  {"id":120731,"date":"2020-06-15T11:32:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T21:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=120731"},"modified":"2020-06-15T11:32:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T21:32:43","slug":"bjerklund-valencia-pepsi-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/15\/bjerklund-valencia-pepsi-seniors\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo women\u2019s soccer midfielders receive Pepsi Senior Salute"},"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_120715\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120715\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-seniors-bjerklund.jpg\" alt=\"Hedda Bjerklund\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-seniors-bjerklund.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-seniors-bjerklund-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-seniors-bjerklund-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-120715\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hedda Bjerklund<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two women\u2019s soccer midfielders are recognized as the <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> Pepsi Seniors for the week of June 14&#8211;20.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hedda Bjerklund<\/strong> played in 27 matches over three seasons for the Vulcans and played a key role on a trio of defensive-stingy Vulcan teams. Bjerklund is a three-time All-Pacific West Conference Academic selection, and in 2018 shared the Women&#8217;s Soccer Scholar Athlete of the Year trophy with two other Vulcans. The Norway native graduated this spring with a degree in philosophy and plans to attend graduate school.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brianna Valencia<\/strong> started in 30 matches over two seasons for the Vulcans, also playing an important role in a very impressive <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo defense. During her junior season, one of the best in Vulcan soccer history, <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo allowed only 10 goals in 16 matches. The Riverside, Calif. native was a two-time Pacific West Conference All-Academic selection and graduated with a degree in kinesiology with a concentration in sports medicine and therapy.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Bjerklund and Valencia!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2020\/6\/14\/womens-soccer-pepsi-senior-salute-brianna-valencia-and-hedda-bjerklund.aspx\">For more details on the seniors, visit the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo Athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_120714\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120714\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-seniors-valencia.jpg\" alt=\"Brianna Valencia\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-seniors-valencia.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-seniors-valencia-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-seniors-valencia-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-120714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brianna Valencia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer players Hedda Bjerklund and Brianna Valencia have been recognized as Pepsi Seniors of the Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,660,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-120731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","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\/120731","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=120731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120740,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120731\/revisions\/120740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}