  {"id":233591,"date":"2026-05-05T12:34:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=233591"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:37:15","slug":"rosenthal-finalist-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/05\/05\/rosenthal-finalist-player-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Setter Rosenthal named finalist for volleyball Player of the Year"},"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\/05\/manoa-mvb-rosenthal-poty-finalist.jpg\" alt=\"AVCA Player of the Year Finalist graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-233575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/manoa-mvb-rosenthal-poty-finalist.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/manoa-mvb-rosenthal-poty-finalist-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/manoa-mvb-rosenthal-poty-finalist-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 setter Tread Rosenthal has been selected as one of four finalists for the American Volleyball Coaches Association (<abbr>AVCA<\/abbr>) Men\u2019s Collegiate Player of the Year Award.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes just after Rosenthal led the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/05\/02\/mens-volleyball-final-four-bound\/\">Rainbow Warriors to a four-set victory over <abbr title=\"University of Southern California\">USC<\/abbr> in the <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> Regional Final<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A first-team <abbr>AVCA<\/abbr> All-American last season, Rosenthal currently ranks second nationally in assists per set while directing the nation&#8217;s <abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 4-ranked offense. The three-time All-Big West first team honoree has been selected as the league&#8217;s Setter of the Week a record 11 times this season. Rosenthal was also recently named the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/28\/rosenthal-big-west-player-of-the-year\/\">Big West Player of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The other three finalists were Pepperdine&#8217;s Cole Hartke, Ball State&#8217;s Patrick Rogers and <abbr title=\"University of California, Los Angeles\">UCLA<\/abbr>&#8216;s Andrew Rowan. The Player of the Year will be announced on Friday, May 8.<\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Warriors will face Long Beach State on May 9 in the semifinals of the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Championships in Los Angeles, California. The winner will play the winner of <abbr title=\"University of California\">UC<\/abbr> Irvine <abbr title=\"versus\">vs.<\/abbr> Ball State on May 11 for the national championship.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\/schedule\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s Tread Rosenthal is one of four finalists for the <abbr>AVCA<\/abbr> Men\u2019s Collegiate Player of the Year Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":233575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,9,550,80],"class_list":["post-233591","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\/05\/manoa-mvb-rosenthal-poty-finalist.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233591","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=233591"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233616,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233591\/revisions\/233616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}