  {"id":225002,"date":"2025-11-06T10:50:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=225002"},"modified":"2025-11-06T10:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:50:34","slug":"wahine-beach-volleyball-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/11\/06\/wahine-beach-volleyball-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Rainbow Wahine beach volleyball players to compete at nationals"},"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\/11\/manoa-beach-volleyball-nationals.jpg\" alt=\"AVCA Pairs Nationals graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-225001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/manoa-beach-volleyball-nationals.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/manoa-beach-volleyball-nationals-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/manoa-beach-volleyball-nationals-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sydney Miller and Emily Heintzelman will represent the University of <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-beach-volleyball\">beach volleyball team<\/a> at the 2025 American Volleyball Coaches Association (<abbr>AVCA<\/abbr>) Beach Pairs National Championship November 7&#8211;9, in Huntsville, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s championship features a 64-pair bracket. Schools earned bids in three ways: performance in the 2025 spring season, top finishes at qualifying events held over the past six weeks, and being one of the at-large selections. Miller and Heintzelman were the top Rainbow Wahine finishers at the Surf City Challenge in October.<\/p>\n<p>Key matches from the <abbr>AVCA<\/abbr> Beach National Championships will be streamed. Six matches from the women&#8217;s pairs event\u2014two of the quarterfinals, both semifinals, the third-place match, and the championship\u2014will be available at <abbr>ESPN<\/abbr>&#43;. An additional 20 matches will be streamed on the <abbr>AVCA<\/abbr> YouTube channel. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avca.org\/news-events\/avca-collegiate-beach-national-championships\/broadcast-stream\/\">Check out the broadcast schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the fourth year of the <abbr>AVCA<\/abbr> National Beach Championships, with six pairs of Rainbow Wahine previously competing in the event.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/11\/5\/womens-beach-volleyball-miller-and-heintzelman-head-to-avca-pairs-nationals.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney Miller and Emily Heintzelman will represent <abbr>¶«¾«Ó°Òµ<\/abbr> M\u0101noa at the 2025 <abbr>AVCA<\/abbr> Beach Pairs National Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":225001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,9,550,80],"class_list":["post-225002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-volleyball","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/manoa-beach-volleyball-nationals.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225002","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=225002"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225022,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225002\/revisions\/225022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}