{"id":32997,"date":"2015-03-25T11:48:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T21:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=32997"},"modified":"2023-01-04T08:50:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T18:50:42","slug":"david-matlin-named-university-of-hawaii-athletics-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/03\/25\/david-matlin-named-university-of-hawaii-athletics-director\/","title":{"rendered":"David Matlin named University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> athletics 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><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8l5a0KKCWJc\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/manoa-athletics-matlin-d-260x146.jpg\" alt=\"David Matlin\" width=\"260\" height=\"146\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-33021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/manoa-athletics-matlin-d-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/manoa-athletics-matlin-d.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>David Matlin<\/strong> has been named the new athletics director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I believe, during these challenging times for <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Athletics<\/a>, that David has the proven executive leadership experience, vision and passion to stabilize and grow the program,&rdquo; said <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Chancellor <strong>Robert Bley-Vroman<\/strong>. &ldquo;We were searching for someone with the ability and agility to lead us through this complex and important period in the evolving national collegiate athletics landscape, and I am confident that we have found that person in David.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Matlin said that he is honored and humbled to have been selected as <abbr>UH<\/abbr>&#8217;s next <abbr title=\"Athletic Director\">AD<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is honestly my dream opportunity and I understand that there are many challenges ahead,&rdquo; said Matlin. &ldquo;I am confident that with the support of the athletics department staff, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> leadership and the entire state, we will be successful. I humbly ask the people of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, and <abbr>UH<\/abbr> fans all over the world, for their support to ensure that <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Athletics not only survives, but thrives.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For more information go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2015\/3\/25\/GEN_0325153801.aspx?path=gen\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Athletics Department story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_26671\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QLGRiOTUKb4?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Interviews with AD David Matlin, Dave Shoji, Laura Beeman &amp; Michele Nagamine.\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>David Matlin talks a little with <abbr title=\"Hawaiian Television\">HTV<\/abbr> after being introduced as <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8217;s new athletics director. Head coaches Dave Shoji, Laura Beeman and Michele Nagamine also share their thoughts on the hiring of the new <abbr>AD<\/abbr>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Matlin has been named the new athletics director of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":33010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193,28,12],"tags":[691,58,9,550,56],"class_list":["post-32997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-governance","category-video","tag-administration","tag-athletics","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/manoa-matlin-ad-feature.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32997","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=32997"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171144,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32997\/revisions\/171144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}