{"id":97714,"date":"2019-05-31T10:21:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T20:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=97714"},"modified":"2019-05-31T10:22:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T20:22:18","slug":"ptasnik-swimming-diving-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/31\/ptasnik-swimming-diving-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Ptasnik promoted to head coach of swimming, diving"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Elliot Ptasnik<\/strong> has been named the new University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa men\u2019s<\/a> and women\u2019s<\/a> swimming and diving head coach.<\/p>\n

Ptasnik served as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the past three seasons under former coach Dan Schemmel<\/strong>, who recently accepted the head post for the Stanford men\u2019s swimming and diving program. Ptasnik has been a part of three straight Mountain Pacific Sports Federation women\u2019s championships and one MPSF<\/abbr> men\u2019s championship and in 2019, UH<\/abbr> claimed both a men\u2019s and women\u2019s conference title in the same season for the first time in program history.<\/p>\n

“We are pleased to announce Elliot as the Rainbow Wahine and Warrior Head Swim Coach,” UH<\/abbr> Mānoa Athletics<\/a> Director David Matlin<\/strong> said. “Elliot and the current coaching staff have been instrumental in developing a championship culture in and out of the pool. His passion for Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> is evident and we are excited to watch him continue to have a positive effect on our student-athletes as the leader of both programs.”<\/p>\n

“I am honored and grateful to continue my coaching career at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½.<\/span> I would like to thank David Matlin and the entire administrative staff for having the confidence in me to lead our Rainbow Wahine and Warriors,” Ptasnik said. “Â鶹´«Ã½\u2019s<\/span> academic and athletic prowess, along with rich culture and natural beauty, will continue to attract the best local, domestic and international student-athletes. In the past three years our team as seen a meteoric rise, and I truly feel we are just getting started.”<\/p>\n

For more go to the UH<\/abbr> Mānoa Athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elliot Ptasnik<\/strong> has been named the new University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa men\u2019s and women\u2019s swimming and diving head coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,9,550],"class_list":["post-97714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","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\/97714","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=97714"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97722,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97714\/revisions\/97722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}