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Athletic Accomplishments

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The year 2020 was full of life lessons, two of which were learning to stay flexible and patient during a time of uncertainty.

College sports were canceled in the middle of the spring semester and remained on hold through the fall. For student-athletes, a mix of emotions — from waiting to restlessness to a desire to get back in the game — came into play while they were sidelined.

Through the waiting, there were still reasons to celebrate as many Newman Jets were recognized for accomplishments during the time when they were seeing competition.

The Division II Athletics Directors Association announced its 2019-20 Academic Achievement award recipients on Aug. 28, 2020, and 86 Jets made the list.

The MIAA announced its 2019-20 awards for newcomers and freshmen. The awards include Academic Excellence, Scholar-Athlete and Academic Honor Roll for all first-year and transfer student-athletes. 

Six student-athletes from Newman earned the distinguished Academic Excellence award — Sam Loerke, baseball, David Javorsky, men’s basketball, Jason Okoro, men’s basketball, Matt Schrock, men’s golf, Selina Vidhammer, women’s soccer and Rebecca Hageman, volleyball.

Marie Stephens, women’s soccer, earned the Scholar Athlete award. Forty-six Jets earned their place on the Academic Honor Roll.


Other accolades and awards are listed below:

Men’s basketball

  • Marshawn Blackmon – earned Third Team All-MIAA
  • Anthony Harvey Jr. – MIAA Academic Honor Roll

Women’s basketball

  • Haley Albers – MIAA Academic Honor Roll and MIAA Academic Excellence
  • Abbey George – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Makayla Hayes – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Michaela Mack – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Faith Mason-Vestal – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Rylee Meloy – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Kaitlyn Potter – All-MIAA Honorable Mention
  • Braxtyn Stewart – MIAA Academic Honor Roll

Baseball

  • Mitchell Austin – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Max Bajza – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Ryan Boaz – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Jon Coufal – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Dalton Dinkel – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Aaron Eshelman – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Jared Hasik – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Kyle Koch – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Connor Langrell – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Chris Opolka – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Crae Pfannenstiel – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Tyler Push – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Derek Schumann – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Aaron Stramel – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Blake Thunberg – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Hayden VanDePol – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Michael Yackovich – MIAA Academic Honor Roll

Softball

  • Bailey Bugner – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Lacey Colvin – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Jamee Compton – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Emma Eck – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Leah Graham – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Lauren Kuhrt – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Sydney Kuhrt – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Kameron Pope – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Ashton Reynolds – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Katherine Stanford – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Anna Veltien – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Paige Wallace – MIAA Academic Honor Roll

Cross country

  • Mariela Aldaba – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Charles Devorce – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Emilee Endsley – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Klair Gibson – All-Academic and MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Spencer Jacobson – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Aaron Lindsay – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Lauren Nutting – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Alejandro Ultreras – All-Academic and MIAA Academic Honor Roll

Men’s Golf

  • Ethan Donahoo – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Kaelan Hackenburg – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Mikey Kelly – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Justin Looper – MIAA Academic Honor Roll

Women’s Golf

  • Kassidy Chance – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Kate Robertson – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Julia Korus – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Kristin Lau – MIAA Academic Honor Roll

Women’s Soccer

  • Jordan Ashworth – MIAA Academic Excellence, MIAA Scholar-Athlete, MIAA Academic Honor Roll and All-MIAA Third Team
  • Kyra Butler – MIAA Academic Honor Roll and All-MIAA Honorable Mention
  • Caitlin Davis – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Elena Garcia – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Sarra Gutknecht – MIAA Academic Excellence, MIAA Academic Honor Roll and All-MIAA Honorable Mention
  • Katie Hartman – MIAA Academic Honor Roll and All-MIAA Honorable Mention
  • Jackie Lari – MIAA Scholar-Athlete, MIAA Academic Honor Roll and All-MIAA Third Team
  • Kaitlyn Logan – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Evelyn Nguyen – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Vanessa Ortiz – MIAA Academic Honor Roll and All-MIAA Honorable Mention
  • Madison Shay – MIAA Academic Excellence and MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Makenna Schmal – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Maria Stephens – All-MIAA Third Team
  • Kennedy Weaver – MIAA Scholar-Athlete, MIAA Academic Honor Roll and All-MIAA Third Team

Men’s Soccer

  • Andreas Agrell – CoSIDA Academic All-District
  • Ed Jabbari – CoSIDA Academic All-District

Tennis

Both men’s and women’s tennis teams earned Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-Academic Team

Men’s tennis

  • Teodor Antelj – ITA Scholar-Athlete and MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Blake Crawford – ITA Scholar-Athlete
  • Arthur Esteves Justo – ITA Scholar-Athlete and MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Yanni Martin – ITA Scholar-Athlete
  • Marcel Miasato – ITA Scholar-Athlete and MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Jarrod Nowak – ITA Scholar-Athlete
  • Lauri Soome – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Kenny Wright – ITA Scholar-Athlete 

Women’s tennis

  • Isabela Campos Bifano – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Mirella D’Angelo Cavalcanti – ITA Scholar-Athlete and MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Mariana Gaviria – ITA Scholar-Athlete and MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Liza Gerasimova – ITA Scholar-Athlete and MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Vlada Litvinova – ITA Scholar-Athlete and MIAA Academic Honor Roll

Volleyball

  • Mackenzie Anderson – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Trinity Conley – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Jada Key – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Kenlee Martin – MIAA Academic Honor Roll
  • Reagen Roth – MIAA Academic Honor Roll

Wrestling

  • Ivan Balavage – MIAA Dual Meet Individual Weight Class Champion, MIAA Scholar-Athlete and MIAA Honor Roll
  • Thor Balavage MIAA Honor Roll
  • Kameron Frame – earned MIAA Tech Falls standing and MIAA Honor Roll
  • Kendall Frame – MIAA Honor Roll
  • Jake Hattabaugh – MIAA Honor Roll
  • JD Johnson – Dual Meet Individual Weight Class Champion Runner-up, MIAA Scholar-Athlete and MIAA Honor Roll
  • Kevin Kissane – MIAA Athlete of the Week December 2019, MIAA Dual Meet Individual Weight Class Champion, MIAA Scholar-Athlete and MIAA Honor Roll
  • Tyler Lawley – MIAA Wrestler of the Week February 2020, and earned MIAA Most Dominant Wrestler standing
  • Jacob Stoneberger – MIAA Honor Roll
  • Garrett Whitson – MIAA Honor Roll