{"id":228286,"date":"2026-01-14T12:29:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=228286"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:29:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:29:38","slug":"hilo-athletics-no-2-pacwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/01\/14\/hilo-athletics-no-2-pacwest\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcan Athletics earns No. 2 spot in PacWest for fall sports"},"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\/2026\/01\/vulcans-athletics-commissioners-cup.jpg\" alt=\"athletics graphic second place\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-228283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/vulcans-athletics-commissioners-cup.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/vulcans-athletics-commissioners-cup-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/vulcans-athletics-commissioners-cup-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span lang=\"haw\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo Athletics took second place in the Pacific West Conference 2025&#8211;26 Bob Hogue Commissioner&#8217;s Cup with 43.5 total points for a 10.88 average.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fall sports finishes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Women&#8217;s Soccer (<abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 2)<\/li>\n<li>Men&#8217;s Soccer (<abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 3)<\/li>\n<li>Women&#8217;s Volleyball (<abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> T3)<\/li>\n<li>Women&#8217;s Cross Country (<abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 7)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The PacWest Commissioner&#8217;s Cup honors the athletic program with the strongest overall performance each academic year. Points are awarded based on regular-season conference standings for baseball, basketball, soccer, softball and volleyball with championship results counting for cross country, golf and tennis.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2026\/1\/12\/vulcans-finish-fall-no-2-in-pacwest.aspx\">Hiloathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo secured second place with 43.5 total points for a 10.88 average in the PacWest 2025&#8211;26 Bob Hogue Commissioner&#8217;s Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":228283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,1569,1556,14,151,80],"class_list":["post-228286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-cross-country","tag-soccer","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","tag-volleyball","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/vulcans-athletics-commissioners-cup.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228286","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=228286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228294,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228286\/revisions\/228294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}