{"id":192605,"date":"2024-02-27T15:05:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T01:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=192605"},"modified":"2024-02-27T15:10:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T01:10:22","slug":"mennella-charlie-ushijima-award-recipient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/02\/27\/mennella-charlie-ushijima-award-recipient\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime tennis assistant coach named Charlie Ushijima Award recipient"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

\"Mennela<\/p>\n

Longtime University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa’s women’s tennis volunteer assistant coach Saverio Mennella has been named the recipient of the 2023 Charlie Ushijima Award, which is presented by ʻAhahui<\/span> Koa Ānuenue, the fundraising organization for UH<\/abbr> Athletics. He received his award during halftime of the February 24 men’s basketball game at SimpliFi Arena at Stan Sheriff Center.<\/p>\n

Mennella is now in his 17th year as a volunteer assistant coach. His level-headed demeanor and insightful coaching have proven instrumental in helping the team win multiple conference championships including the 2023 Big West Conference title.<\/p>\n

He combines a great eye for detail, vast experience, and a sense of humor that helps the student-athletes enjoy the game and improve each day.<\/p>\n

Mennella has dedicated hundreds of volunteer hours to the program whil=e also traveling with the team to road matches. He has also volunteered with camps and clinics to further promote the sport and the Rainbow Wahine program in the greater community.<\/p>\n

The award is presented annually to an outstanding volunteer for dedicated and unselfish service to UH<\/abbr> Athletics. Originally entitled the Rainbow Service Award, the Ushijima Award was later re-named after its first recipient, the late Charlie Ushijima who was responsible for the building of the first on-campus baseball stadium.<\/p>\n

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

UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa’s women’s tennis volunteer assistant coach Saverio Mennella has been named the recipient of the 2023 Charlie Ushijima Award.<\/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":[58,698,1365,9,550],"class_list":["post-192605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-staff-recognition","tag-tennis","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\/192605","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=192605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192607,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192605\/revisions\/192607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}