DENVER – Forty-seven Seattle University winter student-athletes have earned 2019-20 Academic All-Western Athletic Conference (WAC), the conference announced Thursday. The team includes members of men's and women's basketball, men's and women's swimming, and men's and women's indoor track and field.
To be eligible for the honor, a student-athlete must have completed at least one academic year, have at least a 3.2 cumulative grade-point average and have participated in at least 50 percent of the team's contests.
Eleven women's swimming student-athletes won prizes, as Emily Bakewell, Marissa Chan, Sherlyn Devadason, Julia Gorman, Darian Himes, Bryn Lasher, Allison Plamondon, Maddie Rapp, Margaux Thompson, Jayna Van Stone, and Jennifer Wong were honored. Gorman, Himes, Thompson, and Van Stone have taken three consecutive awards, while Bakewell, Devadason, Lasher, Plamondon, Rapp, and Wong are repeat winners.
Men's swimming saw 10 Redhawks qualify. Ryan Ascencio, Kyle Bailey, Luke Christensen, Shawn Fujii, Tyler Goodspeed, Chang He, Taj Mercer, Jack Neton, Milan Saric, and Zach Zenteno each made the squad. Christensen and Zenteno are three-time recipients, while Neton is a repeat honoree.
Seven members of women's basketball took home honors, as Carla Bieg, Olivia Crawford, Chinwe Ezeonu, Georgia Kehoe, Courtney Murphy, Leilani Peat, and McKenzi Williams made the list. Bieg and Crawford are repeat honorees.
For men's basketball, Mattia Da Campo, Rip Economou, Anand Hundal, and Morgan Means were recognized. Da Campo and Means have both claimed three Academic All-WAC certificates.
Nine members of women's indoor track and field picked up accolades. Marie-Therese Chahrouri, Chloe Deleissegues, Nicole Golba, Laurel Mack-Wilson, Michaela Moore, Michelle Newblom, Siobhan Rubio, Jami Tresselt, and Rachel Van Liew earned recognition. Mack-Wilson, Newblom, and Rubio have now taken three academic citations.
Stephen Crocker, Zach Gonzalez, Kyle Kennedy, Isaiah Payne, Ansel Pendley-Griffin, and Nathan Pixler landed on the list from men's indoor track and field.
Over 330 SU student-athletes combined for a cumulative 3.373 grade point average in the most recent academic quarter. The mark is up from the 3.286 GPA from Winter 2019 and also just above the 3.337 from Fall 2019.
All 18 sport programs achieved a team GPA of 3.0 or above. Topping that list include eight teams over a 3.5 GPA – women's golf (3.76), women's swimming (3.59), women's tennis (3.57), softball (3.57), men's golf (3.57), volleyball (3.55), women's cross country (3.52) and rowing (3.51).
To be eligible for the honor, a student-athlete must have completed at least one academic year, have at least a 3.2 cumulative grade-point average and have participated in at least 50 percent of the team's contests.
Eleven women's swimming student-athletes won prizes, as Emily Bakewell, Marissa Chan, Sherlyn Devadason, Julia Gorman, Darian Himes, Bryn Lasher, Allison Plamondon, Maddie Rapp, Margaux Thompson, Jayna Van Stone, and Jennifer Wong were honored. Gorman, Himes, Thompson, and Van Stone have taken three consecutive awards, while Bakewell, Devadason, Lasher, Plamondon, Rapp, and Wong are repeat winners.
Men's swimming saw 10 Redhawks qualify. Ryan Ascencio, Kyle Bailey, Luke Christensen, Shawn Fujii, Tyler Goodspeed, Chang He, Taj Mercer, Jack Neton, Milan Saric, and Zach Zenteno each made the squad. Christensen and Zenteno are three-time recipients, while Neton is a repeat honoree.
Seven members of women's basketball took home honors, as Carla Bieg, Olivia Crawford, Chinwe Ezeonu, Georgia Kehoe, Courtney Murphy, Leilani Peat, and McKenzi Williams made the list. Bieg and Crawford are repeat honorees.
For men's basketball, Mattia Da Campo, Rip Economou, Anand Hundal, and Morgan Means were recognized. Da Campo and Means have both claimed three Academic All-WAC certificates.
Nine members of women's indoor track and field picked up accolades. Marie-Therese Chahrouri, Chloe Deleissegues, Nicole Golba, Laurel Mack-Wilson, Michaela Moore, Michelle Newblom, Siobhan Rubio, Jami Tresselt, and Rachel Van Liew earned recognition. Mack-Wilson, Newblom, and Rubio have now taken three academic citations.
Stephen Crocker, Zach Gonzalez, Kyle Kennedy, Isaiah Payne, Ansel Pendley-Griffin, and Nathan Pixler landed on the list from men's indoor track and field.
Over 330 SU student-athletes combined for a cumulative 3.373 grade point average in the most recent academic quarter. The mark is up from the 3.286 GPA from Winter 2019 and also just above the 3.337 from Fall 2019.
All 18 sport programs achieved a team GPA of 3.0 or above. Topping that list include eight teams over a 3.5 GPA – women's golf (3.76), women's swimming (3.59), women's tennis (3.57), softball (3.57), men's golf (3.57), volleyball (3.55), women's cross country (3.52) and rowing (3.51).