Sixty-One Mustangs Earn Big West Spring Academic Honors
7/3/2025 1:31:00 PM | Baseball, General, Men's Golf, Men's Tennis, Softball, Track and Field, Beach Volleyball, Women's Golf, Women's Tennis
SAN LUIS OBISPO – With the Cal Poly beach volleyball team setting a new program record with seven Big West Spring Academic All-Conference selections and the women’s tennis squad matching its program record with six honorees, sixty-one total Mustangs across nine sports earned recognition Thursday afternoon.
In order to qualify for selection, student-athletes (excluding true freshmen and first-year transfers) had to maintain at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA through the most recent academic term while also competing in at least 50 percent of their program’s competitions.
The complete listing of Cal Poly’s 61 Big West Spring Academic All-Conference honorees is below.
The Cal Poly women’s track and field program topped all programs with 14 honorees, including two-time conference pole vault champion Lexi Evans and distance standout Kelli Gaffney – both of whom qualified for the NCAA West Preliminary meet. Three other Mustangs also became three-time all-academic selections in seniors Lariel Henley, Carissa Buchholz (one track honor, two cross country) and Maia Garcia (two track, one basketball).
The Big West champion men’s track and field program contributed 13 additional selections, highlighted by junior Rory Devaney, who earned All-American honors at June’s NCAA Championship with his fifth-place finish in the hammer throw. Five other Mustangs who qualified for NCAA West Preliminary meet earned all-academic praise in graduate students Corban Payne (shot put) and Chase Walter (400 meters, 4x400 meter relay), senior Spencer Pickren (1,500 meters) and juniors Carson Smith (1,500 meters) and Lewis Westwood (800 meters). Walter (three track, one baseball) and Westwood (track and cross country) became four-time honorees while Payne, Smith and Pickren are three-time selections.
Reaching a second straight NCAA Championship semifinal appearance in May, the Mustang beach volleyball team saw senior Piper Ferch, junior Izzy Martinez and sophomore Logan Walter combine Big West all-academic selection with AVCA All-America honors. Ferch, who tied the program’s career wins record with 101 victories, also earned All-Big West selection alongside fellow all-academic picks Martinez, Walter, graduate student Lindsey Sparks, junior Ella Connor and sophomore Quinn Perry.
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— The Big West (@BigWestSports) July 3, 2025
Cal Poly’s baseball program, which captured May’s inaugural Big West Championship to qualify for the program’s first NCAA Tournament in 11 years, earned four all-academic selections – including All-Big West second team honoree Jake Torres.
For the fifth time in the last seven seasons, the Cal Poly softball program enjoyed a minimum of seven selections, with the 2025 class including All-Big West selections Julia Barnett and Kate Judy. Senior righthander Paige Maier, meanwhile, completed her career as a three-time Big West all-academic selection.
Representing the men’s and women’s golf programs, respectively, as NCAA Regional individual qualifiers, seniors Baron Szeto and Jensen Jalufka closed their careers with all-academic praise. They were joined by men’s sophomore Louis Pilod and women’s standouts Kamille Dimayuga and Sarah Yoo.
Reaching the Big West Championship title match for a fifth straight year, the Cal Poly women’s tennis program saw four of its six academic selections also earn All-Big West recognition in seniors Peyton Dunkle and Romane Mosse, junior Kennedy Buntrock and redshirt sophomore Amy Leather. During this past season, Dunkle also broke the program Division I record for dual singles victories.
Men’s tennis senior Bastiaan Weststrate received a third successive Big West all-academic award after also earning All-Big West recognition alongside sophomores Raz Haviv and Sean Kamyshev.
