Swimming Athlete Bio
Rowena Manabat
Junior * Sprint Free * 5-1
Ketchikan, Alaska
Ketchikan HS
2007-08: The Boxers' go-to sprinter owned the team's best time in the 50-yard freestyle (27.03), second best time in the 200-yard freestyle (2:08.93) and fifth fastest in the 100-yard IM (1:13.99) and 100 yard-freestyle (59.17)...Her best in the 50 free, swam at NWC Championships, is the fifth fastest in school history...Finished 16th at the NWC Championships in the 100 free, swimming 57.19 seconds...Placed eighth at the Northwest Invitational in the 50 free...Swam anchor leg on record-setting 400-yard freestyle relay.
2006-07: Developed into a key contributor for the Boxers in the sprint freestyle events...Competed at the NWC Championships in the 50-yard and 100-yard freestyle...Finished 16th in the 100 free in 59.40 seconds...Swam season best 59.39 seconds in preliminaries...Swam anchor leg on Pacific's record-setting 800-yard freestyle relay team and swam anchor on record-setting 200-yard and 400-yard medley relay teams.
High School: Swam at Ketchikan High School.
Personal: Daughter of Romero & Grace Manabat...Biochemistry major and math minor.