  {"id":178715,"date":"2023-06-08T13:38:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T23:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=178715"},"modified":"2023-06-08T13:38:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T23:38:22","slug":"yamauchi-academic-all-america-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/06\/08\/yamauchi-academic-all-america-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamauchi earns Academic All-America status"},"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\/06\/hilo-athletics-yamauchi-c-all-american.jpg\" alt=\"U H Hilo baseball player Casey Yamauchi\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-178719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/hilo-athletics-yamauchi-c-all-american.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/hilo-athletics-yamauchi-c-all-american-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/hilo-athletics-yamauchi-c-all-american-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo shortstop Casey Yamauchi capped his collegiate career with Academic All-America Third Team honors. He was selected by the College Sports Communicators.<\/p>\n<p>The recent <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo graduate wrapped up a five-year career putting up a .404 batting average on 63 hits, 29 RBI and six home runs along with 50 runs scored, 23 walks, 23 steals and a .932 fielding percentage in 179 total chances. Yamauchi set several program career records including 240 hits, 147 runs, 49 doubles and 74 steals.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Every year I just wanted to be better than I was the year before. It just so happens I got to break some records and win awards along the way,&rdquo; Yamauchi said. &ldquo;I was really hoping to just make playoffs more than anything, but I&#8217;m pretty happy and proud of myself. I didn\u2019t just waste my time. I wanted to be the best person I could possibly be and I think this marks my work ethic.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Yamauchi earned a cumulative grade point average of 3.74 with bachelor degrees in kinesiology and exercise sciences and communication.<\/p>\n<p>Yamauchi was one of five players from the PacWest Conference who was voted to Academic All-American status and was previously selected to the Academic All-District Team along with Ryan Cho and James Yamasaki.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2023\/6\/7\/yamauchi-academic-all-america.aspx\">For more information go to hiloathletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo shortstop Casey Yamauchi caps his collegiate career with Academic All-America Third Team honors.<\/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":[58,1491,660,14,151],"class_list":["post-178715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-student-recognition","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\/178715","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=178715"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178720,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178715\/revisions\/178720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}