90 Cal Poly Student-Athletes Earn All-Big West Academic Recognition
7/13/2021 1:41:00 PM | Baseball, General, Men's Basketball, Men's Golf, Men's Tennis, Softball, Track and Field, Women's Basketball, Beach Volleyball, Women's Golf, Women's Tennis
SAN LUIS OBISPO – A total of 90 Cal Poly student-athletes across 11 programs – an increase of six selections from last summer and 25 from two years ago – earned Big West Conference Winter and Spring All-Academic honors on Tuesday afternoon.
To be eligible for Big West All-Academic recognition, student-athletes must have maintained at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA, have attained a sophomore standing academically and competed in a minimum 50 percent of the program's games or meets.
The complete listing of Cal Poly's 90 selections is below.
The Cal Poly women's basketball team enjoyed a program record eight selections with 75 percent of its eligible roster recognized. Meanwhile, the Mustang men's basketball program saw junior forward Tuukka Jaakkola honored for the second successive season.
Cal Poly's beach volleyball program, which captured the 2021 Big West Tournament title to qualify for its second straight NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship appearance in May, collected a program record seven honorees. Seniors Macy Gordon and Tia Miric completed their collegiate careers as three-time Big West All-Academic honorees while juniors Jayelin Lombard and Vanessa Roscoe repeated their selections from a year ago.
For the ninth time under 17th-year head coach Jenny Condon, Cal Poly's softball program enjoyed at least five selections. Since 2013, Cal Poly's softball program has averaged five all-academic selections per season.
Across Ozzie Smith Plaza, the Mustang baseball program picked up five selections with junior outfielder Cole Cabrera earning his third straight honor.
Cal Poly's men's track and field program enjoyed 26 honorees, equaling the UC Santa Barbara men's team and UC San Diego women's team for the top spot among any Big West program. Coupled with the Mustang women's program's 20 honorees, Cal Poly's track and field programs collected more than half of the athletic department's 90 awards.
The Mustang men's tennis program, which finished the spring as Big West Tournament runner-up and No. 72 in the final Intercollegiate Tennis Association Division I Team Rankings, featured seven honorees – 58 percent of its roster.
Cal Poly's women's tennis program, also the Big West Tournament runner-up in 2021, enjoyed six honorees to double its total from 2020.
Earning his second straight honor, junior Will Draper headlined the Cal Poly men's golf program's three selections. The Mustang women's golf program, Big West champions for the second time in 2021, enjoyed two honorees with junior Elizabeth Scholtes repeating her selection from a year ago.
Women's Basketball
Kirsty Brown, Sr. - Business Administration (Pleasanton, CA)
Sierra Campisano, Sr. – English (San Diego, CA)
Malia Holt, Sr. - Public Health (Reno, NV)
Hannah Peterson, Sr. - Kinesiology (San Jose, CA)
Hannah Scanlan, Sr. - Business Administration (Rumson, NJ)
Lily Svetich, So. - Kinesiology (San Luis Obispo, CA)
Maddie Vick, Jr. - Psychology (Phoenix, AZ)
Maddie Willett, Jr. - Mathematics (Gig Harbor, WA)
Men's Basketball
Tuukka Jaakkola, Jr. - Construction Management (Helsinki, Finland)
Baseball
Cole Cabrera, Sr. - Recreation, Parks & Tourism Administration (Honolulu, HI)
Taison Corio, Jr. - Business Administration (Concord, CA)
Jason Franks, Sr. - Civil Engineering (Novato, CA)
Nick Marinconz, So. - Sociology (San Jose, CA)
Drew Thorpe, So. - Kinesiology (Washington, UT)
Softball
Sydney Frankenberger, So. - Kinesiology (San Ramon, CA)
Shelby Jeffries, Sr. - Recreation, Parks & Tourism Administration (Gold Bar, WA)
Hailey Martin, Sr. - Marine Sciences (Tracy, CA)
Noellah Ramos, Sr. - Business Administration (Fremont, CA)
Sarah Wulff, Sr. - Kinesiology (Atascadero, CA)
Beach Volleyball
Macy Gordon, Sr. - Psychology (Paradise Valley, AZ)
Eleonore Johansen, Jr. - Business Administration (Los Altos, CA)
Jayelin Lombard, Jr. - Psychology (Indio, CA)
Tia Miric, Sr. - Business Administration (Thornhill, Ontario, Canada)
