{"id":134748,"date":"2021-02-01T15:36:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T01:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=134748"},"modified":"2021-02-01T15:36:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T01:36:12","slug":"basketball-standouts-awarded-first-2021-pepsi-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/02\/01\/basketball-standouts-awarded-first-2021-pepsi-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball standouts awarded first 2021 Pepsi 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_134721\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-134721\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hilo-athletics-olson.jpg\" alt=\"women basketball players\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-134721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hilo-athletics-olson.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hilo-athletics-olson-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hilo-athletics-olson-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-134721\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bree Olson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> basketball student-athletes <strong>Bree Olson<\/strong> and <strong>Darren Williams<\/strong> are winners of the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo Pepsi Athletes of the Week awards for February 1.<\/p>\n<p>Olson helped the <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/index.aspx\">Vulcans<\/a> to their first two wins of the season at Chaminade. Olson totaled 16 points and 20 rebounds as the Vulcans swept the Silverswords. The Tucson, Ariz. native had a career-high 12 rebounds in Sunday\u2019s game to go with 10 points for her first double-double in a Vulcan uniform.<\/p>\n<p>Vulcan junior guard Williams was clutch down the stretch of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo\u2019s 69-68 upset win over Chaminade. Williams totaled 24 points in two games, seven rebounds, six assists and four steals. The most important were his four free throws in the final two minutes of Sunday\u2019s win, and his dish to Steven Hubbell for a three-pointer with 1:19 on the clock.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2021\/2\/1\/mens-basketball-olson-williams-win-pepsi-honors.aspx\">For more go to the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_134722\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-134722\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hilo-athletics-williams.png\" alt=\"men basketball players\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-134722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hilo-athletics-williams.png 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hilo-athletics-williams-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hilo-athletics-williams-130x73.png 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-134722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darren Williams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo basketball players Darren Williams and Bree Olson are this week\u2019s Pepsi Athletes of the Week.<\/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":[58,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-134748","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\/134748","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=134748"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134753,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134748\/revisions\/134753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}