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2023-24 Men's Swimming and Diving Season Review

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SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

  • Swept the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation men’s team championships for the first time since 2020. 

 

  • The Rainbow Warriors captured 12 event titles at the MPSF Championships, including all five relays and all three diving events. UH broke the meet record with each relay victory.

 

  • Michael Stephens was named MPSF men’s and women’s Swim Coach of the Year and Brandon Blaisdell earned the men’s and women’s MPSF Dive Coach of the Year awards. Stephens repeated as MPSF women's Coach of the Year and picked up his first men's award. Blaisdell won the diving awards for the first time.

 

  • UH senior Mackaby Pennington  was selected as the MPSF Men's Diver of the Year.

 

  • UH captured all six individual diving titles in the MPSF Championship meet for the first time since 2019. Juan Gonzalez (3-meter, platform) and Mackaby Pennington (1-meter) went 1-2 on all three boards and UH swept the titles for the fifth time since 2007 and the first time since 2019.

 

  • The men’s 200-yard freestyle relay team of  Karol Ostrowski , Jakub Ksiazek, Jordan Meacham and Grant Stoddard qualified for the NCAA Championships in Indianapolis. The ’Bows qualified in the 200 free relay for the first time since 2000 and set the school record in the event with a time of 1 minute, 16.23 seconds, placing 17th in the field of 25 schools.

 

  • A total of 16 members of the UH men's team accounted for 51 All-MPSF honors with 10 receiving at least one first-team honor.

 

  • Fifth-year swimmer Justin Lisoway was named to the Men's Swimming and Diving Academic All-America third team, becoming the program's first honoree in 20 years.

AWARDS & HONORS

The Rainbow Warriors earned a total of 51 All-MPSF honors with 10 receiving at least one first-team honor. Mackaby Pennington was selected as the MPSF Men's Diver of the Year.

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  • MPSF Men's Diver of the Year: Mackaby Pennington
  • MPSF Men's and Women's Swim Coach of the Year: Michael Stephens
  • MPSF Men's and Women's Dive Coach of the Year: Brandon Blaisdell

CSC ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT HONORS

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BROKEN RECORDS

UH broke multiple records during their sweep of titles at the MPSF Championship meet.

'BOWS FINISH STRONG IN INDY

The men’s 200-yard freestyle relay team of Karol Ostrowski, Jakub Ksiazek, Jordan Meacham and Grant Stoddard qualified for the NCAA Championships in Indianapolis. Mackaby Pennington also qualified for the NCAA Championships in platform diving and placed 26th out of 45 divers in the event, the highest finish for a UH diver since 2016.

Men's 200 Relay NCAA Championships
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CLASS OF 2024

Timothy Gallagher, Makena Ginoza, Juan Gonzalez, Brock Imonen, Jakub Ksiazek, Justin Lisoway, Mackaby Pennington, Andy Ross, Marvin Schwickert

Swim-Dive senior night

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