  {"id":205232,"date":"2024-10-17T16:24:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T02:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=205232"},"modified":"2024-10-22T11:00:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T21:00:27","slug":"fey-avca-thirty-under-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/10\/17\/fey-avca-thirty-under-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach Kupono Fey among <abbr>AVCA<\/abbr>\u2019s Thirty Under 30"},"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-volleyball-fey-30-under-30-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Kupono Fey, 30 Under 30 graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-205173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-fey-30-under-30-copy.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-fey-30-under-30-copy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-fey-30-under-30-copy-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\">men\u2019s volleyball<\/a> assistant coach Kupono Fey was listed among the American Volleyball Coaches Association&#8217;s 2024 Thirty Under 30 Awards program.<\/p>\n<p>Fey is entering his third season with the Rainbow Warriors, whom he was a four-year letterman from 2014&#8211;17. He captained the 2017 squad which recorded a then-single-season record 27 wins and advanced to the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Following a four-year professional career, he joined Charlie Wade\u2019s staff in 2023 and helped lead <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> to national championship title match appearance and Big West championship in 2023. He also coached Outrigger <abbr>VC<\/abbr> Boys 16s to a runner-up finish at the <abbr title=\"USA Volleyball\">USAV<\/abbr> Championship in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Volleyball has given me so much; it has given me lifelong friends, gave me the ability to travel to places I wouldn&#8217;t normally, to live abroad, gave me a great education and prepared me for life after volleyball,&rdquo; Fey said. &ldquo;I&#8217;ve always known coaching was my passion. I want to share all my knowledge with these players to give them opportunities and experiences I had and more, so they can reach their full potential.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Thirty Under 30 honors program recognizes up-and-coming coaches in these different sectors of the sport\u2014college, club and beach\u2014who serve in a range of roles, from head coach to volunteer assistant to club director.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/10\/16\/mens-volleyball-fey-among-avcas-thirty-under-30-recipients.aspx\">For more information go to HawaiiAthletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kupono Fey was listed among the American Volleyball Coaches Association&#8217;s 2024 Thirty Under 30 Awards program.<\/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":[679,58,698,9,550,80],"class_list":["post-205232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-alumni-recognition","tag-athletics","tag-staff-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-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\/205232","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=205232"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205389,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205232\/revisions\/205389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}