  {"id":28582,"date":"2014-10-20T15:11:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T01:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=28582"},"modified":"2021-10-22T14:14:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T00:14:24","slug":"wahine-sand-volleyball-receives-100000-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/10\/20\/wahine-sand-volleyball-receives-100000-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Wahine sand volleyball receives $100,000 pledge"},"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><figure id=\"attachment_28654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28654\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/murayama1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/murayama1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/murayama1-260x162.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jared and Donna Murayama outside the Wahine sand volleyball head coach&#8217;s office<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jared and Donna Murayama have pledged $100,000 to support the <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/index.aspx?path=wsvb\">Wahine sand volleyball team<\/a> and facilities at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa&#8217;s Athletics Department. In recognition of the Murayama&#8217;s generosity, the Wahine sand volleyball head coach&#8217;s office has been named &ldquo;Murayama <span aria-label=\"Ohana\">&#699;Ohana<\/span>! Cara, Jaimie, Donna and Jared. Aloha and Go Bows!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Private support like this generous investment from the Murayamas spurs growth in quality, compliance and competitive success,&rdquo; said Athletics Director <strong>Ben Jay<\/strong>. &ldquo;We are most grateful to the Murayamas and our other generous donors for investing in our student-athletes&#8217; success and the athletic programs that enrich our community.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Added <strong>Scott Wong<\/strong>, Wahine sand volleyball head coach, &ldquo;The generous financial support that we have received from the Murayamas, and the rest of the community in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>, has helped provide our student-athletes an enhanced experience while at <abbr>ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr>, and ultimately the best chance to compete for a national championship.  A big mahalo to the Murayama <span aria-label=\"ohana\">&#699;ohana<\/span> for investing in the overall success of our student-athletes!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> &ldquo;We hope that all University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> sports fans get behind the sand volleyball program,&rdquo; said Jared Murayama. &ldquo;They have a real shot at becoming national champions and private support will help them get there!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/news\/100000-murayamas-funds-wahine-sand-volleyball-team-and-student-athlete-success\"><em>A University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Foundation news release<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jared and Donna Murayama invest in the success of the <abbr>ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> Wahine Sand Volleyball team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[58,9,550],"class_list":["post-28582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-athletics","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28582","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=28582"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150339,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28582\/revisions\/150339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}