The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa women’s track and field team took home four individual event titles on the final day of the Big West Championship to finish in third place with 102.5 points.
The Rainbow Wahine posted a top-three conference finish for the third consecutive year and finished with five gold medals—the most ever by the program in a conference title meet. UH became the first Big West team since 2018 to sweep the two relays while winning both the discus and hammer throw titles, marking the first time a school has done that since 2017.
Montserrat Montanes i Arbo started in the hammer throw, capping it off with a toss of 57.74m (189-5) to complete a stellar series of 56.73m, 56.13m, 56.81m, 54.33m and 57.25m before her final throw.
The Rainbow Wahine 4x100m relay team Kristin Cook, Amy Warrington, Alyssa Mae Antolin and Isabella Kneeshaw won the program’s first-ever conference title by lowering their school record for the third time this year, getting around the track in 45.03 seconds to beat the field by over a half second.
Kneeshaw received another trophy by pulling away late to take home the 400m Big West title in 54.01 seconds. The freshman closed with a strong final 100m to become only the second Rainbow Wahine ever—and the first since 1985—to win a conference 400m title, posting the No. 2 time in program history.
UH then capped off the meet by completing the sweep of the relays with a victory in the 4x400m relay. The squad of Warrington, Antolin, Kneeshaw, and Sammie Gordon crossed in 3:39.47, just .37 seconds off the school record, to claim the Big West title for the second time in three years.
The ‘Bows added to their point total with a number of other strong performances in finals Saturday. Hallee Mohr finished off a big weekend with a fifth-place finish in the shot put to add four points while Gordon came in tied for fifth in the high jump to add 3.5 to the team total. Antolin ran an 11.70 in the 100m final to come in sixth and add three points.
Emilie Kirk Langschwager capped off her freshman season with a fifth-place finish and four points in the 5000m with a 16:49.21 and two points and a seventh-place finish in the 1500m in 4:33.55. Langschwager became the first Rainbow Wahine in the Big West era to score at the conference meet in a flat distance event from 1500m and up (1500m, 5000m, 10000m).
Sophia Morgan is the last UH distance runner to score in an event from 1500m and up at the Big West title meet, coming in sixth in 2021.
For more on the Big West championship, go to HawaiiAthletics.com
