{"id":48508,"date":"2025-08-06T03:03:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/48508\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T03:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:03:05","slug":"mens-golf-receives-highest-team-academic-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/48508\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Golf Receives Highest Team Academic Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     NORMAN, Okla. \u2013 For the fourth\u00a0time in program history and second consecutive year, the University of Hawai&#8217;i men&#8217;s golf program was recognized by the Golf Coaches Association of American as the recipient of the Platform Golf Team Academic Award.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUH was among 75 schools to earn the highest honor, the Presidents Special Recognition for earning a combined team grade point average of 3.50 or above. Hawai&#8217;i was the only Big West school to receive that distinction.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPreviously, three Rainbow Warrior teams (2015,\u00a0&#8217;18, and &#8217;24) were recognized with Team Academic awards.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nJust last week, six UH golfers were named All-America Scholars by the GCAA, the most in a single-season in program history and for the most across all of Division I during the 2024-25 season. UH&#8217;s honorees were <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/anson-cabello\/21612\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"21612\" target=\"_blank\">Anson Cabello<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/josh-hayashida\/21613\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"21613\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Hayashida<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/tyler-ogawa\/21614\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"21614\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Ogawa<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/garrett-takeuchi\/21615\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"21615\" target=\"_blank\">Garrett Takeuchi<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/dane-watanabe\/21616\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"21616\" target=\"_blank\">Dane Watanabe<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/james-whitworth\/21617\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"21617\" target=\"_blank\">James Whitworth<\/a>\u00a0all of whom maintained a 3.20+ grade point average and had a scoring average of 76.0.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA GCAA-record 292 schools across six divisions earned a Platform Golf Team Academic Award. 129 schools received Presidents Special Recognition for having an average team GPA of 3.5 or above. Harvard earned the Academic National Champion award for Division I with a combined GPA of 3.955.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>#HawaiiMGOLF<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; NORMAN, Okla. \u2013 For the fourth\u00a0time in program history and second consecutive year, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-48508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}