{"id":222764,"date":"2025-09-29T13:11:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=222764"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:11:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:11:29","slug":"alejado-matsuzawa-earn-accolades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/09\/29\/alejado-matsuzawa-earn-accolades\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200b\u200bAlejado, Matsuzawa earn national, conference accolades after road win over Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa quarterback Micah Alejado and placekicker Kansei Matsuzawa picked up several awards for their performances in the Rainbow Warriors’<\/a> 44\u201335 win over Air Force on September 27. <\/p>\n

Alejado earned both the Old Trapper Mountain West Player of the Week and Freshman of the Week awards for the second time this season, in addition to being selected to the Davey O’Brien Award Great 8 and Manning Award Stars of the Week. Matsuzawa was named the Old Trapper Mountain West’s Special Teams Player of the Week for the third time this season.<\/p>\n

By being selected to the Great 8, Alejado is now on the official Davey O’Brien Award Midseason Watch List.<\/p>\n

Both Alejado and Matsuzawa helped UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa score the most points in a game in the Timmy Chang era and most since 2021. It was also the most points scored in a road game since 2019. Alejado, a redshirt freshman, posted his second career 400-yard passing game with 457 yards on 35-of-47 passing and three touchdowns. Matsuzawa tied his career-high with three field goals (31, 39 and 25) to improve to a perfect 16-for-16 on the year.<\/p>\n

The \u02bbBows are 4\u20132 and 1\u20131 in the Mountain West heading into the first of three bye weeks. UH<\/abbr> returns to the Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex on October 11, against Utah State.<\/p>\n

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

The Rainbow Warrior football players were recognized for their standout performances. <\/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":[58,83,9,550],"class_list":["post-222764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-football","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t