Swimming

Kamehameha junior Shaye Story and Pac-Five sophomore Grace Monahan added to their collection of ILH swimming gold medals on Saturday at the league championships at Kamehameha. Both swimmers have seven career golds and their prep careers aren’t close to being over yet. >> PHOTO GALLERY: ILH SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS Story won the 500 freestyle event for the third consecutive year and repeated in the 200 freestyle. She has also won two golds in the 200 medley relay, but did not compete […]

Kalani’s Paulina Ruelas won four gold medals to lead the Falcons to the girls team title at the 2020 OIA Swimming and Diving Championships on Saturday at K. Mark Takai Veterans Memorial Aquatics Complex in Waipahu. Ruelas won the 200 individual medley for the third time and added victories in the 200 freestyle along with relay wins in the 200 medley and 400 freestyle to give her nine gold medals for her career. Only seven girls swimmers have won more […]

In his first diving meet, Ethan Buck placed 19 out of 19. That was a just a couple of months ago. On Saturday, Buck improbably won it all at the HHSAA/K. Mark Takai Swimming and Diving championships. Buck, a water polo player, didn’t get up on a diving board (competitively, at least) for the first time until November. “So my girlfriend (Isabel) does diving, and we started dating, and I wasn’t doing a sport in the winter,” Buck said. “She […]

If the preliminaries of the K. Mark Takai/HHSAA State Swimming and Diving Championships are any indication, Saturday’s finals will have a rainbow of schools represented on the top step of the podiums. Five different schools won trials on the girls side on Friday and four different schools had the fastest boy in the eight individual events. Kamehameha’s Jaek Horner doubled up in the 200 individual medley and 100 breaststroke, threatening MJ Mao of Maryknoll’s state meet record of 54.4 seconds […]

Punahou swept the boys and girls teams titles at the ILH Swimming and Diving Championships on Saturday, but the only record-breaking performance was by a freshman from Pac-Five. Grace Monahan won the 200-yard individual medley in 2 minutes, 2.02 seconds, breaking Jasmine Mau’s league record set in 2013. Monahan beat Kamehameha senior Jamy Lum, the defending league champion in the event, by more than six seconds. Monahan won both events she competed in. Her time of 54.82 seconds in the […]

Kaiser seniors Mari Yasumi, Erin Patterson and Sophie Harrison got a little help from sophomore Sofia Carlson to put the perfect ending on their OIA prep swimming careers. The foursome set the meet record in the 400 freestyle relay on Saturday by more than four seconds to help the Cougars claim their 10th consecutive league title at the OIA Swimming and Diving Championships at K. Mark Takai Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center. The win gave Yasumi, Patterson and Harrison three gold […]

Punahou athletic director Jeff Meister is one of 12 individuals who have been selected for the 2018 class of the National High School Hall of Fame. Meister will be inducted along with some big names, including former Nebraska football coach and 1955 Nebraska high school athlete of the year Tom Osborne, and Dick Fosbury, who revolutionized the high jump as a high school athlete in Oregon when he developed the technique that became known as the Fosbury flop. The induction […]

For the third consecutive year — and 42nd time overall — Punahou swept the boys and girls team titles at the K. Mark Takai/HHSAA Swimming and Diving Championships on Saturday in Kihei. Punahou junior Sydnee Whitty played a role in four of the five medals won by the Punahou girls. Whitty won the 100 and 200 freestyle events and swam a leg on the winning 200 and 400 freestyle relay teams. Freshman Noah Peters won three gold medals for the […]