{"id":90305,"date":"2019-02-01T16:31:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T02:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=90305"},"modified":"2019-02-06T12:34:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T22:34:30","slug":"h-day-kickoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/02\/01\/h-day-kickoff\/","title":{"rendered":"H Day kickoff at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa supports 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\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><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_85800\"  width=\"620\" height=\"465\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/APvfk22z6VU?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=\"H Day kickoff at Â鶹´«Ã½M\u0101noa supports athletics\"  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>The <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa Athletics Department<\/a> launched &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/01\/28\/uh-manoa-athletics-launches-h-day\/\">H Day<\/a>,&rdquo; encouraging everyone to wear H-logo or green apparel every Friday in support of student-athletes.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In athletics we really feel that our student-athletes are ambassadors of aloha, so it\u2019s a great place to start with this pride,&rdquo; said <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Athletics Director <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/staff.aspx?staff=467\"><strong>David Matlin<\/strong><\/a>. &ldquo;This isn\u2019t just about the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Athletics Department, this is about a great university.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/manoa-h-day-games-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"people playing games at H day\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-90307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/manoa-h-day-games-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/manoa-h-day-games-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/manoa-h-day-games.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Athletics kicked off H Day with a pep rally featuring the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Pep Band and cheerleaders to fire up volleyball fans for the men\u2019s game against Stanford University on Friday night. There were games with H-logo prizes (t-shirts, visors, stickers), free shave ice and soda, and a selfie station at the event.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa students, faculty, staff, alumni and supporters attending the event showed their school spirit celebrating the kick off for H Day. <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Athletics leaders hope residents around the state begin to wear green and H logo apparel on Fridays.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For people to walk around on Friday\u2019s wearing their green and supporting the H and showing the H off, I think it really shows people throughout the country how much athletics mean and how much our student-athletes mean to us,&rdquo; said <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/coaches.aspx?rc=2085&#038;path=wbball\"><strong>Laura Beeman<\/strong><\/a>, head coach for Rainbow Wahine basketball. &ldquo;And it\u2019s a great fun way to get excited about our Athletics Department.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For more information on H Day, go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2019\/1\/25\/general-h-day-begins-friday-february-1.aspx\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa athletics website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa Athletics Department launched &ldquo;H Day,&rdquo; encouraging everyone to wear H-logo or green apparel every Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,714,9,550,56],"class_list":["post-90305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90305","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=90305"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90320,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90305\/revisions\/90320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}