  {"id":173119,"date":"2023-02-22T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=173119"},"modified":"2023-02-22T12:50:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T22:50:08","slug":"borg-kawaha-olson-academic-all-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/02\/22\/borg-kawaha-olson-academic-all-district\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo basketball 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\/2023\/02\/hilo-athletics-basketball-csc-all-district.jpg\" alt=\"U H Hilo basketball players\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-173117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hilo-athletics-basketball-csc-all-district.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hilo-athletics-basketball-csc-all-district-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hilo-athletics-basketball-csc-all-district-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo basketball players <strong>Erik Borg<\/strong>, <strong>Mandi Kawaha<\/strong> and <strong>Bree Olson<\/strong> were named to the 2022&#8211;23 College Sports Communicators (<abbr>CSC<\/abbr>) Academic All-District Men&#8217;s and Women&#8217;s Basketball Teams. The award recognizes the nation&#8217;s top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Borg of the <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball?path=mbball\">men\u2019s basketball<\/a> team is a kinesiology and exercise sciences major. He achieved a cumulative <abbr title=\"grade point average\">GPA<\/abbr>  of 3.89 in the fall 2022 semester.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\">Women\u2019s basketball<\/a> players Kawaha and Olson garnered cumulative <abbr>GPA<\/abbr>s of 3.8 and 3.9, respectively. Kawaha is a double major in kinesiology and exercise sciences and communication. Olson is currently studying administration of justice after earning a <abbr title=\"Bachelor of Arts\">BA<\/abbr>  in kinesiology and exercise sciences last spring.<\/p>\n<p>To be nominated, a student-athlete must have been a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.5 cumulative <abbr>GPA<\/abbr> (on a 4.0 scale) and completed one full calendar year at his or her current institution.<\/p>\n<p>The honorees will now advance to the <abbr>CSC<\/abbr> Academic All-America ballot. First, second and third-team Academic All-America honorees will be announced in March.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2023\/2\/21\/womens-basketball-borg-kawaha-olson-earn-csc-academic-all-district-team-honors.aspx\">Read more at hiloathletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three student-athletes recognized were Erik Borg, Mandi Kawaha and Bree Olson.<\/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":[58,82,660,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-173119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","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\/173119","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=173119"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173124,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173119\/revisions\/173124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}