  {"id":205664,"date":"2024-10-29T10:59:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T20:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=205664"},"modified":"2024-10-29T10:59:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T20:59:01","slug":"rainbow-wahine-soccer-big-west-regular-season-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/10\/29\/rainbow-wahine-soccer-big-west-regular-season-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Wahine soccer: Big West regular season champions"},"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-women-soccer-champion-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-205677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/manoa-athletics-women-soccer-champion-2.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/manoa-athletics-women-soccer-champion-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/manoa-athletics-women-soccer-champion-2-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the first time ever, the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/index.aspx?path=wsoc\">women\u2019s soccer<\/a> team has been awarded Big West regular season champions. The Rainbow Wahine secured the conference regular season title and <abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 1 seed in the Big West Championship tournament with a 2-1 win over <abbr>UC<\/abbr> Santa Barbara on October 27.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> also clinched a first-round bye and home-field advantage throughout the Big West postseason. The team is set to host both semifinals and the championship match on November 7 and 10, at <span aria-label=\"Waipio\">Waipi&#699;o<\/span> Soccer Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&#8217;s been such a long road, with so much adversity to deal with this year,&rdquo; said head coach Michele Nagamine. &ldquo;I think our women have been so incredible in so many different ways. I&#8217;m just extremely proud of the team and absolutely tickled for them that they are the regular season champions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Fabiola Zamora and Nalani Damacion also took home Big West weekly honors with Zamora receiving offensive player of the week, and Damacion claiming freshman of the week honors.<\/p>\n<p>Zamora took home a conference weekly award for the first time in her career after scoring the game-tying goal and dishing out the assist on the game-winner. She then preserved the win in the final minute, making a save at the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> goal line on a corner kick.<\/p>\n<p>Damacion earned Big West Freshman of the Week honors for a record fifth time this year and the second week in a row after scoring yet another game win. Damacion headed in the go-ahead score in the 83rd minute for her seventh goal of the season \u2013 all of them game-winners.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/10\/27\/womens-soccer-soccer-claims-first-ever-big-west-regular-season-title.aspx\">HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rainbow Wahine makes No. 1 seed in the Big West Championships with a 2-1 victory over <abbr>UC<\/abbr> Santa Barbara. <\/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":[1556,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-205664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-soccer","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\/205664","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=205664"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205685,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205664\/revisions\/205685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}