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Long Beach State has 59 athletes receive Big West All-Academic Honors

After successful seasons, the Big West Conference announced 59 Long Beach State athletes as recipients of Academic All-Conference honors.

In order to be named to the list, student-athletes must compete in a Big West sponsored sport while participating in over 50 percent of the team’s competition and have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above.

LBSU had four student-athletes named to the Winter All-Academic team. For the men’s basketball team, Roschon Prince earned the honors along with women’s basketball players Chantel Dooley, Jessica Gertz and Gigi Hascheff.

The Dirtbags had six student-athletes earn the honors as Spring Academic All-Conference. Those athletes were Joshua Advocate, David Banuelos, Zack Domingues, Garrett Hampson, Daniel Jackson and Luke Rasmussen.

The softball team had three members awarded in Christina Clermont, Irma Sanchez and LT Torres.

The Beach Volleyball team had four first-time honorees in Nele Barber, Rachel Nieto, Ciana Wagner and Morea Wagner.

There were a total of four golfers named to the team in Daniel Chian, Savannah Knox, Shawnee Martinez and Kassidy Teare.

Five members of the women’s tennis were named to the team: Laura Eales, Julie Gerard, Maeva Razakasoa, Hayley Thompson and Ebba Unden.

The track and field team had a total of 29 athletes combined on the men’s and women’s teams.

For the men’s team, Willie Alexander, Sam Bautista, Tim Bergstrom, Luis Briceno, Josh Carr, Robert Marlow, Dylan McCloskey, Michael Montgomery, Conner Rouse, Cody Smith, Paul Thenard, Sullivan Wall and Dustin Wert were honored.

On the women’s side, Brittany Anselmo, Lauren Bartsch, Chaylene Bruggeman, Ashley Carrera, Ashleigh Chambers, Riley Cooks, Lea Fong, Jessica Henslee, Chandler Johnson, Pauline Mandel, Cassandra Nychay, Natalie O’Dwyer, Nikki Puerner, Koquise Richards, Marina Shelton and Fatima Vergara made the team.
Rounding out the list is the women’s water polo team, which had four members honored. Those four are Jessica Brooks, Alexandra Massier, Emily Matheson and Virginia Smith.

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