{"id":160249,"date":"2022-06-06T16:06:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T02:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=160249"},"modified":"2022-06-06T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T02:10:06","slug":"vulcans-crowned-hawaii-challenge-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/06\/06\/vulcans-crowned-hawaii-challenge-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcans crowned Hawai\u02bbi Challenge Champions"},"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\/2022\/06\/hilo-2022-pacwest-hawaii-challenge.jpg\" alt=\"U H Hilo Hawaii Challenge graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-160245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/hilo-2022-pacwest-hawaii-challenge.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/hilo-2022-pacwest-hawaii-challenge-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/hilo-2022-pacwest-hawaii-challenge-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the first time ever, the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/index.aspx\">Athletics Department<\/a> claims the local bragging rights among the three <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> Division <abbr title=\"Roman numeral two\">II<\/abbr> schools by winning the 2021&#8211;22 PacWest <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Challenge. The Vulcans out-pointed five-time defending champion <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Pacific University (<abbr>HPU<\/abbr>) by a single point. <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo accumulated 22 points during the year while <abbr>HPU<\/abbr> had 21. Chaminade finished third with 13.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;<abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo is pleased to finally capture this title in our friendly competition between the island schools,&rdquo; Director of Athletics <strong>Patrick Guillen<\/strong> said. &ldquo;Our student-athletes, coaches and staff work very hard on- and off-the-court and field and behind the scenes that made this season possible. I am proud of our entire program and honored to finally win this title between friends.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcans and Sharks both captured four first-place points but <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo had the benefit of not having any of its teams finishing third in any of the nine sports which the competition comprises. Chaminade had one first-place finish (volleyball).<\/p>\n<p>The challenge resumed this academic term after taking 2020&#8211;21 off due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The PacWest <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Challenge comprises nine sports in which all three of the state\u2019s Division <abbr title=\"Roman numeral two\">II<\/abbr> schools participate\u2014women\u2019s cross country, men&#8217;s and women\u2019s soccer, women\u2019s volleyball, men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball, women\u2019s tennis, men\u2019s golf and softball. At the end of the academic term, the scores from all nine sports are tabulated to determine the overall champion.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the PacWest <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Challenge, <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2022\/6\/5\/general-vulcans-crowned-the-hawai-i-challenge-champions.aspx\">go to hiloathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo Athletic Department won the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Challenge for the first time in department history.<\/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":[58,911,14,151],"class_list":["post-160249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-program-recognition","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\/160249","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=160249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160252,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160249\/revisions\/160252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}