{"id":218471,"date":"2025-07-09T14:04:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T00:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=218471"},"modified":"2025-07-09T14:04:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T00:04:29","slug":"eleu-choy-earns-academic-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/07\/09\/eleu-choy-earns-academic-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"\u02bbEleu Choy earns Academic All-America honors"},"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\/07\/manoa-eleu-choy.jpeg\" alt=\"\u02bbEleu Choy\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-218474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/manoa-eleu-choy.jpeg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/manoa-eleu-choy-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/manoa-eleu-choy-130x73.jpeg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\"> men\u2019s volleyball <\/a> libero <span aria-label=\"Eleu\">&#699;Eleu<\/span> Choy has been named to the 2024 College Sports Communicators (<abbr>CSC<\/abbr>) Academic All-America Third Team in the At-Large Division, becoming just the sixth player in program history to earn the national academic honor.<\/p>\n<p>A two-time Academic All-District selection, Choy holds a master\u2019s degree in civil engineering and earned American Volleyball Coaches Association All-America honorable mention honors in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Choy joins an elite group of former Rainbow Warriors recognized for excellence on the court and in the classroom, including Dejan Miladinovic, Costas Theocharidis, Jonas Umlauft, Stijn van Tilburg and Jakob Thelle.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>CSC<\/abbr> At-Large category spans more than a dozen <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr>-sponsored sports, including men&#8217;s volleyball, beach volleyball, water polo and golf.<\/p>\n<p>Choy is one of just three men\u2019s volleyball players selected among 44 Division <abbr title=\"one\">I<\/abbr> student-athletes across all three Academic All-America teams.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/7\/9\/mens-volleyball-choy-garners-academic-all-america-honors.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choy is the sixth <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa men\u2019s volleyball player in history to receive the national award.<\/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":[58,9,550,80],"class_list":["post-218471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-volleyball","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218471","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=218471"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218497,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218471\/revisions\/218497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}