GREENWOOD, Indiana – Hawai'i Hilo Women's Volleyball's Emerson Reinke and Tani Hoke were announced Tuesday morning as part of the 2023 Academic All-District Volleyball Team as selected by College Sports Communicators.
The CSC Academic All-America/District program recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom, requiring a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher.
Reinke, a sophomore setter and communication major, and Hoke, a senior libero and political science major, both started and played in all 28 matches and 108 sets played this past fall.
Hoke also earned All-PacWest Second Team honors and became the program's new all-time digs leader with a career total of 1,603 and counting (she plans to return next season using her COVID fifth year of eligibility).
Reinke surpassed 1,000 assists alone this season, ranking at No. 10 in the program's single-season record books.
ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT/AMERICA PROGRAM
Founded in the mid 1950s, the highly regarded Academic All-America selected by College Sports Communicators program is unquestionably regarded as the premier awards program in intercollegiate athletics for honoring combined academic and athletic excellence. As CSC's signature program, it has been presented a federal registration brand mark for "Academic All-America and Academic All-American" meaning that it is the sole organization that can refer to an awards program which includes that brand mark/name.
CSC members nominate and vote for Academic All-America® teams in 16 sport contests in all NCAA and NAIA divisions including men's soccer, women's soccer, football, volleyball, men's basketball, women's basketball, men's swimming & diving, women's swimming & diving, men's tennis, women's tennis, baseball, softball, men's at-large, women's at-large, men's track & field and women's track & field. A College Division At-Large program recognizes teams in all other divisions.
To be eligible, student-athletes must be at least a sophomore academically and athletically with at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average and must compete in 90 percent of the institution's games/contests/sets played OR must start in at least 66 percent of the games/contests/sets.
COLLEGE SPORTS COMMUNICATORS
College Sports Communicators (CSC) was founded in 1957 and is a 3,200+ member national association for strategic, creative and digital communicators across intercollegiate athletics in the United States and Canada. From its founding in 1957 until the 2022 name change, the organization was known as College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
