  {"id":211309,"date":"2025-02-25T15:12:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T01:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=211309"},"modified":"2025-02-25T15:13:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T01:13:36","slug":"swim-dive-7-bw-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/02\/25\/swim-dive-7-bw-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Âé¶¹´«Ã½swim and dive claims 7 Big West awards"},"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\/2025\/02\/manoa-athletics-swim-dive-BW-award.jpg\" alt=\"U H swim and dive headshots with Big West Awards graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-211341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/manoa-athletics-swim-dive-BW-award.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/manoa-athletics-swim-dive-BW-award-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/manoa-athletics-swim-dive-BW-award-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&#257;noa swim and dive teams earned seven Big West awards, including a sweep of the diving awards for a second consecutive season after dominant performances at the Big West Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Macie Wheeler was named Big West Women&#8217;s Diver of the Year and Freshman Diver of the Year after winning gold in all three diving events. Juan Esteban Ramirez Tamayo earned the same honors on the men&#8217;s side, securing titles in the 1-meter and platform dives, along with a silver in the 3-meter.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Zdybel was named Men&#8217;s Co-Freshman Swimmer of the Year, earning podium finishes in the 800 free relay and 200 free.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Brandon Blaisdell was named Big West Men&#8217;s Diving Coach of the Year and Co-Women\u2019s Diving Coach of the Year after leading <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> to gold in every diving event.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> totaled 24 All-Big West honorees, with Karol Ostrowski earning a team-high seven selections. Wheeler and Ramirez Tamayo will compete in the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Division <abbr title=\"ONE\">I<\/abbr> Zone E qualifiers in March.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> continued its dominance with 67 total honors&#8212;34 for the men\u2019s team and 33 for the women\u2019s. The \u2018Bows look ahead to <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> qualifiers with momentum from their Big West sweep.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/2\/21\/mens-swimming-diving-swim-dive-claims-seven-big-west-awards-sweeps-diving-awards.aspx\">Read more on HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team swept diving awards for the second consecutive season. <\/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":[58,1564,9,550],"class_list":["post-211309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","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\/211309","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=211309"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211339,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211309\/revisions\/211339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}