{"id":216606,"date":"2025-05-27T15:13:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T01:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=216606"},"modified":"2025-05-27T15:13:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T01:13:59","slug":"rainbow-wahine-big-west-track-and-field-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/05\/27\/rainbow-wahine-big-west-track-and-field-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Wahine earns Big West track and field tournament 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><figure id=\"attachment_216692\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-216692\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/manoa-track-field-turban.jpg\" alt=\"Athlete with medal\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-216692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/manoa-track-field-turban.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/manoa-track-field-turban-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/manoa-track-field-turban-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-216692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lilian Turban<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa\u2019s Lilian Turban of the <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-track-and-field\">Women\u2019s Track and Field<\/a> team earned Big West Field Athlete of the Meet honors after scoring 21 points at the conference championships.<\/p>\n<p>The Tallinn, Estonia native won titles in the high jump (1.81<abbr title=\"meter\">m<\/abbr>) and javelin (personal best 46.53<abbr>m<\/abbr>), and added a point in the shot put (14.41<abbr>m<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p>Turban became the first <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> athlete to win two different field event titles at a conference meet and the first in Big West history to claim both the high jump and javelin in the same year. Turban will compete in both events at the <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> First Round May 28&#8211;31.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/5\/22\/womens-track-field-turban-named-big-west-championship-field-athlete-of-the-meet.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lilian Turban was named Big West Championship Field Athlete of the Meet. <\/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":[58,1585,9,550],"class_list":["post-216606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-track-and-field","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216606","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=216606"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216695,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216606\/revisions\/216695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}