Cal Poly Athletics Big West Spring Academic All-Conference Selections
Baseball
Chris Downs, So. — Business Administration (Santa Clarita, CA)
Jake Torres, Sr. — Business Administration (Fair Oaks, CA)
Erik Kvidahl, Jr. — Interdisciplinary Studies (Napa, CA)
Cam Hoiland, Sr. — Kinesiology (Renton, WA)
Beach Volleyball
Ella Connor, Sr. — Recreation, Parks & Tourism Admin. (Kihei, HI)
Piper Ferch, Sr. — Graphic Communication (Redmond, WA)
Izzy Martinez, Jr. — English (Winnetka, CA)
Quinn Perry, So. — Psychology (Costa Mesa, CA)
Abbey Reinard, Sr. — Business Administration (Carlsbad, CA)
Lindsey Sparks, Gr. — Nutrition (Huntington Beach, CA)
Logan Walter, So. — Kinesiology (San Mateo, CA)
Men’s Golf
Louis Pilod, So. — Economics (Lyon, France)
Reese Sato, So. — Business Administration (Folsom, CA)
Women’s Golf
Kamille Dimayuga, Sr. — Business Administration (Buena Park, CA)
Jensen Jalufka, Gr. — Business Administration (Austin, TX)
Sarah Yoo, So. — Business Administration (Los Angeles, CA)
Softball
Julia Barnett, Sr. — Recreation, Parks & Tourism Admin. (Brentwood, CA)
A’Niyla Byrd, So. — Interdisciplinary Studies (Fresno, CA)
Mylina Garza, Jr. — Communication Studies (Suisun City, CA)
Kate Judy, Sr. — Sociology (Seattle, WA)
Malia Mah, Sr. — Kinesiology (San Martin, CA)
Paige Maier, Sr. — Kinesiology (Campbell, CA)
Sehren Martinez, So. — Psychology (Ceres, CA)
Men’s Tennis
Aaron Eliscu, Jr. — Business Administration (Oro Valley, AZ)
Sean Ferguson, So. — Industrial Engineering (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA)
Raz Haviv, So. — Recreation, Parks & Tourism Admin. (Ramat Gan, Israel)
Sean Kamyshev, So. — Business Administration (Nesher, Israel)
Bastiaan Weststrate, Sr. — Business Administration (Voorschoten, Netherlands)
Women’s Tennis
Kennedy Buntrock, Jr. — Communication Studies (Henderson, NV)
Peyton Dunkle, Sr. — Business Administration (Arroyo Grande, CA)
Amy Leather, Jr. — Psychology (Bath, England)
Sarah MacCallum, Jr. — Business Administration (Laguna Beach, CA)
Romane Mosse, Sr. — Business Administration (Viroflay, France)
Alexandra Ozerets, Jr. — Business Administration (Mission Viejo, CA)
Men’s Track & Field
Rory Devaney, Jr. — Forest & Fire Sciences (San Luis Obispo, CA)
Tyler Downs, So. — Construction Management (Higlands Ranch, CA)
Ben Lammers, So. — Mechanical Engineering (Portland, OR)
Mateo Malko-Allen, So. — History (Alameda, CA)
Corban Payne, Gr. — Engineering Management (Paso Robles, CA)
Spencer Pickren, Sr. — Anthropology and Geography (Folsom, CA)
Levi Romero, So. — Business Administration (Los Gatos, CA)
Micah Sanchez, So. — Mechanical Engineering (Alpine, CA)
Carson Smith, Jr. — Construction Management (Temecula, CA)
Ryan Teeple, So. — Construction Management (San Jose, CA)
Chase Walter, Gr. — City & Regional Planning (Laguna Niguel, CA)
Lewis Westwood, Jr. — Environmental Engineering (San Luis Obispo, CA)
Jonathan Yu, So. — Mechanical Engineering (Huntington Beach, CA)
Women’s Track & Field
Carissa Buchholz, Sr. — Biological Sciences (South Lake Tahoe, CA)
Lexi Evans, Jr. — Aerospace Engineering (San Diego, CA)
Kelli Gaffney, So. — Kinesiology (Temecula, CA)
Maia Garcia, Sr. — Psychology (San Jose, CA)
Logan Hays, So. — Environmental Management & Protection (Phoenix, AZ)
Lariel Henley, Sr. — Architectural Engineering (Fort Collins, CO)
Taylor Hofland, So. — Liberal Studies (Long Beach, CA)
Jordan Jackson, So. — Journalism (Las Vegas, NV)
Avery Karner, Jr. — Nutrition (Laguna Niguel, CA)
Chase Kubinski, Jr. — Animal Science (San Luis Obispo, CA)
Ashlyn Leath, So. — Communication Studies (Fresno, CA)
Ariella Per, So. — Business Administration (Westlake Village, CA)
Cadence Roy-Williams, Sr. — Psychology (Turlock, CA)
Sydney Sundgren, So. — Business Administration (Clovis, CA)
