  {"id":121231,"date":"2020-06-22T13:13:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T23:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=121231"},"modified":"2020-06-22T13:13:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T23:13:28","slug":"gonzalez-george-pepsi-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/22\/gonzalez-george-pepsi-seniors\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcan soccer standouts honored as Pepsi Seniors"},"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_121220\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121220\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-seniors-gonzalez.jpg\" alt=\"Bryan Gonzales\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-seniors-gonzalez.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-seniors-gonzalez-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-seniors-gonzalez-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-121220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bryan Gonzales<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> recognized two men\u2019s soccer seniors as the Pepsi Seniors of the Week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bryan Gonzalez<\/strong> played two seasons for the Vulcans after transferring from Otero Junior College. The Colorado native played in 13 matches as a junior with seven starts. Because of injuries, Gonzalez played just three matches this past fall as a senior, which included 30 minutes on Senior Day against Chaminade. Gonzalez graduated this spring in business management.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert George<\/strong> started in 19 matches over two seasons for the Vulcans after transferring to <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo from Northwest College and was named <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo&#8217;s Most Improved Player this year. George is a two-time All-Pacific West Conference Academic selection, graduating with a 3.75 <abbr title=\"Grade Point Average\">GPA<\/abbr> in communications. Next for the Wyoming native is entry into the orthopedic and spine medical equipment program.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Gonzalez and George!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2020\/6\/22\/mens-soccer-pepsi-senior-salute-honors-soccer-players-george-and-gonzalez.aspx\">For more details, visit the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_121219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121219\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-seniors-george.jpg\" alt=\"Robert George\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-seniors-george.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-seniors-george-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-seniors-george-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-121219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert George<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo salutes senior soccer players Bryan Gonzalez and Robert George as Pepsi Seniors for the week of June 21&#8211;27.<\/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":[58,660,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-121231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","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\/121231","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=121231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121265,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121231\/revisions\/121265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}