{"id":230338,"date":"2026-03-03T14:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T00:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=230338"},"modified":"2026-03-03T14:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T00:04:24","slug":"rainbow-warrior-volleyball-big-west-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/03\/rainbow-warrior-volleyball-big-west-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Warrior volleyball claims 2 Big West weekly awards"},"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\/2026\/03\/manoa-volleyball-big-west-week.jpeg\" alt=\"Tread Rosenthal and Louis Sakanoko\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-230339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/manoa-volleyball-big-west-week.jpeg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/manoa-volleyball-big-west-week-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/manoa-volleyball-big-west-week-130x73.jpeg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"number\">No.<\/abbr> 3 University of <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\">men\u2019s volleyball<\/a> team claimed two Big West Player of the Week honors following a two-match sweep of <abbr>No.<\/abbr> 6 <abbr title=\"Brigham Young University\">BYU<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>Outside hitter Louis Sakanoko was named Offensive Player of the Week, while Tread Rosenthal earned Setter of the Week recognition. It marked Sakanoko\u2019s first weekly award this season and second of his career. Rosenthal collected his fifth setter honor of the season and 10th overall.<\/p>\n<p>Sakanoko totaled 30 kills (4.29 per set) while hitting .436 across the series. He added 11 digs, three aces and three blocks, posting 15 kills in each match.<\/p>\n<p>Rosenthal averaged 11.14 assists per set, guiding an offense that hit .455 for the series. He also contributed seven kills, four aces, 11 digs and four blocks, tying a career high with four aces in the rematch.<\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Warriors continues its homestand with matches against Pepperdine on March 4 and 6, at SimpliFi Arena at Stan Sheriff Center.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2026\/3\/2\/mens-volleyball-weekly-honors-for-mens-volleyball-after-byu-series-sweep.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Sakanoko earned Offensive Player of the Week and Tread Rosenthal was named Setter of the Week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":230339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,9,550,80],"class_list":["post-230338","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\/2026\/03\/manoa-volleyball-big-west-week.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230338","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=230338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230341,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230338\/revisions\/230341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}