  {"id":166604,"date":"2022-10-04T16:40:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T02:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=166604"},"modified":"2022-10-04T16:41:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T02:41:32","slug":"alexander-third-big-west-freshman-of-the-week-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/10\/04\/alexander-third-big-west-freshman-of-the-week-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander earns third Big West Freshman of the Week award"},"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\/10\/manoa-athletics-womens-volleyball-alexander-third-time-freshman-of-the-week.jpg\" alt=\"Alexander freshman of the week graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-166611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/manoa-athletics-womens-volleyball-alexander-third-time-freshman-of-the-week.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/manoa-athletics-womens-volleyball-alexander-third-time-freshman-of-the-week-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/manoa-athletics-womens-volleyball-alexander-third-time-freshman-of-the-week-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\">women&#8217;s volleyball<\/a> outside hitter <strong>Caylen Alexander<\/strong> earned her third overall and second-straight Big West Freshman of the Week award. The freshman produced a pair of double-digit kill matches in two road wins last week.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander totaled 23 kills last week, including putting down first set winning points against Cal State Fullerton on September 30 and Long Beach State on October 1. In the sweep against Cal State Fullerton, Alexander put down 10 kills while hitting .350 with a dig. She added 13 kills and three more digs in <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr>\u2019s 3-1 victory against Long Beach State.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander has appeared in all 12 matches for the Rainbow Wahine this season, recording more than 10 kills in seven of them. She has tallied 38 kills over the past three contests alone, hitting at a .365 clip. She has helped to lead <abbr>UH<\/abbr> to a season-long five match win streak while remaining undefeated and tied with <abbr title=\"University of California\">UC<\/abbr> Santa Barbara at 4-0 atop the Big West standings in conference. <abbr>UH<\/abbr> went over the .500 mark overall for the first time this season after the win at Cal State Fullerton.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander now leads all conference rookies with three Big West Freshman of the Week honors claimed over the first six weeks of the season.<\/p>\n<p>For more, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2022\/10\/3\/womens-volleyball-alexander-earns-third-big-west-freshman-of-the-week-award.aspx\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Athletics website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa women\u2019s volleyball player totaled 23 kills in two road wins last week.<\/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":[58,660,9,550,80],"class_list":["post-166604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","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\/166604","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=166604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166624,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166604\/revisions\/166624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}