  {"id":116583,"date":"2020-04-23T11:13:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T21:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=116583"},"modified":"2020-04-23T11:13:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T21:13:51","slug":"mens-volleyball-avca-all-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/23\/mens-volleyball-avca-all-america\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa men\u2019s volleyball athletes named <abbr title=\"American Volleyball Coaches Association\">AVCA<\/abbr> All-Americans"},"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><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-athletics-avca-all-americans.jpg\" alt=\"banner of all-americans\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-116616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-athletics-avca-all-americans.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-athletics-avca-all-americans-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-athletics-avca-all-americans-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/index.aspx\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/index.aspx\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> men&#8217;s volleyball team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avca.org\/awards\/all-regional-all-america-awards\/di-ii-men.html\">placed four members on the <abbr title=\"American Volleyball Coaches Association\">AVCA<\/abbr> All-America teams<\/a>, including opposite <strong>Rado Parapunov<\/strong> and libero <strong>Gage Worsley<\/strong>, who repeated as first-team honorees.<\/p>\n<p>Middle blocker <strong>Patrick Gasman<\/strong> was named to the second team for the second straight year, while outside hitter <strong>Colton Cowell<\/strong> was also named to the second team.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa led all programs with four All-Americans, all of whom are finalists for Off the Block&#8217;s national awards.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> story:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/06\/big-west-top-player-and-team-honors\/\">Parapunov named Big West top player, Warriors selected for first and freshman teams<\/a>, April 6, 2020<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For Parapunov and Gasman, it marked their third All-America recognition as each were honorable mention selections in 2018. In addition, Parapunov and Worsley became just the seventh and eighth Rainbow Warriors in program history to earn multiple first team awards joining <strong>Allen Allen<\/strong> (1988&#8211;89), <strong>Yuval Katz<\/strong> (1995&#8211;96), <strong>Costas Theocharidis<\/strong> (2000&#8211;03), <strong>Jonas Umlauft<\/strong> (2010&#8211;11), <strong>Taylor Averill<\/strong> (2014&#8211;15) and <strong>Stijn van Tilburg<\/strong> (2017&#8211;19).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2020\/4\/21\/mens-volleyball-four-warriors-selected-to-avca-all-america-teams.aspx\">For more details on the selected Rainbow Warriors, visit the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rado Parapunov and Gage Worsley were selected for the first team while Patrick Gasman and Colton Cowell were placed on the second team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,660,714,9,550,80],"class_list":["post-116583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-volleyball","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116583","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=116583"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116645,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116583\/revisions\/116645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}