  {"id":214028,"date":"2025-04-15T17:02:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T03:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=214028"},"modified":"2025-04-15T17:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T03:21:17","slug":"in-memoriam-garrett-estrin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/04\/15\/in-memoriam-garrett-estrin\/","title":{"rendered":"In memoriam: Garrett Estrin, former <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo men\u2019s soccer coach"},"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\/hilo-athletics-memoriam-garrett-estrin-2.jpg\" alt=\"garrett estrin\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-214035\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hilo-athletics-memoriam-garrett-estrin-2.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hilo-athletics-memoriam-garrett-estrin-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hilo-athletics-memoriam-garrett-estrin-2-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\">men\u2019s soccer<\/a> head coach Garrett Estrin, 48, died on April 17, in California after a two-year battle with esophageal cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Estrin was named the program\u2019s eighth head coach in May 2022 and helped the Vulcans soccer programs begin a new era by leading the men&#8217;s team to a season-opening 2-1 victory over Cal Poly Humboldt on the brand-new turf Vulcan Soccer Field.<\/p>\n<p>Estrin coached soccer at various levels for nearly 20 years. He spent his collegiate playing days at Cal State Dominguez Hills (<abbr>CSUDH<\/abbr>) where he was a three-time team captain as goalkeeper, helping the Toros claim the 2000 <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Division <abbr title=\"Roman numeral two\">II<\/abbr> National Championship with five saves in a four-overtime victory. He received the 2000&#8211;01 Dr. Richard Butwell Senior Award, given in recognition for dedication to <abbr>CSUDH<\/abbr>, community service and academic commitment.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am deeply saddened by the passing of Garrett, who I have known for more than 25 years,&rdquo; said <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo Director of Athletics Patrick Guillen, who served as <abbr>CSUDH<\/abbr> director of sports information during the Toros&#8217; national championship run. &ldquo;My heart goes out to his beautiful wife Helen and his two children. G was truly an amazing person, first and foremost, a great husband and a wonderful father. He lived and loved life and was admired by all those who came in contact with him. While only here at <span aria- label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Hilo for one year, he made a tremendous impact on the lives of his players and is greatly missed. May he rest in love and aloha.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services are scheduled for April 17, at the Forest Lawn Memorial in Glendale, California.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Estrin, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2025\/4\/14\/garrett-estrin-former-vulcans-mens-soccer-coach-passes-away.aspx\">HiloAthletics.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garrett Estrin died on April 17 after a two-year battle with esophageal cancer.<\/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":[58,1683,756,1556,14,151],"class_list":["post-214028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-hilo","tag-in-memoriam","tag-soccer","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\/214028","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=214028"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214048,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214028\/revisions\/214048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}