Swimming

Meet records fell at a frantic pace in the OIA East swimming and diving championships at Kalani on Saturday. Nine marks fell. No records fell at the West championships a day earlier. Here is the complete haul: >> 100 fly: Kalani senior Shawn Fujii beat Jonathan Oba of Roosevelt and both swimmers beat the record of 52.30 seconds. Fujii swam the distance in 51.26 seconds and Oba covered it in 51.33. >> Kaiser senior Lara Yasumi took down the record […]

Punahou’s Aukai Lileikis set a meet record in winning the 200-yard individual medley on the final day of the 39th Dorothy Aki/Kalani Invitational. Lileikis improved on his time of 1:50.14 in Tuesday’s preliminaries with a 1:49.01 on Wednesday. He broke the previous record set by ‘Iolani’s Kacy Johnson in 2010. Lileikis also won the 100-yard backstroke and swam on Punahou’s victorious 400 freestyle relay team  to help the Buffanblu finish atop the team standings. Punahou freshman Tyler Kawakami also picked […]

Punahou senior Aukai Lileikis gave his oral commitment to swim for Cal next year, according to Swimswam.com. Lileikis, who is also a member of the Aulea Swim Club, is gearing up for his senior season with the Buffanblu. Lileikis has three 2016 Olympic Trials qualifying times — in the 100 freestyle (50.65 seconds), the 200 free (50.65) and the 200 individual medley (2:04.29). Another top swimmer from Punahou, Jasmine Mau, is going into her junior season as a competitor for […]

Swimming is an individual sport, but Lena Hayakawa became the first from Mid-Pacific’s strong program to be inducted into the Hall of Honor by keeping team in mind. Hayakawa will be enshrined with 11 others on June 7 at the Dole Cannery Square’s Pomaikai Ballroom. It’s not as if Hayakawa is not the state’s fastest female swimmer, because she has been since teammate Summer Harrison and fellow Hall of Honor inductee Jasmine Mau of Punahou graduated last year. Hayakawa has […]

Punahou graduate Jasmine Mau, now a freshman at California, contributed to the Golden Bears’ lead at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships with a 13-place finish in the 100 butterfly on Friday in Greensboro, N.C. Mau advanced out of the preliminaries with a time of  52.03 seconds, then posted a time of 52.17 seconds in the B final. Cal, led by Olympic gold medalist Missy Franklin, holds a commanding lead in the team standings with 383.5 points. San Diego State […]