{"id":69643,"date":"2023-07-19T08:39:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T15:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=69643"},"modified":"2023-07-19T08:39:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T15:39:59","slug":"in-the-spotlight-july-17-21-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-july-17-21-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: July 17-21, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Kudos to these faculty, staff, students and programs<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">E-mail your announcements to <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Inside@nau.edu<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">, or use our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/news-tip\/#.YEjwNWhKg2w\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">online submission form<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">NAU\u2019s women\u2019s track &amp; field team<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> finished off strong the spring semester with an earned USTFCCCA All-Academic Team honor. 20 student-athletes from the <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> track and field teams also placed in the All-Academic Individual Honor list. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nauathletics.com\/news\/2023\/7\/13\/nau-womens-track-field-earns-ustfccca-all-academic-honors.aspx\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">This<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> article lists all the award-winning athlete-students from the past season. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">NAU golfer<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0Aleksandra Chekalina<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">, recent NAU graduate, and first-year NAU students <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Lizzie Neale<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> and <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Ellana Slater <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">earned a spot on the WGCA All-American Scholars Team and were Golden Eagle Scholar Athletes award winners. Athletes Neale and Slater&#8217;s high-performance achievements in and outside the sports field were detailed in this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nauathletics.com\/news\/2023\/7\/12\/womens-golf-three-nau-golfers-named-wgca-all-american-scholars.aspx\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">article<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\"> along with Chekalina\u2019s, third-time award winner of the WGCA All-American Scholar, performance record.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Former NAU football player <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Coleman Owen <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and women\u2019s basketball player <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Regan Schenck<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> were <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">named NAU&#8217;s Big Sky Conference Scholar-Athletes of the Year early last week by the league office, after an outstanding performance during their athlete career in NAU. \u00a0Repetitive award recipients Owen, ranked seventh in the Big Sky, and Schenck, ranked sixth in free throw percentage,\u00a0ample record and award list\u00a0can be found in this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nauathletics.com\/news\/2023\/7\/12\/football-coleman-owen-regan-schenck-named-naus-big-sky-scholar-athletes-of-the-year.aspx\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">article.<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">NAU\u2019s Big Sky Conference awarded 48 NAU student-athletes from <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s outdoor track and field, men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s tennis and women\u2019s golf<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> teams, to the Big Sky Spring All-Academic team last week. After playing in more than half of the season&#8217;s games and maintained a 3.2 GPA average, these students were first in line for the Big Sky Spring All-Academic award. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nauathletics.com\/news\/2023\/7\/11\/general-nau-names-48-student-athletes-to-the-big-sky-spring-all-academic-team.aspx\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">See the list of all NAU&#8217;s 2023 Spring All-Academic student-athlete honorees.<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Former NAU football players <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Stacy Chukwumezie<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Morgan Vest<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> will <a href=\"https:\/\/nauathletics.com\/news\/2023\/7\/3\/football-stacy-chukwumezie-morgan-vest-to-continue-careers-on-respective-xfl-teams.aspx\">continue their football careers professionally<\/a> in the XFL. Chukwumezie signed with the Vegas Vipers as a wide receiver, while Vest signed with the Seattle Sea Dragons as a defensive back.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Northern Arizona University <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">was recently recognized, by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abound.college\/finishcollege\/best-online-colleges-west\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">ABOUND<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\"> for being one of the best online colleges in the West. This recognition promotes NAU\u2019s online program as affordable with a high graduation rate, while providing students across the country with a high-value online education and resources.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-july-17-21-2023\/\">Kudos to these faculty, staff, students and programs\u00a0 \u00a0Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?\u00a0 \u00a0E-mail your announcements to Inside@nau.edu, or use our online submission form.\u00a0 NAU\u2019s women\u2019s track &amp; field team finished off strong the spring semester with an earned USTFCCCA All-Academic Team honor. 20 student-athletes from the men&#8217;s&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"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-69643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69643","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\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}