{"id":207180,"date":"2024-12-03T14:02:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T00:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=207180"},"modified":"2024-12-03T14:02:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T00:02:16","slug":"vb-captures-5th-big-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/12\/03\/vb-captures-5th-big-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s <abbr>VB<\/abbr> captures 5th consecutive Big West title"},"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\/12\/manoa-athletics-women-vb-bigwest.jpg\" alt=\"women\u02bbs volleyball group photo\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-207184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/manoa-athletics-women-vb-bigwest.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/manoa-athletics-women-vb-bigwest-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/manoa-athletics-women-vb-bigwest-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\">women\u2019s volleyball<\/a> team captured their fifth consecutive Big West Championship following a four-set win over Cal Poly in the title match of the Hawaiian Islands presents the 2024 Outrigger Big West Women\u2019s Volleyball Championship at the Bren Events Center.<\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Wahine earned the Big West\u2019s automatic <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Tournament bid with a 25-19, 25-19, 27-29 and 25-22 victory, extending their streak to 31 straight appearances. <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> will make its 42nd tournament appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Libero Tayli Ikenaga, named <abbr>MVP<\/abbr> of the championship and Big West Libero of the Year, anchored the defense with 32 digs across the tournament. Setter Kate Lang posted her 50th career double-double with 42 assists and 10 digs.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/11\/30\/womens-volleyball-womens-volleyball-captures-fifth-straight-big-west-championship.aspx\">HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rainbow Wahine earned the Big West\u2019s automatic <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Tournament bid with a 25-19, 25-19, 27-29 and 25-22 victory. <\/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":[58,911,9,550,80],"class_list":["post-207180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-program-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\/207180","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=207180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207182,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207180\/revisions\/207182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}