{"id":164857,"date":"2022-09-09T08:49:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T18:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=164857"},"modified":"2022-09-09T08:49:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T18:49:23","slug":"vulcan-womens-soccer-pacwest-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/09\/vulcan-womens-soccer-pacwest-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcan women\u2019s soccer player wins PacWest<\/abbr> Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

\"Grace<\/p>\n

University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo women\u2019s soccer<\/a> player Grace VerHage<\/strong> was named Pacific West Conference Player of the Week on September 6.<\/p>\n

The fifth-year-senior transfer earned the honor after scoring two goals in her first game as a Vulcan. VerHage found the back of the net in the 28th and 65th minute of the Vulcans\u2019 season opener on September 1 to help lead the team to a 4-1 victory over Cal State East Bay.<\/p>\n

The former Ferris State University Bulldog was a team leader in goals scored and earned an array of conference, regional and national honors. With the COVID-19 pandemic allowing an additional year of eligibility for student-athletes who competed during the 2020–21 season, VerHage considered what her future path would look like. Eventually, after getting in contact with UH<\/abbr> Hilo women’s soccer Head Coach Gene Okamura<\/strong>, she decided to transfer to UH<\/abbr> Hilo for her fifth year.<\/p>\n

“If you would have asked 18-year-old Grace, ‘where do you think you would be in four years?,’ it definitely would not have been in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>,” VerHage said. “It’s been fantastic. I was telling Gene my mental health is so incredible here. Oh my gosh, I’m just so happy all the time and so grateful to go out every day.”<\/p>\n

To read more about VerHage\u2019s journey to becoming a Vulcan, visit hiloathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fifth-year-senior transfer Grace VerHage earned the honor after scoring two goals in UH<\/abbr> Hilo\u2019s season opener. <\/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":[58,660,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-164857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","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\/164857","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=164857"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164866,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164857\/revisions\/164866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}