{"id":228745,"date":"2026-01-27T13:08:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=228745"},"modified":"2026-01-27T13:08:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:08:51","slug":"matsuzawa-academic-all-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/01\/27\/matsuzawa-academic-all-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Kicking it in the classroom: Matsuzawa makes Academic All-America first-team"},"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\/01\/manoa-football-matsuzawa-academic-all-america.jpg\" alt=\"CSC Academic All-America First Team graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-228732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/manoa-football-matsuzawa-academic-all-america.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/manoa-football-matsuzawa-academic-all-america-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/manoa-football-matsuzawa-academic-all-america-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa placekicker Kansei Matsuzawa earned first-team 2025 Academic All-American honors, by the College Sports Communicators.<\/p>\n<p>Matsuzawa is the ninth Rainbow Warrior to gain academic All-America recognition and the fourth <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa player to gain a spot on the first team joining Kealoha Pilares (2010), Chris Shinnick (1997) and Travis Sims (1992).<\/p>\n<p>The academic award adds to one of the most accomplished seasons in Rainbow Warrior history. Matsuzawa set new <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa records for single-season and consecutive field goals made\u201427 and 26, respectively. He also tied a four-decade old Football Bowl Subdivision record by converting his first 25 field goals of the season. By the year&#8217;s end, the senior became the \u02bbBows first-ever consensus All-American, was named the Mountain West Special Teams Player of the Year and was a finalist for the Lou Groza Award.<\/p>\n<p>Matsuzawa graduated in December with a 3.68 <abbr>GPA<\/abbr> in interdisciplinary studies.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2026\/1\/27\/football-matsuzawa-named-to-academic-all-america-first-team.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s Kansei Matsuzawa was recognized by the College Sports Communicators after graduating with a 3.68 <abbr>GPA<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":228732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,83,660,9,550],"class_list":["post-228745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-football","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/manoa-football-matsuzawa-academic-all-america.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228745","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=228745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228746,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228745\/revisions\/228746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}