Swimming & Diving Opens Season With Green/White Meet

HONOLULU—The University of Hawai’i swimming and diving groups hosted their annual Green/White meet. UH’s White Team prevailed over the Green Team, 191.5 – 149.5 on the Duke Kahanamoku Aquatics Complex on Friday evening.
 
Hawai’i’s males’s and ladies’s diving groups began the intra-squad competitors with their first 5 of 10 complete dives. The divers accomplished their ultimate 5 dives through the intermission of the swimming occasions. The 10-dive format included 1 and 3-meter springboard dives and platform dives. Last season’s Men’s Big West Diver of the Year Juan Esteban Ramirez Tamayo gained the occasion which mixed each the boys’s and ladies’s groups collectively. Tamayo completed with a complete of 517.7 factors. His excessive rating of 69.0 on a ahead 2½-somersaults, 1 twist pike got here in spherical seven on the 3M board. It was the very best scoring dive of the evening. Newcomer Oliver Wignall completed second with a complete of 446.7 factors along with his ahead 2½-somersaults, 1 twist pike garnering his highest rating of 56.55 approaching his ultimate dive. Women’s diver Lovisa Gustavsson completed third, tallying a complete rating of 443.95.  Her highest scoring dive got here on her eighth of the evening on an inward two-and-a-half somersault tuck that earned a rating of 63.45.
 
The White Team gained 9 occasions whereas the Green Team took seven. Highlighting the night’s occasions was the boys’s and ladies’s 50 free. The girls’s 50 free noticed the Green Team’s Holly Nelson edge out newcomer Rebekka Luoto thrice within the prelims, semifinals and tremendous ultimate, whereas the White Team’s Karol Ostrowski held off teammate, newcomer Tim Brown thrice to seize the boys’s 50 free crown.
 
The meet was stuffed with extraordinarily shut races within the pool. The White Team’s Brooke Bennet held off fellow White teammate, Gaby Kelly within the 500 Free, 5:03.83-to-5:04.70. In the ladies’s 300IM, two White Team swimmers battled it out as Mia Blazevska Eminova hit the wall simply earlier than teammate Carlotta Ingenerf, 3:18.61-to-3:19.08.
 
In the Men’s 150 Butterfly, the Green Team’s Aleks Tomaszewski completed 1/100^th of a second in entrance of Green teammate Zane Johnson, 1:19.28-to-1:19.29. Then, within the males’s 150 free, the Green’s Victor Dagenais out-raced White’s Finn Brophy by a skosh, 1:12.27-to-1:12.43.
 
On the ladies’s facet, the 150 free was additionally a hotly contested race with the White Team’s Bennett notching her second win of the meet ending .42 seconds forward of White teammate Quincy Key, 1:22.61-to-1:23.03.
 
Both the boys’s and ladies’s 150 backstroke led to extraordinarily shut finishes. The girls’s Green teammates Aziza Meyer and Alexa Ozment took one-two with Meyer coming in at 1:31.47 and Ozment ending with a time of 1:32.21. On the boys’s facet, Green teammates Korey Tiell and Woobie Kupski completed simply 2/100ths of a second aside with Tiell ending at 1:21.22 and Kupsky coming in at 1:21.24.
 
The males’s and ladies’s swim/dive groups can be again in motion on Saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. HT as they host their first Alumni Meet since 2013. Over 30 Hawai’i alumni are slated to return again to the Duke Kanahmoku Aquatics Complex to compete in opposition to the present squad.
 

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