Kaho Onodera

Kaho Onodera (小野寺 佳步) is a Japanese curler from Sapporo, Hokkaido.

The team won back to back bronze medals at the Japan Curling Championships in 2006 and 2007.

In 2009, she joined the Tokoro High School team, skipped by Sayaka Yoshimura as alternate.

The team competed in the qualification round for the 2010 Winter Olympics, but lost in the first round to Team Nagano.

Onodera joined the Hokkaido Bank Fortius curling team consisting of skip Ayumi Ogasawara, Yumie Funayama at third, Michiko Tomabechi at lead and Chinami Yoshida as alternate in 2012.

The team played in six tour events during the 2012–13 season, qualifying in three of them, including a second-place finish at the Karuizawa International.

The following season, the team played finished runner-up at the 2013 Kamloops Crown of Curling on tour.

In September 2013, they competed in the national trials for the 2013 Olympic Qualification Event for the chance to represent Japan at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

They finished the first round with a 4–2 record, which put them into a best-of-five final against the three-time reigning national champions Chubu Electric Power, skipped by Satsuki Fujisawa.

There, they upset Chubu Electric three games to one to qualify for the 2013 Olympic Qualification Event.

At the qualification event, Hokkaido Bank went 5–1, qualifying for the playoffs.

Also during the 2013–14 season, they won a bronze medal at the 2013 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships in Shanghai, China.

After losing to China's Wang Bingyu in the first qualifier, they won 10–4 over Norway's Marianne Rørvik in the second qualifier to secure the last spot at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

At the Games, they finished in fifth with a 4–5 record, just missing the playoffs.

They did however defeat former world champions Wang Bingyu of China and Mirjam Ott of Switzerland in two of their victories.

To end the season, Team Ogasawara finished second place at the 2014 Japan Curling Championships, losing in the final game to Chubu Electric Power.

The next season, Tomabechi and Yoshida left the team and were replaced by Sayaka Yoshimura at third and Anna Ohmiya at lead as Funayama moved to alternate.

On the World Curling Tour, they would win two events, the Prestige Hotels & Resorts Curling Classic and the Hub International Crown of Curling.

They represented Japan once again at the 2014 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships.

After a 5–3 round robin record, they lost to China's Liu Sijia in the semifinal.

They were, however, able to pick up the bronze medal against New Zealand's Chelsea Farley.

She is the second on the FORTIUS curling team, which won the Japan Curling Championships in both 2015 and 2021.

At the international level, she has represented Japan at three World Women's Curling Championship and three Pacific-Asia Curling Championships in, and , winning the gold medal in 2021.

While attending Tokoro Junior High School, Onodera competed on the girls team that consisted of Chinami Yoshida, Yurika Yoshida and Yumi Suzuki.

This would ordinarily not be enough to qualify Japan for the World Championships, but because Sapporo was hosting the event, Japan qualified for the 2015 World Women's Curling Championship.

The team then competed in their national championship to determine who would represent Japan at the World Championship.

After the round robin, they placed second with a 7–1 record, but defeated Loco Solare (Mari Motohashi) to qualify for the final where they once again played Motohashi.

The team were successful in securing the national title by defeating Loco Solare 8–5 and qualifying for the World Championship, Onodera's first Worlds.

There, they placed just outside of the tiebreakers with a 6–5 record, ending in sixth place.

Team Ogasawara won one tour event during the 2015–16 season, the Karuizawa International, where they lost only one game en route to claiming the title.

They also had semifinal appearances at the Colonial Square Ladies Classic, the Crestwood Ladies Fall Classic and the City of Perth Ladies International.

The team played in the 2016 Continental Cup of Curling where they were part of the losing Team World squad.

In February 2016, they competed in the Japan Curling Championships, attempting to defend their title.

They had a strong round robin, going an undefeated 8–0, but then lost both of their playoff games to Loco Solare (Satsuki Fujisawa) and Fujikyu (Tori Koana), settling for third.

They also played in the 2016 Humpty's Champions Cup, the team's first Grand Slam event.

They would finish the round robin as the number one seed with a 4–0 record before losing in the quarterfinals to Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni.

The team altered their lineup for the 2016–17 season, moving Yoshimura to alternate and Yumie Funayama to third.

At the start of the season, Team Ogasawara finished runner-up at the Royal LePage Women's Fall Classic to the Robyn MacPhee rink.

They played in one grand slam, the 2016 Tour Challenge, losing in a tiebreaker to Anna Hasselborg.

At the national championship, they went 6–2 through the round robin before losing both the semifinal and bronze medal games, settling for fourth.