Golfers Kajihara, Dwyer, Ito honored
By Leila Wai
Advertiser Staff Writer
Three collegiate women golfers from Hawai'i were selected to the National Golf Coaches Association All-America Scholar Teams.
If you know of any athletes deserving of recognition, give us their names, high schools and graduation years, colleges and sports. E-mail us at: homegrown@honoluluadvertiser.com or contact Leila Wai at 535-2457.
They are Portland State freshman Lisa Kajihara (King Kekaulike '03 of Pukalani) in art/graphic design, UCLA senior Bridget Dwyer (Punahou '99 of Kailua) in economics, and Nebraska junior Merynn Ito ('Aiea '01) in journalism.
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The minimum cumulative grade point average for all honorees is 3.50, and 318 golfers from Divisions I, II and III were selected.
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• Two track and field athletes from Hawai'i were part of the 622 student-athletes selected to the spring academic all-Mountain West Conference team.
They are New Mexico senior distance runner Leighton Katsuda (Baldwin of Wailuku), with a 3.22 grade point average in Asian studies and San Diego State sophomore distance runner Christal Cuadra (Maryknoll '02 of Honolulu), with a 3.03 in economics.
Athletes needed to maintain a 3.0 GPA and be a starter or significant contributor on their athletic team.
Women's soccer
• Brigham Young sophomore defender Charlene Lui (Punahou '02 of Honolulu) was named a Mountain West Conference Scholar-Athlete, one of 424 student-athletes awarded the honor.
Mountain West scholar-athletes must have earned a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or better and competed in at least one varsity contest.
Lui, who has not declared a major, earned a 3.56 GPA and started 26 games.
Softball
• California-Berkeley junior outfielder Kaleo Eldredge (Baldwin '01 of Wailuku) was selected to the 2004 Easton All-America first team.
She batted .339 with nine doubles, seven home runs and 32 RBIs, and helped lead the Golden Bears to their sixth straight World Series appearance.
Women's Tennis
• Claremont-Mudd-Scripps freshman Jessica Nagasako (Lahainaluna '03 of Lahaina) was named to the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference first team in singles.
Men's Volleyball
• Pacific Lutheran's (Tacoma, Wash.) Adam Burke (Mililani '00) was named to the All-Pacific Northwest Collegiate Lacrosse League first team.
Burke, a midfielder, was a scholastic All-American and U.S. Lacrosse Men's Division Intercollegiate Associates All-America honorable mention selection.
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