{"id":173200,"date":"2023-02-24T11:03:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=173200"},"modified":"2023-02-24T11:03:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:03:38","slug":"kawaha-yoshida-kta-superstars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/02\/24\/kawaha-yoshida-kta-superstars\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawaha, Yoshida named KTA<\/abbr> Superstars of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo women’s basketball<\/a> player Mandi Kawaha<\/strong> and baseball<\/a> player Bradyn Yoshida<\/strong> earned KTA<\/abbr> Super Stores Superstars of the Week honors for February 8–21.<\/p>\n

In the final stretch of the women’s basketball season, Kawaha became the Vulcans\u2019 new all-time career leading scorer after dropping 30 points in a home game win against Holy Names University. She became No. 2 all-time for 3-pointers and free throws and also set the new program single-season mark for field goals. The fifth-year senior was also recently named PacWest Conference Player of the Week for February 6–12<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a three-game series against Northwest Nazarene University, Yoshida posted four hits, three RBI<\/abbr>, two steals, six runs scored and six putouts in center field. In the opening game on February 9, Yoshida scored the Vulcans\u2019 first run and the game-tying score. In the third game on February 10, he drove in the game-winning runs on a two-RBI<\/abbr> single.<\/p>\n

The KTA<\/abbr> Superstars award<\/a> names one male and one female UH<\/abbr> Hilo student-athlete each week, highlighting their accomplishments from the prior week.<\/p>\n

For more, visit hiloathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UH<\/abbr> Hilo women\u2019s basketball player Mandi Kawaha and baseball player Bradyn Yoshida were named KTA<\/abbr> Super Stores Superstars of the Week, February 8–21.<\/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":[58,142,660,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-173200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-award","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t