28 From Cal Pac Men's Soccer Named Scholar-Athletes
The NAIA released the 2018 Daktronics NAIA Men's Soccer Scholar-Athletes on Saturday, and a conference record 28 California Pacific Conference student-athletes adorn the academic list. Embry-Riddle topped the conference honorees with eight on the postseason team, and Benedictine-Mesa landed seven. The 2018 list features 532 student-athletes that achieved at least a 3.5 cumulative grade point average (GPA) at their institution. Spring Arbor (Mich.) led the way with 11 selections; Grand View (Iowa) was the other program to have double-digit representation with ten.
The Cal Pac student-athletes who made the list:
Antelope Valley: Manuel Medina, Sanson Lopez, Guillermo Castro
Benedictine-Mesa: Darragh Boyle, Luke Boudreau, Ryan Ostroff, Bosko Ubiparipovic
Aaron Alvarez, Carson Frost, Zach Taylor
Cal Maritime: Graham Herder
Embry-Riddle: Alan Wallingford, Grant Rowe, Martin Riedel, Joel Paget, Daniel Nunez, Jake Muth, Jake Hutto, Stuart Graves
Marymount California: Tim Schemmer, Andres Diaz, Adam Parada, Mark Aguiniga
Simpson: Adam Dinius
Soka University of America: Julian Nazar, Yauri De Groot, Aidan Gross, Hunter Stewart
In order to be nominated by an institution's head coach or sports information director, a student-athlete must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale, must appear on the eligibility certificate for the sport and have attended two full years as a non-transfer or one full year as a transfer.