  {"id":176274,"date":"2023-04-24T13:12:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T23:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=176274"},"modified":"2023-04-24T13:12:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T23:12:14","slug":"manoa-athletics-annual-h-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/04\/24\/manoa-athletics-annual-h-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> M\u0101noa student-athletes honored at annual <abbr>H<\/abbr> 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\/2023\/04\/manoa-athletics-h-awards-2023.jpg\" alt=\"People sitting at tables near an H Awards sign\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-176271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/manoa-athletics-h-awards-2023.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/manoa-athletics-h-awards-2023-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/manoa-athletics-h-awards-2023-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\">athletics department<\/a> hosted its annual <abbr>H<\/abbr> Awards on April 17, under the lights of Les Murakami Stadium, honoring student-athletes\u2019 achievements from the 2022&#8211;23 school year.<\/p>\n<p>A highlight of the evening was the presentation of the Jack Bonham Award, which is considered the department&#8217;s highest honor and recognizes the top male and female senior student-athlete who &#8220;best exemplifies the ideals for which Jack Bonham stood for in the areas of athletic excellence, academic achievement, public service, leadership and character.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\">Men&#8217;s volleyball<\/a> player <strong>Jakob Thelle<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\">women&#8217;s water polo<\/a> player <strong>Emma van Rossum<\/strong> received the award.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Related <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> News story:<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/04\/18\/2023-jack-bonham-award\/\">Van Rossum, Thelle named 2023 Jack Bonham Award winners<\/a>, April 18, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For academic achievement, the department&#8217;s highest academic honor, the Jenny Matsuda Award, was given to three individuals, including <strong>Justin Lisoway<\/strong> of <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\">men\u2019s swimming<\/a>, who received the award for the second consecutive year. The women&#8217;s honorees were <strong>Kylie McNamara<\/strong> of <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\">women&#8217;s soccer<\/a> and <strong>Lea Ann Kruse<\/strong> of <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-beach-volleyball\">beach volleyball<\/a>. The top academic team awards went to <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\">men&#8217;s tennis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\">women&#8217;s tennis<\/a> and women&#8217;s soccer.<\/p>\n<p>For athletic recognition, volleyball players dominated the Athlete of the Year awards. The male Athlete of the Year recipient was men\u2019s volleyball player <strong>Dimitrios Mouchlias<\/strong> while there was a three-way tie for the women&#8217;s award between <strong>Amber Igiede<\/strong> of <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\">women&#8217;s volleyball<\/a>, <strong>Brooke Van Sickle<\/strong> of beach volleyball and <strong>Laticia Transom<\/strong> of <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\">women&#8217;s swimming<\/a>. Van Sickle was a repeat winner after receiving the award last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Rookie of the Year Awards went to <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/football\">football<\/a> player <strong>Peter Manuma<\/strong> and women&#8217;s water polo player <strong>Bia Mantellato-Dias<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For more, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2023\/4\/19\/general-uhs-best-honored-at-annual-h-awards.aspx\">hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022&#8211;23 <abbr>H<\/abbr> Awards were held on April 17 at the Les Murakami Stadium.<\/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":[58,142,660,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-176274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-award","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","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\/176274","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=176274"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176295,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176274\/revisions\/176295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}