  {"id":176398,"date":"2023-04-25T13:47:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T23:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=176398"},"modified":"2023-04-25T13:47:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T23:47:54","slug":"im-mountain-kta-superstars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/04\/25\/im-mountain-kta-superstars\/","title":{"rendered":"Im, Mountain named <abbr>KTA<\/abbr> Superstars of the Week"},"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\/2023\/04\/hilo-athletics-kta-superstars-im-mountain.jpg\" alt=\"K T A Superstars graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-176400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/hilo-athletics-kta-superstars-im-mountain.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/hilo-athletics-kta-superstars-im-mountain-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/hilo-athletics-kta-superstars-im-mountain-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/mens-golf\">men\u2019s golfer<\/a> <strong>Junsu Im<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\">women\u2019s tennis<\/a> player <strong>McKenna Mountain<\/strong> earned <abbr>KTA<\/abbr> Super Stores Superstars of the Week awards for April 5&#8211;18.<\/p>\n<p>Im, a freshman, finished the year with strong performances, tying for No. 14 (&#43;1) at the West Regional Spring Preview before claiming a share of the Pacific West Conference Championships individual title as co-champion with <strong>Andrew Otani<\/strong> (&#43;1).<\/p>\n<p>In the Vulcans&#8217; final regular-season road trip to Colorado, Mountain went 3-0 in singles matches and 3-0 in doubles. She twice battled back from being down a set to take victories over Colorado Mesa University and Metropolitan State University of Denver.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/awards.aspx\"><abbr>KTA<\/abbr> Superstars award<\/a> names one male and one female Vulcans student-athlete each week, highlighting their accomplishments from the prior week.<\/p>\n<p>For more, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2023\/4\/20\/general-im-mountain-kta-super-stores-superstars-of-the-week.aspx\">hiloathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>¶«¾«Ó°Òµ<\/abbr> Hilo men\u2019s golfer Junsu Im and women\u2019s tennis player McKenna Mountain were named <abbr>KTA<\/abbr> Super Stores Superstars of the Week, April 5&#8211;18.<\/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":[58,1537,660,714,1365,14,151],"class_list":["post-176398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-golf","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\/176398","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=176398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176416,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176398\/revisions\/176416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}