Every Monday, GoSwords.com will publish "This Week in 'Swords History presented by Big City Diner" which looks back at significant events and some of the memorable games that helped shape Chaminade University Athletics into what it is today.
Sept. 10, 1994: Men's Cross Country Wins First Race
The Silverswords' men's cross country team had always been competitive in the first decade of its existence when they started as an intercollegiate program in the early-1980s.
In the late-80s through early-90s, there were some individual success with first-place finishers and series of runner-up team finishes against their local NAIA counterparts, BYU-Hawai'i, Hawai'i Hilo, Hawai'i Loa and Hawai'i Pacific. One was a September 1986 race at the Hawai'i Loa campus where they finished second to Seasiders by just two points (10-12).
Nearly eight years after the near-miss, the 'Swords, now an NCAA Division II program, finally found team success. Competing in a dual meet against HPU at the BYUH campus on Sept. 10, 1994, the Silverswords celebrated its first-ever intercollegiate team victory, defeating the then-Sea Warriors, 26-29.
Clifton Lum and
Steve Bremner paced the 'Swords by finishing second and third, respectively. Lum finished the 8-kilometer course in 28:50 while Bremner was just 12 seconds behind.
