  {"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":"<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\/03\/manoa-athletics-womens-basketball-awards-2024.jpg\" alt=\"photo of three basketball players and a coach\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-193659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/manoa-athletics-womens-basketball-awards-2024.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/manoa-athletics-womens-basketball-awards-2024-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/manoa-athletics-womens-basketball-awards-2024-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Four members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa women&#8217;s basketball program<\/a> earned postseason recognition as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/bigwest.org\/news\/2024\/3\/12\/2023-24-womens-basketball-all-big-west-awards-and-teams-announced.aspx\">The Big West 2023&#8211;24 All-Conference Team<\/a> announced on March 12.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Beeman was voted Coach of the Year for the third time in her <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">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<p>Guard Daejah Phillips was named the conference&#8217;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<p>The Rainbow Wahine will enter the Hercules Tires Big West Championships as the two-time defending champions and the <abbr title=\"Number\">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. <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> time) at the Dollar Loan Center in Henderson, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>For more about <abbr>UH<\/abbr>\u2019s honorees, <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/3\/12\/womens-basketball-rainbow-wahine-trio-earn-all-big-west-honors-beeman-named-coach-of-the-year.aspx\">visit the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Athletics website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> will enter the Hercules Tires Big West Championships as the two-time defending champions and the <abbr>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":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193657","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=193657"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193784,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193657\/revisions\/193784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}