{"id":108024,"date":"2019-12-16T13:39:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T23:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=108024"},"modified":"2019-12-16T13:39:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T23:39:48","slug":"harrison-navarette-pepsi-athlete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/12\/16\/harrison-navarette-pepsi-athlete\/","title":{"rendered":"Two basketball standouts earn top <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo athletic honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_108030\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108030\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-harrison.jpg\" alt=\"Kupaa Harrison\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-harrison.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-harrison-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-harrison-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-108030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kupaa Harrison<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Vulcan basketball players <strong>Kupaa Harrison<\/strong> and <strong>Allie Navarette<\/strong> are the <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> Pepsi Athletes of the Week.<\/p>\n<p>Senior forward Kupaa Harrison continued his strong all-around play on the road at Biola and Point Loma last week. Against the Eagles, he just missed a double-double with 14 points and nine rebounds, while also contributing three steals. Versus the defending conference champion Sea Lions, Harrison had 16 points, 6 rebounds and 5 steals. Harrison averages 18.2 points a game, 7.3 rebounds, and has 14 assists and 12 steals.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Allie Navarette also put up solid numbers for the Vulcans during road losses at Biola and Point Loma. Navarette had 13 points, 8 rebounds and 2 steals against the Eagles, and had a double-double with 18 points, 10 boards and had 3 assists versus the Sea Lions. Navarette averages 13 points a game and 7.6 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2019\/12\/14\/mens-basketball-harrison-and-navarette-win-pepsi-award.aspx\">For the full story, visit the Hilo Athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_108031\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108031\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-navarette.jpg\" alt=\"Allie Navarette\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108031\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-navarette.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-navarette-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-navarette-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-108031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allie Navarette<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior and junior forwards Kupaa Harrison and Allie Navarette are recognized as the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo Pepsi Athletes of the Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-108024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108024"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108052,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108024\/revisions\/108052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}