{"id":169530,"date":"2022-11-23T12:19:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T22:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=169530"},"modified":"2022-11-23T12:21:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T22:21:06","slug":"rainbow-wahine-volleyball-academic-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/11\/23\/rainbow-wahine-volleyball-academic-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Wahine volleyball players earn Academic All-District honors"},"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\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/manoa-athletics-womens-volleyball-css-academic-all-district.jpg\" alt=\"U H women&#039;s volleyball academic all-district graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-169507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/manoa-athletics-womens-volleyball-css-academic-all-district.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/manoa-athletics-womens-volleyball-css-academic-all-district-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/manoa-athletics-womens-volleyball-css-academic-all-district-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Four University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\">women&#8217;s volleyball<\/a> players were selected to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team&#8212;the most in a single season in program history. The four Rainbow Wahine are now eligible for Academic All-America honors.<\/p>\n<p>This year marks the first time that all student-athletes who meet the requirements received the award. In order to be eligible, a student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.5 cumulative <abbr title=\"grade point average\">GPA<\/abbr> (on a 4.0 scale) at their current institution.<\/p>\n<h2>More about the  Rainbow Wahine awardees<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Kendra Ham<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A junior majoring in human development and family studies.<\/li>\n<li>Has been on the Dean&#8217;s List every semester.<\/li>\n<li>Has played in all 26 matches, primarily as a defensive\/serving specialist but also seeing spot duty at opposite.<\/li>\n<li>She has recorded 204 total digs, averaging 2.24 digs\/set playing just three rotations in the back row.<\/li>\n<li>Has 20 service aces to go with 22 kills and five blocks.<\/li>\n<li>Has tallied nine double-digit dig matches, with a career-high 18 against <abbr title=\"University of California\">UC<\/abbr> Santa Barbara on November 22.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Amber Igiede<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A junior majoring in psychology.<\/li>\n<li>Earned Big West Scholar-Athlete honors in 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Leads the Big West and is ranked No. 4 in the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> with a .433 hitting percentage.<\/li>\n<li>Leads the league with 3.76 kills\/set and with 4.85 points\/set.<\/li>\n<li>Leads <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> with 353 kills, 123 total blocks, 1.31 blocks\/set and 456.0 total points.<\/li>\n<li>Has put down double-digit kills in 24 of <abbr>UH<\/abbr>&#8216;s 26 matches, including a career-high 24 against <abbr>UC<\/abbr> Davis on October 29.<\/li>\n<li>Has recorded at least one block in 85 of her 86 career matches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tayli Ikenaga<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A sophomore majoring in elementary education.<\/li>\n<li>Was on the Dean&#8217;s List, Spring 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Leads <abbr>UH<\/abbr> with 256 digs and 3.16 digs\/set.<\/li>\n<li>Has notched 15 matches with 10+ digs, including a season-high 18 against <abbr title=\"University of Southern California\">USC<\/abbr> on September 9.<\/li>\n<li>Is No. 3 on the team with 53 assists, No. 4 with 20 service aces.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Riley Wagoner <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A junior majoring in chemistry.<\/li>\n<li>Earned Big West Scholar-Athlete honors in 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Has started in all 26 matches as an outside hitter.<\/li>\n<li>Is No. 2 on the team with 309 kills, 3.29 kills\/set and 226 digs, and No. 3 with 40 total blocks.<\/li>\n<li>Pounded a career-high 25 kills and hit for a career-high .480 against <abbr>UC<\/abbr> San Diego on October 8.<\/li>\n<li>Has six double-doubles this season while accumulating 17 double-digit kill matches and 12 matches with 10+ digs, including in eight of the last nine matches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2022\/11\/22\/womens-volleyball-four-rainbow-wahine-earn-csc-volleyball-academic-all-district-honors.aspx\">hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The four <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa women\u2019s volleyball awardees are Kendra Ham, Amber Igiede, Tayli Ikenaga and Riley Wagoner.<\/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":[58,660,714,9,550,80],"class_list":["post-169530","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","tag-volleyball","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169530","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=169530"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169560,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169530\/revisions\/169560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}