  {"id":196963,"date":"2024-05-06T11:15:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T21:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=196963"},"modified":"2024-05-06T11:27:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T21:27:32","slug":"uh-vulcans-top-accolades-at-all-sports-banquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/05\/06\/uh-vulcans-top-accolades-at-all-sports-banquet\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> Vulcans recognized with top accolades at all-sports banquet"},"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\/2024\/05\/hilo-athletics-all-sports-banquet.jpg\" alt=\"seven people on a stage\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-196965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/hilo-athletics-all-sports-banquet.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/hilo-athletics-all-sports-banquet-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/hilo-athletics-all-sports-banquet-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo athletics program recognized their student-athletes at their annual <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo Vulcans Athletics 2023&#8211;24 All-Sports Banquet last week, at The Arc of Hilo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/mens-golf\">Men\u2019s golf<\/a> player Nicholas Gomez and <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/womens-golf\">women\u2019s golf<\/a> player Kiersten Saludares took home the male and female athletes of the year, respectively, while the men\u2019s golf team claimed the Vulcan Team of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The Imua Vulcan award was introduced to the honors, recognizing one male and one female student-athlete for making strides in their personal athletic journeys. The recipients for this award were <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\">men\u2019s basketball<\/a> player Kalique Mitchell and <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\">women\u2019s soccer<\/a> player Megan Donovan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\">Men\u2019s soccer<\/a> player David Mayser and women\u2019s soccer player Filippa Graneld were honored as the Joe and Harriet Estrella Male Scholar-Athlete and Sakai and Harue Wakakuwa Female Scholar-Athlete, respectively, for earning the highest cumulative grade point average through at least five semesters as a Vulcan.<\/p>\n<p>The Ramon Goya Academic Teams of the Year for highest combined <abbr>GPA<\/abbr> went to <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/womens-cross-country\">women&#8217;s cross country<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\">women&#8217;s basketball<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the full list of honorees, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2024\/4\/30\/general-2023-24-all-sports-banquet.aspx\">HiloAthletics.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo student-athletes honored, including athletes of the year, a new &ldquo;Imua Vulcan&rdquo; and academic awards. <\/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":[58,82,1569,1537,1556,660,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-196963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","tag-cross-country","tag-golf","tag-soccer","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\/196963","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=196963"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196979,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196963\/revisions\/196979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}