  {"id":196970,"date":"2024-05-06T12:35:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T22:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=196970"},"modified":"2024-05-06T12:35:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T22:35:17","slug":"3-beachbow-pairs-garner-avca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/05\/06\/3-beachbow-pairs-garner-avca\/","title":{"rendered":"3 BeachBow pairs garner <abbr>AVCA<\/abbr> honors"},"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\/05\/manoa-avca-top-flight-two-pairs-1.jpg\" alt=\"2 pairs of beach volleyball players\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-196975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/manoa-avca-top-flight-two-pairs-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/manoa-avca-top-flight-two-pairs-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/manoa-avca-top-flight-two-pairs-1-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-beach-volleyball\">women&#8217;s beach volleyball<\/a> duos have garnered <abbr>AVCA<\/abbr> honors, with spots on the All-American teams and Top Flight honors. Jaime Santer and Alana Embry, secured second-team honors, while two pairs clinched spots on the <abbr>AVCA<\/abbr> Top Flight Award winners&#8217; list: duo of Sydney Amiatu and Riley Wagoner and duo Anna Maidment and Sydney Miller.<\/p>\n<p>The All-American team duo Santer and Embry became the 13th and 14th All-Americans, respectively, in program history. The duo have won a team-best 24 matches this year and boast more than a half dozen wins over ranked squads.<\/p>\n<p>Amiatau and Wagoner earned Top Flight status at the <abbr title=\"number\">No.<\/abbr> 4 flight for the first time. The duo has played 27 of their 34 matches at the <abbr title=\"number\">No.<\/abbr> 4 court where they have gone a stellar 21-6 (.778).<\/p>\n<p>Maidment and Miller gained Top Flight status at <abbr title=\"number\">No.<\/abbr> 5 flight. They won 80% of their matches this season (16-4). Since then the duo have climbed to the <abbr title=\"number\">No.<\/abbr> 3 spot and have still maintained the team&#8217;s best overall win percentage (22-7, .759).<\/p>\n<p>The Top Flight honors recognize excellence in beach volleyball from all over the country and across all flights. For a pair to be eligible for the award, the two athletes must compete in at least 15 matches together at a specific flight number and win 75% of their matches at that flight.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on the <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/5\/1\/womens-beach-volleyball-santer-and-embry-named-second-team-all-americans.aspx\">All-American honorees<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/5\/2\/two-uh-pairs-earn-avca-top-flight-status.aspx\">Top Flight honorees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/manoa-avca-beach-volleyball-embry-santer-1.jpg\" alt=\"1 pair of beach volleyball players\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-196974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/manoa-avca-beach-volleyball-embry-santer-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/manoa-avca-beach-volleyball-embry-santer-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/manoa-avca-beach-volleyball-embry-santer-1-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Santer, Alana Embry receive second-team honors and Sydney Amiatu, Riley Wagoner receive Top Flight status. <\/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":[58,660,714,14,151,80],"class_list":["post-196970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","tag-volleyball","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196970","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=196970"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196984,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196970\/revisions\/196984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}