{"id":172571,"date":"2023-02-09T13:24:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T23:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=172571"},"modified":"2023-02-09T13:24:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T23:24:17","slug":"kawaha-new-all-time-leading-scorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/02\/09\/kawaha-new-all-time-leading-scorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawaha is <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo\u2019s new all-time leading scorer"},"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\/2023\/02\/hilo-athletics-basketball-kawaha.jpg\" alt=\"U H Hilo basketball player Mandi Kawaha\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-172575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hilo-athletics-basketball-kawaha.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hilo-athletics-basketball-kawaha-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hilo-athletics-basketball-kawaha-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo women\u2019s basketball player <strong>Mandi Kawaha<\/strong> became the program\u2019s new all-time leading scorer when she dropped 30 points to power her team past Holy Names University, 83-62 on February 8.<\/p>\n<p>After racking up 13 first-quarter points, Kawaha surpassed <strong>Allie Navarette\u2019s<\/strong> (2017&#8211;20) 1,398 career-points total in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Kawaha finished the night shooting 12-of-19 with three 3-pointers, three assists and two rebounds. It was her second 12-basket game of the season, matching the program\u2019s single-game best.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this season, Kawaha also set a new single-game scoring record with 36 points against <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Pacific University (<abbr>HPU<\/abbr>). She also became the program&#8217;s all-time assists leader (356&#43;) that same evening against <abbr>HPU<\/abbr> in December. Kawaha currently ranks No. 2 in steals (169), No. 3 in 3-pointers (135) No. 3 in free throws (235), No. 3 in rebounds (451) and No. 5 in points per game (12.9).<\/p>\n<p>For more on Kawaha and the Holy Names game go to hiloathletics.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo basketball player Mandi Kawaha became the program\u2019s new all-time leading scorer.<\/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":[58,82,660,14,151],"class_list":["post-172571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","tag-student-recognition","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\/172571","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=172571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172579,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172571\/revisions\/172579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}