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ACU Athletics honors its best at 2015-16 Student-Athlete Banquet
5/2/2016 7:33:00 PM | Men's Basketball, Cross Country, Track & Field
ABILENE – Rising basketball star Jaylen Franklin and record-breaking distance runner Alexandria Hackett Monday were recognized as Abilene Christian's top male and female student-athlete for the 2015-16 academic year at the annual Student-Athlete Awards Banquet.
Franklin and Hackett are both first-time winners of ACU's prestigious Paul Goad Award, and the first in their respective sports for the better part of a decade. Franklin is only the sixth men's basketball player to receive athletics' highest honor and the program's first since Jared Mosley in 1999. Hackett, meanwhile, is only the second female distance runner to be voted MVP in the award's 38-year history and the first since Laurie Taylor in 1983.
Members of the ACU Athletics department also presented several new team and individual awards tonight, and the Fighting Heart Award was renamed in honor of 11-year old Abilene native Hudson Wade who passed away in February following a courageous battle with leukemia.
As in previous years each of the 14 ACU coaching staffs selected their Fighting Heart Award recipient, but this year marked the first time one individual was selected out this group to accept the Hudson Wade Fighting Heart Award. Senior basketball player Duran Porter was chosen as the award's inaugural recipient after averaging a career-best 8.3 points and 3.7 rebounds per contest.
Director of Sports Medicine and Head Athletic Trainer Adam Ybarra followed Porter to the stage to present two departmental awards. Sports Medicine honored sophomore student-athletic trainer Cody Wimpee with its Student Athletic Trainer of the Year Award, while the title of Comeback Student-Athlete of the Year went to redshirt sophomore Hannah Null.
Null missed all of 2015 due to injuries, but hasn't missed a start this spring in leading the Wildcats to a 16-8 Southland Conference record. She has won 13 games for ACU, pitched a no-hitter against Arkansas-Pine Bluff, and has a 3.02 earned-run average with 113 strikeouts.
Assistant Director of Athletics for Academics Chris Ballard issued the awards for classroom performance and community service tonight. He first introduced the 18 Wildcats who've been accepted into Chi Alpha Sigma, which is the first national student-athlete honor society. He then presented certificates for Most Improved Team GPA to volleyball and for Highest Team GPA to soccer.
Women's basketball was recognized with ACU's Community Service Award.
Senior Associate Director of Athletics Dave Kinard concluded the banquet by introducing senior basketball player Parker Wentz as the first-ever Wildcat Club Student-Athlete of the Year. This award is given to one student-athlete who encompasses ACU's mission for excellence in Christ through athletics, academics, service and faith.
Biographies on Wentz, Porter and Paul Goad honorees Franklin and Hackett are listed below in alphabetical order:
Jaylen Franklin – Paul Goad Award winner (male)
Jaylen Franklin was the Southland Conference Freshman of the Year and the runner-up for the College Court Report Mid-Major National Freshman of the Year Award. Franklin led the Wildcats in scoring in 16 of 30 games played this season and scored 20 points or more in eight games. Franklin led the Wildcats to eight conference wins, doubling their total from the 2014-15 season.
On an ACU team loaded with youth, Franklin proved himself to be the best freshman in the Southland Conference in 2015-16, leading the Wildcats to eight conference wins, doubling their total from the 2014-15 season. Franklin finished seventh in the league in scoring at 16.2 points per game – the top mark among freshmen in the league – and finished sixth in the league in steals per game (1.7 per game) and 14th in the league in field goal percentage (51.3 percent).
Franklin – the 2015-16 Southland Conference Freshman of the Year – led the Wildcats in scoring in 16 of 30 games played this season and scored 20 points or more in eight games. He scored a career-high 29 points in a Jan. 19 home win over McNeese State, and then added 28 on Feb. 27 in an 87-84 home win over Houston Baptist.
Franklin was also named second team all-Southland Conference, the first Wildcat to earn all-Southland honors since Willie Calvert and Andrew Prince were selected second team all-conference and honorable mention, respectively, in 1972-73, ACU's final season in the league before leaving for the Southland Conference.
Allie Hackett – Paul Goad Award winner (female)
The successes of junior Alexandria 'Allie' Hackett refused to be confined to a single season, as she continually attained gold-medal status from last fall straight into the spring.
