{"id":165999,"date":"2022-09-27T13:28:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T23:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=165999"},"modified":"2022-09-27T13:33:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T23:33:29","slug":"vulcan-challenge-2022-mahalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/27\/vulcan-challenge-2022-mahalo\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> Hilo Vulcan Challenge raises more than $160K<\/abbr> for student-athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

\"Vulcan<\/p>\n

The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo Vulcan Athletics<\/a> department extends a big mahalo to fans, alumni and supporters for helping to make the second annual Vulcan challenge fundraiser a success. Vulcan Challenge 2022<\/a> ran from August 22 to September 19 and brought in $161,120 from more than 650 donors, greatly surpassing the goal of $75,000.<\/p>\n

“We are so grateful for the outpouring of support from our Vulcans ʻohana<\/span>,” UH<\/abbr> Hilo Director of Athletics Pat Guillen<\/strong> said. “The generosity of our alumni, friends, coaches, staff and our local business community is truly inspiring.”<\/p>\n

Midway through the challenge, KTA<\/abbr> Super Stores<\/a> and the Taniguchi ʻohana<\/span> announced that they would match the next $25,000 in donations<\/a>, with each sports program receiving matching funds of up to $1,000 each.<\/p>\n

“We are especially humbled and thankful to KTA<\/abbr> Super Stores and the Taniguchi ʻohana<\/span> who once again made a matching gift in memory of KTA<\/abbr> Founders, Koichi and Taniyo Taniguchi,” said Guillen. “Our student-athletes directly benefit from the success of our annual Vulcan Challenge. All proceeds enhance their experience here at UH<\/abbr> Hilo, which in turn benefits our entire community. Mahalo nui loa!”<\/p>\n

In partnership with UH<\/abbr> Foundation<\/a>, Vulcan Athletics has now raised more than $383,000 in the first two years of the Vulcan Challenge.<\/p>\n

To continue supporting Vulcan Athletics, visit the UH<\/abbr> Foundation website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The second annual Vulcan Challenge exceeded the fundraising goal.<\/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":[58,714,319,14,151],"class_list":["post-165999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-foundation","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\/165999","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=165999"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166020,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165999\/revisions\/166020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}