  {"id":201091,"date":"2024-07-26T15:24:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T01:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=201091"},"modified":"2024-07-26T15:24:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T01:24:39","slug":"uh-hilo-womens-basketball-wbca-academic-mention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/07\/26\/uh-hilo-womens-basketball-wbca-academic-mention\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo women\u2019s basketball earns <abbr>WBCA<\/abbr> Academic Special Mention"},"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\/07\/hilo-basketball-wbca-academic-2024.jpg\" alt=\"U H Hilo women basketball players\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-201069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/hilo-basketball-wbca-academic-2024.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/hilo-basketball-wbca-academic-2024-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/hilo-basketball-wbca-academic-2024-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo women\u2019s basketball team<\/a> once again received recognition for academic excellence by earning a Women\u2019s Basketball Coaches Association Academic Special Mention for the 2023&#8211;24 school year.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcans posted a 3.40 team grade point average to land in the top 70 among <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> Division <abbr title=\"Roman numeral two\">II<\/abbr> Women&#8217;s Basketball programs. Among all other Pacific West Conference teams, the Vulcans ranked No. 4.<\/p>\n<p>The Women&#8217;s Basketball Coaches Association Academic Top 25 recognizes <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Division <abbr title=\"Roman numeral one\">I<\/abbr>, <abbr title=\"Roman numeral two\">II<\/abbr> and <abbr title=\"Roman numeral three\">III<\/abbr>, National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and two-year college women&#8217;s basketball teams across the nation that carry the highest combined <abbr title=\"grade point average\">GPA<\/abbr>s inclusive of all student-athletes on their rosters for the entire season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2024\/7\/24\/wbca-acdemic-special-mention-2024.aspx\">For more go to HiloAthletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vulcans posted a 3.40 team grade point average.<\/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":[58,82,660,714,14,151,1626],"class_list":["post-201091","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","tag-women-of-uh","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201091","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=201091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201098,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201091\/revisions\/201098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}