Last October, the Rhode Island native led Abilene Christian to its first Southland Conference championship in any sport since the school announced its transition into NCAA Division I Athletics. She won the league's cross country individual title by more than 30 seconds, and the Wildcats as a team claimed five top-20 finishes in a race with 84 competitors.
Hackett's 6K run in Huntsville that morning capped a cross country season in which she won four of six races and never finished lower than fourth. And her ability to win in any environment – regardless of location or opponent – carried into the indoor track season.
She won her first events of the winter at Texas A&M, and two weeks later flew north to race head-to-head against the world's top distance runners in Seattle for the Washington Invitational. There she placed sixth in the 5K and 13th in the 3K, while breaking the school record in each.
Hackett erased another school record several days later, this time in the mile at Texas A&M. And at the conference championship, she was the second-leading individual point scorer after winning the 5K and earning silver in both the 3K and mile. Her efforts in Birmingham furnished the Wildcats with yet another spot on the medal stand, as they finished second with 112.5 points.
Hackett's outdoor season, which reaches its conclusion this weekend in Corpus Christi, is shaping up to be a perfect fit for this year-long trilogy. She has won five of eight races – one here in Abilene and the other four taking place on a Big 12 campus from TCU and Texas, to Texas Tech and Oklahoma. And in mid-April, Hackett again proved her worth on the global stage by finishing 18th of 60 elite 5K runners at the Mt. SAC Relays.
Hackett has rewritten the Wildcats' record book in less than a calendar year, and in the process, was voted Southland Conference Athlete of the Week eight times.
Academically, the financial management major owns a grade-point average that's on par with her on-track success, and for that she has once again been nominated for Academic All-America.
Duran Porter – Hudson Wade Fighting Heart Award winner
A native of Macon, Ga., Duran Porter was a two-year letterman who joined the Wildcats prior to the 2014-15 season from Tallahassee Junior College. He was one of the top centers in the Southland Conference in 2015-16, averaging a career-best 8.3 points and 3.7 rebounds per contest.
He made a remarkable improvement from 2014-15 to 2015-16, and he did it while battling through a painful rotator cuff tear in his right shoulder that required surgery after the 2015-16 season ended. Porter racked up 13 double-digit scoring games this season, including the first two double-doubles of his career.
Porter was one of the league's leaders in field goal percentage at 58.5 percent, and one of the league's leaders in blocked shots with 27. In two seasons with the Wildcats, he hit 54 percent of his shots from the field. Porter will graduate from ACU this summer with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies.
Parker Wentz – Wildcat Club Student-Athlete of the Year
A native of Lubbock, Parker Wentz plays his final game as a Wildcat today after a fantastic four-year career. He enters today's game as ACU's all-time leader in games played (118 entering today) and 3-point field goal percentage (43.0 percent). Wentz – a two-time first team academic all-District 7 selection and first team academic all-Southland Conference pick – is third on ACU's all-time list for career 3-pointers with 257 and fourth on the list for 3-point attempts with 598.
His 45.6 3-point field goal percentage this season is ACU's single-season record, and his 44.4 percentage from 2013-14 is second on ACU's all-time list. He's scored 1,274 points in his career, an average of 10.8 points per game. He scored a career-high 31 points against Duquesne at home on Nov. 22, 201, and hit a career-high 7 3-pointers against Northwestern State on Jan. 13, 2015.
His end-to-end dash with seconds left on the clock for the game-winning layup against Central Arkansas on Jan. 18, 2014, provided the winning points in a 73-72 win, ACU's first win in the Southland Conference since its return to the league. Parker will graduate from ACU in May with a degree in biology and will enroll in dental school at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.
Paul Goad Award Winners
Presented to the top male and female athletes of the year at ACU.
