{"id":186964,"date":"2023-11-14T10:25:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T20:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=186964"},"modified":"2023-11-14T10:28:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T20:28:40","slug":"manuma-bw-defensive-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/11\/14\/manuma-bw-defensive-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Manuma earns first Mountain West Defensive Player of the Week since 2021"},"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\/11\/manoa-football-defensive.jpeg\" alt=\"Manuma on the field \" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-186966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/manoa-football-defensive.jpeg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/manoa-football-defensive-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/manoa-football-defensive-130x73.jpeg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa sophomore defensive back Peter Manuma was selected as the Mountain West&#8217;s Defensive Player of the Week after helping lead the <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/football\">Rainbow Warriors<\/a> to a 27-13 victory over Air Force on November 11.<\/p>\n<p>Manuma tallied a career-high 12 tackles (seven solo) along with his third interception of the season. His fourth-quarter pick marked the second straight game recording an interception and the fifth of his career. The 12 tackles were tied for the most by a Rainbow Warrior this season.<\/p>\n<p>Manuma and the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> defense finished the game with four takeaways&#8212;three interceptions and one fumble recovery. The Rainbow Warriors limited the Falcons to 13 points and held the nation&#8217;s leading rushing team to 80 yards below its season average.<\/p>\n<p>Manuma is <abbr>UH<\/abbr>&#8216;s first player of the week this season and first defensive honoree since the 2021 season. <abbr>UH<\/abbr> now heads to the road to play the Wyoming Cowboys on November 18.<\/p>\n<p>For more visit <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2023\/11\/13\/football-manuma-named-mountain-west-defensive-player-of-the-week.aspx\">HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr>\u2019s victory over Air Force earned Peter Manuma Mountain West Defensive Player of the Week for his outstanding performance. <\/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":[58,83,660,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-186964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-football","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186964","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=186964"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186984,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186964\/revisions\/186984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}