WAILUKU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Wehiwa and Kuhio Aloy are the first siblings ever to earn First Team All-SEC honors.
“As a mom, first you think about survival. Are they OK? The baseball is just like icing on the cake,” said their mom Napua.
“It’s like every dad’s dream. I have two sons playing in the SEC, and not only playing in the SEC, but at the same school and in the starting lineup,” the boys’ father Jamie said.
The Aloy ohana are no strangers to hard work. Jamie was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in 1999. Napua is a nurse at Maui’s only acute-care hospital. They teach discipline through their actions.
“It starts at home. We’re really close as a family,” said Jamie. “They didn’t have girlfriends or never really hung out with friends. All they wanted to do was play something, go outside, hit something.”
The boys, only 17 months apart, always found ways to play baseball.
“If they forgot the Wiffle Ball and bat when we went to the beach, they would get driftwood. They would make sand balls. They would find a rock. They’re creative. Or at Iao Valley and never have anything, they would find a stick and a rock,” Napua said.
Wehiwa, a Baldwin High School grad who is now a junior at Arkansas, was named SEC Player of the Year and projected to be a first-round pick in this summer’s Major League Baseball Draft. The school’s athletics website says the shortstop dominated on defense and is on his way to producing one of the best offensive seasons in program history.
The younger brother Kuhio, a sophomore, picked up first-team All-SEC recognition as designated hitter. He is in his first season at Arkansas after transferring from BYU.
Their parents say tough love is the secret to success.
“These days, I think parents are raising sheep, and what I mean by sheep is with sheep, you need to tend to them constantly. When I grew up, I remember parents raising wolves,” Jamie said. “I use that sheep and wolf analogy all the time.”
“Try your best and we’ll support you. But if you fall, we’ll be there to pick you up,” said Napua.
That’s not just a lesson in baseball – but for life.
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