{"id":220359,"date":"2025-08-18T15:29:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=220359"},"modified":"2025-08-18T15:29:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:29:18","slug":"rainbow-wahine-goalkeeper-watch-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/08\/18\/rainbow-wahine-goalkeeper-watch-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Wahine goalkeeper earns spot on national preseason watch list"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

\"Kennedy<\/p>\n

University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa goalkeeper Kennedy Justin earned a spot on the Hermann Trophy Preseason Watch List, awarded annually to the top collegiate women’s soccer players in the country by the United Soccer Coaches. <\/p>\n

The Rainbow Wahine soccer<\/a> player is one of just three goalkeepers to be named to the watch list and the only player overall from the Big West. Earlier in the preseason, she was named one of 13 goalkeepers to watch nationally<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Justin, the 2024 Big West Goalkeeper of the Year, was the first ever freshman to earn this award in its 22-year history and just the second UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa player to take home the honor. She is coming off of a redshirt freshman season in which she was named first-team All-West Region by the United Soccer Coaches while earning first-team All-Big West and All-Freshman honors.<\/p>\n

Read more at Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UH<\/abbr> Manoa\u2019s goalkeeper Kennedy Justin was recognized by the United Soccer Coaches.<\/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":[58,1556,9,550],"class_list":["post-220359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-soccer","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\/220359","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=220359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220373,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220359\/revisions\/220373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}