  {"id":102424,"date":"2019-09-03T12:54:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T22:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=102424"},"modified":"2019-09-04T15:48:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T01:48:39","slug":"vulcans-d2ada-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/09\/03\/vulcans-d2ada-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcans rake in record national 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><figure id=\"attachment_102428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102428\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hilo-vulcan-soccer.jpg\" alt=\"U H Hilo women&#039;s soccer team\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hilo-vulcan-soccer.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hilo-vulcan-soccer-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hilo-vulcan-soccer-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Vulcan women&#8217;s soccer team had seven Division 2 Athletics Directors Association Academic Achievement Award recipients.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thirty one <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/index.aspx\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo student-athletes<\/a> were recipients of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nacda.com\/index.aspx?path=d2ada\">Division 2 Athletics Directors Association<\/a> Academic Achievement Awards. Now in its 12th year, the program recognizes the academic accomplishments of student-athletes at the Division <abbr title=\"Roman numeral two\">II<\/abbr> level.<\/p>\n<p>The 31 <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo honorees are three more than the Vulcans had in the 2017&#8211;18 school year.<\/p>\n<p>To be eligible, the student-athlete must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher, have attended their school a minimum of two years (four semesters) and have been an active member of their team during this past academic year (including redshirts).<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have been putting an emphasis on doing better in the classroom, and I feel like we are accomplishing that across the board,&rdquo; said Vulcan athletic director Patrick Guillen. &ldquo;Our team <abbr title=\"grade point average\u2019s\">GPA\u2019s<\/abbr> are higher than they have ever been.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For a list of the honorees, go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2019\/8\/29\/general-vulcans-named-to-d2-ada-academic-team.aspx\"><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo Athletics website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty one <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/index.aspx\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo student-athletes<\/a> were recipients of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nacda.com\/index.aspx?path=d2ada\">Division 2 Athletics Directors Association<\/a> Academic Achievement Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,660,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-102424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","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\/102424","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=102424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102430,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102424\/revisions\/102430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}