{"id":219345,"date":"2025-07-29T16:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=219345"},"modified":"2025-07-29T16:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:43:13","slug":"hilo-womens-golf-academic-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/07\/29\/hilo-womens-golf-academic-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo women\u2019s golf nationally recognized for academic excellence"},"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\/hilo-athletics-golf-gpa.jpg\" alt=\"Women&#039;s golf team receiving academic honors\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-219355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hilo-athletics-golf-gpa.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hilo-athletics-golf-gpa-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hilo-athletics-golf-gpa-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/womens-golf\">women&#8217;s golf team<\/a> ranked No. 23 for team grade point average (<abbr>GPA<\/abbr>) among all <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Division <abbr title=\"Roman numeral 2\">II<\/abbr> women&#8217;s golf programs for the 2024\u201325 school year with a 3.648 <abbr>GPA<\/abbr>. The team achievement was announced by the Women&#8217;s Golf Coaches Association (<abbr>WGCA<\/abbr>), a non-profit organization.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcans had the highest team <abbr>GPA<\/abbr> in the Pacific West Conference and ranked third among all West Region programs listed in the <abbr>WGCA<\/abbr> top 25. They were also recognized as a Ramon Goya Academic Team of the Year for highest <abbr>GPA<\/abbr> posted by a <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo team this past school year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2024\u201325 <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo women\u2019s golf honorees<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trinity Ledgerwood<\/li>\n<li>Elle Otani<\/li>\n<li>Kiersten Saludares<\/li>\n<li>EriLei Udo-Tao<\/li>\n<li>Erica Yokomoto<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Otani and Saludares were also previously recognized on the <abbr>WGCA<\/abbr> All-American Scholar Team for achieving a cumulative <abbr>GPA<\/abbr> of at least 3.50.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2025\/7\/28\/vulcans-post-23rd-highest-womens-golf-team-gpa.aspx\">Hiloathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Women\u2019s Golf Coaches Association highlighted the Vulcan student-athletes.<\/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":[58,1537,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-219345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-golf","tag-student-athlete","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\/219345","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=219345"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219371,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219345\/revisions\/219371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}