{"id":60811,"date":"2017-05-26T10:38:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T20:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=60811"},"modified":"2019-03-06T13:12:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T23:12:18","slug":"kema-kaleiwahea-ncaa-hero-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/05\/26\/kema-kaleiwahea-ncaa-hero-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> football player named <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> Hero of the Year"},"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=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/manoa-athletics-kema-kaleiwahea.jpg\" alt=\"Makani Kema-Kaleiwahea mugshot and action image\" width=\"620\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/manoa-athletics-kema-kaleiwahea.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/manoa-athletics-kema-kaleiwahea-260x140.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"clear-photo\">Former <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a> defensive lineman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiiathletics.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=15053\"><strong>Makani Kema-Kaleiwahea<\/strong><\/a> is the recipient of the 2017 <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> Division <abbr title=\"Roman numeral one\">I<\/abbr> Men&#8217;s HERO of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p>HERO of the Year finalists are student-athletes who have demonstrated tremendous athletic, academic and leadership skill throughout their collegiate careers, and are HEROES in their own right.<\/p>\n<p>Kema-Kaleiwahea grew up in an abusive adoptive family on <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> with his brother, cousin and three other boys. Once he turned 18, Makani and his now wife (married in 2014), Brianna Summers, made the decision to become the primary caregivers to the young siblings so they would not be separated in the child welfare system, making them the youngest foster parents in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Kema-Kaleiwahea and his award at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2017\/5\/25\/football-kema-kaleiwahea-selected-as-hero-of-the-year-award-winner.aspx\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Athletics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M&#257;noa&#8217;s Makani Kema-Kaleiwahea was honored for his leadership on and off the football field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":60812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[58,83,660,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-60811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-athletics","tag-football","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/manoa-athletics-kema-kaleiwahea.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60811","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=60811"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92060,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60811\/revisions\/92060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}