{"id":227051,"date":"2025-12-16T12:50:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=227051"},"modified":"2025-12-16T13:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:32:12","slug":"matsuzawa-first-consensus-all-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/12\/16\/matsuzawa-first-consensus-all-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Matsuzawa makes Rainbow Warrior football history as first consensus All-American"},"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\/12\/manoa-matsuzawa-afca.jpg\" alt=\"Kansei Matsuzawa\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-227061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manoa-matsuzawa-afca.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manoa-matsuzawa-afca-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manoa-matsuzawa-afca-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>University of <span lang=\"haw\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/football\">football<\/a> placekicker Kansei Matsuzawa made program history, becoming the first consensus All-American in Rainbow Warrior football history after earning first-team honors from the American Football Coaches Association (<abbr>AFCA<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p>Matsuzawa has now been named to the first team by the <abbr>AFCA<\/abbr>, Associated Press (<abbr>AP<\/abbr>) and Walter Camp Football Foundation, which are among the five organizations that make up the <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr>\u2019s annual consensus All-America team. The final two teams, The Sporting News and the Football Writers Association of America, will be announced in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Matsuzawa joins Jason Elam as the only Rainbow Warriors to earn <abbr>AFCA<\/abbr> first-team All-America honors. Earlier this season, Matsuzawa broke Elam\u2019s school record for consecutive field goals and finished the regular season 25-for-26 on field goal attempts.<\/p>\n<p>He is only the second Rainbow Warrior football player to be named <abbr>AP<\/abbr> first-team All-American and the first to earn Walter Camp first-team honors.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, head coach Timmy Chang was named <abbr>AFCA<\/abbr> Region 5 Coach of the Year, marking the first time a <span lang=\"haw\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> coach has received the honor.<\/p>\n<p>To date, Matsuzawa has earned first-team All-America recognition from four organizations, along with several second-team selections.<\/p>\n<p>All-America Teams:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><abbr>AFCA<\/abbr> \u2013 First Team<\/li>\n<li>Walter Camp \u2013 First Team<\/li>\n<li>Associated Press \u2013 First Team<\/li>\n<li><abbr>CBS<\/abbr> Sports \u2013 First Team<\/li>\n<li>The Athletic \u2013 Second Team<\/li>\n<li>Sports Illustrated \u2013 Second Team<\/li>\n<li>Sports Info Solutions \u2013 Second Team<\/li>\n<li><abbr>USA<\/abbr> Today \u2013 Second Team<\/li>\n<li>On3 \u2013 Second Team<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/12\/16\/football-matsuzawa-recognized-by-afca-named-consensus-all-american.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Placekicker Kansei Matsuzawa made program history, becoming the first consensus All-American in <abbr>UH<\/abbr> football history, after earning first-team honors from multiple national organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":227061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,83,714,550],"class_list":["post-227051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-football","tag-student-athlete","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manoa-matsuzawa-afca.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227051","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=227051"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227067,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227051\/revisions\/227067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}