  {"id":175625,"date":"2023-04-11T13:51:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T23:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=175625"},"modified":"2023-04-11T13:51:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T23:51:18","slug":"manoa-basketball-academic-all-big-west-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/04\/11\/manoa-basketball-academic-all-big-west-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa basketball players earn academic All-Big West awards"},"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\/04\/manoa-athletics-womens-basketball-academic-all-big-west.jpg\" alt=\"U H Manoa women&#039;s basketball players\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-175623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/manoa-athletics-womens-basketball-academic-all-big-west.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/manoa-athletics-womens-basketball-academic-all-big-west-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/manoa-athletics-womens-basketball-academic-all-big-west-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eight University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa basketball players earned academic All-Big West awards for the 2022&#8211;23 season. The student-athletes recognized are <strong>Olivia Davies<\/strong>, <strong>McKenna Haire<\/strong>, <strong>Meilani McBee<\/strong>, <strong>Kallin Spiller<\/strong> and <strong>Lily Wahinekapu<\/strong> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\">women\u2019s basketball<\/a> team, and <strong>Bernardo da Silva<\/strong>, <strong>Kamaka Hepa<\/strong> and <strong>Beon Riley<\/strong> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\">men\u2019s basketball<\/a> team.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time that da Silva, McBee and Riley made the all-academic team, while it marks the third straight year for Davies. Haire, Hepa, Spiller and Wahinekapu are all first-time honorees.<\/p>\n<p>To be eligible for the all-academic team, student-athletes must maintain a 3.0 cumulative <abbr title=\"grade point average\">GPA<\/abbr>, complete one full academic year at the member institution prior to the season for which the award is being received and have competed in at least 50% of their team&#8217;s contests.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2023\/4\/11\/womens-basketball-five-rainbow-wahine-earn-conference-academic-honors.aspx\">women\u2019s<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2023\/4\/11\/mens-basketball-trio-of-rainbow-warrior-basketball-players-named-academic-all-big-west.aspx\">men\u2019s<\/a> basketball honorees at the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Athletics website.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/manoa-athletics-mens-basketball-academic-all-big-west.jpg\" alt=\"U H Manoa basketball players\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-175620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/manoa-athletics-mens-basketball-academic-all-big-west.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/manoa-athletics-mens-basketball-academic-all-big-west-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/manoa-athletics-mens-basketball-academic-all-big-west-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight student-athletes were recognized for the 2022&#8211;23 season.<\/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":[58,142,82,660,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-175625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-award","tag-basketball","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\/175625","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=175625"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175637,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175625\/revisions\/175637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}