{"id":235451,"date":"2026-06-03T17:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=235451"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:20:24","slug":"vulcan-saludares-all-pac-west-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/06\/03\/vulcan-saludares-all-pac-west-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcan golfer Saludares on All-Pac West Team"},"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_235521\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-235521\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hilo-athletics-saludares.jpg\" alt=\"Saludares swinging\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-235521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hilo-athletics-saludares.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hilo-athletics-saludares-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hilo-athletics-saludares-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-235521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo credit: Nicholas Shultz\/Jessup Sports)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>University of <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo women\u2019s golfer Kiersten Saludares earned All-Pacific West Conference Third Team honors following a standout senior season.<\/p>\n<p>Saludares was the lone Vulcan selected to the 2026 All-PacWest Teams, which are determined by final rankings based on full-season performance metrics.<\/p>\n<p>The recognition comes after the Vulcans captured the 2026 PacWest Conference Championship in Las Vegas last month. <\/p>\n<p>Saludares finished the season with a 78.1 adjusted scoring average and recorded five top-20 finishes. She opened the year with an individual title at the Grisham Memorial Shootout in Washington. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2026\/5\/22\/womens-golf-saludares-on-all-pacwest-team.aspx\"><abbr>ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ<\/abbr> Hilo Athletics website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiersten Saludares was named to the All-PacWest Third Team after helping lead <abbr>ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ<\/abbr> Hilo to a conference championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":235521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[1537,14,151],"class_list":["post-235451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-golf","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hilo-athletics-saludares.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235451","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=235451"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235523,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235451\/revisions\/235523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}