{"id":225638,"date":"2025-11-18T12:37:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=225638"},"modified":"2025-11-18T12:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:37:45","slug":"hilo-mens-soccer-ncaa-postseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/11\/18\/hilo-mens-soccer-ncaa-postseason\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo men\u2019s soccer secures first <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> postseason spot in program history"},"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\/11\/hilo-mens-soccer-ncaa-postseason.jpg\" alt=\"NCAA Super 4 Regional graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-225626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/hilo-mens-soccer-ncaa-postseason.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/hilo-mens-soccer-ncaa-postseason-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/hilo-mens-soccer-ncaa-postseason-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\/mens-soccer\">men&#8217;s soccer<\/a> secured a spot in the <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> postseason for the first time in program history. The Vulcans received the <abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 9 seed in the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Super 4 Region, and will take  on <abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 8 seed Western Oregon on November 21 at Stanislaus State&#8217;s Warrior Stadium. The winner will take on regional bracket host Stanislaus State on November 23.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcans qualified for the PacWest Championships postseason tournament for the second consecutive season under third-year head coach Diego Marroquin. After coming in second behind Point Loma, the Vulcans were one of five teams to land an at-large bid for the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> postseason.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo earned seven All-PacWest Team spots with major awards going to Koki Hamada (Defender of the Year), Iago Perez Ferreiro (Newcomer of the Year) and Jakob Santiago (Freshman of the Year).<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2025\/11\/17\/mens-soccer-historic-season-to-continue-in-ncaa-super-4-regional.aspx\">Hiloathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vulcans will face Western Oregon on November 21. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":225626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,1556,14,151],"class_list":["post-225638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-soccer","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/hilo-mens-soccer-ncaa-postseason.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225638","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=225638"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225659,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225638\/revisions\/225659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}