{"id":176724,"date":"2023-05-01T13:19:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T23:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=176724"},"modified":"2023-05-01T13:19:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T23:19:56","slug":"beachbows-earn-ncaa-championship-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/01\/beachbows-earn-ncaa-championship-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"BeachBows earn at-large bid to NCAA<\/abbr> championship"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa Rainbow Wahine Beach Volleyball team<\/a> will make its sixth appearance in the NCAA<\/abbr> Beach Volleyball Championship in Gulf Shores, Alabama, after gaining an at-large selection.<\/p>\n

No. 11 seed UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa (27-8) will open competition on Friday, May 5 against No. 6 seed Loyola Marymount (28-8) at 11 a.m. HST<\/abbr> on ESPNU<\/abbr>. This marks the second straight year the teams face off in the NCAA<\/abbr>s. The Lions defeated the BeachBows, 3-0, in last year\u2019s opening round.<\/p>\n

UH<\/abbr> has made six of seven NCAA<\/abbr> Tournaments, missing out only in 2021. Overall, this will be UH<\/abbr>\u2019s eighth trip as a team to Gulf Shores. The BeachBows also competed for the national title during the 2014 and 2015 American Volleyball Coaches Association Championships.<\/p>\n

How to watch<\/h2>\n

The event will be televised live by ESPN<\/abbr> networks, with ESPNU<\/abbr> providing live coverage of all eight matches on Friday May 5, starting at 4 a.m. HST<\/abbr>. Live coverage will continue Saturday, May 6, on ESPN<\/abbr>2, while the championship will air on ESPN<\/abbr>. Additionally, live streaming coverage of every court starting with Friday’s duals will be available on ESPN<\/abbr>+.<\/p>\n

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

The UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Rainbow Wahine Beach Volleyball team will make its sixth appearance in the NCAA<\/abbr> Beach Volleyball Championship on Friday, May 5.<\/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":[58,911,9,550,80],"class_list":["post-176724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-program-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\/176724","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=176724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176727,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176724\/revisions\/176727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}