{"id":210614,"date":"2025-02-11T14:39:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T00:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=210614"},"modified":"2025-02-11T16:55:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T02:55:26","slug":"brauer-2024-rolex-yachtswoman-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/02\/11\/brauer-2024-rolex-yachtswoman-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> alumna Brauer earns 2024 Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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Former University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa sailor Cole Brauer has been honored with US<\/abbr> Sailing\u2019s highest accolade, the 2024 Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year.<\/p>\n

Brauer captured the sailing world\u2019s attention during the Global Solo Challenge, where she made history as the first American woman to sail solo around the world<\/a>, finishing second in the inaugural race.<\/p>\n

Brauer received the award on February 6, at the 2025 US<\/abbr> Sailing Leadership Forum in California. The selection process involved a panel of past Rolex Award winners and prominent sailing media members, who recognized outstanding achievements in the sport over the past year.<\/p>\n

Brauer is the second UH<\/abbr> sailing alumnae in the last three years to garner the award, joining former Rainbow Wahine and six-time Formula Kite World Champion Daniela Moroz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brauer began her sailing journey at UH<\/abbr> Mānoa. She experienced incredible success as a Rainbow Wahine and was named the 2017 Jack Bonham Award winner, which is considered the highest honor in UH<\/abbr> athletics. At UH<\/abbr>, she became a member of three national championship-qualifying teams and was a two-time Intercollegiate Sailing Association Academic All-American Team member.<\/p>\n

Brauer was the UH<\/abbr> sailing team’s top scholar-athlete in 2016. She graduated in 2017 with a degree in food science and human nutrition with a pre-professional medical focus.<\/p>\n

For more Brauer, go to HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cole Brauer was honored after she made history as the first American woman to sail solo around the world, finishing second in the inaugural race.<\/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":[90,679,58,1565,9,550],"class_list":["post-210614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-alumni","tag-alumni-recognition","tag-athletics","tag-sailing","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\/210614","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=210614"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210705,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210614\/revisions\/210705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}