  {"id":95586,"date":"2019-04-30T16:41:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T02:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=95586"},"modified":"2019-04-30T16:41:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T02:41:46","slug":"rainbow-wahine-ncaa-tournaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/04\/30\/rainbow-wahine-ncaa-tournaments\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Wahine set to compete in <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> tournaments"},"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=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-athletics-rainbow-wahine-2019.jpg\" alt=\"Go Rainbow Wahine!\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-95592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-athletics-rainbow-wahine-2019.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-athletics-rainbow-wahine-2019-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-athletics-rainbow-wahine-2019-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa Rainbow Wahine are gearing up for the <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> tournaments in beach volleyball, tennis and water polo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-beach-volleyball-ncaa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-beach-volleyball-ncaa-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Rainbow Wahine blocking a spike in beach volleyball\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-95585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-beach-volleyball-ncaa-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-beach-volleyball-ncaa-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-beach-volleyball-ncaa-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-beach-volleyball-ncaa.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The beach volleyball team heads to the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Beach Volleyball Championship, May 3&#8211;5, in Gulf Shores, Alabama. The seventh-seeded Rainbow Wahine open tournament action on Friday, May 3, at 11 a.m. <abbr title=\"central time\">CT<\/abbr> (6 a.m. <abbr title=\"Hawaii time\">HT<\/abbr>) against No. 2 seed and defending national champion University of California, Los Angeles. <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> enters the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr>s as one of two at-large bids. <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2019\/4\/30\/womens-beach-volleyball-uh-heads-to-gulf-shores-for-the-2019-ncaa-beach-volleyball-championship.aspx\">Read more about the Sandbows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-water-polo-ncaa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-water-polo-ncaa-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Wahine water polo players in the pool\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-95583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-water-polo-ncaa-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-water-polo-ncaa-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-water-polo-ncaa-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-water-polo-ncaa.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s water polo team will face the fourth-seeded University of California, Berkeley in the quarterfinals of the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Tournament on Friday, May 10, at the Avery Aquatic Center at Stanford University. <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>, ranked fifth nationally in the latest Collegiate Water Polo Association Poll, earned an automatic bid to the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Tournament after winning the Big West Tournament. <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2019\/4\/29\/womens-water-polo-water-polo-to-face-no-4-cal-in-ncaa-tournament-quarterfinals.aspx\">Read more about the water polo team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-wahine-tennis-ncaa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-wahine-tennis-ncaa-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Petra Melounova\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-95584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-wahine-tennis-ncaa-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-wahine-tennis-ncaa-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-wahine-tennis-ncaa-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-wahine-tennis-ncaa.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Women&#8217;s tennis player <strong>Petra Melounova<\/strong> qualified to compete in the 2019 <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Division <abbr title=\"one\">I<\/abbr> Singles Championship for a program-record third season. Melounova was the highest ranked player in the Big West and earned an automatic bid into the championship tournament, which will be held May 20&#8211;25 and hosted by the University of Central Florida at the United States Tennis Association National Campus in Orlando. <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2019\/4\/30\/womens-tennis-melounova-earns-third-straight-bid-to-ncaa-singles-championship.aspx\">Read more about Melounova<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Rainbow Wahine are gearing up for the <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> tournaments in beach volleyball, tennis and water polo.<\/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":[58,9,550],"class_list":["post-95586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95586","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=95586"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95593,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95586\/revisions\/95593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}