Bewley, Cerres make 1st team All-Academic ......

Krueger. The others graduated in May and they include Maddie Johnston, DesaRae Woolsey, Victoria Wharton, Morgan Dustin, Avery Fox,

Women’s soccer and basketball also had a number of players. Women’s soccer players that made the list were Vicki Granda, Vanessa Vazquez, Hailey Kwiatkowski, Yoseline Hernandez, and Natalya Baird-Watson.

Women’s basketball players on the list included Jayla Owen, Mackenzie Joseph, and Shiho Isono.

The baseball team had eight players make Region IX All-academic. They include Alex Ainsworth, Garrett Dodd, Tyler

Easter, Dylan Harris, Eli Hernandez, Bryce Peterson, Joseph Toubeaux, and Wyatt Zsidisin.

The men’s soccer team had six players with Hernan Burdiles, Oziel Camargo, Paulo Marques, Paul Cerros, Gabriel Santos, and Rennan Sousa. Maurice Walker was the only men’s basketball player to earn Region IX honors.

Cerros said all the hard work that paid off by the athletes academically shows a lot about the type of players that are recruited to play at WNCC.

“What it says is that WNCC athletes are more than just exceptional athletes, we are excellent students as well,” he said.

“The three teams that made all-academic shows that they put in extra work outside of the classroom. They should give scholarships for the hard work to receive the honor.”

Bewley said having players from all seven sports on one of the three teams for the NJCAA honor or the Region IX academic honor shows how much WNCC stresses academics.

“The fact that multiple people earned academic honors shows just how much WNCC advocates for students to put their education first and not their sport,” she said.

— Written by Mark Rein