Vanessa Roscoe, Jr. - Communication Studies (Burlington, Ontario, Canada)
Josie Ulrich, So. - Kinesiology (Ventura, CA)
Mariah Whalen, Sr. - Business Administration (Wausau, WI)
Men's Golf
Will Draper, Jr. - Business Administration (Oak Park, CA)
Austin Liu, So. - Business Administration (Oak Park, CA)
Nicholas Mok, So. - Business Administration (Singapore)
Women's Golf
Elizabeth Scholtes, Jr. - Business Administration (Alameda, CA)
Vanessa Wang, Jr. - Recreation, Parks & Tourism Administration (Rowland Heights, CA)
Men's Tennis
Fernando Fonseca, So. - Business Administration (Mogi Mirim, Brazil)
Joe Leather, So. - Recreation, Parks & Tourism Administration (Bath, England)
Antoine Noel, Sr. - Business Analytics (Ris Orangis, France)
Roman Shenkiryk, Sr. - Business Administration (San Diego, CA)
Alex Stater, Sr. - Psychology (Bethesda, MD)
Gary Vardanyan, Jr. - Kinesiology (Granada Hills, CA)
Andrew Whitehouse, Sr. - Business Administration (Westlake Village, CA)
Women's Tennis
Emily Ackerman, Jr. - Kinesiology (Thousand Oaks, CA)
Kim Bhunu, Jr. - Business Administration (Harare, Zimbabwe)
Delanie Dunkle, So. - Business Administration (Arroyo Grande, CA)
Melissa LaMette, So. - Business Administration (Cypress, TX)
Grace Olyphant, Sr. - Business Administration (Los Angeles, CA)
MacKenzie Worsnop, Sr. - Business Administration (Newport Beach, CA)
Men's Track and Field
Quinton Alexander, So. - Biological Sciences (Fairfield, CA)
Anthony Benitez, Jr. - Psychology (San Diego, CA)
John Bennett, Jr. - Mechanical Engineering (Livermore, CA)
Dylan Bouzigues, Jr. - Animal Science (San Jose, CA)
Mathis Bresko, So. - Aerospace Engineering (Bellevue, WA)
Noah Bultman, So. - Business Administration (Stevenson Ranch, CA)
Nathan Bustos, Jr. - Kinesiology (Pasadena, CA)
Devon Cetti, Jr. - Kinesiology (Santa Barbara, CA)
Wyatt Conner, Sr. - Mechanical Engineering (Salinas, CA)
Brandon Dick, Sr. - Interdisciplinary Studies (San Jose, CA)
Mason Elefant, So. - Business Administration (Mountain View, CA)
Tyler Esteves, Jr. - Bioresource & Agriculture Engineering (Visalia, CA)
Nick Gammal, So. - Marine Sciences (Union City, CA)
Adam Gockel, Sr. - Quantitative Economics (Santa Rosa, CA)
Kijana Hilton, So. - Business Administration (San Jose, CA)
Bailey Jones, Jr. - Kinesiology (Mar Vista, CA)
Lucas Lacambra, So. - Biomedical Engineering (Edmond, WA)
Colin Masterson, Sr. - Materials Engineering (Placerville, CA)
Elias Opsahl, Jr. - Forestry & Natual Resources (Redlands, CA)
Robert Poynter, Jr. - Psychology (San Ramon, CA)
Jake Ritter, Sr. - Civil Engineering (Citrus Heights, CA)
Justin Robison, Sr. - Kinesiology (Saratoga, CA)
Wesley Salzman, So. - Aerospace Engineering (Carlsbad, CA)
Thomas Schauerman, Sr. - Biological Sciences (Edina, MN)
Spencer Thurman, So. - Biological Sciences (Lake Forest Park, WA)
John Walther, Jr. - Business Administration (Carlsbad, CA)
Women's Track & Field
Esabel Aduaka, So. - Microbiology (Pleasanton, CA)
Aimee Armstrong, So. - Biological Sciences (Santa Rosa, CA)
Sierra Brill, Sr. - Art & Design (San Francisco, CA)
Shelby Daniele, So. - Agircultural Business (Clovis, CA)
Shimona Draper, So. - Kinesiology (El Dorado Hills, CA)
Abigail Fisk, Sr. - Kinesiology (Davis, CA)
Emily Hallett, Sr. - Kinesiology (Madera, CA)
Paige Hansen, Jr. - Marine Sciences (San Jose, CA)
Kaia Hoak, So. - Biological Sciences (Big Bear Lake, CA)
Cassidy Hubert, So. - Kinesiology (Ventura, CA)
Sydney Jaques, Sr. - Software Engineering (San Jose, CA)
Amaya Lopez-Fuller, So. - Child Development (Santa Clara, CA)
Kayla Myers, Sr. - Business Administration (Poway, CA)
Roxanne Nolan, Sr. - Biological Sciences (Morro Bay, CA)
Mikaela Romanini, Sr. - Environmental Engineering (Bakersfield, CA)
Molly Ross, Sr. - Biological Sciences (Redding, CA)
Juliana Ruotolo, Sr. - Kinesiology (Pleasant Hill, CA)
Brooke Tjerrild, Sr. - Kinesiology (Fresno, CA)
Kristen Wallace, Jr. - Business Administration (Granite Bay, CA)
Alexis Watkins, Jr. - Psychology (Poway, CA)
To be eligible for Big West All-Academic recognition, student-athletes must have maintained at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA, have attained a sophomore standing academically and competed in a minimum 50 percent of the program's games or meets.
