{"id":233167,"date":"2026-04-28T12:40:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=233167"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:41:16","slug":"rosenthal-big-west-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/28\/rosenthal-big-west-player-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Warrior volleyball\u2019s Rosenthal named Big West Player of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at M\u0101noa men\u2019s volleyball<\/a> setter Tread Rosenthal was named Big West Men\u2019s Volleyball Player of the Year, as voted by the league\u2019s head coaches.<\/p>\n

He becomes the fifth Rainbow Warrior to earn the honor, joining recent winners Jakob Thelle and Rado Parapunov. ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s five all-time awards are the most in the conference.<\/p>\n

Rosenthal led the Rainbow Warriors to the Big West regular season title with a 9\u20131 record, ranking first in the conference and third nationally in assists per set (10.63), while directing the nation\u2019s No.<\/abbr> 4 offense.<\/p>\n

A semifinalist for AVCA<\/abbr> (American Volleyball Coaches Association) National Player of the Year, Rosenthal earned a record 11 Big West Setter of the Week honors this season and has 23 for his career. He was also named first-team all-conference for the third straight year after helping ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> finish runner-up at the Big West Championship against Long Beach State.<\/p>\n

The Rainbow Warriors look ahead to the NCAA<\/abbr> championship tournament where they are seeded No.<\/abbr> 2 and received a bye into the regional final<\/a> on May 2 at Bankoh Arena at Stan Sheriff Center. They will play the winner of USC<\/abbr> and Belmont Abbey.<\/p>\n

Read more at Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Setter Tread Rosenthal earned a record 11 Big West Setter of the Week honors this season and has 23 for his career. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":233179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,9,550,80],"class_list":["post-233167","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\/2026\/04\/manoa-rosenthal-big-west-player-of-year.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233167","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=233167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233181,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233167\/revisions\/233181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}