{"id":82457,"date":"2018-07-25T13:15:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T23:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=82457"},"modified":"2019-04-03T10:01:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:01:37","slug":"california-hotel-450k-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/07\/25\/california-hotel-450k-athletics\/","title":{"rendered":"California Hotel serves up $450K for <abbr title=\u201cUniversity of Hawaii\u201d>UH<\/abbr> athletics"},"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\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ob8D9b9uKGg?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boydgaming.com\/california\">The California Hotel<\/a>&#8212;a Boyd Gaming-owned downtown Las Vegas destination&#8212; has pledged $450,000 to the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/\">Athletics Department<\/a> for volleyball court naming rights at the Stan Sheriff Center. The pledge will be phased in over several years, helping to support student-athlete success initiatives and furthering the longstanding relationship between California Hotel and Boyd Gaming and the people of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and the California Hotel and Boyd Gaming share a special relationship,&rdquo; said <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/staff.aspx?staff=467\">David Matlin<\/a><\/strong>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa athletics director. &ldquo;Mr. Boyd and his team have been longtime supporters of our Rainbow Wahine and Warrior student athletes. This is a difference-making gift that will directly benefit our student-athletes both in the classroom and on the field of competition. <span lang=\"hi\">&#8220;Mahalo nui loa&#8221;<\/span> to Mr. Boyd and the California Hotel team.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The gift will provide assistance to student-athletes in the areas of nutrition, cost of tuition, summer school and other preparatory athletic efforts. There will be an upcoming placing of the California Hotel logo on the floor of the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> volleyball court. A subsequent ceremony will occur during a <abbr>UH<\/abbr> women&#8217;s volleyball match to commemorate the naming of the court.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The California (Hotel) and Boyd Gaming are proud of our decades-long relationship with the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, and we are pleased to provide this gift to support <abbr>UH<\/abbr> student-athletes and <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> hometown sports teams for years to come,&rdquo; said Boyd Gaming Executive Chairman Bill Boyd.<\/p>\n<p>The California Hotel will continue its long-running Platinum Sponsorship of the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa athletic program. The hotel is the title sponsor of the 50-year-old rivalry football game between University of Nevada, Las Vegas and <abbr>UH<\/abbr> with the Island Showdown Trophy, and hosts a tailgate with celebratory events at the hotel for games played in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_82463\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82463\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/manoa-athletics-california-hotel.jpg\" alt=\"Holding a giant check for $450,000\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/manoa-athletics-california-hotel.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/manoa-athletics-california-hotel-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Boyd, David Matlin and David Lassner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The donation supports student athletes and the rights to name the volleyball court in the Stan Sheriff Center. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[58,9,550,56,80],"class_list":["post-82457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-athletics","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-video-2","tag-volleyball","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82457","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=82457"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82499,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82457\/revisions\/82499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}