  {"id":188577,"date":"2023-12-12T12:13:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T22:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=188577"},"modified":"2023-12-12T12:17:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T22:17:32","slug":"lang-womens-national-team-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/12\/12\/lang-womens-national-team-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Lang invited to Women&#8217;s National Team Open Program"},"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\/12\/manoa-lang-wntop.jpeg\" alt=\"Kate Lang\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-188579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/manoa-lang-wntop.jpeg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/manoa-lang-wntop-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/manoa-lang-wntop-130x73.jpeg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>USA<\/abbr> Volleyball program extended an invitation to the Women&#8217;s National Team Open Program (<abbr>WNTOP<\/abbr>) to 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>&#8216;s junior setter Kate Lang. The 2024 <abbr>USA<\/abbr> Volleyball <abbr>WNTOP<\/abbr> is scheduled for February 23&#8211;25 at the <abbr>U.S<\/abbr>. Olympic &#38; Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n<p>For the third-straight season, Lang led The Big West in assists per set, averaging a career-high 10.50 in 2023. She also led the league with 1,229 total assists en route to becoming just the 10th Rainbow Wahine to record over 3.000 assists. She ended her third year with 3,137 career assists.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>WNTOP<\/abbr> offers a valuable training opportunity for <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> athletes and is part of the process to identify athletes for invitation to the Women&#8217;s Collegiate National Team. Additionally, it serves as an essential platform for evaluating age-eligible athletes (born in 2005 and earlier) for the <abbr>U<\/abbr>21 Women&#8217;s National Team.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>WNTOP<\/abbr> is used for consideration for selection to both our Women&#8217;s National Team and our Women&#8217;s Collegiate National Team (<abbr>WCNT<\/abbr>). The <abbr>WNTOP<\/abbr> and <abbr>WCNT<\/abbr> allow the Women&#8217;s National Team staff to observe the highest potential athletes with and against one another.<\/p>\n<p>For more visit <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2023\/12\/11\/womens-volleyball-lang-invited-to-womens-national-team-open-tryouts.aspx\">HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After leading in assists per set in the Big West Kate Lang gets recognized by the <abbr>USA<\/abbr> volleyball program. <\/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-188577","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\/188577","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=188577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188580,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188577\/revisions\/188580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}