  {"id":183333,"date":"2023-09-11T15:38:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T01:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=183333"},"modified":"2023-09-11T15:38:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T01:38:49","slug":"kate-lang-big-west-setter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/09\/11\/kate-lang-big-west-setter\/","title":{"rendered":"Third consecutive Big West Setter of the Week honor for Lang"},"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\/09\/manoa-volleyball-kate-lang.jpeg\" alt=\"Kate Lang setting a volleyball\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-183336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/manoa-volleyball-kate-lang.jpeg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/manoa-volleyball-kate-lang-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/manoa-volleyball-kate-lang-130x73.jpeg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\">women&#8217;s volleyball<\/a> player Kate Lang earned her third-straight Big West Setter of the Week honor for her play in the OUTRIGGER Volleyball Challenge. Last season, Lang claimed four-consecutive Big West Setter of the Week awards. Lang has earned eight career conference weekly honors.<\/p>\n<p>In three matches, Lang recorded 127 assists, averaging 10.58 assists\/set. She also scooped up 28 digs and was in on five blocks while notching a pair of double-doubles against Liberty and Pepperdine.<\/p>\n<p>In the September 7 match, the Rainbow Wahine had a five-set loss to Liberty, andissued a season-high 50 assists to go with 12 digs, three blocks and two kills.<\/p>\n<p>Lang followed it up with 37 assists and 10 digs in a victorious effort against Pepperdine. Against the Waves, she averaged a season-high 12.33 assists as the &#8216;Bows posted a season-best .324 hitting percentage.<\/p>\n<p>She capped the weekend with 40 assists in the tournament finale against <abbr>UCLA<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>Lang currently leads the Big West in total assists (338) and assists per set (10.24). She is averaging 10.31 career assists per set, which ranks her 11th among active Division <abbr title=\"Roman numeral one\">I<\/abbr> players.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2023\/9\/11\/womens-volleyball-lang-earns-third-straight-big-west-setter-of-the-week-award.aspx\">HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Lang leads in the Big West for the most total assists and assists per set.<\/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":[58,660,9,550,80],"class_list":["post-183333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-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\/183333","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=183333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183344,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183333\/revisions\/183344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}