{"id":215917,"date":"2025-05-14T16:24:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T02:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=215917"},"modified":"2025-05-14T16:24:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T02:24:40","slug":"ginoza-ncaa-postgrad-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/05\/14\/ginoza-ncaa-postgrad-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s Ginoza earns NCAA<\/abbr> postgraduate scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa swimmer<\/a> Makena Ginoza was selected as one of 42 student-athletes to receive the NCAA<\/abbr>\u2019s Postgraduate Scholarship on May 12.<\/p>\n

The NCAA<\/abbr> awarded $10,000 each to 42 exceptional student-athletes as part of its Postgraduate Scholarship program. These student-athletes, representing winter sports across all three NCAA<\/abbr> divisions, have demonstrated outstanding academic achievements, athletic excellence and leadership within their communities.<\/p>\n

Ginoza competed in two events this season, highlighted by multiple podium finishes. Ginoza won gold as a member of the 200 medley relay team, where he swam the anchor leg with a mark of 22.80 against Whitman. At the Harvard-Arkansas tri-meet, he placed second in the 400 IM<\/abbr> with a time of 4:22.89, and in the 500 free with a mark of 4:49.03.<\/p>\n

The NCAA<\/abbr> awards 126 postgraduate scholarships to student-athletes who have completed their final year of athletics competition. The scholarships are distributed three times annually, providing 21 scholarships each to men and women per season. The award is a one-time, nonrenewable scholarship intended to support graduate study at an accredited institution.<\/p>\n

For more on Ginoza, go to HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Makena Ginoza has been awarded a $10,000 NCAA<\/abbr> scholarship, recognizing his academic excellence, athletic achievements and leadership. <\/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":[58,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-215917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t