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Swimmers will be inducted into Hall
Advertiser Staff
The third class of inductees into the Hawai'i Swimming Hall of Fame will be enshrined tomorrow night in a sold-out banquet and ceremony at the Hale Koa Hotel in Waikiki.
Among the 18 honorees are Chris Woo (Hawai'i's most recent Olympic swimmer), Chris Duplanty (four-time Olympian in water polo), Ken Nakasone (Pan American Games participant) and Robin Backhaus (1972 Olympic swimmer).
The other inductees are swimmer Mitzi Higuchi, masters swimmers Steve Borowski, Bruce Clark, Ernest Leskovitz and Joe Lileikis, channel swimmers Robin Isayama and Carl Kawauchi, ocean swimmers Kaili Chun and John Flanagan, water polo players/coaches Shari Baird, John Nielsen and Susan Nishioka, coach Edward Kawachika and contributor Jim Anderson.
This year's class brings the total number of inductees to 80. The inaugural class — which included legends Duke Kahanamoku, Keo Nakama and Soichi Sakamoto — was inducted in 2002.
The Hall of Fame is operated under the Hawai'i Swimming Legacy Project, which was formed about five years ago in an effort to preserve the rich aquatic tradition here. The inductees are voted on by the Hall's advisory board.
SOCCER
UH PLAYS FRESNO STATE
Top-seeded Hawai'i will face fifth-seeded Fresno State today in a Western Athletic Conference Tournament semifinal soccer match at Boise, Idaho.
The Bulldogs beat fourth-seeded Utah State, 2-1, in yesterday's opening round.
Third-seeded Nevada, which beat sixth-seeded Boise State, 3-0, in the other first-round game, will play second-seeded San Jose State in today's other semifinal. Hawai'i and San Jose State had first-round byes.
The Rainbow Wahine won the WAC title outright for the in program history, but lost their regular-season finale to the Bulldogs on Sunday, 1-0. The teams are scheduled to play at 9 a.m. Hawai'i time, with the winner advancing to tomorrow's championship game.
Fresno State senior Kortney Lewis scored her third-game winning goal of the season yesterday when she knocked in a turn-around shot at the 74:15 mark to help beat Utah State.
