  {"id":206354,"date":"2024-11-12T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T09:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=206354"},"modified":"2024-11-12T23:21:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T09:21:00","slug":"alaska-airlines-nil-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/11\/12\/alaska-airlines-nil-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa athletes partner with Alaska Airlines"},"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\/11\/manoa-athletics-alaska-air-nil.jpg\" alt=\"Student athletes at the airport\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-206366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/manoa-athletics-alaska-air-nil.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/manoa-athletics-alaska-air-nil-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/manoa-athletics-alaska-air-nil-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alaska Airlines has endorsed partnerships with six University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa students-athletes as part of combined investment in <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> athletics by Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>Athletes include Brayden Schager and Jonah Panoke (football), Kate Lang and Tayli Ikenaga (women\u2019s volleyball), Tread Rosenthal (men\u2019s volleyball) and Lily Wahinekapu (women\u2019s basketball). Athletes will serve as ambassadors to share their travel experiences on Alaska Airlines and help promote Alaska\/Hawaiian\u2019s joint community-based initiatives in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are all very excited and grateful to partner with Alaska Airlines and to be part of their growing presence in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>,&rdquo; said Lang. &ldquo;Both Alaska and Hawaiian have established strong reputations of giving back and supporting many community initiatives in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>, and it\u2019s an honor to be able to represent the combined organization during this historic time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The endorsement partnerships were made possible through the name, image, likeness (<abbr>NIL<\/abbr>) policy by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (<abbr>NCAA<\/abbr>). The new partnership with Alaska Airlines further expands on Hawaiian Airlines\u2019 longstanding commitment to <abbr>UH<\/abbr> athletics and <abbr>NIL<\/abbr> sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Alaska Airlines is honored to build upon Hawaiian Airlines\u2019 strong support of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Athletics and our local student athletes,&rdquo; said Daniel Chun, Alaska\u2019s regional vice president in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>. &ldquo;Both Alaska and Hawaiian look forward to working with these extraordinary individuals and for more partnership opportunities in the years ahead.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athletes will serve as ambassadors to share their travel experiences on Alaska Airlines and help promote Alaska\/Hawaiian\u2019s joint community-based initiatives.<\/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":[58,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-206354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","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\/206354","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=206354"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206369,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206354\/revisions\/206369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}