{"id":214040,"date":"2025-04-15T17:11:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T03:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=214040"},"modified":"2025-04-15T17:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T03:11:49","slug":"kearney-1st-bw-freshman-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/04\/15\/kearney-1st-bw-freshman-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Volleyball\u2019s Kearney earns 1st career Big West Freshman 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\/04\/manoa-athletics-kearney-bw-freshman-1.jpg\" alt=\"finn kearney on the court\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-214044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/manoa-athletics-kearney-bw-freshman-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/manoa-athletics-kearney-bw-freshman-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/manoa-athletics-kearney-bw-freshman-1-130x73.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>player Finn Kearney was named the Big West Freshman of the Week after his standout performance in the team\u2019s series split of top-ranked Long Beach State.<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix, Arizona native earned his first career Freshman of the Week award after making his second and third starts of the season. Kearney led the team in kills in both matches, tallying career-highs of 17 kills a piece.<\/p>\n<p>This also marks the sixth Freshman of the Week award for <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> this season, with Kristian Titriyski claiming four of them and Adrien Roure earning one.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Kearny, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/4\/14\/mens-volleyball-kearney-wins-first-big-west-award.aspx\">HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finn Kearney was named the Big West Freshman of the Week after a standout performance against Long Beach State. <\/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":[58,714,9,550,80],"class_list":["post-214040","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-volleyball","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214040","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=214040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214047,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214040\/revisions\/214047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}