{"id":220847,"date":"2025-08-25T14:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=220847"},"modified":"2025-08-25T14:45:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:45:42","slug":"warrior-football-sweeps-mw-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/08\/25\/warrior-football-sweeps-mw-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Warrior football sweeps Mountain West awards"},"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\/08\/manoa-football-mountain-west-awards.jpg\" alt=\"mountain west awards graphic with pictures of football players in action\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-220836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/manoa-football-mountain-west-awards.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/manoa-football-mountain-west-awards-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/manoa-football-mountain-west-awards-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/football\">football team<\/a> swept all four of the Mountain West&#8217;s player of the week awards following a season-opening 23-20 victory over Stanford on August 23 at the Clarence T.C. Ching Complex.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Related <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/08\/23\/uh-outlasts-stanford\/\">Alejado\u2019s grit, Mendiola-Jensen\u2019s pick, Matsuzawa\u2019s kick: <abbr>UH<\/abbr> outlasts Stanford<\/a>, August 23, 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Quarterback Micah Alejado won both Offensive Player of the Week and Freshman of the Week honors, safety Kilinahe Mediola-Jensen was Defensive Player of the Week, and placekicker Kansei Matsuzawa earned the Special Teams Player of the Week award.<\/p>\n<p>All three were instrumental in <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr>\u2019s first victory. Alejado has now won both Offensive Player of the Week and Freshman of the Week honors after both of his starts.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/8\/25\/hawai-i-football-sweeps-mountain-west-awards.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Micah Alejado, Kilinahe Mediola-Jensen and Kansei Matsuzawa earned player of the week awards.<\/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":[83,9,550],"class_list":["post-220847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-football","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\/220847","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=220847"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220857,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220847\/revisions\/220857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}