{"id":217438,"date":"2025-06-13T14:25:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T00:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=217438"},"modified":"2025-06-13T14:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T00:26:11","slug":"arakawa-ncaa-degree-completion-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/06\/13\/arakawa-ncaa-degree-completion-award\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo soccer player receives <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Degree Completion Award"},"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><figure id=\"attachment_217443\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-217443\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/hilo-soccer-award.jpg\" alt=\"Teani Arakawa action shot\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-217443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/hilo-soccer-award.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/hilo-soccer-award-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/hilo-soccer-award-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-217443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teani Arakawa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\">women\u2019s soccer<\/a> standout Teani Arakawa has been selected for the 2025\u201326 <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> Division <abbr title=\"Roman numeral two\">II<\/abbr> Degree Completion Award, which supports student-athletes who have exhausted their eligibility but need additional aid to finish their undergraduate degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Arakawa finished her career with the Vulcans after transferring from South Dakota State University. She leaves <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo as the all-time leader in points (81), goals (30), and assists (21), and is a two-time All-American, Academic All-American, and two-time PacWest Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2025\/6\/11\/womens-soccer-arakawa-receive-ncaa-division-ii-degree-completion-award.aspx\">Hiloathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Teani Arakawa will receive financial assistance to complete her degree.<\/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":[58,1556,14,151],"class_list":["post-217438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-soccer","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\/217438","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=217438"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217456,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217438\/revisions\/217456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}