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MEC Announces Winter/Spring 2024 All-Academic Honors

BRIDGEPORT – The Mountain East Conference released its Academic All-Conference Team and Commissioner’s Honor Roll for the spring 2024 semester. The list includes sports that conducted their championship season in the winter or spring (men’s wrestling, men’s and women’s swimming, men’s and women’s track & field (indoor and outdoor), men’s and women’s basketball, acrobatics & tumbling, softball, women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s tennis and baseball).

To be a member of the Academic All-MEC team, the student-athlete must be a member of the active roster and have a grade-point average of 3.70-4.00 in the semester of their championship season. To qualify for the Commissioner’s Honor Roll, a student-athlete must be a member of the active roster and post a grade-point average between 3.25-3.69 in the semester of their championship season.

West Virginia Wesleyan College Academic All-MEC Team and Commissioner’s Honor Roll student-athletes for all Winter/Spring 2024 teams are:

Baseball Academic All-MEC

  • Robert Baker
  • Eli Brogan
  • Anthony Hernandez
  • Alexander Hernandez
  • Christopher Hulmes
  • Andrew Napoleon
  • Matthew Neach
  • Cy Persinger
  • Angel Rivera
  • Grant Shumaker
  • Grant Swift

Baseball MEC Commissioner’s Honor Roll

  • Ethan Boisvert
  • Luke Burner
  • Hunter Eplin
  • Andrew Evans
  • Connor Gottholm
  • Gene Hutchinson
  • Devin Johnson
  • Kade Kitts
  • Austin Mann
  • Anthony Napoleon
  • Thatcher Poteat
  • Ilich Purcell
  • Nickolas Ricco
  • Broderick Rohrbaugh
  • Eddie Rueda
  • Cole Shearer
  • Grant Smith
  • Jack Tilton
  • Matthew Turner

Men’s Basketball Academic All-MEC

  • Jalen Canada
  • Kabe Ellis
  • Aidan Glackin
  • Raphael Houssou
  • John Ibukunoluwa
  • Curtis Litton

Men’s Basketball MEC Commissioner’s Honor Roll

  • Jacob Cline
  • Jaxon Hartman
  • Caden Hawkins
  • Jack Lewton
  • Manasseh Small

Men’s Swimming Academic All-MEC

  • Stephen Groves
  • Marcus Walker

Men’s Swimming MEC Commissioner’s Honor Roll

  • Nicholas Gerosa

Men’s T&F Academic All-MEC

  • Jacob Angelo
  • Christian Cimaglia
  • Luke Duncan
  • Elijah Hannig
  • Jordan Lopez
  • Destry Nelson
  • Steven Niland
  • Cayden Robinson
  • Richard Sams
  • Peyton Slider

Men’s T&F MEC Commissioner’s Honor Roll

  • Cornelius Bentley Greene
  • Coulter Bracken
  • Reese Farquharson
  • Kanye Holland
  • Miles Kidwell
  • Roman Moore
  • Evan Pyles
  • Anthony Sanders
  • Landyn Sell
  • Griffin Thomas
  • Brian Valiente

Men’s Tennis Academic All-MEC

  • Gianluca Gerndt
  • Takuya Kobayashi
  • Mika Kreisel
  • Pedro Nunes
  • Jed Platts
  • Andres Valverde-Gonzalez

Men’s Tennis MEC Commissioner’s Honor Roll

  • Ethan Thomas

Softball Academic All-MEC

  • Abigail Borello
  • Samantha Carlin
  • Lindsey Dillon
  • Cortney Fizer
  • Carlee Iannone
  • Emma Jackson
  • Sydney McKinney
  • Megan McMackin
  • Brooklyn Osburn
  • Maya Reyes
  • Alaynah Rubio
  • Paige Shaffer
  • Kendall Stoffel
  • Kaitlynn Stone
  • Mollie White
  • Taylor Zaletski

Softball MEC Commissioner’s Honor Roll

  • Gracey Arnold
  • Hallie Dinklocker
  • Josi Fix
  • Jenna Gomez
  • Hannah Lafferre
  • Sydney Leadbetter
  • Dalaynie Myers
  • Emily Ross
  • Alyssa Souders
  • Victoria Wehrberger
  • Carly Wolfgang

Women’s Basketball Academic All-MEC

  • M’laya Ainsworth
  • Elizabeth Blankenship
  • Addie Elliott
  • Samiah Lynch
  • Kylah McCullers
  • Abby McDonough
  • Cadence Stewart
  • Jasmine Tabor
  • Courtney Wilfong
  • Emma Witt

Women’s Basketball MEC Commissioner’s Honor Roll

  • Shelby Genes
  • Maile Hunt
  • Faith Mason

Women’s Lacrosse Academic All-MEC

  • Maycee Angley
  • Kaitlyn Canby
  • Makenzi Lewellyn
  • Rhiannon Woolcock

Women’s Lacrosse MEC Commissioner’s Honor Roll

  • Laci Acevedo
  • Gabriella Gomez
  • Raveena Navalgund
  • Anna Prophett
  • Alexis Senn

Women’s Swimming Academic All-MEC

  • Zeinah Abdelsalam
  • Alienor Dalle
  • Jennifer Williams

Women’s Swimming MEC Commissioner’s Honor Roll

  • Annalise Gentilozzi
  • Madison MacMillan
  • RayAnn Nadolski

Women’s T&F Academic All-MEC

  • Marimo Akita
  • Mariam Al-Zoubi
  • Addie Elliott
  • Leigha Hall
  • Dakota Johnson
  • Madison Looker
  • Mia Malamis
  • Abby McDonough
  • Aubrey Wiethe
  • Madalyn Wombles

Women’s T&F MEC Commissioner’s Honor Roll

  • Bailee Einspahr
  • Alyssa Kelleher
  • Samya Tuggle

Women’s Tennis Academic All-MEC

  • Marisa Lauffer
  • Emily Lybarger
  • Megan Meyer
  • Sneha Sundaraneedi
  • Cayley Symons

Women’s Tennis MEC Commissioner’s Honor Roll

  • Omolade Aderemi
  • Dominique Jansen-Van-Vuuren

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