1978-79: Kelly Kent (football) and Kathy Moore (volleyball)
1979-80: Randall Moore (basketball) and Perri Lou Short (track and field)
1980-81: Kenny Davidson (football) and Bonnie Buchanan (basketball)
1981-82: Billy Olson (track and field) and Pennie Dacus (volleyball)
1982-83: Grant Feasel (football) and Laurie Taylor (track and field)
1983-84: Mark Wilson (football) and Judy Kniffen (tennis)
1984-85: James Wright (basketball) and Deonna Moore (basketball)
1985-86: Freddie Williams (track and field) and Claudia Schleyer (basketball)
1986-87: Eddie DeShong (football) and Yolanda Henry (track and field)
1987-88: Chris Goodspeed (golf) and Sylvia Dyer (track and field)
1988-89: Emmitt Davis (basketball) and Donna Sykes (tennis)
1989-90: Bill Clayton (football) and Suzanne Johnson (basketball)
1990-91: Wendell Edwards (track and field) and Michelle King (tennis)
1991-92: Hunter Cooley (basketball) and Michelle King (tennis)
1992-93: Joseph Tengelei (track and field) and Chelsa Lancaster (track and field)
1993-94: Brian Amos (track and field) and Chelsa Lancaster (track and field)
1994-95: Savieri Ngihdi (track and field) and Jennifer Clarkson (basketball)
1995-96: Victor Randolph (football) and Jennifer Clarkson (basketball)
1996-97: Glenn Griffin (track and field) and Delloreen Ennis (track and field)
1997-98: Musa Gwanzura (track and field) and Caroline Omamo (basketball)
1998-99: Jared Mosley (basketball) and Tracey Barnes (track and field)
1999-00: Nic Alexander (track and field) and Jackie Bucher (basketball)
2000-01: Alfred Rugema (cross country), Leah Ticer (tennis)
2001-02: Ryan Boozer (football), Melanie Carter (basketball)
2002-03: Alfred Rugema (cross country), Lacey Johnson (tennis)
2003-04: Bernard Manirakiza (track), Melanie Carter (basketball)
2004-05: Bernard Manirakiza (track), Katie Bryan (softball)
2005-06: Danieal Manning (football), Amanda Slate (volleyball)
2006-07: Nicodemus Naimadu (track), Angie Aguilar (track and field)
2007-08: Jerale Badon (football), Abbie Lowry (volleyball)
2008-09: Jordan Schmitt (baseball), Irene Squillaci (tennis)
2009-10: Aaron Oliver (baseball), Shawna Hines (volleyball)
2010-11: Alex Carpenter (golf), Andrea Carpenter (soccer)
2011-12: Nick Jones (track and field), Jennie Hutt (volleyball)
2012-13: Alex Carpenter (golf), Julia Mongin (tennis)
2013-14: John David Baker (football), Andrea Carpenter (soccer) and Micah Hermsdorf (tennis)
2014-15: Tyler Eager (baseball), Peyton Hedrick (softball)
2015-16: Jaylen Franklin (basketball), Alexandria Hackett (cross country / track and field)
About Paul Goad
Paul Goad was a three-sport student-athlete at ACU in the mid-1950s. Goad lettered in football, baseball and track and field for the Wildcats after transferring to ACU after his freshman campaign at Vanderbilt. He won the Texas Conference title in the shot put in 1954, and he was a member of ACU's NAIA national championship track and field teams in 1954 and 1955.
Goad was ACU's leading rusher and scorer in 1954, and in 1955 he was third team all-America. He went on to play professionally for one season (1956) with the San Francisco 49ers after being selected by the team in the 25th round of the 1956 draft.
Fighting Heart Award winners (by team)
Baseball: Nick Palacios
Football: Adrian Duncan
Golf: Brandon Wilkins
Men's Basketball: Duran Porter*
Men's Cross Country: Reid Rivers
Men's Tennis: Marco Bensley
Men's Track and Field: Wyatt French
Soccer: Emily Duke
Softball: Casey-May Huff
Women's Cross Country: Diana García Muñoz
Women's Basketball: Sierra Allen
Women's Tennis: Ansley Boarman
Women's Track and Field: Kimone Green
Volleyball: Lily Drever
*Hudson Wade Fighting Heart Award
Sports Medicine Awards
Student Athletic Trainer of the Year: Cody Wimpee
Comeback Athlete of the Year: Hannah Null, Softball
Academic Awards
Chi Alpha Sigma Members
Sierra Allen, Basketball
Diana Garcia Munoz, XC / Track & Field
Alyssa Gerner, Soccer
Alexandria Hackett, XC / Track & Field
Michaela Hackett, XC / Track & Field
Keaton Hart, Track & Field
Kaysie Hermsdorf, Tennis
Kyle Karnei, Golf
McKenzie Mascorro, Track & Field
Brandon McCarty, Tennis
Sydney Newton, Soccer
Kelsie Roberts, Soccer
Reid Rivers, XC / Track & Field
Sarah Siemens, Volleyball
Leslie Snider, Soccer
Paris Webb, Basketball
Luke Woods, Track & Field
Most Improved Team GPA: Volleyball
Highest Team GPA: Soccer
Community Service Award: Women's Basketball
Wildcat Club Student-Athlete of the Year
Parker Wentz, Basketball
Franklin and Hackett are both first-time winners of ACU's prestigious Paul Goad Award, and the first in their respective sports for the better part of a decade. Franklin is only the sixth men's basketball player to receive athletics' highest honor and the program's first since Jared Mosley in 1999. Hackett, meanwhile, is only the second female distance runner to be voted MVP in the award's 38-year history and the first since Laurie Taylor in 1983.
