{"id":191424,"date":"2024-02-06T10:55:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T20:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=191424"},"modified":"2024-02-06T10:56:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T20:56:02","slug":"rainbow-wahine-softball-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/02\/06\/rainbow-wahine-softball-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Wahine softball place No.6 in preseason poll"},"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\/2024\/02\/manoa-softball-preseason-1.jpg\" alt=\"Maya Nakamura \" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-191426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/manoa-softball-preseason-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/manoa-softball-preseason-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/manoa-softball-preseason-1-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/softball\">softball team<\/a> placed No. 6 in the 2024 Big West Preseason Coaches&#8217; Poll. Senior utility player Maya Nakamura was the only Rainbow Wahine voted to the All Big West Preseason Coaches&#8217; Team.<\/p>\n<p>Rainbow Wahine garnered 46 total points.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Rainbow Wahine started the season well and were 29-16 over halfway through the season and 12-7 in conference.<\/p>\n<p>Nakamura was a standout second baseman last season. She started 50 games and led the \u02bbBows with a .390 batting average. She led with 35 runs scored and 29 walks. She was second on the team with 48 hits a .585 slugging percentage and in the Top 5 in the conference in seven offensive categories.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 Rainbow Wahine return 20 letterwinners which include seven starting position players and four pitchers from last year&#8217;s squad which finished with a 30-23 overall record.<\/p>\n<p>For more visit <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/2\/5\/womens-tennis-softball-picked-sixth-in-big-west-preseason-poll-nakamura-makes-preseason-team.aspx\">HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maya Nakamura voted to the All Big West Preseason Coaches Team.<\/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":[58,1527,660,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-191424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-softball","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\/191424","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=191424"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191442,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191424\/revisions\/191442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}