{"id":231386,"date":"2026-03-27T16:42:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=231386"},"modified":"2026-03-27T16:45:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:45:33","slug":"6-hilo-basketball-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/27\/6-hilo-basketball-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"6 <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo basketball standouts earn academic all-district 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\/03\/hilo-basketball-6-csc-awardees.jpg\" alt=\"Sports graphic with Hilo basketball players on the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-231380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hilo-basketball-6-csc-awardees.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hilo-basketball-6-csc-awardees-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hilo-basketball-6-csc-awardees-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span lang=\"haw\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s basketball teams each placed three student-athletes on the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team for the 2025\u201326 season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Women&#8217;s basketball<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kaile Cruz<\/li>\n<li>Melanie Hiu<\/li>\n<li>Mindy Kawaha<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Men&#8217;s basketball<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fabio Da Rocha<\/li>\n<li>Jamal Entezami<\/li>\n<li>Julio Montes <abbr title=\"the second\">II<\/abbr><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Awardees hold a 3.50 or higher cumulative grade-point average (with at least sophomore standing) with participation in 90% of games (or starting 66%) during the season.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz, Hiu, Kawaha and Montes <abbr title=\"the second\">II<\/abbr> are repeat selections.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2026\/3\/24\/mens-basketball-basketball-csc-academic-all-district-team.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo basketball players Kaile Cruz, Melanie Hiu, Mindy Kawaha, Fabio Da Rocha, Jamal Entezami and Julio Montes <abbr title=\"the second\">II<\/abbr> were recognized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":231380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,82,14,151],"class_list":["post-231386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hilo-basketball-6-csc-awardees.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231386","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=231386"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231395,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231386\/revisions\/231395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}