  {"id":207616,"date":"2024-12-10T15:02:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T01:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=207616"},"modified":"2024-12-10T15:03:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T01:03:50","slug":"alexander-lang-earn-vb-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/12\/10\/alexander-lang-earn-vb-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander, Lang earn All-Region <abbr>VB<\/abbr> honors"},"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-avca-women-vb-1.jpg\" alt=\"two volleyball players on the court\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-207623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/manoa-athletics-avca-women-vb-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/manoa-athletics-avca-women-vb-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/manoa-athletics-avca-women-vb-1-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\">women\u2019s volleyball<\/a> players Caylen Alexander and Kate Lang received All-Region recognition from the American Volleyball Coaches Association (<abbr>AVCA<\/abbr>) on December 10.<\/p>\n<p>Outside hitter Alexander earned <abbr>AVCA<\/abbr> All-Pacific Region honors, and setter Lang was an All-Region Honorable Mention selection after helping <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> capture a fifth straight Big West title and reach the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Tournament for the 31st consecutive season and the 42nd year overall.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander, the Big West Player of the Year, led the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Division <abbr title=\"one\">I<\/abbr> with 611 kills and 676.5 points and earned All-Pacific Region honors. She recorded 15 matches with 20+ kills, 17 double-doubles, and a record seven Big West Offensive Player of the Week awards.<\/p>\n<p>Lang, an honorable mention, ranked sixth nationally with 1,314 assists, averaging 10.51 per set. The Big West Setter of the Year ranks third in <abbr>UH<\/abbr> history with 4,544 career assists and is one of three <abbr>UH<\/abbr> players with more than 4,000 assists and 1,000 digs.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>AVCA<\/abbr> All-America Teams will be announced on December 18.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/12\/10\/womens-volleyball-alexander-lang-earn-avca-all-region-honors.aspx\">Read more on HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caylen Alexander led the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Division I with 611 kills and 676.5 points, while Lang ranked sixth nationally with 1,314 assists.<\/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":[58,660,714,9,550,80],"class_list":["post-207616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","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\/207616","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=207616"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207629,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207616\/revisions\/207629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}