Olivet leads conference's All-Academic team

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Bourbonnais, Illinois

Olivet Nazarene University took the honor of having the most athletes — 61 — named to the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference All-Academic team for the spring 2012 season.

Baseball
Shane Breitzke, senior (Chesterton, Indiana)
Daniel Schneider, senior (West Salem, Wisconsin)
Alex Cavender, junior (Momence, Illinois)
Justin Fahy, junior (Fargo, North Dakota)
Steven Beckham, junior (Mt. Vernon, Illinois)
Ben Heller, junior (Whitewater, Wisconsin)
Jonathan Fightmaster, sophomore (Bourbonnais, Illinois)

Golf
Aaron Miles, junior (Holt, Michigan)
Kyle Huber, junior (Grand Blanc, Michigan)

Softball
Jordan Reynolds, senior (Metamora, Illinois)
Molly Anderson, senior (Rock Falls, Illinois)
Kelly Blucker, senior (Galesburg, Illinois)
Katie Hannagan, senior (Monee, Illinois)
Bethany Holaway, junior (Wheaton, Illinois)
Cheryl Sendzik, sophomore (Mokena, Illinois)

Tennis — men’s
Olivet’s men’s tennis team led the way among all CCAC schools with six athletes honored.

Joe Badaliacco, senior (Midlothian, Illinois)
Tim Thomas, senior (Pontiac, Illinois)
Sebastian Esquetini, senior (Quito, Ecuador)
Julian Kurz, junior (Stuttgart, Germany)
Josue Sanchez, junior (Morelia, Mexico)
Landon Williams, sophomore (Erie, Pennsylvania)

Tennis — women’s
Ashlan Allison, junior (Anderson, Indiana)
Taylor Stephens, junior (Ada, Michigan)
Cassandra Brainard, junior (Crawsfordsville, Indiana)
Chelsea Hays, junior (Godfrey, Illinois)

Track and field — men’s
Olivet men’s track team finished at the top among all CCAC schools with 15 athletes honored.

James Fisher, junior (Wales, Michigan)
Sam Pimpo, junior (Antioch, Illinois)
Kyle Boone, junior (Dixon, Illinois)
Matthew Logan, junior (Dixon, Illinois)
Ross Johnson, junior (Newton, Illinois)
Justin Jones, senior (Oakwood, Illinois)
Matt Kearney, senior (Marion, Iowa)
Nicholas Mizeur, senior (Moline, Illinois)
Thomas Powers, senior (Security, Colorado)
Kasey Ferrigan, senior (Dixon, Illinois)
Brian Willoughby, sophomore (Elkhart, Indiana)
Jesse Stanford, sophomore (Bolingbrook, Illinois)
Andrew Cowen, sophomore (Carmel, Indiana)
Daniel Wells, sophomore (Danville, Illinois)
Seth Wonch, sophomore (Olathe, Kansas)

Track and field — women’s
Olivet women’s track team finished at the top among all CCAC schools with 20 athletes honored.

Mary Koch, senior (Tremont Illinois)
Rebecca Compton, senior (Grand Ledge, Michigan) 

O'Malley King, senior (Novi, Michigan)
Lauren Winters, senior (Hilliard, Ohio)
Samantha Clark, junior (West Dundee, Illinois)
Hannah Endrizzi, junior (Normal, Illinois)
Kaitlin Loos, junior (Sterling, Illinois)
Caitlin McPherson, junior (Watertown, Wisconsin)
Paula Saewert, junior (Prospect Heights, Illinois)
Lauren Streicher, junior (St. Louis, Missouri)
Jillian Versweyveld, junior (Delavan, Wisconsin)
Rachel Carman, junior (Keokuk, Iowa)
Erica Jenkins, junior (Lexington, Illinois)
Chantalle Falconer, sophomore (Byron, Illinois)
Annie Brandes, sophomore (Waukegan, Illinois)
Leah Livingston, sophomore (Gibson City, Illinois)
Desiree O'Brien, sophomore (Saline, Michigan)
Katherine Ponsetto, sophomore (Hastings, Michigan)
Christy Trank, sophomore (Winnebago, Illinois)
Kerry Van Syckle, sophomore (Kingsley, Michigan)

To earn a spot on the CCAC All-Academic team, an athlete needs a minimum of a 3.25 grade point average or higher and has earned at least 30 semester or 45 trimester hours. The student must also be enrolled at the institution for a minimum of one academic year.
--Olivet Nazarene University

 

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