{"id":214228,"date":"2025-04-21T12:36:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T22:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=214228"},"modified":"2025-04-21T12:37:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T22:37:35","slug":"vulcan-tennis-earn-pacwest-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/04\/21\/vulcan-tennis-earn-pacwest-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Vulcan tennis players earn PacWest recognition"},"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-tennis-paquet-mountain-pacwest-team.jpg\" alt=\"Paquet and Mountain playing tennis with2025 All-PacWest Team graphics\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-214233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hilo-athletics-tennis-paquet-mountain-pacwest-team.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hilo-athletics-tennis-paquet-mountain-pacwest-team-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hilo-athletics-tennis-paquet-mountain-pacwest-team-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo Vulcans were named to the 2025 All-PacWest Teams, which were announced on April 16 at the annual Pacific West Conference Championships banquet.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\">men\u2019s tennis<\/a> redshirt-sophomore Jaime Paquet was selected as Newcomer of the Year and the All-PacWest Singles First Team after going 14-3. At one point in the season, Paquet had claimed 12 consecutive victories, including a three-set win over PacWest Player of the Year Elias Emilio Walter of Azusa Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>Paquet joined the Vulcans in fall 2023 but was sidelined for all of the 2024 season. He is currently ranked No. 42 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (<abbr>ITA<\/abbr>) Collegiate Rankings.<\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\">women\u2019s team<\/a>, fifth-year senior McKenna Mountain (11-6) was voted to the All-PacWest Singles Team. Mountain was previously selected to the All-PacWest Third Team in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Mountain started the season on a five match win streak and later appeared at No. 41 in the <abbr>ITA<\/abbr> Rankings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2025\/4\/16\/mens-tennis-paquet-selected-as-newcomer-of-the-year-mountain-to-second-team.aspx\">For more information go to HiloAthletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaime Paquet was selected as Newcomer of the Year and McKenna Mountain was named to the Second Team.<\/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":[660,1365,14,151],"class_list":["post-214228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-student-recognition","tag-tennis","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\/214228","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=214228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214238,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214228\/revisions\/214238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}