{"id":226266,"date":"2025-12-02T10:38:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=226266"},"modified":"2025-12-02T10:38:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:38:44","slug":"qb-alejado-6th-freshman-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/12\/02\/qb-alejado-6th-freshman-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>QB<\/abbr> Alejado earns 6th Freshman 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\/12\/manoa-football-alejado-6th-award.jpg\" alt=\"Alejado preparing to throw the football\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-226196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manoa-football-alejado-6th-award.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manoa-football-alejado-6th-award-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manoa-football-alejado-6th-award-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span lang=\"haw\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa quarterback Micah Alejado was named the Mountain West Freshman of the Week for the sixth time this season after leading the Rainbow Warriors to a 27\u20137 home victory over Wyoming. The Rainbow Warriors are awaiting their bowl game assignment after wrapping up the regular season with an 8-4 overall record and 5-3 in conference play.<\/p>\n<p>The redshirt freshman has received the award seven times in his career after winning it for the first time last season.<\/p>\n<p>Alejado set a new <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa freshman single-season record throwing his <abbr title=\"twentieth\">20th<\/abbr> and <abbr title=\"twenty-first\">21st<\/abbr> touchdown passes against Wyoming, surpassing Timmy Chang (19 in the 2000 season). He completed 17-of-24 attempts for 289 yards and a pair of scoring strikes to Cam Barfield and Jackson Harris.<\/p>\n<p>In total, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa has received 17 Mountain West player of the week awards this season\u2014three offensive, three defensive, five special teams and six freshmen\u2014by far, the most in a single-season in program history, breaking the previous mark of seven in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/12\/1\/football-alejado-earns-freshman-honor-for-sixth-time.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Micah Alejado was recognized by the Mountain West Conference after leading the \u02bbBows to a senior night victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":226196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,83,9,550],"class_list":["post-226266","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":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manoa-football-alejado-6th-award.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226266","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=226266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226270,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226266\/revisions\/226270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}