{"id":115311,"date":"2020-04-06T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=115311"},"modified":"2020-04-06T12:53:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T22:53:16","slug":"rainbow-wahine-academic-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/06\/rainbow-wahine-academic-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Wahine recognized for academic excellence"},"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><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-athletics-track-and-field.jpg\" alt=\"women running on a track\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-115324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-athletics-track-and-field.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-athletics-track-and-field-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manoa-athletics-track-and-field-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Seven <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> track and field female student-athletes earned academic awards from the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, following the indoor track season.<\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Wahine recipients were graduate student <strong>Tristan Setzer<\/strong>; seniors <strong>Natasha Currence<\/strong>, <strong>Megan Fereira<\/strong> and <strong>Teuila Gardner<\/strong>; juniors <strong>Olivia Hill<\/strong> and <strong>Kristen LaCosse<\/strong>; and sophomore <strong>Jada Pierce<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 264 female student-athletes earned the award from 22 different institutions. The student-athletes met the following criteria for nomination:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3.00 or better cumulative grade point average<\/li>\n<li>Student-athlete must be at least a sophomore academically<\/li>\n<li>Student-athlete must have completed one full academic year at the institution prior to the season for which the award is being received<\/li>\n<li>Student-athlete must have competed in 50 percent or more of the institution&#8217;s competition in the student-athlete&#8217;s respective sport<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2020\/4\/3\/womens-track-field-7-wahine-earn-academic-awards.aspx\">For more details on the student-athletes, visit the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation announced its academic awards, including seven female student-athletes from <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa.<\/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":[58,660,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-115311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","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\/115311","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=115311"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115326,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115311\/revisions\/115326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}