{"id":172805,"date":"2023-02-14T14:10:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T00:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=172805"},"modified":"2023-02-14T14:10:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T00:10:40","slug":"kawaha-earns-pacwest-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/02\/14\/kawaha-earns-pacwest-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawaha earns <abbr>PacWest<\/abbr> honors"},"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><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_63763\"  width=\"676\" height=\"380\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u85iy2PhXlI?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=\"Mandi Kawaha - Postgame Victory | Feb 11, 2023 | UHH Women&#039;s Hoops vs Fresno Pacific\"  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>After becoming the program\u2019s new all-time leading scorer, University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\">women\u2019s basketball<\/a> player <strong>Mandi Kawaha<\/strong> was named <abbr title=\"Pacific West\">PacWest<\/abbr> Player of the Week.<\/p>\n<p>Kawaha put up big numbers all across the stat sheet last week and during her 30-point game against Holy Names University she scored the basket that would put her on top as the all-time leaderboard for the Vulcans. She has 1,420 points in her career, surpassing previous leader <strong>Allie Navarette<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hilo-athletics-player-of-the-week-kawaha-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Mandi Kawaha Player of the Week graphic\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-172792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hilo-athletics-player-of-the-week-kawaha-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hilo-athletics-player-of-the-week-kawaha-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hilo-athletics-player-of-the-week-kawaha.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the week, Kawaha had 46 points to top all conference players, and she also had eight rebounds and nine assists. On the season, Kawaha averages 18.1 points a game (second in the <abbr>PacWest<\/abbr>). It was her third 30+ game this year, including earlier in the season when she set the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo single-game scoring record against <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Pacific University with 36.<\/p>\n<p>Kawaha is also second in the conference in assists per game (4.0), third in free throw percentage (.831) and eighth in treys per game (1.7).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2023\/2\/13\/womens-basketball-kawahas-special-week-continues-with-pacwest-weekly-honors.aspx\">For more go to hiloathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo women\u2019s basketball player Mandi Kawaha was named PacWest Player of the 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":[58,660,714,14,151,56],"class_list":["post-172805","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","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\/172805","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=172805"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172823,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172805\/revisions\/172823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}