Michaela Yamashita

Michaela Yamashita

  • Award
    Swimmer
  • Week Of
    11/9/2015
  • Sport
    Women's Swimming & Diving
  • School
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Year
    Sophomore
  • Position
    Butterfly/Backstroke
  • Hometown
    Kaneohe, Hawaii
  • High School
    Maryknoll
At the nine-school, multi-divisional New England Invitational hosted by WPI, RPI sophomore Michaela Yamashita won the 100 butterfly in a time of 1:00.33, beating out 35 other competitors in the race. She also helped the 200 medley relay team to victory (1:51.57), swimming the third leg in a 40-team competition. Michaela was also sixth (of 44) in the 50 fly (27.60) and swam on the sixth (of 32) place 400 medley relay team (4:12.09). The meet was non-team scoring.