Members of the ACU Athletics department also presented several new team and individual awards tonight, and the Fighting Heart Award was renamed in honor of 11-year old Abilene native Hudson Wade who passed away in February following a courageous battle with leukemia.
As in previous years each of the 14 ACU coaching staffs selected their Fighting Heart Award recipient, but this year marked the first time one individual was selected out this group to accept the Hudson Wade Fighting Heart Award. Senior basketball player Duran Porter was chosen as the award's inaugural recipient after averaging a career-best 8.3 points and 3.7 rebounds per contest.
Director of Sports Medicine and Head Athletic Trainer Adam Ybarra followed Porter to the stage to present two departmental awards. Sports Medicine honored sophomore student-athletic trainer Cody Wimpee with its Student Athletic Trainer of the Year Award, while the title of Comeback Student-Athlete of the Year went to redshirt sophomore Hannah Null.
Null missed all of 2015 due to injuries, but hasn't missed a start this spring in leading the Wildcats to a 16-8 Southland Conference record. She has won 13 games for ACU, pitched a no-hitter against Arkansas-Pine Bluff, and has a 3.02 earned-run average with 113 strikeouts.
Assistant Director of Athletics for Academics Chris Ballard issued the awards for classroom performance and community service tonight. He first introduced the 18 Wildcats who've been accepted into Chi Alpha Sigma, which is the first national student-athlete honor society. He then presented certificates for Most Improved Team GPA to volleyball and for Highest Team GPA to soccer.
Women's basketball was recognized with ACU's Community Service Award.
Senior Associate Director of Athletics Dave Kinard concluded the banquet by introducing senior basketball player Parker Wentz as the first-ever Wildcat Club Student-Athlete of the Year. This award is given to one student-athlete who encompasses ACU's mission for excellence in Christ through athletics, academics, service and faith.
Biographies on Wentz, Porter and Paul Goad honorees Franklin and Hackett are listed below in alphabetical order:
Jaylen Franklin – Paul Goad Award winner (male)
Jaylen Franklin was the Southland Conference Freshman of the Year and the runner-up for the College Court Report Mid-Major National Freshman of the Year Award. Franklin led the Wildcats in scoring in 16 of 30 games played this season and scored 20 points or more in eight games. Franklin led the Wildcats to eight conference wins, doubling their total from the 2014-15 season.
On an ACU team loaded with youth, Franklin proved himself to be the best freshman in the Southland Conference in 2015-16, leading the Wildcats to eight conference wins, doubling their total from the 2014-15 season. Franklin finished seventh in the league in scoring at 16.2 points per game – the top mark among freshmen in the league – and finished sixth in the league in steals per game (1.7 per game) and 14th in the league in field goal percentage (51.3 percent).
Franklin – the 2015-16 Southland Conference Freshman of the Year – led the Wildcats in scoring in 16 of 30 games played this season and scored 20 points or more in eight games. He scored a career-high 29 points in a Jan. 19 home win over McNeese State, and then added 28 on Feb. 27 in an 87-84 home win over Houston Baptist.
Franklin was also named second team all-Southland Conference, the first Wildcat to earn all-Southland honors since Willie Calvert and Andrew Prince were selected second team all-conference and honorable mention, respectively, in 1972-73, ACU's final season in the league before leaving for the Southland Conference.
Allie Hackett – Paul Goad Award winner (female)
The successes of junior Alexandria 'Allie' Hackett refused to be confined to a single season, as she continually attained gold-medal status from last fall straight into the spring.
Last October, the Rhode Island native led Abilene Christian to its first Southland Conference championship in any sport since the school announced its transition into NCAA Division I Athletics. She won the league's cross country individual title by more than 30 seconds, and the Wildcats as a team claimed five top-20 finishes in a race with 84 competitors.
