{"id":176398,"date":"2023-04-25T13:47:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T23:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=176398"},"modified":"2023-04-25T13:47:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T23:47:54","slug":"im-mountain-kta-superstars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/04\/25\/im-mountain-kta-superstars\/","title":{"rendered":"Im, Mountain 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 men\u2019s golfer<\/a> Junsu Im<\/strong> and women\u2019s tennis<\/a> player McKenna Mountain<\/strong> earned KTA<\/abbr> Super Stores Superstars of the Week awards for April 5–18.<\/p>\n

Im, a freshman, finished the year with strong performances, tying for No. 14 (+1) at the West Regional Spring Preview before claiming a share of the Pacific West Conference Championships individual title as co-champion with Andrew Otani<\/strong> (+1).<\/p>\n

In the Vulcans’ final regular-season road trip to Colorado, Mountain went 3-0 in singles matches and 3-0 in doubles. She twice battled back from being down a set to take victories over Colorado Mesa University and Metropolitan State University of Denver.<\/p>\n

The KTA<\/abbr> Superstars award<\/a> names one male and one female Vulcans 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 men\u2019s golfer Junsu Im and women\u2019s tennis player McKenna Mountain were named KTA<\/abbr> Super Stores Superstars of the Week, April 5–18.<\/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":[58,1537,660,714,1365,14,151],"class_list":["post-176398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-golf","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-tennis","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