MACU Student-Athletes Honored with Academic Awards

July 3rd, 2019

OKLAHOMA CITY– The Sooner Athletic Conference has announced its Academic All-Conference and Commissioner's Honor Roll honorees for the 2018-19 season, and the Mid-America Christian University athletic department was well represented across the board.

MACU had a total of 49 athletes honored as Academic All-Conference across eight of the nine sports in which the Evangels competed. The Evangels also had a total of 85 student-athletes included on the Commissioner’s Honor Roll.

“This has been a banner year in the classroom,” said Athletics Director Marcus Moeller. “I am extremely proud of the hard work of our student-athletes. This is also a result of our coaching staff working very hard to create a culture where academic success is expected and celebrated. We are very fortunate to have an incredible amount of support on our campus from the faculty and staff, so I also want to say a huge ‘thank you!’ to those members of our MACU family who have helped make this happen.”

MACU was at or near the top of several lists for Academic All-Conference. The MACU men's basketball team led all SAC men's hoops squads with seven honorees, the women's hoops squad was second in the SAC with 10 honorees, baseball finished tied for second with a dozen on the list and softball finished tied for third with 11 student-athletes recognized.

To become Academic All-SAC, student-athletes must be sophomores, juniors or seniors who have posted a minimum 3.25 grade-point average during the previous two semesters and are regular letter winners on his or her team.

Women's soccer had a trio of honorees, men's soccer put four on the list, and volleyball and men's golf each had one player recognized.

Each of those eight teams were also represented among the 85 MACU honorees on the Commissioner's Honor Roll. To make the cut for the honor roll, student-athletes must have posted a 3.0 GPA for the previous academic year.

The men's soccer and baseball teams led the way with 16 honorees each. The softball Evangels put 15 student-athletes on the list, women's soccer had 12 honored and women's basketball was also in double figures with 10. Men's basketball posted eight on the Honor Roll, volleyball had seven and men's golf boasted one.

In addition, the MACU women's basketball team posted a high enough team GPA to qualify as an NCCAA Scholar Team, boasting a 3.4 GPA as a team. The NAIA Scholar Team list will be announced later this month.

MACU also had seven baseball players, six softball players and a men's golfer honored as NAIA Scholar-Athletes. To earn NAIA Scholar-Athlete status, an athlete must be a junior or above academically, and they must have a cumulative GPA of 3.5.

In addition to the athletes who qualified as NAIA Scholar-Athletes, the baseball and softball teams had several other athletes honored as NCCAA Scholar-Athletes. The only difference in the requirements for NAIA and NCCAA Scholar-Athlete status is the GPA, which the NCCAA only requires to be a 3.4.

Below is the complete list of MACU's academic honorees for 2018-19.

Volleyball
Da'Jah Thompson #$*&
Morgan Van Meir &
Kaylie Walker &
Skylar Brower &
Maegen Plunk &
Dianne Walter &
Elena Hadzhieva &

Women's Soccer
Jessica Austin #$*&
Kelsey Janko #$*&
Ana Luiza Rodrigues #$*&
Natalya Burke &
Jennifer Starwalt &
Aubrey Robins &
Alex White &
Veronica Lopez Cordero &
Kyleigh Gibson &
Rachael Bond &
Callie Martin &
Brittney Stephens &

Men's Soccer
Djibril Fofana #$*
Oliver May #$*&
Roger Peron #$*
Sergio Ribeiro #$*&
Dan McNicholas &
Gustavo Urbina &
Simon Weischemann &
Tiuri Schieving &
Simon Van Rheeden &
Kacey Owensby &
Josue Alanis-Cepeda &
Johannes Braetz &
Salvador Ramirez &
Joseph Carter &
Bruno Bandiera &
Diego Romero &
Michael Reyna &
Liam Ward &

Women's Basketball
Jennah Coffman #$*&
Jaidan Alley #$*&
Nevada Denton #$*&
Darby Price #$*&
Ossyana Ozoanio $*&
Alexis Shannon $*&
Shelby Thrailkill *&
Sidney Wycoff *&
Loralei Siliga *&
Avery Gregory *&

Men's Basketball
Calon Woodson #$*&
Dominick Ford *&
William Gibbons *&
Tony Kumanovic *&
Khalil Thompson *&
Daniel William *&
Torrey Young *&
Charles Beauregard, Jr. &

Baseball
Ben Donnell #$*&
Kevin Lentzner #$*&
Elvis Polanco #$*&
Raymond Rodriguez #$*&
Luis Sanchez #$*&
Leonardo Polanco #$*
Jairo Aparicio $*&
Manuel Hazoury $*&
Diego Pichardo $*&
Arcangel Soto $&
Juan Puente #$
Leo Bejaran *&
Oliver Fernandez *&
Bernardo Moreno *&
Keisy Portorreal *&
Junior Aracena &
Felix Martinez &

Softball
Caitlin Butler #$*&
Ribbin Anderson-Dorado #$*&
Jessica Holt #$*&
Hannah Salmon #$*&
Brittany Ward #$*&
Taylor Bankston #$&
Larie Amos $*&
Regan Martin $*&
Kayla Batt *&
Michelle Brazil *&
Brook Hendrickson *&
McKenzie Smith *&
Alexa Franks &
Hanna Harris &
Shayla Morris &

Men's Golf
Wyatt Bonds #$*&

# - NAIA Scholar-Athlete
$ - NCCAA Scholar-Athlete
* - Academic All-SAC
& - SAC Commissioner's Honor Roll