The complete listing of Cal Poly's 90 selections is below.
The Cal Poly women's basketball team enjoyed a program record eight selections with 75 percent of its eligible roster recognized. Meanwhile, the Mustang men's basketball program saw junior forward Tuukka Jaakkola honored for the second successive season.
Cal Poly's beach volleyball program, which captured the 2021 Big West Tournament title to qualify for its second straight NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship appearance in May, collected a program record seven honorees. Seniors Macy Gordon and Tia Miric completed their collegiate careers as three-time Big West All-Academic honorees while juniors Jayelin Lombard and Vanessa Roscoe repeated their selections from a year ago.
For the ninth time under 17th-year head coach Jenny Condon, Cal Poly's softball program enjoyed at least five selections. Since 2013, Cal Poly's softball program has averaged five all-academic selections per season.
Across Ozzie Smith Plaza, the Mustang baseball program picked up five selections with junior outfielder Cole Cabrera earning his third straight honor.
Cal Poly's men's track and field program enjoyed 26 honorees, equaling the UC Santa Barbara men's team and UC San Diego women's team for the top spot among any Big West program. Coupled with the Mustang women's program's 20 honorees, Cal Poly's track and field programs collected more than half of the athletic department's 90 awards.
The Mustang men's tennis program, which finished the spring as Big West Tournament runner-up and No. 72 in the final Intercollegiate Tennis Association Division I Team Rankings, featured seven honorees – 58 percent of its roster.
Cal Poly's women's tennis program, also the Big West Tournament runner-up in 2021, enjoyed six honorees to double its total from 2020.
Earning his second straight honor, junior Will Draper headlined the Cal Poly men's golf program's three selections. The Mustang women's golf program, Big West champions for the second time in 2021, enjoyed two honorees with junior Elizabeth Scholtes repeating her selection from a year ago.
Women's Basketball
Kirsty Brown, Sr. - Business Administration (Pleasanton, CA)
Sierra Campisano, Sr. – English (San Diego, CA)
Malia Holt, Sr. - Public Health (Reno, NV)
Hannah Peterson, Sr. - Kinesiology (San Jose, CA)
Hannah Scanlan, Sr. - Business Administration (Rumson, NJ)
Lily Svetich, So. - Kinesiology (San Luis Obispo, CA)
Maddie Vick, Jr. - Psychology (Phoenix, AZ)
Maddie Willett, Jr. - Mathematics (Gig Harbor, WA)
Men's Basketball
Tuukka Jaakkola, Jr. - Construction Management (Helsinki, Finland)
Baseball
Cole Cabrera, Sr. - Recreation, Parks & Tourism Administration (Honolulu, HI)
Taison Corio, Jr. - Business Administration (Concord, CA)
Jason Franks, Sr. - Civil Engineering (Novato, CA)
Nick Marinconz, So. - Sociology (San Jose, CA)
Drew Thorpe, So. - Kinesiology (Washington, UT)
Softball
Sydney Frankenberger, So. - Kinesiology (San Ramon, CA)
Shelby Jeffries, Sr. - Recreation, Parks & Tourism Administration (Gold Bar, WA)
Hailey Martin, Sr. - Marine Sciences (Tracy, CA)
Noellah Ramos, Sr. - Business Administration (Fremont, CA)
Sarah Wulff, Sr. - Kinesiology (Atascadero, CA)
Beach Volleyball
Macy Gordon, Sr. - Psychology (Paradise Valley, AZ)
Eleonore Johansen, Jr. - Business Administration (Los Altos, CA)
Jayelin Lombard, Jr. - Psychology (Indio, CA)
Tia Miric, Sr. - Business Administration (Thornhill, Ontario, Canada)
Vanessa Roscoe, Jr. - Communication Studies (Burlington, Ontario, Canada)
Josie Ulrich, So. - Kinesiology (Ventura, CA)
Mariah Whalen, Sr. - Business Administration (Wausau, WI)
Men's Golf
Will Draper, Jr. - Business Administration (Oak Park, CA)
Austin Liu, So. - Business Administration (Oak Park, CA)
