  {"id":214015,"date":"2025-04-15T16:45:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T02:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=214015"},"modified":"2025-04-15T16:52:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T02:52:27","slug":"wahine-clinch-water-polo-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/04\/15\/wahine-clinch-water-polo-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Wahine clinch Big West water polo regular season title"},"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\/2025\/04\/manoa-athletics-water-polo-title-1.jpg\" alt=\"water polo season title \" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-214021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/manoa-athletics-water-polo-title-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/manoa-athletics-water-polo-title-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/manoa-athletics-water-polo-title-1-130x73.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&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/index.aspx?path=wwp\">women\u2019s water polo team<\/a> is ranked third and fourth in the national polls and was crowned outright Big West regular-season champions after a 14-4 win over Cal State Fullerton on April 13.<\/p>\n<p>Ema Vernoux, Bernadette Doyle and Jordan Wedderburn led the Rainbow Wahine with three goals each, and <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> set a program record with its 15th consecutive regular-season conference win while completing an undefeated run through the Big West schedule for the second straight year.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> closed out the regular season with a commanding win, powered by a first-half scoring burst that saw seven players contribute to a 10-2 halftime lead. Vernoux notched her 16th hat trick of the season and enters the postseason with a team-high 69 goals\u2014seventh-most in program history.<\/p>\n<p>Wedderburn recorded her 12th hat trick and moved into 10th on <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr>\u2019s career scoring list with 151 goals. Bernadette Doyle tallied her 11th hat trick, opening the game with two quick scores and later adding assists to her sister Gabrielle Doyle and Wedderburn.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> will begin its Big West title defense on April 25, against <abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 8 seed <abbr>UC<\/abbr> Irvine at the Anteater Aquatics Complex in California.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/4\/13\/womens-water-polo-water-polo-secures-outright-big-west-regular-season-title.aspx\">HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The women\u2019s water polo team capped an undefeated Big West season with a 14-4 win over Cal State Fullerton.<\/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":[58,9,550,1575],"class_list":["post-214015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-water-polo","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214015","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=214015"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214033,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214015\/revisions\/214033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}