As the sports world turns its collective attention to the Olympics, Hilo’s Casey Poe has a few words of advice for all the athletes and fans convening in Rio: travel in groups, see the sights and have a blast.
That’s what Poe did.
The 2014 Kamehameha graduate just returned from Brazil after playing with the USA-D3 women’s basketball team.
“Rio is a beautiful place and the trip was awesome,” she said. “I saw a lot of things that reminded me of Hawaii.”
Much of the news recently surrounding the Rio Summer Olympics — the Zika virus, poor water quality, rampant crime and the threat of terror — aren’t exactly images of paradise.