{"id":217000,"date":"2025-06-02T18:25:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T04:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=217000"},"modified":"2025-06-02T18:32:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T04:32:44","slug":"igiede-makes-us-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/06\/02\/igiede-makes-us-national-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Igiede makes <abbr>U.S.<\/abbr> Women&#8217;s National Team"},"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_217003\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-217003\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/manoa-amber-igiede.jpg\" alt=\"Amber Igiede posed picture\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-217003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/manoa-amber-igiede.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/manoa-amber-igiede-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/manoa-amber-igiede-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-217003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rainbow Wahine volleyball alumna Amber Igiede.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\">Rainbow Wahine women\u2019s volleyball<\/a> standout Amber Igiede has been named to the <abbr title=\"United States\">U.S.<\/abbr> Women\u2019s National Team roster for the opening week of the 2025 Volleyball Nations League (<abbr>VNL<\/abbr>), marking her debut in the international tournament.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"United States of America\">USA<\/abbr> Volleyball announced the 14-player roster on May 30. During her time at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr>, Igiede was a two-time American Volleyball Coaches Association (<abbr>AVCA<\/abbr>) All-America third-team selection and four-time All-Big West first-team honoree.<\/p>\n<p>The team will compete June 4&#8211;8 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The tournament features 18 of the world\u2019s top national teams competing over three weeks, with the top eight advancing to the finals in Poland in July.<\/p>\n<p>Igiede, who played for League One Volleyball Houston in the league&#8217;s inaugural season, also helped the <abbr>U.S.<\/abbr> earn silver at the 2024 North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation Pan American Cup in Mexico. She previously represented the <abbr>U.S.<\/abbr> on the Women\u2019s Collegiate National Team in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/5\/30\/womens-volleyball-igiede-named-to-us-roster-for-vnls-opening-week.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa alumna has embarked on an impressive post-collegiate career. <\/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-217000","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\/217000","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=217000"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217047,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217000\/revisions\/217047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}