  {"id":196471,"date":"2024-04-26T16:22:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T02:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=196471"},"modified":"2024-04-29T08:32:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T18:32:40","slug":"beach-volleyball-big-west-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/04\/26\/beach-volleyball-big-west-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"BeachBows beat Long Beach State to capture 4th Big West title in 8 years"},"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\/04\/manoa-athletics-beach-volleyball-big-west-champs-2024.jpg\" alt=\"people holding a banner smiling\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-196472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/manoa-athletics-beach-volleyball-big-west-champs-2024.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/manoa-athletics-beach-volleyball-big-west-champs-2024-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/manoa-athletics-beach-volleyball-big-west-champs-2024-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update April 28:<\/strong> The BeachBows received the <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 9 seed and will open the 2024 <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Beach Volleyball Championship against <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 8 seed Loyola Marymount University (27-13). <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> will square off against the Lions on Friday, May 3 at 7 a.m. <abbr>HST<\/abbr> on <abbr>ESPNU<\/abbr>. It will be a familiar postseason foe for the &#8216;Bows who have now drawn <abbr>LMU<\/abbr> in the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> opening round in each of the last three years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original story:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-beach-volleyball\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa beach volleyball<\/a> team captured the Big West Championship with a pair of wins, April 26, on the campus of Long Beach City College. The Rainbow Wahine defeated <abbr title=\"University of California\">UC<\/abbr> Davis, 3-0, in the semifinals before edging host Long Beach State, 3-2, in a dramatic title match.<\/p>\n<p>It marked <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr>\u2019s fourth title in eight seasons of Big West beach volleyball and its first since 2018. In the process, the BeachBows (24-11) also earned the conference&#8217;s automatic bid to the <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletics Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> Championships in Gulf Shores, Alabama. <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> will enter the tourney riding a season-long eight-match win streak after going a perfect 4-0 during the Big West Championship.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> improved to 11-1 all-time against Long Beach State in the Big West tournament and 4-0 in the title match. The \u2018Bows also earned redemption from last year when the Beach upset the host Rainbow Wahine in the 2023 Big West semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Bows will now await their postseason destiny with the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Selection Show. The show will air at 5 a.m. <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> time on Sunday, April 28 at <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr>.com.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the title match, <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/4\/26\/womens-beach-volleyball-beachbows-topple-long-beach-state-to-capture-big-west-title.aspx\">visit the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa athletics website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> improved to 11-1 all-time against Long Beach State in the Big West tournament and 4-0 in the title match.<\/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":[58,714,9,550,80],"class_list":["post-196471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","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\/196471","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=196471"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196481,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196471\/revisions\/196481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}