Hawai’i Claims Two Team Crowns on the 2026 Big West Swimming & Diving Championships

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HOUSTON, Texas — Hawai’i took residence each the lads’s and girls’s titles on the 2026 Big West Swimming & Diving Championships after 4 days of fierce competitors from the CRWC Natatorium. This marks the lads’s first Big West title whereas the ladies earned the crown as soon as earlier than, again in 1986. 

The males amassed 780 factors with GCU delivering a second-place end with 728 factors, adopted by UC San Diego’s 571. On the ladies’s aspect, the Rainbow Wahine completed with 798 factors, over 100 away from their closest rivals from UC Davis (692), with defending champion UC Santa Barbara capturing third with 660 factors. 

The day began off with the space swimmers taking to the pool for the 1650 freestyle with Jacob Pins from GCU claiming the occasion title with a time of 15:17.54, adopted by Cal State Bakersfield’s Karsten Eichler at 15:22.75. UC San Diego freshman Landon Egeland completed third, clocking in at 15:24.33. For the ladies’s 1650, San Diego’s Sydney Wilson positioned first with a time of 16:36.45, with teammate Skylar Bruner touchdown in third as UC San Diego’s Sophia Bell registered second in 16:41.00. 

Luigi Franco of UC San Diego gained the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 1:43.19. The 100-yard freestyle noticed Karol Ostrowski of UH ending first at 42.41 to defend the occasion title and greatest The Big West file. GCU’s Carter Dooling secured first within the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:54.56, with Cal State Bakersfield’s Vili Sivec doubling as much as declare a file and an occasion win within the 200-yard butterfly after touching in 1:42.37. 

For the ladies, the UC San Diego pairing of Eva Boehlke and Chloe Braun each took residence first as Boehlke swam the 200 again in 1:56.37 for file tempo and Braun’s 200 breaststroke clocked in at 2:12.19. UC Santa Barbara’s Samantha Banos repeated as champion within the 200-yard butterfly after swimming a 1:56.44. Thursday’s quickest girl within the 50 free, Holly Nelson, earned the win within the 100 freestyle with a time of 48.67.

In the platform diving occasions, GCU’s Omar Elsayed achieved first place with a rating of 395.75, with 2025 champion Juan Esteban Ramirez Tamayo taking runner-up with a rating of 390.20 and UH teammate Olly Wignall rounding out the rostrum at 354.50. The Hawai’i girls went 1-2 from the platform, with Lovisa Gusstavson registering 269.70 factors, with Kiera Chandler in second with 244.05.

The evening of racing ended with the 400-meter freestyle relays, and each the lads’s and girls’s victors clocked file occasions. On the ladies’s aspect, the highest 4 finishers bested the earlier Big West benchmark, however UC Santa Barbara’s quartet of Miranda Stevenson, Gretta Callison, Eugenie Lanilis, and Banos have been first to complete at 3:18.32. Second went to Hawai’i in 3:18.14 with UC Davis touching in 3:18.74 and UC San Diego ending the race in 3:19.29.

In the lads’s 400-yard freestyle relay, the Hawai’i crew claimed victory with a time of two:52.19, narrowly edging out GCU, which completed at 2:52.48. Finn Brophy, Tom Thalau, Victor Dagenais, and Ostrowski’s end was good for a brand new Big West file within the occasion. 

The 2026 trophies would be the final of the swimming and diving selection, as UH is shifting to the Mountain West in July 2026 for many sports activities. This is the fifth consecutive contested Big West swimming and diving championship the place one faculty has taken residence each titles.

Overall Team Scores – Women  

1. Hawai’i – 798  

2. UC Davis – 692  

3. UC Santa Barbara – 660  

4. UC San Diego – 644  

5. San Diego – 350  

6. Cal State Bakersfield – 172

7. Seattle U – 157

Overall Team Scores – Men  

1. Hawai’i – 780  

2. GCU – 728  

3. UC San Diego – 571  

4. UC Santa Barbara – 568  

5. Cal State Bakersfield – 379.5  

6. Seattle U – 273.5

 

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