{"id":123108,"date":"2020-07-20T13:06:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T23:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=123108"},"modified":"2020-07-20T13:06:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T23:06:22","slug":"gates-olivas-pepsi-senior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/20\/gates-olivas-pepsi-senior\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcan women student-athletes receive final Pepsi Senior salute"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
\"Madison
Madison Gates (Photo credit: Ricky K. Ogata)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> gives their final Pepsi Senior salute to two outstanding women student-athletes.<\/p>\n

Forward and midfielder Madison Gates<\/strong> unfortunately missed her entire senior season and played in just one match as a junior due to injury. Gates played in nine matches as a sophomore, and played in 14 and started five as a freshman. Despite her injury-plagued soccer career, the three-time PacWest Scholar-Athlete finished strong in the classroom, graduating this spring with a BS<\/abbr> in environmental science and a SC<\/abbr> in arts and sciences planning.<\/p>\n

Outfielder Kimberly Olivas<\/strong> put the final touches on a way-too-short Vulcan softball career during a COVID-19 shortened 2020 season. Olivas started all 21 games for the Vulcans, including the season final three-game sweep of defending champion Concordia. As a junior she was hitting .321 before an injury ended her season after just 10 games. The Southern California native is finishing her degree in kinesiology—exercise science and sports medicine\/therapy.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Gates and Olivas!<\/p>\n

For more details, visit the UH<\/abbr> Hilo Athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Kimberly Olivas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UH<\/abbr> Hilo soccer standout Madison Gates and softball all-star Kimberly Olivas are honored as the final Pepsi Seniors.<\/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-123108","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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t