{"id":210191,"date":"2025-02-04T11:07:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T21:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=210191"},"modified":"2025-02-04T11:07:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T21:07:59","slug":"titriyski-nusterer-bw-weekly-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/02\/04\/titriyski-nusterer-bw-weekly-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"2 men\u2019s volleyball players win Big West weekly awards"},"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\/2025\/02\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-bw-2025-award.jpg\" alt=\"Kristian Titriyski and Kurt Nusterer, Big West Player of the Week graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-210161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-bw-2025-award.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-bw-2025-award-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-bw-2025-award-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\">men\u2019s volleyball<\/a> opposite Kristian Titriyski was named the Big West Freshman of the Week, and middle blocker Kurt Nusterer was named Defensive Player of the Week.<\/p>\n<p>The duo helped the Rainbow Warriors sweep the BYU Cougars in Provo, Utah for the first time in program history. <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> entered the week 4-29 all-time in Provo but have now won three straight since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time this season that <abbr>UH<\/abbr> was honored by the Big West. For Nusterer, it marks his second career defensive player of the week award.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/2\/3\/mens-volleyball-mens-volleyballs-titriyski-nusterer-win-weekly-awards.aspx\">For more go to HawaiiAthletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa men\u2019s volleyball player Kristian Titriyski was named Big West Freshman of the Week and Kurt Nusterer was Defensive Player of the Week.<\/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":[58,9,550,80],"class_list":["post-210191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","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\/210191","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=210191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210194,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210191\/revisions\/210194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}