Hackett's 6K run in Huntsville that morning capped a cross country season in which she won four of six races and never finished lower than fourth. And her ability to win in any environment – regardless of location or opponent – carried into the indoor track season.
She won her first events of the winter at Texas A&M, and two weeks later flew north to race head-to-head against the world's top distance runners in Seattle for the Washington Invitational. There she placed sixth in the 5K and 13th in the 3K, while breaking the school record in each.
Hackett erased another school record several days later, this time in the mile at Texas A&M. And at the conference championship, she was the second-leading individual point scorer after winning the 5K and earning silver in both the 3K and mile. Her efforts in Birmingham furnished the Wildcats with yet another spot on the medal stand, as they finished second with 112.5 points.
Hackett's outdoor season, which reaches its conclusion this weekend in Corpus Christi, is shaping up to be a perfect fit for this year-long trilogy. She has won five of eight races – one here in Abilene and the other four taking place on a Big 12 campus from TCU and Texas, to Texas Tech and Oklahoma. And in mid-April, Hackett again proved her worth on the global stage by finishing 18th of 60 elite 5K runners at the Mt. SAC Relays.
Hackett has rewritten the Wildcats' record book in less than a calendar year, and in the process, was voted Southland Conference Athlete of the Week eight times.
Academically, the financial management major owns a grade-point average that's on par with her on-track success, and for that she has once again been nominated for Academic All-America.
Duran Porter – Hudson Wade Fighting Heart Award winner
A native of Macon, Ga., Duran Porter was a two-year letterman who joined the Wildcats prior to the 2014-15 season from Tallahassee Junior College. He was one of the top centers in the Southland Conference in 2015-16, averaging a career-best 8.3 points and 3.7 rebounds per contest.
He made a remarkable improvement from 2014-15 to 2015-16, and he did it while battling through a painful rotator cuff tear in his right shoulder that required surgery after the 2015-16 season ended. Porter racked up 13 double-digit scoring games this season, including the first two double-doubles of his career.
Porter was one of the league's leaders in field goal percentage at 58.5 percent, and one of the league's leaders in blocked shots with 27. In two seasons with the Wildcats, he hit 54 percent of his shots from the field. Porter will graduate from ACU this summer with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies.
Parker Wentz – Wildcat Club Student-Athlete of the Year
A native of Lubbock, Parker Wentz plays his final game as a Wildcat today after a fantastic four-year career. He enters today's game as ACU's all-time leader in games played (118 entering today) and 3-point field goal percentage (43.0 percent). Wentz – a two-time first team academic all-District 7 selection and first team academic all-Southland Conference pick – is third on ACU's all-time list for career 3-pointers with 257 and fourth on the list for 3-point attempts with 598.
His 45.6 3-point field goal percentage this season is ACU's single-season record, and his 44.4 percentage from 2013-14 is second on ACU's all-time list. He's scored 1,274 points in his career, an average of 10.8 points per game. He scored a career-high 31 points against Duquesne at home on Nov. 22, 201, and hit a career-high 7 3-pointers against Northwestern State on Jan. 13, 2015.
His end-to-end dash with seconds left on the clock for the game-winning layup against Central Arkansas on Jan. 18, 2014, provided the winning points in a 73-72 win, ACU's first win in the Southland Conference since its return to the league. Parker will graduate from ACU in May with a degree in biology and will enroll in dental school at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.
Paul Goad Award Winners
Presented to the top male and female athletes of the year at ACU.
