Nicholas Kakehi
2025 LEAVING THE NEST SENIORS
Nicholas Kakehi is a senior at Sunset High School and has been saber fencing competitively since age 9. He has served as an athlete representative on the Oregon Fencing Alliance board since October 2021. Nicholas always loved playing with lightsabers so his father signed him up for fencing classes that was supposed to be just once a week. He fell in love with the sport and soon was fencing 4-5 times a week. Nicholas also became interested in refereeing and stole all of the television remotes in the house. So grateful that Simon took a chance on Nicholas and hired him for competitions held at Northwest Fencing Center. Nicholas just reffed at his first NAC in March 2025 and hopes to continuing reffing since a knee injury a few years ago sidelined his competitive fencing aspirations.
Nicholas will be going to Oregon State University in the fall and plans on majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology. We are so proud of the fine young man he has grown up to be!
