  {"id":197931,"date":"2024-05-16T16:08:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T02:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=197931"},"modified":"2024-05-16T16:08:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T02:08:06","slug":"wahine-water-polo-finishes-no-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/05\/16\/wahine-water-polo-finishes-no-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Wahine water polo finishes No. 3, highest in program history"},"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\/2024\/05\/manoa-athletics-water-polo-final-rank.jpg\" alt=\"water polo team in a huddle\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-197925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/manoa-athletics-water-polo-final-rank.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/manoa-athletics-water-polo-final-rank-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/manoa-athletics-water-polo-final-rank-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&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\">women\u2019s water polo<\/a> team placed third in two national polls, marking the highest final ranking in the history of the Rainbow Wahine program and the Big West.<\/p>\n<p>This season&#8217;s finish is also the highest for a Big West team since the conference began sponsoring women&#8217;s water polo in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The Big West champion Rainbow Wahine finished 23-4 in Maureen Cole&#8217;s farewell season as head coach and advanced to the semifinals of the Women&#8217;s National Collegiate Water Polo Championship last week in Berkeley, Calif. <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> set a program record with an .852 overall winning percentage and became the first Big West school to reach the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> tournament&#8217;s final four since the &#8216;Bows&#8217; semifinal appearance in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/5\/15\/womens-water-polo-water-polo-places-third-in-final-polls-highest-in-program-history.aspx\">HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team placed third in two national polls, marking the highest final ranking in the history of the Rainbow Wahine program.<\/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":[58,9,550,1575],"class_list":["post-197931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-water-polo","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197931","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=197931"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197935,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197931\/revisions\/197935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}