{"id":202326,"date":"2024-08-21T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=202326"},"modified":"2024-09-25T14:54:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T00:54:46","slug":"damacion-scores-big-west-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/08\/21\/damacion-scores-big-west-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Damacion scores Big West honor, game-winning goal in collegiate soccer debut"},"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\/08\/manoa-athletics-soccer-damcion.jpg\" alt=\"nalani damacion kicking a soccer ball. \" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-202331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/manoa-athletics-soccer-damcion.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/manoa-athletics-soccer-damcion-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/manoa-athletics-soccer-damcion-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&#257;noa midfielder Nalani Damacion took home Big West Freshman of the Week honors on August 19 after scoring the game-winning goal in her collegiate debut. Damacion put away a goal in the 86th minute of a season-opening 3-2 win over Georgia Southern.<\/p>\n<p>Damacion became the first-ever <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> freshman to score a game-winning goal in a season opener. It&#8217;s also the first time since 2019 that the Rainbow Wahine scored a game-winner in the final five minutes of regulation or overtime.<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder is the first to earn Big West Freshman of the Week honors since 2022, and the first Rainbow Wahine to take home a Big West weekly honor following the first week of the season.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Damacion, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/8\/19\/womens-soccer-damacion-named-big-west-freshman-of-the-week.aspx#:~:text=Damacion%20is%20the%20first%20Hawai,first%20week%20of%20the%20season\">HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nalani Damacion is the first <abbr>UH<\/abbr> player to earn Big West Freshman of the Week honors since 2022. <\/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":[58,1556,660,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-202326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-soccer","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\/202326","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=202326"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202335,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202326\/revisions\/202335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}