{"id":179212,"date":"2023-06-21T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T02:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=179212"},"modified":"2023-06-21T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T02:41:00","slug":"thelle-national-academic-all-america-first-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/06\/21\/thelle-national-academic-all-america-first-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Thelle named to national academic All-America first team"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

\"Jakob<\/p>\n

University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa<\/a> senior setter Jakob Thelle capped off a decorated career by becoming the first student-athlete in school history to be named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-America first team.<\/p>\n

The Tonsberg, Norway native also earned first team honors last season in the men’s at-large category. He is the fourth UH<\/abbr> student-athlete all-time to earn multiple Academic All-America certificates but the first to do so on the first team.<\/p>\n

Thelle and Theocharidis both earned First Team Academic All-America and AVCA<\/abbr> Player of the Year awards in the same season. In 2003, Theocharidis was also selected as the Men’s At-Large All-America of the Year.<\/p>\n

Thelle, a graduate student with a 4.0 GPA<\/abbr> in urban and regional planning, was the only men’s volleyball player listed on the 17-member first team. He is the fifth player in program history to be named an Academic All-American.<\/p>\n

The at-large category consists of a number of sports including men’s volleyball, beach volleyball, golf, tennis, swimming and diving and water polo among others.<\/p>\n

Read more at hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jakob Thelle becomes first student in UH<\/abbr> history to be a two-time selection for the All-America first team.<\/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-179212","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\/179212","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=179212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179223,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179212\/revisions\/179223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}