  {"id":211605,"date":"2025-03-03T09:54:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T19:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=211605"},"modified":"2025-03-03T09:54:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T19:54:18","slug":"vernoux-bw-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/03\/vernoux-bw-player-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Water polo: Vernoux earns Big West Player of the Week"},"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\/03\/manoa-athletics-vernoux.png\" alt=\"ema vernoux in the pool\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-211609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-athletics-vernoux.png 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-athletics-vernoux-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-athletics-vernoux-130x73.png 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\/index.aspx?path=wwp\">women\u2019s water polo<\/a> attacker Ema Vernoux was named Big West Water Polo Player of the Week on February 26 after scoring a team-high 14 goals over four matches at the Barbara Kalbus Invitational.<\/p>\n<p>The freshman led the Rainbow Wahine to a 3-1 record and third-place finish in the tournament against top-ranked teams. She scored four goals in <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr>\u2019s historic 8-5 win over <abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 3 <abbr>UCLA<\/abbr>, their first victory over the Bruins since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Vernoux totaled 14 goals across the tournament, including a game winner against <abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 4 California. She now leads <abbr>UH<\/abbr> with 43 goals, ranking third in the Big West. <abbr>UH<\/abbr> moved up to <abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 3 in national polls and begins Big West play on March 7 at <abbr>UC<\/abbr> Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/2\/26\/womens-water-polo-ema-vernoux-earns-first-career-big-west-player-of-week-honor.aspx\">For more on Vernoux, go to HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ema Vernoux led <abbr>UH<\/abbr> water polo to a historic win, and tallied 14 goals in four games. <\/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":[58,714,9,550,1575],"class_list":["post-211605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-water-polo","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211605","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=211605"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211629,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211605\/revisions\/211629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}