  {"id":229405,"date":"2026-02-12T13:37:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=229405"},"modified":"2026-02-12T13:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:44:19","slug":"25-football-academic-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/02\/12\/25-football-academic-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"25 <abbr>UH<\/abbr> football players earn conference academic 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\/2026\/02\/manoa-football-25-academic-honors.jpg\" alt=\"Field with letters &quot;M&quot; and &quot;W&quot; for Mountain West\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-229404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/manoa-football-25-academic-honors.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/manoa-football-25-academic-honors-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/manoa-football-25-academic-honors-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/football\">University of <span lang=\"haw\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa football<\/a> student-athletes were named to the Mountain West Academic All-Conference team for strong performances in the classroom and on the field.<\/p>\n<p>To be eligible for selection, student-athletes must have completed at least one academic term, while maintaining a cumulative grade point average of <abbr title=\"Three-point-oh\">3.0<\/abbr> or better and competing in 50% of their teams&#8217; completed varsity contests.<\/p>\n<p>Among the student-athletes recognized include fourth-year honorees Karsyn Pupunu and Landon Sims, third-year honoree Jamih Otis, and second-year honorees Elijah Palmer and All-American placekicker Kansei Matsuzawa.<\/p>\n<p>For a full list of honorees, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2026\/2\/11\/football-twenty-five-rainbow-warriors-selected-academic-all-mountain-west.aspx\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa athletics website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rainbow Warrior student-athletes were named to the Mountain West Academic All-Conference team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":229404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,83,9,550],"class_list":["post-229405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-football","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/manoa-football-25-academic-honors.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229405","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=229405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229409,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229405\/revisions\/229409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}