  {"id":223911,"date":"2025-10-17T15:13:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T01:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=223911"},"modified":"2025-10-17T15:13:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T01:13:40","slug":"rainbow-sailor-national-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/10\/17\/rainbow-sailor-national-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow sailor earns bid to national championships"},"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\/10\/manoa-sailing-anderson-championships.jpg\" alt=\"Erik Anderson sailing\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-223900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/manoa-sailing-anderson-championships.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/manoa-sailing-anderson-championships-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/manoa-sailing-anderson-championships-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa sailor Erik Anderson has earned a bid to the Intercollegiate Sailing Association (<abbr>ICSA<\/abbr>) Singlehanded National Championships, becoming the first <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> M\u0101noa men&#8217;s sailor to qualify for the event since Mark Spector in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 Pacific Coast Collegiate Sailing Conference (<abbr>PCCSC<\/abbr>) Sportsmanship of the Year award winner will join an exclusive club of Rainbow sailors to compete on the national stage in the singlehanded discipline. Anderson is only the eighth qualification in program history, and the sixth individual sailor to do so.<\/p>\n<p>After placing in the top three for three consecutive years at the <abbr>PCCSC<\/abbr> Singlehanded Championships, the two-time All-<abbr>PCCSC<\/abbr> skipper will be the lone Rainbow sailor to head to the east coast to represent the \u02bbBows at the <abbr>ICSA<\/abbr> Singlehandeds. The event, hosted by Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, will take place November 8&#8211;9.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/10\/16\/sailing-erik-anderson-earns-milestone-bid-to-singlehanded-nationals.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Anderson qualified for the Intercollegiate Sailing Association Singlehanded National Championships.<\/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":[58,1565,9,550],"class_list":["post-223911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-sailing","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\/223911","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=223911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223918,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223911\/revisions\/223918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}