{"id":192908,"date":"2024-03-04T14:48:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T00:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=192908"},"modified":"2024-03-04T14:48:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T00:48:04","slug":"uh-hilo-basketball-coach-webster-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/03\/04\/uh-hilo-basketball-coach-webster-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> Hilo basketball coach earns spot in Webster University Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

\"Kaniela<\/p>\n

University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo men’s basketball head coach Kaniela Aiona<\/a> was inducted into the Webster University Athletic Department Hall of Fame<\/a> in February.<\/p>\n

Aiona spent four seasons on the Gorloks men\u2019s basketball team from 2001 to 2005, helping capture two regular season conference titles with an appearance in the 200𔂿02 NCAA<\/abbr> Division III<\/abbr> Men\u2019s Basketball Tournament. He was a two-team all-conference selections and all-academic honoree while being named team captain his senior season. Additionally, he earned the Webster Athletics President Award.<\/p>\n

“I am honored to join the Webster University Athletics Hall of Fame,” Aiona said. “I had the greatest teammates and coaches during my time at Webster, and I’m proud to be considered in the same class as the other great athletes who have come through Webster.”<\/p>\n

Aiona is now in his fourth season as head coach of the UH<\/abbr> Hilo men\u2019s basketball program.<\/p>\n

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

Kaniela Aiona played four seasons at Webster from 2001 to 2005.<\/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":[58,698,14,151],"class_list":["post-192908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-staff-recognition","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192908","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=192908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192915,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192908\/revisions\/192915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}