  {"id":199852,"date":"2024-06-25T15:26:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T01:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=199852"},"modified":"2024-06-25T15:26:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T01:26:49","slug":"preseason-all-mountain-west-pac-2-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/06\/25\/preseason-all-mountain-west-pac-2-team\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Warriors named to Preseason All-Mountain West\/PAC-2 Team"},"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\/06\/manoa-athletics-football-field.jpg\" alt=\"U H Manoa football field\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-199827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/manoa-athletics-football-field.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/manoa-athletics-football-field-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/manoa-athletics-football-field-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa placed seven <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/football\">football players<\/a> on Phil Steele\u2019s Preseason All-Mountain West\/PAC-2 team.<\/p>\n<p>Wide receiver Pofele Ashlock, offensive lineman Luke Felix-Fualalo and linebacker Jalen Smith were selected to the second team; defensive lineman Ezra Evaimalo and cornerback Cam Stone were picked to the third team; and quarterback Brayden Schager and offensive lineman Sergio Muasau were named to the fourth team. Stone was also mentioned on the fourth team as a kick returner.<\/p>\n<p>Ashlock was named an Football Writers Association of America Freshman All-American last season after leading all <abbr>FBS<\/abbr> freshmen in receptions (83) and receiving yards (832). Felix-Fualalo graded as the No. 3 tackle in the Mountain West last season according to Pro Football Focus while Smith started the final eight games of the season and finished third on the team in tackles (67) along with a team-leading nine tackles-for-loss.<\/p>\n<p>Evaimalo was rated as the No. 2 interior defensive lineman by Pro Football Focus, and Stone is a three-time honorable mention all-Mountain West selection\u2014twice at Wyoming and in his first season at <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> in 2023. Stone also served as the team\u2019s primary kickoff returner last season and averaged 20.7 yards on 16 returns.<\/p>\n<p>Schager led the Mountain West in passing yards (3,542) and touchdowns (26) in his first season in the Run-and-Shoot offense and Muasau started all 13 games at left guard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/6\/21\/football-eight-warriors-named-to-phil-steeles-preseason-all-mountain-west-pac-2-team.aspx\">For more go to HawaiiAthletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa placed seven football players on Phil Steele\u2019s Preseason All-Mountain West\/PAC-2 team.<\/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":[58,83,660,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-199852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-football","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199852","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=199852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199868,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199852\/revisions\/199868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}