Posted on: Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Hawai'i swimmers, divers receive All-America honors
Advertiser Staff
Thirty-three high school All-America citations have been awarded to swimmers and divers from Hawai'i by the National Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association.
Twenty-nine swimming awards were given out, including seven for relay teams. Four divers were also named All-Americans.
Iolani swimmer Mark Eckert, who owns three individual state meet records (including the 100-yard backstroke, which he set this year), received six individual honors and one relay honor for independent (private) schools. Punahou's Noa Sakamoto was a six-time honoree, including two relays. Maui's Chelsea Nagata had the most selections among public school girl swimmers with three.
Leading the way for the divers were Aleia Monden of St. Andrew's and Drew Wallace of Punahou, who set meet records at the HHSAA/Local Motion State Swimming and Diving Championships in February.
Monden was named to the independent schools girls team and Wallace to the independent schools boys team.
Punahou's Michael Ono also was selected to the independent schools boys diving team while Kaiser's Michael Doe was named to the public schools diving team.
Swimmers and divers received All-America status by meeting automatic standard times and scores set by the NISCA throughout the season.
Swimming honors:
Boys
Independent (Private Schools)
200 Medley Relay: Punahou (Noa Sakamoto, Ikaika Aki, Geoffrey Long, Zakary Noyle), 1:38.00. 200 Freestyle: Mark Eckert, Iolani, 1:39.04; Noa Sakamoto, Punahou, 1:41.08
200 Individual Medley: Mark Eckert, Iolani, 1:50.13; Noa Sakamoto, Punahou, 1:53.11; Randall Tom, Seabury Hall, 1:54.81 50 Freestyle: Randall Tom, Seabury Hall, 21.03; Mark Eckert, Iolani, 21.49 100 Butterfly: Randall Tom, Seabury Hall, 49.43 100 Freestyle: Randall Tom, Seabury Hall, 47.17; Mark Eckert, Iolani, 47.38 500 Freestyle: Noa Sakamoto, Punahou, 4:29.96; Mark Eckert, Iolani, 4:33.38 200 Freestyle Relay: Iolani (Mark Eckert, Kai Yamashiro, Kyle Ota, Daniel Lim), 1:27.16; Punahou (Noa Sakamoto, Geoffrey Long, Zakary Noyle, Billy Brad) 1:28.89
100 Backstroke: Mark Eckert, Iolani, 49.79; Noa Sakamoto, Punahou, 51.71; Randall Tom, Seabury Hall, 53.21 100 Breaststroke: Randall Tom, Seabury Hall, 59.75
400 Freestyle Relay: Iolani (Kyle Ota, Daniel Lim, Kai Yamashiro, Ike Yato) 3:15.38
Public Schools
500 Freestyle: Andrew Lester, Moanalua, 4:40.67
100 Backstroke: Hogan Orikasa, King Kekaulike, 52.88 Girls
Independent (Private Schools)
200 Medley Relay: Iolani (Kimi Ide-Foster, Kellie Young, Mallorie Lim, April Woo), 1:52.52
200 Freestyle Relay: Iolani (April Woo, Kellie Young, Aja Kusao, Sara Ajifu) 1:40.54 Public Schools
200 Medley Relay: Kalaheo (Maria Krawicw, Jillian Luis, Christine Phillips, Brittany Beauchan) 1:52.70 50 Freestyle: Chelsea Nagata, Maui, 24.12
100 Butterfly: Chelsea Nagata, Maui, 55.24 100 Backstroke: Chelsea Nagata, Maui, 58.08 100 Breaststroke: Brittany Beauchan, Kalaheo, 1:05.16 Baseball
• ALL-STATE CORRECTIONS: Saint Louis first baseman Chester Wilson's name was inadvertently left off yesterday's Advertiser All-State baseball team's honorable mention list. Also, Punahou first baseman Kasey Ko is a junior; he was listed under another grade level.
