{"id":223883,"date":"2025-10-17T12:39:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T22:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=223883"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T22:39:40","slug":"hilo-middle-blocker-pacwest-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/10\/17\/hilo-middle-blocker-pacwest-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcans middle blocker earns 2nd PacWest Defender of the Week honor"},"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\/10\/hilo-volleyball-freeman-pacwest-honors.jpg\" alt=\"Isabella Freeman Defender of the Week graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-223881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hilo-volleyball-freeman-pacwest-honors.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hilo-volleyball-freeman-pacwest-honors-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hilo-volleyball-freeman-pacwest-honors-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span lang=\"haw\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\">women&#8217;s volleyball<\/a> middle blocker Isabella Freeman was named Pacific West Conference Defender of the Week for October 6&#8211;12.<\/p>\n<p>It is the second time this season that the sophomore has received the honor, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/09\/30\/freeman-pacwest-defender-of-the-week\/\">earning it in late September<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcans earned back-to-back wins on October 8 and 9, with Freeman leading the charge in both total blocks and kills on the offensive end. The pair of victories helped <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo improve its record to 13-7 and 3-2 in the PacWest.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman is currently ranked <abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 6 for total blocks (93) and <abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 21 for blocks per set (1.21) in all of <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Division <abbr title=\"Two\">II<\/abbr>. As a team, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo is ranked <abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 14 for total blocks (157).<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2025\/10\/13\/womens-volleyball-freeman-earns-second-pacwest-defender-of-the-week-honor.aspx\">Hiloathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isabella Freeman was recognized for her strong defensive performance for the week of October 6&#8211;12.<\/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":[58,14,151,80],"class_list":["post-223883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-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\/223883","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=223883"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223892,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223883\/revisions\/223892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}