{"id":145407,"date":"2021-07-22T14:03:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T00:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=145407"},"modified":"2021-07-22T14:03:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T00:03:57","slug":"uh-manoa-student-athletes-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/07\/22\/uh-manoa-student-athletes-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"11 student-athletes rep UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa at Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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The highly anticipated Tokyo Olympics are just days away and 11 former, current and future University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa student-athletes<\/a> will represent six different nations in three different sports at the games.<\/p>\n

UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa will have four representatives on Australia’s softball team\u2014Rachel Lack<\/strong>, Kaia Parnaby<\/strong>, Stacey Porter<\/strong> and Clare Warwick<\/strong>. This is the first Olympics with softball since 2008.<\/p>\n

Former and current water polo student-athletes Monika Eggens<\/strong> (Canada), Elyse Lemay-Lavoie<\/strong> (Canada), Dagmar Genee<\/strong> (Netherlands), Maartje Keuning<\/strong> (Netherlands), Irene Gonzalez Lopez<\/strong> (Spain) and Jordan Wedderburn<\/strong> (South Africa) will compete in Tokyo. Incoming freshman Wedderburn and South Africa will be making the nation’s first-ever appearance at the Summer Olympics in water polo.<\/p>\n

The lone male student athlete, Micah Masei<\/strong>, will represent American Samoa in swimming. The recent graduate competes in the breaststroke and freestyle.<\/p>\n

For a list of all 11 UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa student-athletes who will compete in Tokyo, what sports they will compete in, and their competition start dates (local time), go to the UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa athletics website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former, current and future UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa student-athletes will represent six different nations in three different sports at the Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,660,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-145407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t