{"id":193657,"date":"2024-03-12T11:13:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T21:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=193657"},"modified":"2024-03-12T17:02:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T03:02:29","slug":"womens-bball-big-west-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/03\/12\/womens-bball-big-west-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Wahine earn All-Big West honors; Beeman named Coach of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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Four members of the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa women’s basketball program<\/a> earned postseason recognition as part of The Big West 2023–24 All-Conference Team<\/a> announced on March 12.<\/p>\n

Laura Beeman was voted Coach of the Year for the third time in her UH<\/abbr> career and the second time in the last three seasons after leading the Rainbow Wahine to the Big West regular-season championship.<\/p>\n

Guard Daejah Phillips was named the conference’s Best Sixth Player for the second time and represented the Rainbow Wahine on the All-Big West first team. Guard Lily Wahinekapu and forward Imani Perez were all-conference second-team selections and Perez earned a spot on the All-Defensive Team.<\/p>\n

The Rainbow Wahine will enter the Hercules Tires Big West Championships as the two-time defending champions and the No<\/abbr>. 1 seed in the women\u2019s bracket. They earned a double-bye into the semifinals and will open their title defense on Friday, March 15 at noon Pacific Time (9 a.m. Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> time) at the Dollar Loan Center in Henderson, Nevada.<\/p>\n

For more about UH<\/abbr>\u2019s honorees, visit the UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Athletics website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UH<\/abbr> will enter the Hercules Tires Big West Championships as the two-time defending champions and the No<\/abbr>. 1 seed in the women\u2019s bracket.<\/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":[58,82,698,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-193657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","tag-staff-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t