  {"id":204370,"date":"2024-09-30T12:03:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T22:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=204370"},"modified":"2024-09-30T12:05:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T22:05:31","slug":"vulcan-booster-club-2024-vulcan-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/09\/30\/vulcan-booster-club-2024-vulcan-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcan Booster Club serves up $13K pledge for the 2024 Vulcan Challenge"},"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\/hilo-athletics-vulcan-booster-challenge-2024.jpg\" alt=\"group photo of the vulcan booster club\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-204372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/hilo-athletics-vulcan-booster-challenge-2024.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/hilo-athletics-vulcan-booster-challenge-2024-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/hilo-athletics-vulcan-booster-challenge-2024-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To support University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo Athletics and the 2024 Vulcan Challenge, the Vulcan Booster Club has pledged to match up to $1,000 raised for each sports program, totaling up to $13,000 in matching gifts.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcan Booster Club is dedicated to supporting <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo Athletics in achieving excellence within <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> regulations and the university\u2019s academic goals. They are committed to helping students\u2019 intellectual, physical, and interpersonal growth while competing at the highest level of <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Division <abbr title=\"two\">II<\/abbr> athletics.<\/p>\n<p>The third annual Vulcan Challenge launched on September 17, and has raised more than $18,000 from more than 100 gifts received in support of <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo\u2019s student-athletes. The campaign ends on October 17, and this <span aria-label=\"years\">year&#699;s<\/span> goal is $150,000.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Vulcan Booster Club is both proud and inspired to support the Vulcan Challenge through matching team contributions,&rdquo; said Chris Schlueter, president of the Vulcan Booster Club. &ldquo;Our Boosters are deeply committed to helping our student-athletes achieve their academic and athletic pursuits.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><abbr>KTA<\/abbr> Super Stores and the Taniguchi family have also previously committed matching gifts for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/12\/kta-super-stores-vulcan-challenge-2022\/\">first $25,000 received<\/a> for the Vulcan Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2024\/9\/24\/general-vulcan-booster-club-to-match-13k-in-gifts-for-the-vulcan-challenge.aspx\">HiloAthletics.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To support <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo Athletics, the Vulcan Booster Club has pledged to match up to $1,000 for each sports program. <\/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":[714,14,151],"class_list":["post-204370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204370","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=204370"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204380,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204370\/revisions\/204380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}