2025-26 Season In Overview – University of Hawai’i at Manoa Athletics

Guided by new management and competing below a unifying theme, the University of Hawai‘i athletics department produced a historic 2025-26 season highlighted by championship moments, including a statewide celebration of a national title.

Epitomizing the message of “Our Team, Hawai‘i’s Team” — launched shortly after Matt Elliott’s appointment as athletics director in June — UH groups delivered moments that resonated all through the state over the course of the sports activities calendar.

A Christmas Eve miracle to seize the Hawai‘i Bowl title highlighted the fall season and the men’s basketball staff claimed this system’s first Big West Championship title and accompanying NCAA Tournament look in a decade in March. UH dominated within the pool with the boys’s and girls’s swimming and diving groups sweeping the Big West championships whereas the Rainbow Wahine water polo staff went undefeated in convention play for a 3rd straight 12 months.

The Rainbow Warrior volleyball staff then asserted its declare to dynastic standing by capturing this system’s third nationwide championship throughout the final six years. The title run included this system’s first NCAA Tournament match on its dwelling court docket at a bought out Bankoh Arena at Stan Sheriff Center and culminated with rousing victories over Long Beach State and UC Irvine.

Along the way in which from the soccer staff’s opener in mid-August by means of the NCAA Track and Field First Round in late May, UH student-athletes continued to rack up nationwide and convention honors, together with Kansei Matsuzawa turning into the primary consensus All-American within the soccer program’s 109 years of competitors.

The division additionally bid aloha to a few longtime coaches with Robyn Ah Mow (ladies’s volleyball), Laura Beeman (ladies’s basketball) and Andy Johnson (crusing) stepping away from their roles. The 2025-26 marketing campaign additionally marked the farewell season to the Big West for 14 groups earlier than becoming a member of the UH soccer staff within the Mountain West efficient July 1.