{"id":227733,"date":"2025-12-30T15:05:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=227733"},"modified":"2025-12-30T15:05:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:05:22","slug":"manoa-volleyball-big-west-preseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/12\/30\/manoa-volleyball-big-west-preseason\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Warrior volleyball picked No. 2, land 3 on Big West preseason team"},"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\/12\/manoa-mvb-big-west-preseason.jpg\" alt=\"糖心Vlog官方 M\u0101noa volleyball team celebrating on the court\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-227732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manoa-mvb-big-west-preseason.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manoa-mvb-big-west-preseason-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manoa-mvb-big-west-preseason-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\">men&#8217;s volleyball team<\/a> was picked second in the preseason Big West coaches\u2019 poll while a trio of Rainbow Warriors were named to the seven-member preseason team\u2014setter Tread Rosenthal, outside hitter Adrien Roure and opposite Kristian Titriyski.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa received 22 total points, just two points behind preseason favorite Long Beach State. <abbr>UC<\/abbr> Irvine was ranked third followed by a three-way tie for fourth among <abbr>CSUN<\/abbr>, <abbr>UC<\/abbr> San Diego and <abbr>UC<\/abbr> Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Warriors, who captured their fourth Big West Championship title last season, were also ranked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/12\/29\/warrior-volleyball-avca-ranked-no-2\/\"><abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 2 in the American Volleyball Coaches Association (<abbr>AVCA<\/abbr>) preseason top 20 coaches poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa returns five starters\u2014Rosenthal, Roure, Titriyski, Justin Todd and Louis Sakanoko\u2014and 12 lettermen from last year&#8217;s squad that finished 27\u20136 and advanced to the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Championship semifinals. Rosenthal and Roure were <abbr>AVCA<\/abbr> first-team All-Americans while Titriyski was named to the second team.<\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Warriors open the 2026 season with a two-match series against <abbr>NJIT<\/abbr> on January 2 and January 4. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/11\/19\/warrior-volleyball-2026-schedule\/\">See the entire 2026 schedule on <em><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> News<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/12\/29\/mens-volleyball-mens-volleyball-no-2-in-big-west-preseason-poll.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s Tread Rosenthal, Adrien Roure and Kristian Titriyski were named to the seven-member preseason team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":227732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,9,550,80],"class_list":["post-227733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-volleyball","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manoa-mvb-big-west-preseason.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227733","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=227733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227770,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227733\/revisions\/227770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}