  {"id":123284,"date":"2020-07-22T10:52:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T20:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=123284"},"modified":"2020-07-22T10:52:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T20:52:20","slug":"mens-volleyball-avca-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/22\/mens-volleyball-avca-award\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> M\u0101noa men\u2019s volleyball recognized for team 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\/2020\/07\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-avca-award.jpg\" alt=\"men&#039;s volleyball team celebrating\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-123275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-avca-award.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-avca-award-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/manoa-athletics-volleyball-avca-award-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> men\u2019s volleyball team has been honored for its academic excellence for the third time in the last four years.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (<abbr>AVCA<\/abbr>) the Rainbow Warrior volleyball players are the recipient of the <abbr title=\"United States Marine Corps\">USMC<\/abbr>\/<abbr>AVCA<\/abbr> Team Academic Award, which they also received in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/07\/26\/mens-volleyball-earns-avca-team-academic-award\/\">2017<\/a> and 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s volleyball team was one of just 38 men&#8217;s collegiate teams&#8212;and one of two Big West Conference schools&#8212;to earn the award for the 2020 season. Of the 38 teams, only 10 teams compete in Division <abbr title=\"Roman Numeral One\">I<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>The award comes less than two weeks after the Big West Conference announced its spring all-academic list which included nine men\u2019s volleyball players.<\/p>\n<p>The award, which was initiated after the 1992&#8211;93 academic year, honors collegiate and high school volleyball teams that displayed excellence in the classroom during the school year by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative team <abbr title=\"Grade Point Average\">GPA<\/abbr> on a 4.0 scale or a 4.10 cumulative team <abbr>GPA<\/abbr> on a 5.0 scale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2020\/7\/20\/mens-volleyball-team-receives-avca-team-academic-award.aspx\">For more details, visit the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> M\u0101noa athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The men\u2019s volleyball players are the recipient of the <abbr title=\"United States Marine Corps\">USMC<\/abbr>\/<abbr title=\"American Volleyball Coaches Association\">AVCA<\/abbr> Team Academic Award for the third time in four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,660,714,9,550,80],"class_list":["post-123284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-volleyball","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123284","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=123284"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123288,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123284\/revisions\/123288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}