  {"id":204953,"date":"2024-10-14T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=204953"},"modified":"2024-10-14T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T00:00:07","slug":"justin-bw-defensive-player-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/10\/14\/justin-bw-defensive-player-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin repeats as Big West Defensive Player of the Week"},"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\/10\/manoa-athletics-justin-bw-player-week.jpg\" alt=\"Kennedy Justin, Big West Defensive Player of the Week graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-204951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/manoa-athletics-justin-bw-player-week.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/manoa-athletics-justin-bw-player-week-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/manoa-athletics-justin-bw-player-week-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the second straight week, University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa goalkeeper Kennedy Justin earned Big West Defensive Player of the Week honors following a pair of shutouts at <abbr title=\"University of California\">UC<\/abbr> San Diego and <abbr>UC<\/abbr> Irvine.<\/p>\n<p>Justin has recorded five straight clean sheets, the longest shutout streak ever by a Rainbow Wahine keeper, and has given up just one goal in conference play. The redshirt freshman made seven saves in the October 10 1-0 win at <abbr>UC<\/abbr> San Diego before adding three more saves to lead the \u2018Bows to a 0-0 draw at <abbr>UC<\/abbr> Irvine on October 13.<\/p>\n<p>On the season, Justin ranks second in the conference goals against average at 1.079 and is second in the league with her five shutouts. The five shutouts also rank tied for fourth in a season in school history while already moving her into the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> top 10 in career clean sheets.<\/p>\n<p>Justin is the first player in the conference this year to win defensive player of the week honors in back-to-back weeks and the first <abbr>UH<\/abbr> player to do so since 2017 (Alexis Mata). She is also the first player since Mata in 2019 to earn multiple Big West Defensive Player of the Week honors in a season.<\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Wahine will return home and put their 5-0-1 conference record on the line against <abbr>UC<\/abbr> Riverside on October 20 at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/10\/14\/womens-soccer-justin-repeats-as-big-west-defensive-player-of-the-week.aspx\">For more go to HawaiiAthletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa goalkeeper Kennedy Justin has recorded five straight clean sheets, the longest shutout streak ever by a Rainbow Wahine keeper.<\/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":[58,1556,660,9,550],"class_list":["post-204953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-soccer","tag-student-recognition","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\/204953","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=204953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204954,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204953\/revisions\/204954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}