  {"id":214316,"date":"2025-04-22T12:14:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T22:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=214316"},"modified":"2025-04-22T12:50:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T22:50:49","slug":"sakellaris-academic-all-america-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/04\/22\/sakellaris-academic-all-america-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakellaris earns first Academic All-America honors for women\u2019s swimming"},"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\/manoa-athletics-swim-sakellaris-csc-honor.jpg\" alt=\"Swimmer Arianna Sakellaris and CSC Academic All America Team graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-214320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/manoa-athletics-swim-sakellaris-csc-honor.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/manoa-athletics-swim-sakellaris-csc-honor-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/manoa-athletics-swim-sakellaris-csc-honor-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa\u2019s Arianna Sakellaris became the first ever <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\">Rainbow Wahine swimmer<\/a> to earn College Sports Communicators (<abbr>CSC<\/abbr>) Academic All-America honors. Sakellaris was voted to the third team.<\/p>\n<p>Sakellaris is a graduate student majoring in clinical research. She is one of just 30 women&#8217;s swim and dive athletes to be named to the <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr><br \/>\n Division <abbr title=\"Roman numeral one\">I<\/abbr> Academic All-America teams selected by the <abbr>CSC<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>She was also one of four Rainbow Wahine to earn <abbr>CSC<\/abbr> Academic All-District honors and was named to the Academic All-Big West team. Outside of school, Sakellaris participated in the Women Speaking Out event at the Swing Fore Love Charity Golf Invitational earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>At the Big West Championship, Sakellaris helped set a new Big West record and earned gold as a member of the 400 free relay team with a time of 3:20.04, and an individual split of 50.61. She also claimed bronze as a part of the 800 free relay squad while posting a split of 1:49.89.<\/p>\n<p>To qualify for the Academic All-America teams, student-athletes must have earned Academic All-District honors, be at least a sophomore, maintain a minimum 3.5 cumulative grade point average, and compete in five competitions or finish top-eight at a conference meet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/4\/22\/womens-swimming-diving-sakellaris-earns-academic-all-america-third-team-honors.aspx\">For more on Sakellaris go to HawaiiAthletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arianna Sakellaris became the first ever Rainbow Wahine swimmer to earn <abbr>CSC<\/abbr> Academic All-America 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":[58,1564,9,550],"class_list":["post-214316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-swimming-and-diving","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214316","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=214316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214326,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214316\/revisions\/214326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}