  {"id":173261,"date":"2023-02-27T13:02:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T23:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=173261"},"modified":"2023-02-27T13:02:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T23:02:11","slug":"rainbow-wahine-swimmers-ncaa-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/02\/27\/rainbow-wahine-swimmers-ncaa-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Wahine swimmers earn <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/manoa-athletics-swimming-relay-team.jpg\" alt=\"Group of people smiling in front of a pool\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-173263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/manoa-athletics-swimming-relay-team.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/manoa-athletics-swimming-relay-team-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/manoa-athletics-swimming-relay-team-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\">women&#8217;s swimming and diving<\/a> 400 freestyle relay team secured a spot in the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> championships after posting a program record-breaking A cut time on February 26 at the Georgia Last Chance Meet in Athens, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>The history-making Rainbow Wahine relay team of <strong>Holly Nelson<\/strong>, <strong>Laticia Transom<\/strong>, <strong>Anna Friedrich<\/strong> and <strong>Gabrielle Scudamore<\/strong> swam a 3:12.76 in the 400 free relay, lowering their time by more than two seconds to earn an automatic bid to be a part of the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> field in the event.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson opened the relay with a 49.07, followed by Transom with a 46.66 and Friedrich with a 48.55 before Scudamore anchored with a 48.48 to bring it home. It is the third time that the squad has broken the program record this year. The mark is also the ninth fastest in the country for the 2022&#8211;23 season.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> swimming and diving programs will now turn their attention to the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> postseason, starting with the Zone E Diving Championships, March 6&#8211;8 in Federal Way, Washington.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2023\/2\/26\/womens-swimming-diving-rainbow-wahine-earn-ncaa-bid-in-400-free-relay.aspx\">Read more at hawaiiathletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holly Nelson, Laticia Transom, Anna Friedrich and Gabrielle Scudamore of the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa women\u2019s 400 freestyle relay team earned an automatic bid to the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> championships.<\/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":[58,660,714,1564,9,550],"class_list":["post-173261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-swimming-and-diving","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173261"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173276,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173261\/revisions\/173276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}