  {"id":122189,"date":"2020-07-07T14:04:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T00:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=122189"},"modified":"2020-07-07T14:04:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T00:04:29","slug":"lizama-moultrie-pepsi-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/07\/lizama-moultrie-pepsi-seniors\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> Hilo honors women\u2019s volleyball players as Pepsi Seniors"},"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><figure id=\"attachment_106789\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106789\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-lizama.jpg\" alt=\"Kaila Lizama\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-lizama.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-lizama-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-lizama-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaila Lizama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> honors two women\u2019s volleyball players as the Pepsi Seniors for the week of July 5&#8211;11.<\/p>\n<p>Libero <strong>Kaila Lizama<\/strong> had a banner year for a Vulcan team that advanced to the <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> playoffs for the first time since 2011. She set a school record with 582 digs on the season and ranked fifth in PacWest in digs. The <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> native was also named the PacWest Defender of the Week. Lizama, who recently married former Vulcan tennis standout <strong>Vaclav Slezak<\/strong>, was named to the PacWest Scholar-Athlete team with a 3.32 <abbr title=\"Grade Point Average\">GPA<\/abbr> and graduated in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>Middle blocker <strong>Armani Moultrie<\/strong> had the best season of her career as a senior in 2019. The Inglewood, Calif. native had 143 kills and a .276 attack percentage, with 44 blocks total. Moultrie had a career-best 17 kills during a three-set win over Fresno Pacific and was named the Vulcan Pepsi Athlete of the Week on October 19 after helping her team to home victories over Fresno Pacific and Dominican. Moultrie graduated in spring 2020 with a degree in marine science.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Lizama and Moultrie!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2020\/7\/6\/womens-volleyball-senior-salute-volleyball-stars-kaila-lizama-and-armani-moultrie.aspx\">Read the full story at the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> Hilo Athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_105085\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105085\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-armani.jpg\" alt=\"Armani Moultrie\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-armani.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-armani-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-armani-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armani Moultrie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volleyball standouts Kaila Lizama and Armani Moultrie receive the Pepsi Senior Salute for the week of July 5&#8211;11.<\/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":[58,660,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-122189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122189","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=122189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122195,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122189\/revisions\/122195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}