  {"id":137251,"date":"2021-03-16T12:02:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T22:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=137251"},"modified":"2021-03-16T12:02:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T22:02:01","slug":"2021-vulcan-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/03\/16\/2021-vulcan-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcan Challenge: <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo athletics kicks off virtual fundraiser"},"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\/2021\/03\/hilo-vulcan-challenge-2021-1.jpg\" alt=\"Vulcan Challenge 2021 words\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-137254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hilo-vulcan-challenge-2021-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hilo-vulcan-challenge-2021-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hilo-vulcan-challenge-2021-1-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> has partnered with the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Foundation to launch a fundraising campaign to benefit all 12 sports programs at the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Island campus. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/VulcanChallenge\">2021 Vulcan Challenge<\/a> runs from March 17 through June 30, with the goal of raising $200,000 that will ensure <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo athletics<\/a> is able to meet program needs for the 2021\u201322 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have an exciting opportunity to help our student athletes and sports programs not only survive these tumultuous times, but come through even stronger,&rdquo; <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Athletic Director <strong>Patrick Guillen<\/strong> said. &ldquo;Our Vulcans put their own losses aside this past year, and came together as a team to support our community where they could. We have seen their strength and resilience in action and want to ensure the economic fallout of the pandemic does not derail their dreams.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Donors can decide which program they want to support. &ldquo;With campaigns like this, every gift makes a positive difference and tells our athletes that we are proud of them and want to see them succeed on the field and in their futures,&rdquo; said <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Chancellor <strong>Bonnie Irwin<\/strong>. &ldquo;This campaign is ambitious, especially given the current economic climate, but with the help of our community we know we can be successful. Mahalo for your support and Imua Vulcans!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For more information on how to donate go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/VulcanChallenge\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Foundation website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hilo-vulcan-challenge-2021-2.jpg\" alt=\"U H Hilo student athletes\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-137255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hilo-vulcan-challenge-2021-2.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hilo-vulcan-challenge-2021-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hilo-vulcan-challenge-2021-2-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo athletics will run a fundraising campaign to benefit all 12 sports programs from March 17 through June 30. <\/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":[58,14,151],"class_list":["post-137251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","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\/137251","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=137251"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137259,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137251\/revisions\/137259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}