{"id":904440,"date":"2026-09-25T02:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/904440\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T02:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:18:14","slug":"rainbow-wahine-basketball-begins-new-era-with-khalilah-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/904440\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Wahine basketball begins new era with Khalilah Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; The University of Hawaii women\u2019s basketball team opened Fall camp on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Rainbow Wahine officially begin the Khalilah Mitchell era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mitchell, a long time assistant with the team, took over the program from long time head coach Laura Beeman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Coach K wasting no time installing her face-paced system, a blend of her playing days at LSU and what she learned from Beeman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s a style that I\u2019m familiar with I played at LSU and I wanted to bridge that gap between what my experience as a player, what I\u2019ve learned from Coach B, and what the roster, the personnel that we have,\u201d Coach Mitchell said. \u201cSo blending all of that makes it very transition forward and it also makes it very focused on what their strengths are, so that\u2019s the beauty of this offense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The squad working on conditioning for the new tempo with only 12 players on the roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI think it\u2019s great for the girls, I mean, more reps for everyone in training, it\u2019s more court time for everyone, you know, during the games,\u201d Guard Bailey Flavell said. \u201cI think, you know, it\u2019s a great group of girls, so, yeah, I\u2019m really excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Rainbow Wahine schedule is yet to be released.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; The University of Hawaii women\u2019s basketball team opened Fall camp on Wednesday. The Rainbow Wahine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-904440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}