  {"id":232097,"date":"2026-04-13T16:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T02:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=232097"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T02:39:11","slug":"water-polo-3rd-straight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/13\/water-polo-3rd-straight-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Wahine water polo captures 3rd straight Big West title, headed to nationals"},"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\/2026\/04\/manoa-wp-big-west-champs-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-232096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/manoa-wp-big-west-champs-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/manoa-wp-big-west-champs-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/manoa-wp-big-west-champs-1-130x73.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\/womens-water-polo\">women&#8217;s water polo team<\/a> earned its third consecutive Big West Championship title with a victory over Long Beach State in the tournament final, April 12.<\/p>\n<p>Seven Rainbow Wahine players contributed to the scoring, and goalkeeper Daisy Logtens made nine saves to lead top-seeded <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa to a 14\u20139 win. Agatha Weston was named Big West Championship Most Valuable Player after scoring four goals for the \u2018Bows.<\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Wahine secured their seventh conference tournament crown and claimed the Big West\u2019s automatic berth to the National Collegiate Women\u2019s Water Polo Championship set for April 24&#8211;26 in La Jolla, California.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s run of three consecutive appearances in the <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> tournament will be the longest in program history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2026\/4\/13\/womens-water-polo-water-polo-faces-cal-in-ncaa-championship-quarterfinal.aspx\">The \u2018Bows will face fourth-seeded <abbr>UC<\/abbr> Berkeley<\/a> in a first-round match on April 24. The <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Tournament matches will be streamed on <a href=\"http:\/\/ncaa.com\">ncaa.com<\/a> until the national championship match on April 26, which will be televised on <abbr>ESPNU<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2026\/4\/12\/womens-water-polo-three-peat-water-polo-claims-third-straight-big-west-title.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa secured its seventh conference tournament crown and claimed the Big West\u2019s automatic berth to the National Collegiate Women\u2019s Water Polo Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":232096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,9,550,1575],"class_list":["post-232097","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":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/manoa-wp-big-west-champs-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232097","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=232097"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232103,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232097\/revisions\/232103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}