{"id":119230,"date":"2020-05-22T13:04:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T23:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=119230"},"modified":"2021-03-17T11:25:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T21:25:46","slug":"checchia-co-sida-academic-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/22\/checchia-co-sida-academic-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcan tennis standout honored for academic excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Luca Checchia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> tennis standout has been named to the College Sports Information Directors of America (Co-SIDA<\/abbr>) Academic All-District Men\u2019s At-Large Team for excelling both on the court and in the classroom.<\/p>\n

Sophomore tennis player Luca Checchia<\/strong>, a native of Valencia, Spain, was one of 10 selections for the NCAA<\/abbr> Division II<\/abbr> District 8 At-Large Team<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Checchia played No.<\/abbr> 4 in singles this year for the Vulcans and No.<\/abbr> 2 in doubles. In 2019, Checchia played a key role in UH<\/abbr> Hilo’s march in the NCAA<\/abbr> tournament, winning a pair of singles matches as the Vulcans reached the Final Four.<\/p>\n

In addition to his academic achievements, Checchia has maintained a 4.0 GPA<\/abbr> in his business major, and will now advance to the Co-SIDA<\/abbr> Academic All-American ballot. The District and All-American teams are voted on by college sports information directors across the country, taking in account a combination of athletic and academic achievement for each nominee.<\/p>\n

For more details on the Co-SIDA<\/abbr> All-District 8 team, visit the UH<\/abbr> Hilo Athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UH<\/abbr> Hilo sophomore Luca Checchia was one of 10 selections for the NCAA<\/abbr> Division II<\/abbr> District 8 At-Large Team.<\/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-119230","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\/119230","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=119230"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119246,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119230\/revisions\/119246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}