{"id":192253,"date":"2024-02-20T14:30:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T00:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=192253"},"modified":"2024-02-20T14:47:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T00:47:54","slug":"beachbows-avca-preseason-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/02\/20\/beachbows-avca-preseason-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"BeachBows picked 9th in <abbr>AVCA<\/abbr> preseason poll"},"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\/manoa-athletics-wahine-beach-volleyball.jpg\" alt=\"U H beach volleyball players in huddle on court\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-192217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/manoa-athletics-wahine-beach-volleyball.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/manoa-athletics-wahine-beach-volleyball-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/manoa-athletics-wahine-beach-volleyball-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the third straight year the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-beach-volleyball\">BeachBows<\/a> are ranked in the top 10 entering the season. The <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Rainbow Wahine were selected ninth in the American Volleyball Coaches Association (<abbr>AVCA<\/abbr>) collegiate beach volleyball preseason poll.<\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Wahine, who made their second straight <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Tournament last year, finished 27-9 overall and ranked No. 10 in the final 2023 <abbr>AVCA<\/abbr> poll. Third-year head coach Evan Silberstein returns 16 players from last year&#8217;s team, with two-time All-American Kaylee Glagau. Four newcomers join the team, while two-time all-Big West player Pani Napoleon rejoins the fold.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>USC<\/abbr> received all but one of the 22 first-place votes. National runner-up <abbr>UCLA<\/abbr> received the only other first place vote.<\/p>\n<p>The BeachBows open the season with the Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Beach Classic, February 22&#8211;24, at Queen&#8217;s Beach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/2\/16\/womens-beach-volleyball-beachbows-picked-ninth-in-AVCA-preseason-poll.aspx\">Read more at HawaiiAthletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the third straight year the UH M\u0101noa Rainbow Wahine are ranked in the top 10 entering the season. <\/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":[58,550,80],"class_list":["post-192253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-volleyball","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192253","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=192253"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192271,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192253\/revisions\/192271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}