{"id":204190,"date":"2024-09-24T14:19:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T00:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=204190"},"modified":"2024-09-24T14:22:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T00:22:30","slug":"damacion-big-west-freshman-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/09\/24\/damacion-big-west-freshman-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Damacion claims back-to-back Big West Freshman of the Week honors"},"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\/09\/manoa-athletics-freshman-damacion.jpg\" alt=\"Nalani Damacion on the field\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-204193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/manoa-athletics-freshman-damacion.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/manoa-athletics-freshman-damacion-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/manoa-athletics-freshman-damacion-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the second consecutive week and third time this season, University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/index.aspx?path=wsoc\">women\u2019s soccer<\/a> midfielder Nalani Damacion has earned Big West Freshman of the Week honors on September 23.<\/p>\n<p>Damacion scored the game-winning goal in a 2-1 win over <abbr>UC<\/abbr> Davis in the Big West opener on September 19, converting a penalty kick in the 51st minute to put <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> in front.<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder leads all freshmen nationally with four game-winning goals on the season, delivering the go-ahead score in four of <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr>&#8216;s five wins. Damacion also leads the Big West and is tied for fourth nationally in game-winners, with three of her four game-winning scores coming in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Damacion is the first Big West player since 2021 to earn freshman of the week honors three times in a season and the first <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> player ever to take home the award in back-to-back weeks.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Damacion, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/9\/23\/womens-soccer-damacion-named-earns-third-big-west-freshman-honor\">HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nalani Damacion leads all freshmen nationally with four game-winning goals of 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":[1556,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-204190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-soccer","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\/204190","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=204190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204198,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204190\/revisions\/204198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}