Swim & Dive Hosts Green vs. White Intrasquad Meet, UH Alumni Meet

HONOLULU – The University of Hawai’i males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving groups will open their 2026-27 season internet hosting their annual Green vs. White intrasquad meet on Friday, Sept. 25 with diving beginning at 4:15 p.m. HT and the swim meet kicking off at 5:00 p.m. HT. On Saturday, Sept. 26, Hawai’i will maintain their second-straight UH Alumni Meet, set to start at 10:00 a.m. HT. Both occasions will likely be held on the Duke Kahanamoku Aquatics Complex.

The Rainbow Wahine and Rainbow Warriors will start a brand new period this season as they enter the Mountain West Conference. Last yr, the lads’s and ladies’s groups closed their tenure within the Big West by sweeping the Big West Championships. The males’s group held off Grand Canyon within the final race of the meet to assert its eighth convention crown, whereas the ladies cruised to their eleventh convention championship, successful by over 100 factors forward of their nearest competitor.
 

Hawai’i’s 2026-27. males’s group is a squad of 28 with 18 returnees and 10 newcomers. The Rainbow Warriors will likely be led by diver Juan Esteban Tamayo Ramirez and swimmers Tom Thalau, Victor Dagenais, and Evan Pickles.

• Tamayo Ramirez returns for his third season with the ‘Bows. Last yr, the diver from Medellín, Colombia entered the UH file books and is now within the Top 10 within the 1-Meter, 3-Meter, and Platform. He competed on the NCAA Championships in 2025 and appears to have continued success main Hawai’i.
• Thalau, a junior from Stuttgart, Germany, appears to make an impression as he specializes within the particular person medley and breaststroke. Last yr, his first at UH, Thalau set a brand new program file with a 1:33.25 anchor break up within the 800 free relay and he notched his identify within the UH file e-book, rating within the Top 5 within the 200 breaststroke and the 200 and 400 particular person medley races.
• Dagenais, a fellow junior from Montreal, Quebec, has his fingerprints within the file books as nicely, recording Top 10 instances within the 100 free, 200 free, and 200 butterfly.
• Pickles, a senior, got here on robust and posted Top UH instances in two occasions. He is ranked eighth within the 1650 freestyle with a time of 15:32.31 and sixth within the 400 particular person medley at 3:51.21.

The ladies return 17 for the 2026-27 season with 5 newcomers for a complete squad of twenty-two. Diver Lovissa Gustavsson and swimmers Zofia Tyminska, Quincy Key, and Brooke Bennett look to steer the Rainbow Wahine as they enter the Mountain West.

• Gustavsson, a local of Gothenburg, Sweden, returns for her junior season after changing into the primary UH ladies’s diver since 2021 to qualify for the NCAA Championships (3-Meter). She competed in all three diving occasions on the NCAA Zone E Championships.
• Tyminska, a senior from Warsaw, Poland, appears to complete her collegiate profession with a bang. Tyminska at present holds three Top 3 performances all set final yr. She is ranked third within the 100 breast (1:00.41), third within the 200 breast (2:11.56), and third within the 200 particular person medley (1:58.09).
• Key is a speedy senior from Albuquerque, N.M. who broke into UH’s file e-book at No. 10 within the 50 freestyle, clocking in at 22.65. Against Utah, Key helped lead the Rainbow Wahine to silver finishes within the 200 medley relay (20.09 break up) and 200 free relay (19.87 break up), which earned her Big West Athlete of the Week honors.
• Bennett, a sophomore from Christchurch, New Zealand, is a long-distance freestyler who broke into the UH Top 10 in each the 1000 freestyle (10:10.03) and 1650 freestyle (16:58.99).

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