  {"id":215369,"date":"2025-05-06T16:30:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T02:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=215369"},"modified":"2025-05-06T16:30:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T02:30:56","slug":"mens-volleyball-avca-all-america-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/05\/06\/mens-volleyball-avca-all-america-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Rainbow Warriors earn <abbr>AVCA<\/abbr> All-America honors"},"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\/2025\/05\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-allbw-2025.jpg\" alt=\"volleyball players and All-Big West graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-215285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-allbw-2025.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-allbw-2025-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-allbw-2025-130x73.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=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\">men\u2019s volleyball team<\/a> placed five players on the <abbr title=\"American Volleyball Coaches Association\">AVCA<\/abbr> All-America team, including two on the first team\u2014setter Tread Rosenthal and outside hitter Adrien Roure. In addition, opposite Kristian Titriyski was selected to the second team, while libero <span aria-label=\"Eleu\">&#699;Eleu<\/span> Choy and middle blocker Kurt Nusterer were honorable mention selections.<\/p>\n<p>The five honorees are tied for the second-most in a single season behind a program-record six in 2023. It marks the eighth time in the last nine years that the Rainbow Warriors had at least four student-athletes honored.<\/p>\n<p>Rosenthal, a sophomore, ranks third nationally in assists with 10.65 per set, and Roure, a freshman, was Big West Championship MVP and averages 3.14 kills per set this season. Titriyski, also a freshman, averages 4.24 kills and 0.45 aces per set. Nusterer leads the team in 1.02 blocks per set, while Choy has a team-high 1.68 digs per set and is the only player to start all 31 matches.<\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Warriors (26-5) are the No. 2 seed in the upcoming <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> Championships and will face Penn State in a national quarterfinal match on May 8, at the Covelli Center in Columbus, Ohio. The national semifinals are on May 10, and the championship match is on May 12.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/5\/5\/mens-volleyball-mens-volleyball-places-five-on-all-america-team.aspx\">Read more on HawaiiAthletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <abbr>ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> men\u2019s volleyball team placed five players on the <abbr>AVCA<\/abbr> All-America team, including two on the first team.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-215369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215369","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=215369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215373,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215369\/revisions\/215373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}