{"id":61420,"date":"2017-06-14T09:03:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T19:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=61420"},"modified":"2019-03-07T14:44:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T00:44:51","slug":"dave-shoji-endowment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/14\/dave-shoji-endowment\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach Dave Shoji endowment established"},"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=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/manoa-shoji-endowment.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Shoji surrounded by family, friends and current and former players at the Stan Sheriff Center\" width=\"620\" height=\"434\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/manoa-shoji-endowment.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/manoa-shoji-endowment-260x182.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"clear-photo\">More than 1,500 friends and fans joined <strong>Dave Shoji<\/strong>, the second-winningest coach in <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletics Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> volleyball history, and other <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> stars for the Dave Shoji Aloha Ball Retirement Celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to proceeds from this celebration and other gifts, $130,000 has been raised to support the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/index.aspx?path=wvball\">Rainbow Wahine Volleyball<\/a> program and the newly established Dave and Mary Shoji Scholarship Endowment Fund.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> News story<\/strong>: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/05\/24\/shoji-aloha-ball-celebration\/\">Dave Shoji honored at Aloha Ball Retirement Celebration<\/a><\/em>, May 24, 2017 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;Words can&#8217;t express how special the Aloha Ball Retirement Celebration was for our entire family.&rdquo; said Mary Shoji.\u00a0&ldquo;We were overwhelmed and so grateful for the love and support shared by everyone. To know that the amazing energy and backing for the Wahine volleyball team will continue and grow over the years thanks to this new endowment, is incredibly exciting.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>New Wahine volleyball program Head Coach <strong>Robyn Ah Mow-Santos<\/strong> added, &ldquo;Dave walked me out of the McKinley High School gym and into the Rainbow Wahine program and that created a lot of opportunities for me.&rdquo; Mow-Santos continued, &ldquo;I look forward to paying it forward with the next generation of Rainbow Wahine successes. With the continued support from our community, and the hard-work and commitment of our student-athletes we can grow Dave&#8217;s legacy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>To make a gift in support of the Rainbow Wahine volleyball program and the newly established Dave and Mary Shoji Scholarship Endowment Fund, please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/giving-opportunity\/one-more-aloha-ball\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Foundation website<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>See more images from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uh_foundation\/sets\/72157681184420023\/\">Dave Shoji&#8217;s Aloha Ball Celebration<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The $130,000 raised at Shoji&#8217;s retirement celebration will support the Rainbow Wahine volleyball program and the Dave and Mary Shoji Scholarship Endowment Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":61425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[58,572,319,9,550],"class_list":["post-61420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-athletics","tag-scholarship","tag-uh-foundation","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/manoa-shoji-endowment.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61420","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=61420"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77145,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61420\/revisions\/77145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}