{"id":233606,"date":"2026-05-05T12:38:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=233606"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:38:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:38:51","slug":"big-west-softball-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/05\/05\/big-west-softball-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Mānoa softball\u2019s Thanatharn, Irimata earn top Big West honors; 7 named All-Big West"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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First-year University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at Mānoa<\/span> softball<\/a> head coach Panita Thanatharn earned Big West Co-Coach of the Year honors, sophomore Taryn Irimata was voted Big West Pitcher of the Year and a total of seven Rainbow Wahine garnered all-conference honors, announced on May 5.<\/p>\n

糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Mānoa<\/span>\u2019s seven All-Big West selections—as voted on by the league\u2019s 10 head coaches—are the most for the Rainbow Wahine since 2017. Milan Ah Yat (junior, shortshop), Millie Fidge (senior, first base\/pitcher), Irimata (sophomore, pitcher) and Jamie McGaughey (junior, third base\/first base) were voted to the All-Big West First Team, while Hannah Pitts (senior, pitcher) and Kayara Tuiloma (sophomore, left field) were placed on the second team. Rookie Briana Maio-Silva rounded out the awardees, becoming just the 12th 糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> player to earn a spot on the Big West’s All-Freshman Team.<\/p>\n

Thanatharn led the ‘Bows to a 29-18 overall record and a 21-6 mark in conference to claim the second seed in this week’s Big West Championship. After a slow start, the Rainbow Wahine caught fire during the conference season, winning seven of nine series\u2014including five series sweeps. It is only the sixth time in program history that 糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> has reached the 20-win plateau in conference play.<\/p>\n

Irimata, a Campbell High School graduate from ʻEwa<\/span> Beach, leads the league with a 2.21 overall earned-run average and a minuscule 1.60 ERA<\/abbr> in conference games. Irimata leads the team in strikeouts (83), complete games (13), shutouts (5) and innings pitched (117.0), while holding opponents to a .216 batting average.<\/p>\n

The Rainbow Wahine earned the No<\/abbr>. 2 seed in the double-elimination Big West Softball Championship at Anderson Family Field in Fullerton, California. 糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> will play the winner of No<\/abbr>. 3 seed UC<\/abbr> Santa Barbara vs<\/abbr>. No<\/abbr>. 6 seed UC<\/abbr> San Diego on May 7.<\/p>\n

For more on the awardees, visit the 糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Mānoa<\/span> Athletics website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Mānoa<\/span>\u2019s seven All-Big West selections are the most for the Rainbow Wahine since 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":233607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,1527,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-233606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-softball","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/manoa-softball-big-west-awards.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233606","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=233606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233609,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233606\/revisions\/233609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}