{"id":142691,"date":"2021-06-01T13:26:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T23:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=142691"},"modified":"2021-06-01T13:26:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T23:26:44","slug":"trapasso-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/06\/01\/trapasso-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Trapasso out as UH<\/abbr> baseball coach"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

\"Mike<\/p>\n

The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u00e5noa Athletics Department will not renew the contract for baseball head coach Mike Trapasso<\/strong><\/a>, Athletics Director David Matlin<\/strong> announced Tuesday, June 1. Trapasso\u2019s contract ends on August 31, 2021.<\/p>\n

“We have decided to make a change in leadership with our baseball program,” Matlin said. “Mike has been a true ambassador for the Rainbow Warrior baseball program through his 20 seasons as head coach and we are proud of his accomplishments on and off the diamond. He is a true Rainbow Warrior and always tried to do what was best for the program. We will always appreciate Mike as a coach and a mentor to our student-athletes.”<\/p>\n

Trapasso completed his 20th season at the helm of the UH<\/abbr> Mānoa program on May 30 finishing 24-26 overall and 16-24 (8th) in the Big West Conference. He concluded his career at UH<\/abbr> with a 536-531 record, posted 12 winning seasons and reached the 30-win mark eight times.<\/p>\n

Trapasso took the helm from legendary coach Les Murakami<\/strong> in 2002. Before arriving in Honolulu, he served as an assistant coach at Missouri (1989–91), South Florida (1992–94) and Georgia Tech (1995–2001).<\/p>\n

The search for a replacement will begin immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After 20 years, the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> baseball team will have a new head coach at the helm.<\/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":[58,9,550],"class_list":["post-142691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142691","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=142691"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142733,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142691\/revisions\/142733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}