Track & Field Opens Outdoor Season in Sacramento

HONOLULU – The Hawai’i women’s track and field team kicks off the 2025 outdoor season when it heads to the Hornet Invitational hosted by Sacramento State, Friday and Saturday.
 
The action gets underway at 8 a.m. HT each day as the Rainbow Wahine will send a group of 30 student-athletes to compete at the outdoor opener.
 

UH is coming off of a fourth-place finish at the MPSF Championships to complete the indoor season – the fourth-consecutive year that the ‘Bows have placed in the top four of the MPSF. Hawai’i ended indoor season with a pair of conference champions (Lilian Turban – high jump, Tara Wyllie – triple jump), while setting five indoor program records and posting 33 new school top 10 marks.
 
The Rainbow Wahine will look to build on a strong 2024 outdoor season in which they placed third in the Big West and sent a pair of athletes to the NCAA Preliminary rounds, including one athlete (Hallee Mohr – discus) who advanced to the NCAA Championships.
 
Three athletes who earned a Big West event title a year ago return led by conference co-Freshman of the Year Isabella Kneeshaw, who took home the 400m title while running the anchor leg of both the 4x100m and 4x400m league title winning relay teams. Kristin Cook and Sammie Gordon also return after contributing to the 4x100m and 4x400m relay winning teams.
 
Hawai’i also has 12 athletes on the roster who currently own a total of 26 program top 10 marks including two (Cook and Kneeshaw) who have contributed to school relay records.
 
Following this weekend’s action, the Rainbow Wahine will next compete at both the Mike Fanelli Classic (Apr. 3-5) and Stanford Invitational (Apr. 4-5).