{"id":163828,"date":"2022-08-22T13:02:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T23:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=163828"},"modified":"2022-08-22T13:57:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T23:57:07","slug":"vulcan-challenge-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/08\/22\/vulcan-challenge-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo kicks off Vulcan Challenge 2022"},"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\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/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_58828\"  width=\"676\" height=\"380\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iifq8Gqxlus?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=\"Vulcan Challenge 2022\"  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:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> is kicking off its second annual Vulcan Challenge fundraiser in partnership with <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Foundation to raise funds to support the <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/index.aspx\">Vulcan Athletics<\/a> department.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hui.uhfoundation.org\/g\/vulcans\">Vulcan Challenge 2022<\/a> will run from August 22 to September 19 with the goal of raising $75,000 for immediate support of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo&#8217;s student-athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/03\/16\/2021-vulcan-challenge\/\">inaugural run<\/a> spanned more than three months and brought in $223,500 to support Vulcan athletics&#8212;surpassing the goal of $200,000.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/hilo-athletics-vulcans-background-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-145886\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/hilo-athletics-vulcans-background-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/hilo-athletics-vulcans-background-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/hilo-athletics-vulcans-background.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our student-athletes are achieving in the classroom at record levels and representing <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo, the state of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and our community on the courts and fields of play with great pride and success,&rdquo; <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Director of Athletics <strong>Pat Guillen<\/strong> said. &ldquo;But with success comes even more challenges as we not only want to sustain our success but also continue to improve each and every day. In order to accomplish this, I humbly ask for your continued support so we can continue to represent <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo and our great community while also providing our student-athletes with the best educational and athletic experience possible. Mahalo!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Donors can select a sport-specific program or choose to support the athletics director&#8217;s general fund, which will help in responding to urgent needs for critical services. Donations can also go toward supporting Vulcan Athletics sports medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Digital forms of payment via PayPal, Apple Pay and Venmo are accepted.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We just completed one of the best overall years in recent memory and this success is due in large part to our incredible community,&rdquo; Guillen said. &ldquo;We are truly grateful for the support from our local-business community, boosters, fans, parents, faculty, staff and our senior administration here at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This fall, the Vulcans will host their first on-campus home games on <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo\u2019s new turf soccer field, marking the completion of the campus\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/10\/23\/new-vulcan-athletic-facilities\/\">athletics facilities renovation project<\/a> that included a revamped softball field, resurfaced tennis courts and the addition of a multipurpose building for concessions, bathrooms, team rooms and more.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on how to support Vulcan Challenge 2022, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/hui.uhfoundation.org\/g\/vulcans\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Foundation website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second annual fundraiser runs August 22&#8211;September 19. <\/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":[58,319,14,151,56],"class_list":["post-163828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-uh-foundation","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163828","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=163828"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163838,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163828\/revisions\/163838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}