{"id":158758,"date":"2022-05-07T15:56:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T01:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=158758"},"modified":"2022-05-08T13:09:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T23:09:58","slug":"rainbow-warriors-ncaa-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/05\/07\/rainbow-warriors-ncaa-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Warriors defend <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> title, sweep Long Beach State"},"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><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_93504\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6rWklUXzjvw?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Backstage Bows Season 3, Ep. 7 - Hana Hou\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Rainbow Warrior volleyball team<\/a> became the fifth consecutive team to repeat as <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletics Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> champions, taking down Big West rival and 2018 and 2019 champions Long Beach State 25-22, 25-21 and 25-20. The <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Championship was held on May 7 at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles. This was the third straight title match appearance for <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr>, beating <abbr title=\"Brigham Young University\">BYU<\/abbr> in straight sets in 2021 and falling to Long Beach State in four sets in 2019 (no NCAA tournament in 2020 due to COVID-19).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-national-championship-lbsu-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"players huddled in a circle while people in stands cheer\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-158759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-national-championship-lbsu-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-national-championship-lbsu-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-national-championship-lbsu.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Bows got to the championship after taking down Ball State in a five-set marathon semifinal match, and defeating North Greenville in the opening round in straight sets. <abbr>UH<\/abbr> ended the season with a 27-5 record, while the Beach fell to 21-6.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore outside hitter and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/05\/03\/rainbow-warrior-volleyball-all-americans\/\">second team All-American<\/a> <strong>Spyros Chakas<\/strong> led the Rainbow Warriors with 14 kills. Sophomore opposite and All-American honorable mention <strong>Dimitrios Mouchlias<\/strong> added 11 kills and sophomore outside hitter <strong>Chaz Galloway<\/strong> contributed eight kills.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-national-champs-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"players in jerseys cheering for each other with a volleyball\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-158762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-national-champs-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-national-champs-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-national-champs.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Big West Player of the Year and first team All-American junior setter <strong>Jakob Thelle<\/strong> commanded the offense with 31 assists and contributed two service aces.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Championship match marked the fourth time <abbr>UH<\/abbr> and Long Beach State met this season, and was a rematch of the Big West Championship, which the Rainbow Warriors won in Honolulu in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p>For more, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Athletics website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-trophy-team-photo.jpg\" alt=\"people in gray shirts with a large trophy\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-158769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-trophy-team-photo.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-trophy-team-photo-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-trophy-team-photo-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This marked <abbr>UH<\/abbr>&#8216;s third straight title match appearance.<\/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":[58,714,9,550,56,80],"class_list":["post-158758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-video-2","tag-volleyball","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158758","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=158758"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158772,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158758\/revisions\/158772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}