{"id":227925,"date":"2026-01-07T10:42:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=227925"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:14:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:14:47","slug":"manoa-swimming-big-west-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/01\/07\/manoa-swimming-big-west-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa swimming sweeps Big West honors for second straight week"},"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\/2026\/01\/manoa-swim-big-west-sweep.jpg\" alt=\"Big West Athletes of the Week graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-227923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/manoa-swim-big-west-sweep.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/manoa-swim-big-west-sweep-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/manoa-swim-big-west-sweep-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span lang=\"haw\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa swimming teams swept the Big West Athlete of the Week awards for the second consecutive week. Karol Ostrowski was named the winner of the men&#8217;s award, while Holly Nelson earned the women&#8217;s weekly award.<\/p>\n<p>This marked Ostrowski\u2019s second career weekly conference award and the third for the Warriors this season. For the Rainbow Wahine, Nelson earned her second Athlete of the Week award this season and the third for the \u02bbBows in the 2025\u201326 season.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa faced <abbr>BYU<\/abbr> in a dual meet on January 3. Ostrowski led the Rainbow Warriors, winning golds in all four events he entered: the 50 free, the 50 back, the 50 fly with a personal best time of 20.91 and a split of 43.68 in the 400 free relay to give the \u02bbBows a solid lead.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson captured three individual golds in the 50 fly, 100 free and 50 free while earning a silver swimming the anchor lead of the 400 free relay. Her 50 fly time of 24.07 is the fastest time swam in the Big West this year.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2026\/1\/6\/mens-swimming-diving-ostrowski-nelson-sweep-big-west-swim-dive-athlete-of-the-week-awards.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karol Ostrowski and Holly Nelson were recognized for their standout performances against <abbr>BYU<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":227923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,1564,9,550],"class_list":["post-227925","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":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/manoa-swim-big-west-sweep.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227925","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=227925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227958,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227925\/revisions\/227958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}