  {"id":197496,"date":"2024-05-14T13:22:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T23:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=197496"},"modified":"2024-05-14T13:22:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T23:22:05","slug":"peiravani-ncaa-elite-90-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/05\/14\/peiravani-ncaa-elite-90-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Peiravani receives <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> water polo Elite 90 award"},"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\/2024\/05\/manoa-athletics-peiravani-elite-90.jpg\" alt=\"Raha Peiravani holding a water polo ball\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-197490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/manoa-athletics-peiravani-elite-90.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/manoa-athletics-peiravani-elite-90-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/manoa-athletics-peiravani-elite-90-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\">women\u2019s water polo<\/a> athlete Raha Peiravani, is the recipient of the Elite 90 award for the 2024 <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> Division <abbr title=\"Roman numeral one\">I<\/abbr> Women\u02bbs Water Polo Championship recognizing achievements for the student-athlete\u2019s academics.<\/p>\n<p>Peiravani, majoring in finance with a minor in psychology, currently carries a 4.0 <abbr>GPA<\/abbr>. Peiravani was presented with the award during the championship banquet at the University Club in Berkeley, California.<\/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>For more on Peiravani, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2024\/5\/9\/womens-water-polo-peiravani-named-ncaa-water-polo-elite-90-award-recipient.aspx\">HawaiiAthletics.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raha Peiravani, majoring in Finance with a minor in psychology, currently carries a 4.0 <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":[58,1161,637,660,714,9,550,1575],"class_list":["post-197496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-finance","tag-psychology","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-water-polo","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197496","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=197496"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197601,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197496\/revisions\/197601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}