  {"id":152629,"date":"2021-12-03T10:37:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T20:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=152629"},"modified":"2021-12-03T10:40:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T20:40:47","slug":"rainbow-warriors-bound-for-hawaii-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/12\/03\/rainbow-warriors-bound-for-hawaii-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Warriors bound for EasyPost Hawai\u02bbi Bowl"},"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\/12\/manoa-athletics-hawaii-bowl-2021.jpg\" alt=\"U H football players, Hawaii Bowl banner\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-152628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/manoa-athletics-hawaii-bowl-2021.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/manoa-athletics-hawaii-bowl-2021-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/manoa-athletics-hawaii-bowl-2021-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/football\">football team<\/a> has accepted an invitation to play in the 2021 EasyPost <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Bowl where they will meet the University of Memphis. Kick-off is 3 p.m., on Christmas Eve, at the Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex. The game will be televised nationally on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Warriors are bowl bound for a program-record fourth consecutive season and fifth time in the last six years. Âé¶¹´«Ã½will be making its 10th appearance in the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Bowl where it holds a 5-4 record, most recently capturing the 2019 title after a thrilling win over Brigham Young University.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, this year will mark <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr>\u2019s 15th all-time bowl appearance and second straight under Head Coach <strong>Todd Graham<\/strong>, who led the Warriors to a New Mexico Bowl victory last season.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Excited to be in a bowl game and play on our home field and in front of our fans once again,&rdquo; Graham said. &ldquo;I\u2019m so happy for our seniors to be able to compete in a bowl game for the fourth time. And we\u2019ll have an opportunity to play a very good Memphis team and Coach Silverfield, who previously coached under me. It will be a great challenge for our team.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Tickets for the game<\/h2>\n<p>Tickets for the EasyPost <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Bowl are on sale at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.evenue.net\/cgi-bin\/ncommerce3\/SEGetEventList?groupCode=HB&#038;linkID=hawaii&#038;shopperContext=&#038;caller=&#038;appCode=&#038;utm_source=ETH&#038;utm_medium=Text+Link&#038;utm_content=HB+Tickets&#038;utm_campaign=2021+Hawaii+Bowl+Tickets\">etickethawaii.com<\/a> or at the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Ticket Office (Monday&#8211;Friday, 9 a.m.&#8211;5 p.m. HST).<\/p>\n<p>All attendees must either be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or provide a negative test and download the <a href=\"https:\/\/uh.campus.lumisight.com\/\">LumiSight <abbr>UH<\/abbr> app<\/a> to upload their vaccination card\/test results and complete the daily health check-in.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone entering the state of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> must adhere to the state&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiicovid19.com\/travel\/\">Safe Travels program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2021\/12\/3\/football-rainbow-warriors-bound-for-easypost-hawai-i-bowl.aspx\">Read more at the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa football team will meet the University of Memphis.<\/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":[58,911,660,9,550],"class_list":["post-152629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-program-recognition","tag-student-recognition","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\/152629","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=152629"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152638,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152629\/revisions\/152638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}