{"id":227065,"date":"2025-12-16T13:36:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=227065"},"modified":"2025-12-16T13:36:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:36:32","slug":"rainbow-wahine-volleyball-academic-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/12\/16\/rainbow-wahine-volleyball-academic-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Rainbow Wahine volleyball players 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\/12\/manoa-wvb-academic-honors_720.jpg\" alt=\"Bri Gunderson, Adrianna Arquette, Victoria Leyva and Miliana Sylvester\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-227062\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manoa-wvb-academic-honors_720.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manoa-wvb-academic-honors_720-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manoa-wvb-academic-honors_720-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Four members of the University of <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\">women\u2019s volleyball<\/a> team were named to the College Sports Communicators (<abbr>CSC<\/abbr>) Academic All-District Team on December 16, recognizing their excellence on the court and in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Bri Gunderson and sophomores Adrianna Arquette, Victoria Leyva and Miliana Sylvester earned honors on the <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> Division <abbr title=\"one\">I<\/abbr> list. Academic All-District recipients must maintain a minimum 3.5 cumulative <abbr title=\"grade point average\">GPA<\/abbr> and meet participation requirements during the season.<\/p>\n<p>Arquette, a setter majoring in business, started all 29 matches and recorded 10 double-doubles and two triple-doubles. Gunderson, a communications major, led the team in total blocks while earning All-Big West Second Team honors. Leyva, a molecular and cell biology major, led the team in digs and posted one of the top defensive seasons in program history. Sylvester, a public health major, finished second on the team in blocks while contributing offensively at the net.<\/p>\n<p>The honorees will advance to consideration for the <abbr>CSC<\/abbr> Academic All-America Team, with first, second and third-team selections set to be announced on January 13.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/12\/16\/four-bows-earn-womens-volleyball-academic-all-district-honors.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The honorees were Bri Gunderson, Adrianna Arquette, Victoria Leyva and Miliana Sylvester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":227062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,714,9,550,80],"class_list":["post-227065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-volleyball","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manoa-wvb-academic-honors_720.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227065","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=227065"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227080,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227065\/revisions\/227080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}