  {"id":158640,"date":"2022-05-05T16:15:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T02:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=158640"},"modified":"2022-05-06T14:29:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T00:29:07","slug":"akana-wins-elite-90-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/05\/05\/akana-wins-elite-90-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Akana wins Elite 90&#x2122; Award for <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> men\u2019s volleyball championship"},"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\/2022\/05\/manoa-athletics-akana-elite-90-award.jpg\" alt=\"Kanai Akana\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-158634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/manoa-athletics-akana-elite-90-award.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/manoa-athletics-akana-elite-90-award-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/manoa-athletics-akana-elite-90-award-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa\u2019s <strong><span aria-label=\"Kanai\">K&#257;na&#699;i<\/span> Akana<\/strong>, is the recipient of the Elite 90 award (given for grade-point average) at the 2022 <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> National Collegiate Men\u2019s Volleyball Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Akana, majoring in finance, currently carries a 3.95 <abbr title=\"grade point average\">GPA<\/abbr>. Akana was presented with the award during the championship social event in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>The Elite 90, an award founded by the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr>, recognizes the true essence of the student-athlete by honoring the individual who has reached the pinnacle of competition at the national championship level in his or her sport, while also achieving the highest academic standard among his or her peers. The Elite 90 is presented to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade-point average participating at the finals site for each of the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr>&#8216;s championships.<\/p>\n<p>Eligible student-athletes are sophomores or above academically who have participated in a sport for at least two years with their school. All ties are broken by the number of credits completed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2022\/5\/4\/mens-volleyball-akana-wins-elite-90-award-for-ncaa-mens-volleyball-championship.aspx\">For more go the hawaiiathletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span aria-label=\"Kanai\">K&#257;na&#699;i<\/span> Akana, majoring in finance, currently carries a 3.95 <abbr>GPA<\/abbr>.<\/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-158640","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\/158640","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=158640"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158728,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158640\/revisions\/158728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}