{"id":60416,"date":"2020-08-13T11:29:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T18:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=60416"},"modified":"2020-08-13T11:29:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T18:29:43","slug":"student-spotlight-aug-14-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/student-spotlight-aug-14-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Student Spotlight: Aug. 14, 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>The <strong>Northern Arizona University women\u2019s basketball team<\/strong> was honored on the Women\u2019s Basketball Coaches Association Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll for averaging a team GPA of 3.646, the highest team GPA for the entire NAU Athletics Department. <strong>Peyton Carroll<\/strong>, <strong>Molly Rohrer<\/strong>, <strong>Emily Rodabaugh<\/strong> and <strong>Caitlin Malvar<\/strong> each earned a perfect 4.0 GPA while nine players total finished the year with a 3.75 GPA or higher.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Samantha Robbins<\/strong>, student in mechanical engineering, was selected to serve on the 2020-21 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Petroleum Division Collegiate Council. This is a chance for Robbins to engage in professional development opportunities and was facilitated by the department\u2019s involvement with ASME spearheaded by instructor and lab manager <strong>Perry Wood<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The NAU women\u2019s golf team had several accomplishments. Incoming golf freshman <strong>Ekaterina Malakhova<\/strong> won the 2020 Russian Golf Championship, leading from start to finish and winning the tournament by nine strokes. Junior <strong>Aleksandra Chekalina<\/strong> finished in fifth place. Junior <strong>Ashley Croft<\/strong> and sophomore <strong>Lorel Hayward<\/strong> competed at the Cactus Tour in Mesa placing No. 16 and No. 36 respectively. Junior <strong>Elle Kocourkova<\/strong> and incoming freshman <strong>Klara Kucharova<\/strong> competed at the Czech International Amateur Championship where they each placed No. 33 and no. 46 respectively.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/student-spotlight-aug-14-2020\/\">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. The Northern Arizona University women\u2019s basketball team was honored on the Women\u2019s Basketball Coaches Association Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll for averaging a team GPA of 3.646, the highest&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-60416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60416","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=60416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}