ATHENS, Ga. - University of Hawai`i swimmer Nicole Mackey picked up her second All-American honor this evening finishing in fourth place in the 100-yard Backstroke, while divers QiongJie Huang and Rui Wang placed fifth and sixth, respectively, in the 3-meter springboard diving finals tonight at the 2006 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championship at the University of Georgia's Gabrielsen Natatorium.

Mackey, a junior, was sixth after the preliminaries, but stepped up her performance in the evening to re-break her UH record in the 100 Back in the finals with a time of 53.35 seconds, just one second off Auburn's Rachel Goh's winning time. Mackey notched All-American honors at the 2004 NCAA Championship in both the 100 and 200 Back events.

Huang finished in fifth place in the 3-meter springboard finals with a point total of 353.45, while teammate Wang was a close sxith with 345.70. It was Huang's seventh All-American honor while Wang picked up her third. Megan Farrow placed 10th overall with 308.45 points in the 3-meter.

Hawai`i is in 12th place as a team following the second day with a total of 67 points. UH totaled 68 points last season, its highest point total ever at the championship, and should surpass that figure tomorrow on the final day. Georgia leads the championship with 339 points followed by Auburn (294), Arizona (281), California (175), and Stanford (158) to round out the Top 5.

The third and final day of the NCAA Women's Championship gets underway Saturday at 11 a.m. EST. Rainbow Wahine participating in tomorrow's events are all three divers in the platform, Mackey in the 200-yard Backstroke, and Mia Broden in the 200-yard Butterfly.

Day 2 Results