{"id":169546,"date":"2022-11-23T12:23:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T22:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=169546"},"modified":"2022-11-23T12:23:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T22:23:35","slug":"manoa-football-academic-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/11\/23\/manoa-football-academic-team\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa football players named to Academic All-District Team"},"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\/11\/manoa-athletics-football-css-academic-all-district.jpg\" alt=\"U H football academic all-district graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-169515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/manoa-athletics-football-css-academic-all-district.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/manoa-athletics-football-css-academic-all-district-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/manoa-athletics-football-css-academic-all-district-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Five University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/football\">football<\/a> players were selected to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team. <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr>&#8216;s five honorees are the most in a single season in program history.<\/p>\n<p>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. All five Rainbow Warriors are now eligible for Academic All-America honors.<\/p>\n<h2>More about the Rainbow Warrior honorees<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Kyler Halvorsen<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A sophomore majoring in psychology.<\/li>\n<li><abbr>UH<\/abbr>\u2019s kickoff specialist.<\/li>\n<li>Has 36 touchbacks in 50 kickoff attempts for a 72.0 touchback percentage that ranks No. 15 nationally.<\/li>\n<li>Earned Academic All-Mountain West and Mountain West Scholar-Athlete distinctions in 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Noa Kamana<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A graduate student who earned his bachelor&#8217;s degree in natural resources and environmental management.<\/li>\n<li><abbr>UH<\/abbr>\u2019s backup defensive back and special teams player who made three starts at safety.<\/li>\n<li>Has 19 tackles, including one for loss and one pass breakup.<\/li>\n<li>Three-time Academic All-Mountain West and two-time Mountain West Scholar-Athlete.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span aria-label=\"Foi\">Fo&#699;i<\/span> Shaw <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A senior majoring in sociology.<\/li>\n<li><abbr>UH<\/abbr>\u2019s backup defensive tackle who has appeared in all 12 games.<\/li>\n<li>Has nine tackles on the year.<\/li>\n<li>Three-time Academic All-Mountain West and two-time Mountain West Scholar-Athlete.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Eliki Tanuvasa<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A graduate student who earned his bachelor&#8217;s degree in communication.<\/li>\n<li>Two-time Academic All-District honoree.<\/li>\n<li>Started seven games at center and is the team&#8217;s nominee for the Burlsworth Trophy.<\/li>\n<li>Two-time Academic All-Mountain West and two-time Mountain West Scholar-Athlete.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Logan Taylor<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A senior majoring in interdisciplinary studies.<\/li>\n<li>Started the last five games and totaled 64 combined tack\u00adles (38 solo) with five double-digit tackle games.<\/li>\n<li>First <abbr>UH<\/abbr> player to record double-digit tackles in five straight games since <strong>Jahlani Tavai<\/strong> in 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Two-time Mountain West Scholar-Athlete.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2022\/11\/22\/football-five-warriors-named-to-academic-all-district-team.aspx\">hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The five Rainbow Warriors who received the award are Kyler Halvorsen, Noa Kamana, <span aria-label=\"Foi\">Fo&#699;i<\/span> Shaw, Eliki Tanuvasa and Logan Taylor.<\/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":[58,83,660,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-169546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-football","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\/169546","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=169546"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169549,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169546\/revisions\/169549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}