{"id":58765,"date":"2020-02-20T12:01:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T19:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=58765"},"modified":"2020-02-20T12:01:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T19:01:20","slug":"in-the-student-spotlight-feb-21-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-student-spotlight-feb-21-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Student Spotlight: Feb. 21, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to these students<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?<\/p>\n<p>E-mail your announcements to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\">Inside@nau.edu<\/a>, or use our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/news-tip\/\">online submission form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Senior <strong>Chiara Tomasetti<\/strong> earned her 10<sup>th<\/sup> career Big Sky Women\u2019s Tennis Player of the Week award and tied the conference record for Player of the Week awards. She has also moved up to No. 44, up from No. 47, in the latest Oracle ITA Division I singles rankings.<\/li>\n<li>NAU\u2019s <strong>men\u2019s track and field<\/strong> team earned its first No. 1 ranking in the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association indoor rankings. This ranking comes after the team\u2019s performance at the Boston University David Hemery Valentine Invitational where <strong>Luis Grijalva<\/strong>, <strong>Geordie Beamish<\/strong> and <strong>Tyler Day<\/strong> registered this season\u2019s top three fastest collegiate times in the men\u2019s 3000-meter race. There were several outstanding performances.\n<ul>\n<li>Grijalva ranked No. 1 with a time of 7:43.73.<\/li>\n<li>Beamish ranked No. 2 with a time of 7:44.67 and is in the top five for the mile with a time of 4:56.90.<\/li>\n<li>Day ranked No. 3 with a time of 7:45.70 and also owns the nation\u2019s fastest 5000-meter race with a time of 13:16.95.<\/li>\n<li>Junior <strong>Blaise Ferro<\/strong>, freshman <strong>Abdihamid Nur<\/strong> and sophomore <strong>Ryan Raff<\/strong> rank No. 11, No. 12 and No. 15 respectively in the 5000-meter.<\/li>\n<li>Freshman <strong>Theo Quax<\/strong> ranks No. 13 nationally for the mile.<\/li>\n<li>NAU\u2019s weight throwers are No. 7 for best event squad nationally with sophomore <strong>William Beaudry<\/strong> leading the group at No. 40 individually.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Grijalva and senior <strong>Mikayla Malaspina<\/strong> were named the Big Sky Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Track Athletes of the Week. This is Grijalva\u2019s fourth career Athlete of the Week award and Malaspina\u2019s second.<\/li>\n<li>Senior basketball captain <strong>Brooks DeBisschop<\/strong> was voted to the CoSIDA Academic All-District 8 First Team and will move on to the Academic All-America ballot. He carries a 3.97 cumulative grade point average in finance and is averaging 12.1 points, 7.8 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-student-spotlight-feb-21-2020\/\">Kudos to these students Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community? E-mail your announcements to\u00a0Inside@nau.edu, or use our\u00a0online submission form. Senior Chiara Tomasetti earned her 10th career Big Sky Women\u2019s Tennis Player of the Week award and tied the conference record for Player of the Week awards. She has also&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"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-58765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58765","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}