1978-79: Kelly Kent (football) and Kathy Moore (volleyball)
1979-80: Randall Moore (basketball) and Perri Lou Short (track and field)
1980-81: Kenny Davidson (football) and Bonnie Buchanan (basketball)
1981-82: Billy Olson (track and field) and Pennie Dacus (volleyball)
1982-83: Grant Feasel (football) and Laurie Taylor (track and field)
1983-84: Mark Wilson (football) and Judy Kniffen (tennis)
1984-85: James Wright (basketball) and Deonna Moore (basketball)
1985-86: Freddie Williams (track and field) and Claudia Schleyer (basketball)
1986-87: Eddie DeShong (football) and Yolanda Henry (track and field)
1987-88: Chris Goodspeed (golf) and Sylvia Dyer (track and field)
1988-89: Emmitt Davis (basketball) and Donna Sykes (tennis)
1989-90: Bill Clayton (football) and Suzanne Johnson (basketball)
1990-91: Wendell Edwards (track and field) and Michelle King (tennis)
1991-92: Hunter Cooley (basketball) and Michelle King (tennis)
1992-93: Joseph Tengelei (track and field) and Chelsa Lancaster (track and field)
1993-94: Brian Amos (track and field) and Chelsa Lancaster (track and field)
1994-95: Savieri Ngihdi (track and field) and Jennifer Clarkson (basketball)
1995-96: Victor Randolph (football) and Jennifer Clarkson (basketball)
1996-97: Glenn Griffin (track and field) and Delloreen Ennis (track and field)
1997-98: Musa Gwanzura (track and field) and Caroline Omamo (basketball)
1998-99: Jared Mosley (basketball) and Tracey Barnes (track and field)
1999-00: Nic Alexander (track and field) and Jackie Bucher (basketball)
2000-01: Alfred Rugema (cross country), Leah Ticer (tennis)
2001-02: Ryan Boozer (football), Melanie Carter (basketball)
2002-03: Alfred Rugema (cross country), Lacey Johnson (tennis)
2003-04: Bernard Manirakiza (track), Melanie Carter (basketball)
2004-05: Bernard Manirakiza (track), Katie Bryan (softball)
2005-06: Danieal Manning (football), Amanda Slate (volleyball)
2006-07: Nicodemus Naimadu (track), Angie Aguilar (track and field)
2007-08: Jerale Badon (football), Abbie Lowry (volleyball)
2008-09: Jordan Schmitt (baseball), Irene Squillaci (tennis)
2009-10: Aaron Oliver (baseball), Shawna Hines (volleyball)
2010-11: Alex Carpenter (golf), Andrea Carpenter (soccer)
2011-12: Nick Jones (track and field), Jennie Hutt (volleyball)
2012-13: Alex Carpenter (golf), Julia Mongin (tennis)
2013-14: John David Baker (football), Andrea Carpenter (soccer) and Micah Hermsdorf (tennis)
2014-15: Tyler Eager (baseball), Peyton Hedrick (softball)
2015-16: Jaylen Franklin (basketball), Alexandria Hackett (cross country / track and field)
About Paul Goad
Paul Goad was a three-sport student-athlete at ACU in the mid-1950s. Goad lettered in football, baseball and track and field for the Wildcats after transferring to ACU after his freshman campaign at Vanderbilt. He won the Texas Conference title in the shot put in 1954, and he was a member of ACU's NAIA national championship track and field teams in 1954 and 1955.
Goad was ACU's leading rusher and scorer in 1954, and in 1955 he was third team all-America. He went on to play professionally for one season (1956) with the San Francisco 49ers after being selected by the team in the 25th round of the 1956 draft.
Fighting Heart Award winners (by team)
Baseball: Nick Palacios
Football: Adrian Duncan
Golf: Brandon Wilkins
Men's Basketball: Duran Porter*
Men's Cross Country: Reid Rivers
Men's Tennis: Marco Bensley
Men's Track and Field: Wyatt French
Soccer: Emily Duke
Softball: Casey-May Huff
Women's Cross Country: Diana García Muñoz
Women's Basketball: Sierra Allen
Women's Tennis: Ansley Boarman
Women's Track and Field: Kimone Green
Volleyball: Lily Drever
*Hudson Wade Fighting Heart Award
Sports Medicine Awards
Student Athletic Trainer of the Year: Cody Wimpee
Comeback Athlete of the Year: Hannah Null, Softball
Academic Awards
Chi Alpha Sigma Members
Sierra Allen, Basketball
Diana Garcia Munoz, XC / Track & Field
Alyssa Gerner, Soccer
Alexandria Hackett, XC / Track & Field
Michaela Hackett, XC / Track & Field
Keaton Hart, Track & Field
Kaysie Hermsdorf, Tennis
Kyle Karnei, Golf
McKenzie Mascorro, Track & Field
Brandon McCarty, Tennis
Sydney Newton, Soccer
Kelsie Roberts, Soccer
Reid Rivers, XC / Track & Field
Sarah Siemens, Volleyball
Leslie Snider, Soccer
Paris Webb, Basketball
Luke Woods, Track & Field
Most Improved Team GPA: Volleyball
Highest Team GPA: Soccer
Community Service Award: Women's Basketball
Wildcat Club Student-Athlete of the Year
Parker Wentz, Basketball
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