{"id":224173,"date":"2025-10-23T10:55:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=224173"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:55:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:55:02","slug":"vulcans-senior-pacwest-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/10\/23\/vulcans-senior-pacwest-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcans senior 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\/10\/hilo-mens-soccer-hamada-pacwest.jpg\" alt=\"Koki Hamada Player of the Week graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-224168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hilo-mens-soccer-hamada-pacwest.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hilo-mens-soccer-hamada-pacwest-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hilo-mens-soccer-hamada-pacwest-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\/mens-soccer\">men&#8217;s soccer<\/a> senior Koki Hamada was named the Pacific West Conference Defender of the Week for October 13&#8211;19.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcans claimed two victories during the week, getting a 3-0 win over <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Pacific University, followed by a 4-0 victory on <span lang=\"haw\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> at Chaminade.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time All-PacWest Team selection has commanded the Vulcans defensive backline since starting the very first match of his collegiate career.<\/p>\n<p>With the pair of wins, <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo improved to 6-4-2 overall and 3-2-1 in the PacWest. The Vulcans return home for a pair of matches against the Point Loma Sea Lions (October 23) and Concordia Golden Eagles (October 25).<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2025\/10\/20\/mens-soccer-hamada-named-pacwest-defender-of-the-week.aspx\">Hiloathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo\u2019s Koki Hamada earned the conference recognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":224168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,1556,14,151],"class_list":["post-224173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-soccer","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hilo-mens-soccer-hamada-pacwest.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224173","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=224173"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224184,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224173\/revisions\/224184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}