  {"id":211723,"date":"2025-03-04T15:36:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T01:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=211723"},"modified":"2025-03-04T15:36:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T01:36:20","slug":"titriyski-earns-avca-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/04\/titriyski-earns-avca-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Titriyski earns national player of the week 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\/2025\/03\/manoa-athletics-titriyski.png\" alt=\"Kristian Titriyski on the court, A V C A player of the week graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-211706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-athletics-titriyski.png 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-athletics-titriyski-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/manoa-athletics-titriyski-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\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\">men\u2019s volleyball<\/a> player Kristian Titriyski was named the <abbr>AVCA<\/abbr> (American Volleyball Coaches Association) Division <abbr title=\"Roman numeral one\">I<\/abbr>&#8211;<abbr title=\"Roman numeral two\">II<\/abbr> National Player of the Week after leading the Rainbow Warriors to a pair of straight-set wins over then-No. 3 <abbr title=\"University of California\">UC<\/abbr> Irvine.<\/p>\n<p>Titriyski was also named Big West Player of the Week for the second time this season and Freshman of the Week for the third time. Against the Anteaters, Titriyski averaged 6.00 kills per set and 7.00 points per set and hit a combined .417 in the two-match series, including .571 during the March 2 win.<\/p>\n<p>Titriyski is the first <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> freshman to win <abbr>AVCA<\/abbr> Player of the Week honors since Sinisa Zarkovic in 2013 and the third <abbr>UH<\/abbr> freshman to ever win it along with Costas Theocharidis in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>In the series opener, Titriyski tallied a match-high 17 kills along with two aces, three digs, and two blocks. He followed that performance with a match-high 19 kills with one ace, six digs and four blocks on February 28. For the week, he averaged 1.50 digs per set and 1.00 blocks per set.<\/p>\n<p>On the season, the freshman leads the team with a 4.20 kill average, which ranks No. 6 nationally and third in the Big West. He has a team-best 27 aces and ranks No. 7 nationally with 0.54 aces per set.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Titriyski go to <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/3\/4\/mens-volleyball-titriyski-selected-as-avca-player-of-the-week.aspx\">HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Titriyski is the first <abbr>UH<\/abbr> freshman to win <abbr>AVCA<\/abbr> Player of the Week honors since 2013.<\/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-211723","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\/211723","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=211723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211731,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211723\/revisions\/211731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}