  {"id":158132,"date":"2022-04-26T12:53:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T22:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=158132"},"modified":"2022-04-26T12:54:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T22:54:46","slug":"thelle-wade-big-west-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/04\/26\/thelle-wade-big-west-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Thelle, Wade receive Big West men\u2019s volleyball awards"},"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\/2022\/04\/manoa-athletics-big-west-wade-thelle.jpg\" alt=\"Thelle, Wade Big West awards banner\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-158145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/manoa-athletics-big-west-wade-thelle.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/manoa-athletics-big-west-wade-thelle-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/manoa-athletics-big-west-wade-thelle-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the third consecutive year, a University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\">men\u2019s volleyball<\/a> player was named the Big West\u2019s Player of the Year after setter <strong>Jakob Thelle<\/strong> received the honor this season. In addition, head coach <strong>Charlie Wade<\/strong> was named Co-Coach of the Year along with <abbr title=\"University of California\">UC<\/abbr> Irvine\u2019s David Kniffin.<\/p>\n<p>Thelle, a junior from T&#248;nsberg, Norway, follows in the footsteps of <strong>Rado Parapunov<\/strong>, who received the award in 2020 and \u201921. Over the weekend, the setter directed the Rainbow Warriors (24-5) to the Big West Championship title and earned Most Valuable Player honors in the process. In his second year as <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\u2019s\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½\u2019s<\/span> starting setter, Thelle will lead <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> to its second <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> Championship tournament appearance after winning the national title last season.<\/p>\n<p>For Wade, the honor marks his first conference coach of the year award in 13 seasons as head coach. He has guided <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> to one <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> title (2021), two Big West championships (2019 and \u201922), one Big West regular season title (2021) and five <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Tournament appearances (2015, \u201917, \u201919, \u201921 and \u201922).<\/p>\n<p>Thelle, who last week earned all-Big West first team honors, ranks 11th nationally in assists per set (9.97) and sixth in aces per set (0.55). He quarterbacks the nation\u2019s fifth-most productive offensive attack (.340) while also helping <abbr>UH<\/abbr> rank No. 2 nationally in aces per set (1.97).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2022\/4\/26\/mens-volleyball-thelle-wade-receive-big-west-mens-volleyball-awards.aspx\">For more go to hawaiiathletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jakob Thelle was named the Big West\u2019s Player of the Year, and Charlie Wade was named Co-Coach of the Year.<\/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":[58,698,660,9,550,80],"class_list":["post-158132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-staff-recognition","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-volleyball","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158132","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=158132"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158155,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158132\/revisions\/158155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}