IRVINE, Calif. – Three members of the University of Hawai'i soccer team earned Big West Conference postseason recognition as the league announced its all-conference selections Wednesday.
 
Senior Sonest Furtado and junior Raisa Strom-Okimoto each earned a spot on the on the all-Big West first team, while freshman Leialoha Medeiros was selected to the Big West all-Freshman team.
 
Furtado finished the season ranked second in the Big West with seven goals, and was tied for second with 18 points. She tallied three game-winning goals on the season, including an 86th-minute winner against UC Santa Barbara, her second of the match. Furtado finished the season with two multiple-goal matches, and picked up Big West Conference Offensive Player of the Week honors twice during the season. She finished her career ranked 10th in UH history in both goals (14) and points (35), and eighth in shots (116), shots on goal (59), and game-winning goals (4).
 
Strom-Okimoto earns first-team all-Big West honors for the second consecutive season after finishing 2017 with three goals, two assists, and eight points. She led the Big West in shots (59) and shots per game (3.47) in 2017. Two of Strom-Okimoto's goals were overtime game-winners, including a 100th-minute score against Fairfield and a 96th-minute winner at Arizona State. She was one of just three UH field players to start every game in 2017, and led all Rainbow Wahine field players with 1470 minutes played. She finished her junior season with 30 career points on 10 goals and 10 assists.
 
Medeiros scored one goal during her freshman campaign at UH, a first-half score that put the Rainbow Wahine ahead of eventual Big West regular season champion UC Irvine. She recorded 14 shots and five shots on goal during the season after playing in 14 games and making eight starts, including starting the final six games of Big West play.
 
Furtado and Strom-Okimoto's first-team selections mark the first time since 2007 and 2008 that the Rainbow Wahine had multiple first-team all-conference players in back-to-back seasons. UH placed five players on the all-WAC first team in 2007 and three in 2008. Strom-Okimoto joined Addie Steiner on the all-Big West first team in 2016.
 
Medeiros' selection to the all-Freshman team marks the first Rainbow Wahine member of the Big West all-Freshman team since Furtado earned the recognition after her freshman season in 2014.
 
Regular-season champion UC Irvine dominated the post-season awards, with Scott Juniper picking up Coach of the Year honors, Noel Baham earning Offensive Player of the Year, Kiana Palacios earning Defensive Player of the Year, and Sydney Carr garnering Freshman of the Year honors. Long Beach State's Kaitlin Fregulia was named the league's Defensive Player of the Year, while Morgan Bertsch of Cal State Fullerton and Jovani McCaskill of CSUN shared Goalkeeper of the Year honors.