{"id":222863,"date":"2025-09-30T14:32:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T00:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=222863"},"modified":"2025-09-30T14:32:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T00:32:21","slug":"freeman-pacwest-defender-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/09\/30\/freeman-pacwest-defender-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcan women\u2019s volleyball player named PacWest Defender of the Week"},"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\/09\/hilo-volleyball-isabella-freeman.jpg\" alt=\"defender of the week graphic with portrait of isabella freeman\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-222837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/hilo-volleyball-isabella-freeman.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/hilo-volleyball-isabella-freeman-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/hilo-volleyball-isabella-freeman-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\">women&#8217;s volleyball<\/a> sophomore Isabella Freeman was named Pacific West Conference Defender of the Week for September 22&#8211;28.<\/p>\n<p>The middle blocker posted 10 total blocks, including three solo blocks, in the Vulcans&#8217; two victories over Biola (September 26) and Concordia (September 27). Freeman was also stellar on the offensive end putting down 19 total kills.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman is in her second season at <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo after leading the 2024 PacWest Conference season with 83 total blocks. Entering the Vulcans\u2019 September 29 match, Freeman was ranked <abbr title=\"number\">No.<\/abbr> 8 in the <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> Division <abbr title=\"Roman numeral two\">II<\/abbr> with 68 total blocks&#8212;helping the Vulcans rank <abbr>No.<\/abbr> 19 overall for team total blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2025\/9\/29\/womens-volleyball-freeman-named-pacwest-conference-defender-of-the-week.aspx\">Hiloathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo middle blocker Isabella Freeman was recognized for her outstanding performance.<\/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":[58,14,151,80],"class_list":["post-222863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","tag-volleyball","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222863","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=222863"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222894,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222863\/revisions\/222894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}