{"id":56199,"date":"2019-07-11T16:04:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T23:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=56199"},"modified":"2019-07-11T17:05:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T00:05:49","slug":"in-the-student-spotlight-july-12-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-student-spotlight-july-12-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Student Spotlight: July 12, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kudos to these students<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU\ncommunity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">E-mail your announcements to&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\">Inside@nau.edu<\/a>, or use our&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/news-tip\/\">online submission form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>NAU women\u2019s golfer <strong>Aleksandra Chekalina<\/strong> is representing her home country of Russia in the European Ladies Team Championship July 9-13 at the Is Molas Resort in Italy.\u00a0 Chekalina earned All-Tournament honors at Big Sky Championships while at NAU this spring in addition to her Third Team All-Conference selection. <\/li><li>Women\u2019s golfers <strong>Elle Kocourkova<\/strong> and <strong>Sara Padilla<\/strong> were named Women\u2019s Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) All-American Scholars this month. A minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5 is required to be considered for the list. A total of 1,097 women\u2019s collegiate golfers were recognized. <\/li><li>Men\u2019s cross country and track and field runner <strong>Kyle Havriliak<\/strong> and women\u2019s tennis player <strong>Hanneke Lodewijks<\/strong> are recipients of Northern Arizona University\u2019s 2018-19 Big Sky Scholar-Athlete award. To qualify for the award, student-athletes must have a minimum GPA of 3.2, be a member of the graduating class and\/or have completed their last year of intercollegiate athletic eligibility, have completed at least two years of intercollegiate competition and be a letter winner in their respective sport. Havriliak and Lodewijks were selected by the department for their academic and athletic performances. <\/li><li>Men\u2019s long-distance runner <strong>Geordie Beamish<\/strong> is on the 2018-19 Google Cloud Academic Second Team All-American list for track and field and cross country. The distinction is given to student-athletes who excel academically while regularly competing for their institution. Beamish ended the academic year with a 3.73 GPA in civil engineering. Beamish has won a number of academic and athletic awards throughout his career at NAU and will return as a senior this fall. <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-student-spotlight-july-12-2019\/\">Kudos to these students Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community? E-mail your announcements to&nbsp;Inside@nau.edu, or use our&nbsp;online submission form. NAU women\u2019s golfer Aleksandra Chekalina is representing her home country of Russia in the European Ladies Team Championship July 9-13 at the Is Molas Resort in Italy.\u00a0 Chekalina earned All-Tournament&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56199","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}