The Western Athletic Conference released the Academic All-WAC honorees for Spring 2022 Sports, Freshmen and Transfer today and a total of 1,071 student-athletes across 20 sports were honored. Chicago State student-athletes earned 70 honors across 12 sports.
To be eligible for the honor, a student-athlete must have completed at least one academic year, have at least a 3.2 cumulative grade-point average and have participated in at least 50 percent of the team's contests.
Of the spring sports, CSU's men's outdoor track & field had the most honored with 12, men's golf with eight, and women's tennis with seven.
Included in the list are the 2021-22 Freshmen and Transfer academic honorees which includes men's basketball, women's basketball, men's cross country, men's soccer and women's soccer.
The following is a complete list of Chicago State's 2022 Spring Academic All-WAC honorees followed by the 2021-22 Freshmen/Transfer.
2022 Spring Academic All-WAC Honorees
Men's Golf
Bartosz Bogusz, Fr.
Kevin Bullington, Sr.
Julian Colavecchia, So.
Payton Dunahee, Fr.
Kieran Hogarth, So.
Zackary Phelps, So.
Joshua Stig, Sr.
Clay Wells, Sr.
Women's Golf
Koranis Boonmadee, Sr.
Montserrat Ramirez Bayardo, So.
Darinka Velazquez Gutierrez, Gr.
Men's Tennis
Pedro Alvarez Prado, So.
Javier Sanchez Pradillo, Sr.
Arturo Sandoval Dominguez, So.
Jakov Suler, Sr.
Jakub Zamorski, Sr.
Women's Tennis
Diana Borodina, Sr.
Katarina Drazic, Gr.
Katarina Dukic, Sr.
Summer Fuller, Sr.
Lizi Morgoshia, Sr.
Kristina Pukhaeva, Sr.
Sofiya Sedovich, Jr.
Men's Outdoor Track & Field
Kevin Castruita, Fr.
Jonnathan Fernandez, Sr.
Lance Hubert, So.
Wesley Keith, Jr.
Derrick Kipchumba, Jr.
Joseph Ogunbode, Fr.
Lavell Patterson, So.
Jakai Smith, So.
Malachi Spells, Jr.
Mychah Spells, Jr.
Women's Outdoor Track & Field
Zaria Criswell, Jr.
Miahna Harden, So.
Angelica Moreno Lopez, Sr.
Faith Rotich, Sr.
2021-22 Freshmen/Transfer Academic All-WAC Honorees
Men's Basketball
Teddy Bayi Ba Mandeng, Jr.
Robert Blount, Fr.
Favour Chukwukelu, Sr.
Jahsean Corbett, So.
Women's Basketball
Nafatoumata Haidara, Jr.
Kyjai Miles, Sr.
Quentarra Mitchell, Sr.
Janiah Newell, Jr.
Taylor Norris, So.
Men's Cross Country
Kevin Castruita, Fr.
Men's Soccer
Calwayne Allen, Jr.
Andres Bermudez, Jr.
Antonio Jose Borges Leal, Jr.
Eduardo Flores Garcia, Jr.
Jayrell Garcia, So.
Sebastien Matthew Manabat, Fr.
Otitololuwa Ojo, Sr.
Emmanuel Oladeinbo, Jr.
Florian Ouaddour, Sr.
Arafath Ouro Gnao, Jr.
Eianncris Panaligan, So.
Shaquan Reid, So.
Tahja Reynolds, Jr.
Ludovic Rocha, Sr.
Marco Seyfert, Sr.
Benjamin Suddeth, Fr.
Enrique Zamora, Jr.
Women's Soccer
Dyana Dawood, Jr.
Juliette Palechor, So.
Brianna Sanchez, So.
Alexa Seiler, Fr.
Men's Indoor Track & Field
Kevin Castruita, Fr.
Joseph Ogunbode, Fr.
About Chicago State
Chicago State University Athletics is comprised of 15 intercollegiate teams involving over 150 student-athletes that compete in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and volleyball. CSU held memberships in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and NCAA Division II before transitioning to NCAA Division I in 1994. Melvin Bland was the first CSU student-athlete to gain NAIA All-American status in 1974 as a wrestler. Fred Evans became the first black swimmer ever to win a national championship in 1975. In 1991, the Chicago State women's tennis team became the first all-black college team to amass an unbeaten season at the NCAA level. CSU's women's basketball team earned a spot in the 2011 Women's Basketball Invitational and CSU's men's basketball team won the 2013 Great West Conference Tournament title, also making an appearance in the CollegeInside.com Postseason Tournament (CIT). The Men's Outdoor Track & Field 4x100-Meter Relay team were 2019 Honorable Mention All-Americans and WAC Champions. Their feat marked the first time the Chicago State's men's track & field program was represented at the national meet. Chicago State volleyball recorded a historic season in 2021, with Yanlis Feliz becoming CSU's first volleyball All-American and head coach
Tony Trifonov earning selection as WAC Coach of the Year. During that same season, three different CSU teams earned victories over Big Ten opponents with men's soccer beating Northwestern, women's basketball upending Wisconsin and volleyball, which established a school record 17 wins and hosted a post-season volleyball tournament for the first time in program history, swept Indiana in Bloomington.
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