{"id":226870,"date":"2025-12-15T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=226870"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T00:28:13","slug":"matsuzawa-ap-all-america-first-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/12\/15\/matsuzawa-ap-all-america-first-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Matsuzawa makes history as <abbr>AP<\/abbr> All-America First Team selection"},"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-mastuzawa-ap-first-teamjpg.jpeg\" alt=\"Kansei Matsuzawa\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-226873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manoa-mastuzawa-ap-first-teamjpg.jpeg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manoa-mastuzawa-ap-first-teamjpg-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manoa-mastuzawa-ap-first-teamjpg-130x73.jpeg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/football\">football<\/a> placekicker Kansei Matsuzawa added another historic achievement to his standout season, becoming just the second Rainbow Warrior ever named to the Associated Press (<abbr>AP<\/abbr>) All-America First Team. Matsuzawa was also named to the Walter Camp and <abbr>CBS<\/abbr> Sports All-America First Team.<\/p>\n<p>The Tokyo, Japan native joins Al Noga, who earned the honor in 1986, as the only Rainbow Warrior players to receive first-team recognition from the <abbr>AP<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>Matsuzawa\u2019s selection marks the first time a <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> M\u0101noa football player has been named an <abbr>AP<\/abbr> All-American since Greg Salas earned third-team honors in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Voted on by the 52-member <abbr>AP<\/abbr> Top 25 panel, the <abbr>AP<\/abbr> All-America team is one of five organizations that contribute to the <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr>\u2019s official consensus All-America honors. In addition to the three first team honors, Matsuzawa has been named to five All-America second teams.<\/p>\n<p>Nicknamed the &ldquo;Tokyo Toe,&rdquo; Matsuzawa finished the regular season 25-of-26 on field goal attempts and was a finalist for the Lou Groza Award.<\/p>\n<p>All-America Teams:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Walter Camp \u2013 First Team <\/li>\n<li>Associated Press \u2013 First Team<\/li>\n<li><abbr>CBS<\/abbr> Sports \u2013 First Team<\/li>\n<li>The Athletic \u2013 Second Team<\/li>\n<li>Sports Illustrated \u2013 Second Team<\/li>\n<li>Sports Info Solutions \u2013 Second Team<\/li>\n<li><abbr>USA<\/abbr> Today \u2013 Second Team<\/li>\n<li>On3 \u2013 Second Team<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/12\/15\/football-matsuzawa-becomes-uhs-second-associated-press-all-american.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainbow Warrior football placekicker Kansei Matsuzawa made program history as just the second Rainbow Warrior ever named to the Associated Press All-America First Team.<\/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":[58,83,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-226870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-football","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226870","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=226870"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226892,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226870\/revisions\/226892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}