Chaminade Dean Inducted Into Hawaiʻi Swimming Hall of Fame – Chaminade University of Honolulu

Gail Grabowsky, Ph.D., dean of the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Chaminade, govt director of the University’s UN CIFAL Center and a adorned ocean and roughwater swimmer, was inducted into the Hawaiʻi Swimming Hall of Fame in a ceremony on October 18.

Grabowsky was inducted into the Ocean and Channel Swimming class for the Class of 2025.

In an interview earlier than the ceremony, Grabowsky stated she was humbled by the consideration.

“I’m a distance swimmer and I love swimming,” stated Grabowsky, who makes time to swim three mornings per week off Ala Moana Regional Park. She has gained the feminine division of the Double Roughwater swim six occasions and has additionally clinched wins and a protracted record of age-group firsts within the Waikiki Roughwater Swim, King’s Swim, the Wailea Roughwater and the Popoiʻa Swim.

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Grabowsky stated she fell in love with ocean swimming as a younger lady in California.

That shortly grew right into a ardour for environmental sciences and marine research.

One of the most important highlights of her job, she stated, is with the ability to take college students to subject experiences in Hawaiʻi waters—from Ala Moana to Hanauma Bay. “That’s where I’m lucky,” she stated. “f you create a memory for them that’s tied to Chaminade or them loving science, that’s important.”

Grabowksy, from Los Angeles, studied at Duke University and earned her doctoral diploma in Zoology in 1993. She first got here to the islands as a graduate pupil in 1992 and returned a 12 months later for a postdoctoral place. She began educating at Chaminade in 1997.

The Hawaiʻi Swimming Hall of Fame, based in 2002, seeks to “promote, preserve, and perpetuate Hawaiian aquatic sports for the future” by celebrating the achievements of island swimmers, divers, and water polo athletes.