{"id":140227,"date":"2021-04-27T09:39:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T19:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=140227"},"modified":"2021-04-27T09:41:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T19:41:25","slug":"kaawaloa-soukal-pepsi-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/04\/27\/kaawaloa-soukal-pepsi-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaawaloa and Soukal earn Pepsi honors"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Taira Kaawaloa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> tennis player who helped lead his team to a PacWest title and a volleyball standout who played big in her final college match are this week\u2019s Pepsi Athletes of the Week.<\/p>\n

Senior Taira Kaawaloa finished the final match of her college volleyball career, leading the Vulcans to a 3-0 win over Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Pacific University (HPU<\/abbr>) on Sunday. Kaawaloa had a team-best 13 kills in the win over the Sharks, and hit .650 in the match\u2014the highest hitting percentage for any Vulcan player all season. She also had nine digs against HPU<\/abbr>, and for the season is ranked third on the team in kills and digs. The kinesiology major will graduate this spring.<\/p>\n

Vulcan tennis player Martin Soukal was a perfect 3-0 at No. 1 singles in matches at last week\u2019s Pacific West Conference Championships. He pulled off the biggest upset of the PacWest season in the championship match, defeating No. 4 nationally ranked and undefeated Jakob Schnaitter of Azusa Pacific University. Soukal, ranked No. 33 in the latest Intercollegiate Tennis Association ranking, won in straight sets (6-3, 6-3) over the two-time PacWest Player of the Year.<\/p>\n

For more information, go to the UH<\/abbr> Hilo athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Volleyball player Taira Kaawaloa and tennis player Martin Soukal are this week\u2019s UH<\/abbr> Hilo 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":[58,660,14,151],"class_list":["post-140227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","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\/140227","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=140227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140233,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140227\/revisions\/140233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}