General 6/21/2016 4:09:00 PM Corey Miggins, Sports Information Director

Chicago State Earns 41 Spring/Freshman-Transfer Academic All-WAC Honors

2016 Spring-Freshman/Transfer Academic All-WAC Press Release

CHICAGO – The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) announced today the release of its 2016 Academic All-WAC spring sports and freshman/transfer honorees to which 41 Chicago State University student-athletes were recognized among the 647 (331 spring, 316 freshman/transfer) honorees listed.

To be eligible for the honor, a student-athlete must have completed at least one academic year at their institution, have at least a cumulative 3.2 grade point average and have competed in at least 50 percent of their team's contests. The student-athletes on the list are from spring sports and freshmen/transfers from all conference-sponsored sports throughout the 2015-16 academic year.

Listed below are CSU's honorees:

Spring Honorees

Freshman/Transfer Honorees

Baseball
Dillion Engle (Milwaukee, Wis./Nathan Hale), Sr.
Cody Freund (McHenry, Ill./McHenry), Soph.
Jake Perkins (Huntley, Ill./Huntley), Jr.
Jerry Silva (Chicago, Ill./Holy Trinity), Sr.
Matt Sullivan (Lake in the Hills, Ill./Huntley), Soph.

Men's Golf
Austin Egbers (Bloomington, Ill./Bloomington Central Catholic), Sr.
Brandon Skelding (Black River Falls, Wis./Black River Falls), Sr.
Drew Vannoy (Mahomet, Ill./Mahomet Seymour), Sr.

Men's Tennis
Christian Gonzalez (Mungia, Spain/Larramendi Ikastola), Soph.
Rohan Wattley (Slough, United Kingdom/Burnham), Soph.

Men's Outdoor Track & Field
Kameron Bourne (Chicago, Ill./Dunbar), Jr.
Demetrius Catchings (Chicago, Ill./De La Salle), Sr.
Kameron Jackson (Blue Island, Ill./Eisenhower), Sr.
Desmond Meyer (Oswego, Ill./Oswego), Soph.

Women's Golf
Taneka Sandiford (Nassau, Bahamas/St. John's College High School), Senior
Pia Serrano (San Antonio, Texas/Antonian College Preparatory), Sophomore
Fernanda Valdes Solis (Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico/Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey), Junior

Women's Tennis
Lorea Gamboa (Gamiz-Fika, Spain/Larramendi Ikastola), Soph.

Women's Outdoor Track & Field
Zhate Jackson (Plano, Ill./Plano), Jr.
Jessica McCaskill (Belleville, Ill./Belleville East) Sr.
Veronica Tovar (Cicero, Ill./Morton East), Sr.
Alisha Wren (Chicago, Ill./Percy L. Julian), Sr.

Baseball
Joe Baier (Suamico, Wis./Bay Port), Fr.
Thomas Caulfield (Burlingame, Calif./Burlingame), Jr.
Josh Perkins (Huntley, Ill./Huntley), Jr.
Rick Salazar (Bloomindale, Ill./McHenry), Jr.
Justin Wyant (Marion, Iowa/Linn-Mar), Jr.

Men's Tennis
Gonzalo Martinez (Madrid, Spain/Nuestra Señora del Buen Consejo), Soph.
Gabriel Niculescu (Bucharest, Romania), Fr.
Felix Savard (Laval, QC Canada/Saint-Gabriel), Fr.

Women's Basketball
Tiana Thomas (Rockton, Ill./Hononegah), Fr.

Women's Cross Country
Syndia Delgado (Rockford, Ill./Jefferson), Jr.

Women's Golf
Felicia Davenport (Columbus, Ohio/Westerville South), Fr.
Rachel Johnson (Anderson, Ind./Yorktown), Fr.

Women's Soccer
Alejandra Alonso (Hoffman Estates, Ill./Hoffman Estates), Fr.
Sarah Drury (Laingsburg, Mich./Saint Johns), Fr.
Berina Gradjan (Morton Grove, Ill./Niles North), Jr.
Amber Jones (St. Louis, Mo./Mary Institute Country Day), Fr.
Bri Kelly (Mason, Ohio/William Mason), Fr.
Audra Wisehart (Sandusky, Ohio/Huron), Fr.

Volleyball
Melina Staengle (Sindelfingen, Germany/Schickhardtgymnasium), Jr.

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