{"id":102531,"date":"2019-09-04T13:05:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T23:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=102531"},"modified":"2019-09-04T15:46:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T01:46:53","slug":"gym-renovation-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/09\/04\/gym-renovation-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Gym <abbr title=\"Roman numeral one\">I<\/abbr> renovation completes major athletics facilities project"},"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><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_51434\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6ot6if4DATE?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"University of Hawaii Gym 1 Blessing\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>With the completion of the Gym <abbr title=\"Roman numeral one\">I<\/abbr> renovation project, the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa men\u2019s and women\u2019s volleyball teams now have a first-class practice facility.<\/p>\n<p>Gym <abbr title=\"Roman numeral one\">I<\/abbr> is fully equipped with new flooring for three practice courts, lights, scoreboards, sound system and air conditioning. The facility was completed in time for the start of fall training camp for the women&#8217;s volleyball team.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/index.aspx\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ<\/abbr> Athletics Department<\/a> held a blessing ceremony last week for the nearly 40-year-old gymnasium, which completes the project that began with the renovation of Gym <abbr title=\"Roman numeral two\">II<\/abbr> for the men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball teams in January.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You see the before and after pictures, it\u2019s difference-making for our student-athletes, for our whole department, and really for the whole state,&rdquo; Athletics Director <strong>David Matlin<\/strong> said. &ldquo;The word that strikes me is gratitude. So many people went in to make this happen from the Legislature to the administration here. To get this done, on-time, in-budget, things are getting better here. I&#8217;m just proud of everyone&#8217;s efforts for that and really thankful for the impact this will have on the student-athletes today and in the future.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2019\/9\/3\/general-gym-i-renovation-completes-major-facilities-project.aspx\">For the full story go to the <abbr>ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/manoa-athletics-gym-i-blessing.jpg\" alt=\"people holding maile lei\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/manoa-athletics-gym-i-blessing.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/manoa-athletics-gym-i-blessing-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/manoa-athletics-gym-i-blessing-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gym <abbr title=\"Roman numeral one\">I<\/abbr> is fully equipped with new flooring for three practice courts, lights, scoreboards, sound system and air conditioning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[21,58,202,9,550,56],"class_list":["post-102531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-21st-century-facilities","tag-athletics","tag-facilities","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102531","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=102531"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102556,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102531\/revisions\/102556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}