  {"id":93019,"date":"2019-03-20T08:36:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T18:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=93019"},"modified":"2019-03-20T08:36:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T18:36:43","slug":"giuliato-alvarado-pepsi-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/20\/giuliato-alvarado-pepsi-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis standout and softball pitcher earn <abbr title=\"University of Hilo\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo athletic honors"},"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_93030\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93030\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hilo-pepsi-athlete-giuliato.jpg\" alt=\"student playing tennis\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hilo-pepsi-athlete-giuliato.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hilo-pepsi-athlete-giuliato-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hilo-pepsi-athlete-giuliato-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alessandro Giuliato<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A tennis standout and softball pitcher are the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> Pepsi Athletes of the Week.<\/p>\n<h2>Alessandro Giuliato<\/h2>\n<p>Sophomore Giuliato had a big week in Texas as the Vulcans won three of five matches. Giuliato went 4&#8211;0 in singles. In that match, he made short work of the sixth ranked player in the nation, Carlos Gomez, 6&#8211;3, 6&#8211;2. Giuliato ranked number 33 in <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> Division <abbr title=\"roman numeral two\">II<\/abbr> prior to the season, however, he was not able to play in the final match of the trip. Giuliato is now 6&#8211;0 this season in singles.<\/p>\n<h2>Valerie Alvarado<\/h2>\n<p>Junior pitcher Alvarado tossed a pair of shutouts at Dominican, helping lead the Vulcans to a pair of victories over the Penguins. She transfer pitched the Vulcans to a 2&#8211;0 win in six innings, giving up four hits, and then ruled the pitching circle for seven innings during an 8&#8211;0 victory, allowing five hits and striking out five. <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo is now 16&#8211;4 on the season and 11&#8211;1 in the PacWest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2019\/3\/17\/mens-tennis-alvarado-alessandro-named-uhh-pepsi-athletes-of-the-week.aspx\">For more see <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo athletics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_93028\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93028\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hilo-pepsi-athlete-alvarado.jpg\" alt=\"student playing softball\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hilo-pepsi-athlete-alvarado.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hilo-pepsi-athlete-alvarado-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hilo-pepsi-athlete-alvarado-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valerie Alvarado<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alessandro Giuliato and Valerie Alvarado are the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo Pepsi Athletes of the Week.<\/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":[58,660,714,1365,14,151],"class_list":["post-93019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-tennis","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93019","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=93019"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93069,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93019\/revisions\/93069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}