{"id":232276,"date":"2026-04-14T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=232276"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T00:59:00","slug":"rainbow-athletes-academic-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/14\/rainbow-athletes-academic-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"29 Rainbow athletes honored 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\/2026\/04\/Manoa-athletics-awards.jpg\" alt=\"Rainbow athletes honored for academic excellence. \" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-232280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Manoa-athletics-awards.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Manoa-athletics-awards-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Manoa-athletics-awards-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Twenty-nine University of <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa student-athletes were named to the 2025&#8211;26 Winter Academic All-Conference Team by the Big West Conference, recognizing excellence in both athletics and academics.<\/p>\n<p>The winter honors span men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball and swimming and diving, with women\u2019s swimming and diving leading the way with 12 selections, followed by men\u2019s swimming and diving with eight. Women\u2019s basketball added five honorees, while men\u2019s basketball had four.<\/p>\n<p>To qualify, student-athletes must maintain at least a 3.0 cumulative <abbr title=\"grade point average\">GPA<\/abbr>, complete one full academic year at their institution and compete in at least half of their team\u2019s contests.<\/p>\n<p>The Big West awards Academic All-Conference honors across fall, winter and spring seasons, highlighting student-athletes who excel in the classroom while competing at a high level.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2026\/4\/14\/general-more-than-two-dozen-uh-student-athletes-gain-academic-all-big-west-honors.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women\u2019s swimming and diving led with a team-high 12 honorees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":232280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,9,550],"class_list":["post-232276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Manoa-athletics-awards.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232276","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=232276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232289,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232276\/revisions\/232289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}