  {"id":191927,"date":"2024-02-13T15:45:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T01:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=191927"},"modified":"2024-02-13T15:45:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T01:45:44","slug":"kta-super-stores-superstars-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/02\/13\/kta-super-stores-superstars-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcan basketball players named <abbr>KTA<\/abbr> Super Stores Superstars of January"},"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\/2024\/02\/hilo-athletics-kta-superstars-january-2024.jpg\" alt=\"UH Hilo basketball players Kamakawiwoole and Elzie with KTA Superstars graphic on photo\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-191916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/hilo-athletics-kta-superstars-january-2024.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/hilo-athletics-kta-superstars-january-2024-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/hilo-athletics-kta-superstars-january-2024-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> basketball players Kamalu Kamakawiwoole and Charles Elzie <abbr title=\"Roman numeral three\">III<\/abbr> were selected as the <abbr>KTA<\/abbr> Super Stores Superstars of the Month. The award goes to one male and one female Vulcans student-athlete for their stand-out accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>Kamakawiwoole posted a career-high 27 points on 11-of-15 shooting, eight rebounds, three blocks and three steals in a 74-71 win over Point Loma on January 6. The fifth-year senior capped her performance with back-to-back 3-pointers in the final minute of play to seal the victory. She also posted 24 points (7-11 <abbr>FG<\/abbr>) and hit a deep buzzer-beating bucket to help the Vulcans claim victory over Chaminade on January 30.<\/p>\n<p>In the first game of 2024 against Concordia University Irvine, Elzie surpassed 1,000 career points spanning from his first four seasons at The College of Idaho in the <abbr>NAIA<\/abbr>. In a narrow two-point loss to Azusa Pacific, Elzie posted a career-high 26 points on 8-of-13 shooting while going 8 for 10 at the free throw line. Against Point Loma on January 4, he scored a 3-pointer to tie the game with seconds to go only to watch the Sea Lions pull off a half-second buzzer-beating win. Elzie also tied the score on an inside basket against <abbr>HPU<\/abbr> on January 20 to send the game to overtime, later giving the Vulcans the lead on a 3-pointer with just over a minute remaining.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2024\/2\/12\/general-kamakawiwoole-elzie-iii-kta-super-stores-superstars-of-january.aspx\">For more go to HiloAthletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>¶«¾«Ó°Òµ<\/abbr> Hilo basketball players Kamalu Kamakawiwoole and Charles Elzie <abbr title=\"Roman numeral three\">III<\/abbr> were selected as the <abbr>KTA<\/abbr> Super Stores Superstars of January.<\/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":[58,82,660,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-191927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","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\/191927","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=191927"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191937,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191927\/revisions\/191937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}