{"id":29695,"date":"2014-11-24T15:52:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T01:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=29695"},"modified":"2021-10-19T14:27:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T00:27:04","slug":"estrella-appointed-interim-uh-hilo-athletic-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/11\/24\/estrella-appointed-interim-uh-hilo-athletic-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Estrella appointed interim <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo athletic director"},"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><figure id=\"attachment_29701\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29701\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/estrella-j.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/estrella-j.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/estrella-j-185x260.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joey Estrella<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former Vulcan Baseball Coach <strong>Joey Estrella<\/strong> will assume the position of interim athletic director at the <a href=\"http:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> on January 1, 2015, and the search for a permanent athletic director will begin in early January.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Now more than ever, successful intercollegiate athletic programs and a solid community partnership go hand-in-hand,&rdquo; <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Chancellor <strong>Donald Straney<\/strong> said. &ldquo;With this appointment and the selection of a new <abbr title=\"Athletic Director\">AD<\/abbr>, strengthening that relationship between <a href=\"http:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/\">Vulcan Athletics<\/a> and the community will be job one.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Estrella, who headed the Vulcan baseball program he founded for 37 years, brings extensive experience to the position. From 1980 to 1989 he served as both head baseball coach and athletic director. He also served as an assistant athletic director from 2009 until his retirement in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Estrella will replace <strong>Tim Moore<\/strong>, whose appointment as interim athletic director ends on December 31, 2014. The new permanent athletic director will succeed <strong>Dexter Irvin<\/strong>, who resigned at the end of 2013.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Alyson Kakugawa-Leong<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vulcan Baseball Coach Joey Estrella will assume the position of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo interim athletic director on January 1, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193,28,29],"tags":[58,14,151],"class_list":["post-29695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative","category-governance","category-people","tag-athletics","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","no-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29695","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=29695"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150107,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29695\/revisions\/150107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}