{"id":192678,"date":"2024-02-27T20:15:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T06:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=192678"},"modified":"2024-02-27T20:20:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T06:20:41","slug":"turban-ncaa-indoor-championships-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/02\/27\/turban-ncaa-indoor-championships-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Turban earns <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> indoor championships bid"},"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-athletics-track-field-turban.jpg\" alt=\"high jumper Lilian Turban\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-192681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/manoa-athletics-track-field-turban.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/manoa-athletics-track-field-turban-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/manoa-athletics-track-field-turban-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two days after defending her Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (<abbr><\/abbr><abbr>MPSF<\/abbr>) high jump title, Lilian Turban earned a bid to the National Collegiate Athletics Association (<abbr>NCAA<\/abbr>) Indoor Championships, March 8-9 in Boston.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Related <em><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/02\/27\/rainbow-wahine-mpsf-championships-finish\/\">Rainbow Wahine post best ever <abbr>MPSF<\/abbr> championships finish<\/a>, February 27, 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Turban is the first University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa athlete since 2010 to secure a spot at the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Indoor Championships and just the third Rainbow Wahine athlete all-time to earn a trip to the indoor national championship.<\/p>\n<p>She heads into the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Indoor Championships ranked No. 11 nationally in the high jump at 1.86m (6-1.25). She is the highest-ranked <abbr>MPSF<\/abbr> athlete on the national lists this year in any event and is one of only two athletes from the conference to qualify for nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Turban took home the <abbr>MPSF<\/abbr> title in the high jump on February 25 with a personal best jump of 1.86m to improve on her No. 2 all-time mark at <abbr>UH<\/abbr>. Turban blew away the field at the conference meet as the only athlete to clear 1.73m, 1.78m, 1.83m and 1.86m.<\/p>\n<p>Amber Kaufman and Annett Wichmann are the only other two <abbr>UH<\/abbr> athletes to compete at the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Indoor Championships.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/2\/27\/womens-track-field-turban-earns-ncaa-indoor-championships-bid.aspx\">For more go to HawaiiAthletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lilian Turban earned a bid to the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Indoor Championships, March 8-9 in Boston.<\/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":[58,660,714,1585,9,550],"class_list":["post-192678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-track-and-field","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\/192678","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=192678"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192682,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192678\/revisions\/192682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}