{"id":202278,"date":"2024-08-21T10:12:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T20:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=202278"},"modified":"2024-08-21T10:36:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T20:36:50","slug":"igiede-to-compete-in-pan-american-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/08\/21\/igiede-to-compete-in-pan-american-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Former volleyball standout Igiede to compete for U.S. in Pan American Cup"},"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\/08\/manoa-athletics-igiede.jpg\" alt=\"amber igiede playing volleyball\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-202310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/manoa-athletics-igiede.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/manoa-athletics-igiede-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/manoa-athletics-igiede-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\">women\u2019s volleyball<\/a> player Amber Igiede will compete for the United States in the Women\u2019s North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation (<abbr>NORCECA<\/abbr>) Pan American Cup, set for August 18&#8211;25 in Guanajuato, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Igiede is one of four middle blockers on the U.S. roster announced by <abbr>USA<\/abbr> Volleyball for the Women\u2019s Pan American Cup. The event serves as a qualifier to the 2025 Women&#8217;s Pan American Cup, the 2025 <abbr>NORCECA<\/abbr> Women&#8217;s Continental Championship and the 2027 Pan American Games.<\/p>\n<p>As a senior, she led the Big West with a .396 hitting percentage, 3.72 kills per set and 435 total kills. She also ranked second in the nation among middle blockers in total points (540.0) and points per set (4.62). Igiede was the 2022 Big West Player of the Year and was named Most Valuable Player of the inaugural Big West Championship last season.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Igiede, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/8\/17\/womens-volleyball-igiede-named-to-us-roster-for-pan-american-cup.aspx\">HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amber Igiede is one of four middle blockers on the U.S. roster, set to compete August 18&#8211;25 in Mexico. <\/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":[58,9,550,80,1626],"class_list":["post-202278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-volleyball","tag-women-of-uh","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202278","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=202278"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202339,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202278\/revisions\/202339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}