{"id":203869,"date":"2024-09-18T15:54:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T01:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=203869"},"modified":"2024-09-18T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T01:56:00","slug":"uh-hilo-mens-soccer-top-25-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/09\/18\/uh-hilo-mens-soccer-top-25-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcan milestone: <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo men\u2019s soccer makes history with top 25 ranking"},"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\/09\/hilo-vulcans-soccer-ranking-21.jpg\" alt=\"group photo of the men\u02bbs soccer team\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-203873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/hilo-vulcans-soccer-ranking-21.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/hilo-vulcans-soccer-ranking-21-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/hilo-vulcans-soccer-ranking-21-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the first time in program history, the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\">men\u2019s soccer team<\/a> has landed in the top 25 at <abbr title=\"number\">No.<\/abbr> 21 in the latest United Soccer Coaches Top 25 National Rankings on September 17.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcans started the season strong with a three-game win streak, defeating Cal State Dominguez Hills, Chaminade and <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>Pacific University.<\/p>\n<p>For the Week 2 poll, the Vulcans were the only team from the Pacific West Conference ranked in the top 25.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo also moved up to <abbr title=\"number\">No.<\/abbr> 3 in the United Soccer Coaches West Region Rankings, a week after moving up five spots from its preseason ranking of <abbr title=\"number\">No.<\/abbr> 10.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2024\/9\/17\/mens-soccer-earn-first-time-ranking-at-no-21.aspx\">HiloAthletics.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vulcans were the only team from the Pacific West Conference ranked in the top 25. <\/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":[58,1556,14,151],"class_list":["post-203869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-soccer","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203869","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=203869"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203876,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203869\/revisions\/203876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}