{"id":218945,"date":"2025-07-21T14:52:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=218945"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:56:08","slug":"rainbow-wahine-volleyball-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/07\/21\/rainbow-wahine-volleyball-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Wahine beach, indoor volleyball earn academic awards"},"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-athletics-vb.jpg\" alt=\"Green volleyball academic award graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-218944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/manoa-athletics-vb.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/manoa-athletics-vb-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/manoa-athletics-vb-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Wahine <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\">indoor<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-beach-volleyball\">beach volleyball<\/a> teams each earned team academic awards from the American Volleyball Coaches Association (<abbr>AVCA<\/abbr>) for the 2024&#8211;25 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the fifth time in the last seven seasons that the indoor volleyball program made the list, while the beach program earned the distinction for the fifth straight season. The women&#8217;s indoor team boasted a 3.58 <abbr title=\"Grade Point Average\">GPA<\/abbr>, and the BeachBows had a 3.52 team average.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>AVCA<\/abbr> Team Academic Award honors collegiate and high school volleyball teams that displayed excellence in the classroom during the school year by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative team <abbr>GPA<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>The indoor team finished the 2024 season 21-10 overall and captured the program&#8217;s fifth consecutive Big West title while advancing to the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Tournament for the 31st consecutive time. The beach volleyball team finished the season ranked 19th in the final <abbr>AVCA<\/abbr> poll, continuing its streak of being nationally ranked in every single week of the polls existence.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/7\/21\/womens-volleyball-beach-and-womens-indoor-volleyball-claim-avca-team-academic-awards.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s beach volleyball team and women\u2019s indoor volleyball team were recognized by the American Volleyball Coaches Association.<\/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":[58,714,9,550,80],"class_list":["post-218945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-athlete","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\/218945","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=218945"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218951,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218945\/revisions\/218951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}