  {"id":162817,"date":"2022-08-02T13:30:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T23:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=162817"},"modified":"2022-08-02T13:34:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T23:34:38","slug":"hilo-soccer-team-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/08\/02\/hilo-soccer-team-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Team academic award for <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo women\u2019s soccer"},"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\/2022\/08\/hilo-athletics-womens-soccer.jpg\" alt=\"U H Hilo womens soccer players\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-162751 type:primaryImage\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hilo-athletics-womens-soccer.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hilo-athletics-womens-soccer-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hilo-athletics-womens-soccer-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\">women\u2019s soccer team<\/a> earned a 2021&#8211;22 United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award. The Vulcans posted a 3.40 team <abbr title=\"grade point average\">GPA<\/abbr> to rank 373 of the 502 women\u2019s teams awarded.<\/p>\n<p>Eight hundred and one soccer teams (299 men\u2019s, 502 women\u2019s) earned the award for the 2021&#8211;22 academic year by achieving a team <abbr>GPA<\/abbr> of 3.0 or higher.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcans last won the award for the 2018&#8211;19 academic year when they racked up a 3.37 team <abbr>GPA<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2021, Vulcan forward <strong>Daelenn Tokunaga<\/strong>, with a 3.75 <abbr>GPA<\/abbr>, was named to the United Soccer Coaches <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> Division <abbr title=\"roman numeral two\">II<\/abbr> Women\u2019s Scholar All-America First Team. The 2021 PacWest Conference Player of the Year was also later named PacWest Conference Women&#8217;s Soccer Scholar-Athlete of the Year and PacWest Conference Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty Vulcans were also named to the 2021&#8211;22 PacWest All-Academic Team in June for reaching a minimum 3.0 cumulative team <abbr>GPA<\/abbr> with at least two semesters at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo and having played in at least one game.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcans will begin their season on September 1 as they look to defend their PacWest Conference Championship with home matches taking place on their new on-campus field.<\/p>\n<p>For more, read the story at <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2022\/7\/29\/womens-soccer-earns-united-soccer-academic-award.aspx\">hiloathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vulcans achieved a 3.40 team <abbr title=\"grade point average\">GPA<\/abbr> for the 2021&#8211;22 academic year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":162751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,660,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-162817","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":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hilo-athletics-womens-soccer.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162817","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=162817"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162851,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162817\/revisions\/162851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}