  {"id":152200,"date":"2021-11-23T17:25:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T03:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=152200"},"modified":"2021-11-29T15:03:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T01:03:38","slug":"jessee-mchenry-pepsi-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/11\/23\/jessee-mchenry-pepsi-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessee and McHenry earn <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo 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_152210\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152210\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hilo-athletics-jessee-a.jpg\" alt=\"Volleyball players\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hilo-athletics-jessee-a.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hilo-athletics-jessee-a-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hilo-athletics-jessee-a-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashton Jessee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A standout volleyball player ending her career and a freshman basketball player just starting his are the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo Pepsi Athletes of the Week.<\/p>\n<p>Senior middle blocker <strong>Ashton Jessee<\/strong> wrapped up her excellent <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo career with a big output on Senior Night against <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Pacific University. The Anchorage native tallied five service aces, nine kills and six block assists in the four-set win over the Sharks. For the weekend, she totaled 14 kills, six aces and seven block assists. The 6-foot-3 fifth-year Vulcan wraps up her career ranked third all-time on the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo list for total blocks with 415.<\/p>\n<p>Freshman <strong>Donald McHenry<\/strong> scored a career-high 26 points to help his team knock off region foe Alaska Anchorage, 75-72. The left-hander from Milwaukee scored 26 points on 11-of-18 shooting from the field, including 2-of-4 from three-point range. He scored 16 of his points in the second half as the Vulcans held off the Seawolves to improve to 4-0 for the first time since 2005.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2021\/11\/22\/mens-basketball-jessee-and-mchenry-earn-pepsi-honors.aspx\">Read more at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo\u2019s athletics website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_152209\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152209\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hilo-athletics-mchenry-d.jpg\" alt=\"Basketball players\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hilo-athletics-mchenry-d.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hilo-athletics-mchenry-d-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hilo-athletics-mchenry-d-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donald McHenry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A volleyball player ending her career and a freshman basketball player just starting his are the 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-152200","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\/152200","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=152200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152373,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152200\/revisions\/152373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}