{"id":16429,"date":"2013-04-12T10:32:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T17:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=16429"},"modified":"2013-12-03T11:21:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T18:21:36","slug":"golden-eagle-awards-honor-outstanding-student-athletes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/golden-eagle-awards-honor-outstanding-student-athletes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Outstanding student-athletes honored with Golden Eagle Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Golden Eagle Distributors, Inc., honored 169 Northern Arizona University student-athletes on Thursday for their scholastic and athletics accomplishments at the 35th\u00a0annual Golden Eagle Awards Luncheon.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony recognizes student-athletes for their significant contributions to the Lumberjacks athletics program while maintaining a minimum of a 3.0 grade point average.<\/p>\n<p>The Male and Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year Awards were presented to graduating seniors\u00a0<strong>Jake Hess<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Fi Connell<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Hess, a football fullback from Reno, Nev., will graduate with a 3.55 GPA with a degree in psychology.<\/p>\n<p>Connell, a swimmer from Port Macquarie, NSW Australia, will graduate with a 3.78 GPA with a psychology degree and health education minor.<\/p>\n<p>The football program, women&#8217;s track and field, soccer and swimming and diving each had over 20 honorees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nauathletics.com\/information\/academics\/Golden_Eagle_2013\">Read the complete list of Golden Eagle scholar-athletes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/golden-eagle-awards-honor-outstanding-student-athletes-2\/\">Golden Eagle Distributors, Inc., honored 169 Northern Arizona University student-athletes on Thursday for their scholastic and athletics accomplishments at the 35th\u00a0annual Golden Eagle Awards Luncheon. The ceremony recognizes student-athletes for their significant contributions to the Lumberjacks athletics program while maintaining a minimum of a 3.0 grade point average. The Male and Female Scholar-Athlete of the&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":16437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}