{"id":213842,"date":"2025-04-14T10:54:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T20:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=213842"},"modified":"2025-04-14T10:54:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T20:54:51","slug":"115-student-athletes-academics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/04\/14\/115-student-athletes-academics\/","title":{"rendered":"115 <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo student-athletes honored for academic excellence"},"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\/2025\/04\/hilo-athletics-academic-excellence-1.jpg\" alt=\"group photo of hilo athletes\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-213844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hilo-athletics-academic-excellence-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hilo-athletics-academic-excellence-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hilo-athletics-academic-excellence-1-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One hundred fifteen University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo Vulcans were honored for excellence in the classroom at the university\u2019s seventh annual reception on April 8.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcans were recognized for maintaining a cumulative <abbr>GPA<\/abbr> of 3.3 or higher through the fall 2024 semester, showcasing their commitment to excellence both on the field and in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Mason Cook, a junior catcher on the Vulcans <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/baseball\">baseball team<\/a> with a 4.0 <abbr>GPA<\/abbr>, was chosen as the scholar-athlete speaker for the event. Colby Miyose, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo assistant professor of communication, was recognized with the Vulcans Faculty Appreciation Award for his contributions to the academic community.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2025\/4\/8\/general-2024-25-vulcans-student-athlete-academic-honors.aspx\">HiloAthletics.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The student-athletes were celebrated for their dedication to both academic excellence and athletics. <\/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":[58,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-213842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","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\/213842","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=213842"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213871,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213842\/revisions\/213871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}