{"id":234945,"date":"2026-05-26T11:15:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=234945"},"modified":"2026-05-26T11:15:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:15:59","slug":"track-and-field-ncaa-bids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/05\/26\/track-and-field-ncaa-bids\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Rainbow Wahine track and field athletes earn NCAA<\/abbr> First Round bids"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa<\/span> women\u2019s track and field team<\/a> had four student-athletes earn spots in the NCAA<\/abbr> First Round in Fayetteville, Arkansas, set for May 27–30.<\/p>\n

Lilian Turban earned a bid in the high jump and javelin, Tara Wyllie secured a spot in the triple jump, Samaria Vital clinched a spot in the discus and Robyn Larkan is NCAA<\/abbr> bound in the 100m hurdles.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the fifth consecutive year that the Rainbow Wahine has sent multiple competitors to the NCAA<\/abbr> First Round and the second straight year that at least four are bound for the preliminary round of the national meet.<\/p>\n

Turban, the Big West runner-up and 2023 high jump All-American, is into the field in her signature event for the fourth time in her career with a season mark of 1.80m. She also qualified in the javelin for the second consecutive year, with a season-best mark of 48.12m.<\/p>\n

Wyllie has qualified for the NCAA<\/abbr> First Round triple jump for the third time in her career, taking a mark of 12.93m into the postseason. Vital earned her first career trip to the NCAA<\/abbr> First Round in the discus, throwing 51.95m at the Big West Championship to vault up the regional rankings. School-record holder Larkan rounds out the group of Rainbow Wahine bound for nationals, taking her time of 13.44 seconds into the postseason.<\/p>\n

Read more on the UH<\/abbr> Mānoa<\/span> Athletics website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Turban named Big West Championship Field Athlete of the Meet<\/h2>\n

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For the second consecutive season, Turban took home Big West Championship Field Athlete of the Meet honors following her all-around strong performance at the conference championship meet, May 15–16. Turban totaled 16 points across three different field events to put up more than one-third of the UH<\/abbr> Mānoa<\/span> team total for the meet. The Rainbow Wahine placed eighth as a team with 47 points.<\/p>\n

The senior turned in a runner-up finish in the high jump to put up eight points, clearing 1.78m (5-10). She matched champion Zharia Taylor of UC<\/abbr> Irvine in clearance height but lost out to Taylor due to having three more failed attempts.<\/p>\n

Turban added five points to the team total in the javelin, coming in fourth with a toss of 46.03m (151-0) on her third attempt. She also placed sixth in the shot put with a mark of 14.61m (47-11.25) to cap off her scoring for the meet with three points.<\/p>\n

Read more about Turban on the UH<\/abbr> Mānoa<\/span> Athletics website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s the fifth consecutive year that the Rainbow Wahine has sent multiple competitors to the NCAA<\/abbr> First Round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":234946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,714,1585,9,550],"class_list":["post-234945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-athlete","tag-track-and-field","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