{"id":197095,"date":"2024-05-07T17:52:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T03:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=197095"},"modified":"2024-05-07T17:52:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T03:52:37","slug":"akana-all-big-west-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/05\/07\/akana-all-big-west-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Akana earns men&#8217;s golf&#8217;s first All-Big West honor"},"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-athletics-golf-akana.jpg\" alt=\"Blaze Akana and Big West player graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-197141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/manoa-athletics-golf-akana.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/manoa-athletics-golf-akana-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/manoa-athletics-golf-akana-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa men&#8217;s golfer Blaze Akana was named to the All-Big West first team.<\/p>\n<p>Akana led the team with a 71.67 scoring average which is the second-lowest in program history behind Matthew Kodama&#8217;s 71.50 average in 2003-04. Akana was already ranked No. 2 after averaging 72.37 strokes per round last season, his first as a Rainbow Warrior after transferring from Sacramento State.<\/p>\n<p>Akana is the first <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> golfer to earn first-team all-conference honors since T.J. Kua was named to the all-Western Athletic Conference first team in 2012. Since <abbr>UH<\/abbr> joined to the Big West in 2012, no other Rainbow Warrior had earned first team honors.<\/p>\n<p>He posted two Top 10 finishes this season and concluded his <abbr>UH<\/abbr> career with a final round 5-under 67 to tie for 18th at the Big West Championship. He posted a team-best 12 rounds under par including six in the 60s.<\/p>\n<p>For more go to HawaiiAthletics.com.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/5\/7\/mens-golf-akana-nabs-programs-first-all-big-west-honor.aspx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa men&#8217;s golfer Blaze Akana was named to the All-Big West first team.<\/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":[58,1537,660,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-197095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-golf","tag-student-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\/197095","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=197095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197148,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197095\/revisions\/197148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}