Dalylah Mukai is a student who has worn many hats over her three years at Wenatchee High School. From being the well-known girl on the football team to winning awards for her animal showings, she is truly a talented student.

Mukai is the vice president of the club FFA, which she has stated is her favorite activity.

“We have many CDs and LDs, which are competitions that we do and then there’s the showing of animals portion of that, too,” Mukai said when she was asked about the club.

The junior student has loved animals, especially horses, for her whole life.

“We used to live where we had horses next to us and then I would ride my nana’s horse up in Montana,” Mukai said. Not to mention, Mukai does her own kind of animal care in her personal time. She owns horses, as well as fosters some before they find their own homes. Those fosters could include retired carriage horses who need rehabilitation. Mukai is truly an animal lover.

As of junior year, Mukai is a member of the ASL Club as well. According to her, the club revolves around the practice of American Sign Language and presenting it to the community.

“Currently, I’m just a member, so I just participate in our events there. We do community service, and things like Sign Idol,” Mukai said. Mukai has an aunt who has impaired hearing, so many of her own family members are familiar with sign language.

“It’s just something I’ve always been interested in since I was younger,” Mukai said.

Students might know Dalylah as one of the only girls to play on WHS’s football team.

“I played freshman and sophomore year at this school, but this year I decided to stop because I’m hoping to do Whaset [An equestrian team in Leavenworth], fingers crossed, which runs right in the middle of it,” Mukai said.

That’s not all, however–She also busies herself with working at The San Francisco Style Sourdough Eatery, as well as her side hustle: shadowing a doctor at Paws and Claws Veterinary Hospital. Right now, that’s one foot out the door for Mukai’s true passion.

“That’s what I’m taking my classes for, to go be a large animal vet,” she said.

Between balancing two jobs for a bakery and a vet clinic, learning a new language, making sure her horses are strong and healthy and going to school every day, Mukai sure is busy.