{"id":118334,"date":"2020-05-13T15:31:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T01:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=118334"},"modified":"2020-05-13T15:31:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T01:31:32","slug":"vulcan-athletics-helper-helper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/13\/vulcan-athletics-helper-helper\/","title":{"rendered":"Helper Helper Hilo: Vulcan athletes recognized for community service"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> student-athletes excelled in performing community service, earning them nationwide recognition and a spot in the top NCAA<\/abbr> Division II<\/abbr> Helper Helper schools.<\/p>\n

Based on community service hours per student-athlete, the Vulcan athletes ranked 39th out of 314 NCAA<\/abbr> Division II<\/abbr> schools. The Vulcans totaled 1,642 service hours before shelter-in-place measures slowed their efforts.<\/p>\n

Two UH<\/abbr> Hilo teams placed in the top 10 of their respective sports—the Vulcan men’s tennis team ranked fifth in the nation, and the UH<\/abbr> Hilo women’s tennis team was ninth. Both teams averaged more than 15 hours per student-athlete in the COVID-19 shortened school year.<\/p>\n

“I am very proud of what our student-athletes contribute to our community,” said Vulcan Athletic Director Patrick Guillen<\/strong>. “The Big Island is very service oriented, and our coaches and teams work hard to reflect that giving spirit.”<\/p>\n

Around the country and across all three NCAA<\/abbr> divisions, 467,000 student-athletes contributed 251,551 hours of service to their communities. Their 9,677 events had an economic impact of $11.88 million dollars. The full report is available on the Helper Helper website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more details, visit the UH<\/abbr> Hilo Athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Vulcan student-athletes ranked 39th out of 314 NCAA<\/abbr> Division II<\/abbr> Helper Helper schools nationwide with a total of 1,642 service hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,660,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-118334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118334","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=118334"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118384,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118334\/revisions\/118384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}