COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.— This spring, 85 San José State University student-athletes from 10 Spartan sports teams earned Academic All-Mountain West honors, as announced by the conference office.
The baseball team led the sports with the most award winners with 16 student-athletes, followed closely by women's swimming and diving with 15. Two other teams had double-digit student-athletes honored –softball with 12 and women's track & field with 11.
A Spartan record 11 spring student-athletes earned Academic All-MW honors for the fourth time in their career at San José State – Jonathan Clark, Jack Colette and Ben Polack (BASE), Cydni Lewis (WBB), Antonia Malate and Natasha Andrea Oon (WGOLF), Caroline Bowman and Alyssa Graham (SB), Daria Cocol and Shelby Mullendore (WSW) and Alba Pedrero Galindo (WTN). They join seven student-athletes from the fall sports who also received the honor for the fourth time – Cade Hall, Brendan Manigo, Tysyn Parker, Christian Webb and Tre White (FB), Karlee Pottorff (WSOC) and Haylee Nelson (VB). Football player Jack Snyder was the only Spartan this year to receive five awards.
For the 2021-22 academic year, 186 Spartans earned academic all-conference recognition from the Mountain West (15 sports – 148) Western Athletic Conference (men's soccer – 6), Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (women's water polo – 8; women's gymnastics - 10) or the Golden Coast Conference (men's water polo – 14).
To qualify for Academic All-MW, a student-athlete must have completed at least one academic semester at the institution while maintaining a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or better. The student-athlete must have competed in 50 percent of the team's completed varsity contests.
In all, 1,266 student-athletes have been named to the spring 2022 Academic All-MW teams. Sports recognized include baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's golf, softball, women's swimming and diving, men's and women's tennis and men's and women's indoor and outdoor track and field.
San José State University Academic All-Mountain West Award winners – Spring 2022
Baseball (16)
&$Dalton Bowling Sophomore Communication Studies
Joey Cammarata Sophomore Communication Studies
&$!Jonathan Clark Junior Kinesiology
&$!Jack Colette Senior MA Kinesiology
Hunter Dorraugh Sophomore Justice Studies/Criminology
&Jackson Forbes Sophomore Psychology
&$Robert Hamchuk Sophomore Communication Studies
&Theo Hardy Sophomore Kinesiology
Carter Heninger Freshman Behavioral Science
&$Reece Hernandez Senior Sociology
&Charles McAdoo Sophomore Communication Studies
&$Ruben Mercado Senior Sociology
&$!Ben Polack Junior Business Administration/Finance
&Corey Sanchez Sophomore Business Administration/Management
&$James Shimashita Junior Psychology
Casey Spencer Freshman Kinesiology
Men's Basketball (2)
Alvaro Cardenas Freshman Kinesiology
&$Omari Moore Sophomore Kinesiology
Women's Basketball (3)
Sophia Jones Sophomore Radio-Television-Film
$!#Cydni Lewis Senior Public Health
Meghan Oberg Senior Mass Communications
Men's Golf (5)
Zubair Firdaus Freshman Philosophy
Kotaro Murata Junior Phiosophy
&$Caleb Shetler Junior Aviation
&Vijay Srinivasan Senior Business Administration/Finance
&Kristopher Stiles Sophomore Business Administration/Corporate Accounting & Finance
Women's Golf (5)
&$Kajsa Arwefjäll Junior Business Administration/Finance
&Louisa Carlbom Sophomore Applied Mathematics
Lucia Lopez Ortega Freshman Chemistry/BioChemistry
&$!Antonia Malate Senior Communication Studies
&$!Natasha Andrea Oon Senior/Graduate Business Administration/General Business
Softball (12)
Karizma Bergesen Junior Civil Engineering
&$!Caroline Bowman Senior Mechanical Engineering
&Jillian Figueroa Junior Forensic Science/Biology
&Jessica Giacoma Senior Business Administration/Marketing
Ashley Goard Freshman English (Teaching Prep)
&$!Alyssa Graham Junior Public Health
Lacie Ham Freshman Communication Studies
&Malia Luna Sophomore Chemical Engineering
Ashley Rico Sophomore Business Administration/Management
Jules Ronquillo Freshman Business Administration/Human Resources
Aubrie Thomas Freshman Psychology
&Jocylyn Vidal Junior Business Administration/Finance
Women's Swimming & Diving (15)
&Alice Ciobanu Sophomore Kinesiology
&$!Daria Cocol Senior Business Administration/Corporate Accounting & Finance
Hannah Dettmann Freshman Psychology BA
Andreea Dragoi Freshman Kinesiology
&Ida Due Senior Kinesiology
&Izzie Fraire Senior Nutritional Science
Ela Freiman Freshman Biomedical Engineering
Réka Kovács Junior Philosophy
&Reagan Mathieson Sophomore Biomedical Engineering
&$!Shelby Mullendore Senior Economics
Zsófia Muzsnay Freshman Communication Studies
Emma Myburgh Sophomore Psychology
&$Rebecca Petoe Junior BioChemistry
Ellie Shorten Freshman Undeclared
$Angelika Yngson Senior Recreation/Recreation Therapy
Women's Tennis (7)
Oleksandra Andrieieva Junior Business Administration/Management
&Jovana Babic Sophomore Psychology
&$Lara Marco Mas Junior Nutritional Science
&Irena Muradyan Sophomore Business Administration/Management
&$!Alba Pedrero Galindo Senior Business Administration/Management
&Raquel Villan Pereira Sophomore Chemistry
&$Rozalina Youseva Junior Hospitality Management
Men's Track & Field (9)
&$Jalen Adams Junior Radio, TV, Film
&Xolan Brown Graduate Master's – Interdisciplinary Studies
&$Richard Dang Senior Kinesiology
&$Cecil Ebiwok Graduate Biological Sciences
&Jordan Finister Senior Philosophy
&Kyle Jankans Sophomore Undeclared
&Matheu Johnson Sophomore Industrial Technology
&Bryan Quintero Senior Biological Sciences
&Christian Rodriguez Sophomore Sociology
Women's Track & Field (11)
&$Sydney Bentley Junior Psychology
&Jicel Fernandez Sophomore Liberal Studies/Integrated Teacher Education Program
Greta Fraraccio Freshman Business Administration/Managment
&Kaiya Johnson Sophomore Child & Adolescent Development
&Sophie Liao Senior Sociology
&$Juliette Noyer Junior Biomedical Engineering
Leslee Patino Freshman Psychology
&Daniela Salazar-Salas Junior Kinesiology
Lina Schubert Freshman Psychology
Naiylah Shepherd Freshman Justice Studies/Criminology
&Gabby Spencer Sophomore Justice Studies
& - 2021 award winner
$ - 2020 award winner
! – 2019 award winner
# - 2018 award winner
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