Nicholas Mok, So. - Business Administration (Singapore)
Women's Golf
Elizabeth Scholtes, Jr. - Business Administration (Alameda, CA)
Vanessa Wang, Jr. - Recreation, Parks & Tourism Administration (Rowland Heights, CA)
Men's Tennis
Fernando Fonseca, So. - Business Administration (Mogi Mirim, Brazil)
Joe Leather, So. - Recreation, Parks & Tourism Administration (Bath, England)
Antoine Noel, Sr. - Business Analytics (Ris Orangis, France)
Roman Shenkiryk, Sr. - Business Administration (San Diego, CA)
Alex Stater, Sr. - Psychology (Bethesda, MD)
Gary Vardanyan, Jr. - Kinesiology (Granada Hills, CA)
Andrew Whitehouse, Sr. - Business Administration (Westlake Village, CA)
Women's Tennis
Emily Ackerman, Jr. - Kinesiology (Thousand Oaks, CA)
Kim Bhunu, Jr. - Business Administration (Harare, Zimbabwe)
Delanie Dunkle, So. - Business Administration (Arroyo Grande, CA)
Melissa LaMette, So. - Business Administration (Cypress, TX)
Grace Olyphant, Sr. - Business Administration (Los Angeles, CA)
MacKenzie Worsnop, Sr. - Business Administration (Newport Beach, CA)
Men's Track and Field
Quinton Alexander, So. - Biological Sciences (Fairfield, CA)
Anthony Benitez, Jr. - Psychology (San Diego, CA)
John Bennett, Jr. - Mechanical Engineering (Livermore, CA)
Dylan Bouzigues, Jr. - Animal Science (San Jose, CA)
Mathis Bresko, So. - Aerospace Engineering (Bellevue, WA)
Noah Bultman, So. - Business Administration (Stevenson Ranch, CA)
Nathan Bustos, Jr. - Kinesiology (Pasadena, CA)
Devon Cetti, Jr. - Kinesiology (Santa Barbara, CA)
Wyatt Conner, Sr. - Mechanical Engineering (Salinas, CA)
Brandon Dick, Sr. - Interdisciplinary Studies (San Jose, CA)
Mason Elefant, So. - Business Administration (Mountain View, CA)
Tyler Esteves, Jr. - Bioresource & Agriculture Engineering (Visalia, CA)
Nick Gammal, So. - Marine Sciences (Union City, CA)
Adam Gockel, Sr. - Quantitative Economics (Santa Rosa, CA)
Kijana Hilton, So. - Business Administration (San Jose, CA)
Bailey Jones, Jr. - Kinesiology (Mar Vista, CA)
Lucas Lacambra, So. - Biomedical Engineering (Edmond, WA)
Colin Masterson, Sr. - Materials Engineering (Placerville, CA)
Elias Opsahl, Jr. - Forestry & Natual Resources (Redlands, CA)
Robert Poynter, Jr. - Psychology (San Ramon, CA)
Jake Ritter, Sr. - Civil Engineering (Citrus Heights, CA)
Justin Robison, Sr. - Kinesiology (Saratoga, CA)
Wesley Salzman, So. - Aerospace Engineering (Carlsbad, CA)
Thomas Schauerman, Sr. - Biological Sciences (Edina, MN)
Spencer Thurman, So. - Biological Sciences (Lake Forest Park, WA)
John Walther, Jr. - Business Administration (Carlsbad, CA)
Women's Track & Field
Esabel Aduaka, So. - Microbiology (Pleasanton, CA)
Aimee Armstrong, So. - Biological Sciences (Santa Rosa, CA)
Sierra Brill, Sr. - Art & Design (San Francisco, CA)
Shelby Daniele, So. - Agircultural Business (Clovis, CA)
Shimona Draper, So. - Kinesiology (El Dorado Hills, CA)
Abigail Fisk, Sr. - Kinesiology (Davis, CA)
Emily Hallett, Sr. - Kinesiology (Madera, CA)
Paige Hansen, Jr. - Marine Sciences (San Jose, CA)
Kaia Hoak, So. - Biological Sciences (Big Bear Lake, CA)
Cassidy Hubert, So. - Kinesiology (Ventura, CA)
Sydney Jaques, Sr. - Software Engineering (San Jose, CA)
Amaya Lopez-Fuller, So. - Child Development (Santa Clara, CA)
Kayla Myers, Sr. - Business Administration (Poway, CA)
Roxanne Nolan, Sr. - Biological Sciences (Morro Bay, CA)
Mikaela Romanini, Sr. - Environmental Engineering (Bakersfield, CA)
Molly Ross, Sr. - Biological Sciences (Redding, CA)
Juliana Ruotolo, Sr. - Kinesiology (Pleasant Hill, CA)
Brooke Tjerrild, Sr. - Kinesiology (Fresno, CA)
Kristen Wallace, Jr. - Business Administration (Granite Bay, CA)
Alexis Watkins, Jr. - Psychology (Poway, CA)
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