlers Kalani Horiuchi and Drake Kaiko pose for a portrait, Friday, January 19, 2024 at Springdale Har-Ber High School in Springdale. There is a significant population of Marshallese students in the Springdale school district. Recently these youngsters have found a niche competing in high school wrestling and having success. Visit nwaonline.com/photos for today's photo gallery.
(NWA Democrat-Gazette/Charlie Kaijo)
SPRINGDALE -- Arkansas may be more than 6,000 miles from the Marshall Islands, but several Marshallese youth have found a home and some extended family in the wrestling rooms of the Springdale School District.
