GREENWOOD, Indiana – Four Hawai'i Hilo Women's Volleyball Vulcans earned recognition for on-court performance and academic excellence as Madelyn Blandford, Tani Hoke, Kamryn Childs and Emerson Reinke were named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team.

Honorees carry a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.5 with sophomore standing and above and must have competed in 90 percent of games or have started at least 66 percent of total matches. Blandford, Childs and Reinke played in all 30 of the Vulcans' matches.

Both Hoke and Reinke are repeat selections from a year ago. Hoke was also voted as an All-PacWest Second Team honoree this season.

ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT/AMERICA PROGRAM: Founded in the mid 1950s, the highly-regarded Academic All-America selected by College Sports Communicators program is nominated and voted on by CSC members for Academic All-America® teams in 16 sport contests in all NCAA and NAIA divisions (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).

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).