GREENWOOD, Indiana – Three student-athletes from each of the Hawai'i Hilo Men's Basketball and Women's Basketball teams earned Academic All-District Team honors as announced Tuesday morning by the College Sports Communicators.
For the men, it was Cameron Wall, Jake Kosakowski and Zoar Nedd while Kaile Cruz, Melanie Hiu and Erica Ingram earned accolades for the women.
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 (sophomore standing and above) and participation in at least 90 percent of games played during the season (or 66 percent as a starter). New nomination criteria and protocol for the 2023-24 school year allows transfer student-athletes to be eligible by combining the GPA attained at previous institutions.
The Vulcans Men's Basketball qualified for the Pacific West Conference Championship postseason tournament for a third consecutive season and advanced to the semifinal round. The Vulcans Women's Basketball team fell just short of securing a spot in the six-team playoffs.
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.
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).
