{"id":141710,"date":"2021-05-18T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=141710"},"modified":"2021-05-18T13:52:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T23:52:05","slug":"retrofitted-clarence-tc-ching-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/05\/18\/retrofitted-clarence-tc-ching-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrofitted Clarence <abbr title=\"Thing Chock\">T.C.<\/abbr> Ching Athletics Complex renderings released"},"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><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_87222\"  width=\"676\" height=\"380\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aIdFTPb_0z8?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Ching Stadium   social\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>There are new architectural renderings of the <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/football\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> football team<\/a>\u2019s new home field on the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> M\u0101noa campus where the Rainbow Warriors will play their next three seasons. The renderings of a retrofitted Clarence <abbr>T.C.<\/abbr> Ching Athletics Complex show additional grandstands that will expand capacity from 3,500 to about 9,000 seats, along with the press boxes, hospitality suites and aerial views.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-athletics-ching-field-rendering-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"green football field surrounded by grandstands\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-141711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-athletics-ching-field-rendering-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-athletics-ching-field-rendering-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-athletics-ching-field-rendering.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first game scheduled at Ching Field is September 4 versus Portland State University, the first of six home games scheduled in 2021. The Rainbow Warriors have seven home games scheduled in each of the 2022 and 2023 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The university is fast-tracking the $8.3 million project after being notified in December 2020 that Aloha Stadium, the Rainbow Warriors&#8217; home field since 1975, would not be available for fans the next three years. The <abbr>ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> Foundation launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/hui.uhfoundation.org\/project\/25766\">fundraising campaign<\/a> on April 12 to help cover the unexpected cost of the project. The Clarence <abbr>T.C.<\/abbr> Ching Foundation answered the call, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/04\/12\/campaign-uh-football-field\/\">donating $1.5 million to help fund the retrofit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Season ticket information will be sent to season ticket holders in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-athletics-ching-field-rendering3.jpg\" alt=\"football field surrounded by grandstands\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-141714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-athletics-ching-field-rendering3.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-athletics-ching-field-rendering3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-athletics-ching-field-rendering3-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-athletics-ching-field-rendering2.jpg\" alt=\"grandstand seating\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-141712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-athletics-ching-field-rendering2.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-athletics-ching-field-rendering2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-athletics-ching-field-rendering2-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-athletics-ching-field-rendering4.jpg\" alt=\"corner of football field and grandstand\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-141715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-athletics-ching-field-rendering4.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-athletics-ching-field-rendering4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-athletics-ching-field-rendering4-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The retrofitted complex will expand capacity from 3,500 to about 9,000 seats.<\/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":[58,83,550],"class_list":["post-141710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-football","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141710","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=141710"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141806,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141710\/revisions\/141806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}