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VB | Ella Sandt Named WCC All-Academic First Team, Two Others Honored
12/20/2022 2:00:00 PM | Women's Volleyball
SAN MATEO, Calif. — The West Coast Conference announced its annual All-Academic Team on Tuesday afternoon. Saint Mary's Volleyball lands one on the first team list with Ella Sandt making a repeat appearance. Trinity Durfee and Makenna Joyce also were named WCC All-Academic honorable mention from the conference.
The requirements for nominees to the WCC All-Academic Team included a minimum 3.20 cumulative grade point average based on the most recently completed term at the time of the nomination. For volleyball, it was the 2022 spring term.
The student-athlete had to be a starter or important reserve with legitimate athletic credentials. They also had to have at least sophomore athletic and academic standing with at least one year in residence completed at the nominating institution, so true freshmen, redshirt freshmen and athletic transfers could not be nominated.
All three Gaels continue to rack up the academic awards after first landing on the Academic All-District team in November, as announced by College Sports Communicators, formerly CoSIDA. For Sandt, this is the second time she has been named first team from the West Coast Conference, after earning those honors last season. Durfee earns her second honorable mention nod for indoor play, while Joyce scores the award for the first time in her career.
The GPAs and majors of all three Gaels are listed below:
Ella Sandt – 3.96 GPA, Business Administration
Trinity Durfee – 3.79 GPA, History of Art
Makenna Joyce – 3.66 GPA, BS Health Science
The complete 2022 All-Academic First Team from the West Coast Conference can be found below. All players nominated and not chosen on the first team were named honorable mention.
2022 WCC Volleyball All-Academic First Team
Phoebe Awoleye, LMU
Aylen Ayub, San Francisco
Isabella Bareford, LMU
Annie Benbow, San Diego
Noelani Helm, Portland
Kelsey Knudsen, BYU
Erin Livingston, BYU
Whitney Llarneas, BYU
Katie Lukes, San Diego
Aria McComber, BYU
Jacquelyn Moore, LMU
Megan Nishimura, Pacific
Ella Sandt, Saint Mary's
Julia Sangiacomo, Santa Clara
Orsula Staka, San Francisco
Zoe Thiros, Gonzaga
Isabel Zelaya, Pepperdine
The requirements for nominees to the WCC All-Academic Team included a minimum 3.20 cumulative grade point average based on the most recently completed term at the time of the nomination. For volleyball, it was the 2022 spring term.
The student-athlete had to be a starter or important reserve with legitimate athletic credentials. They also had to have at least sophomore athletic and academic standing with at least one year in residence completed at the nominating institution, so true freshmen, redshirt freshmen and athletic transfers could not be nominated.
All three Gaels continue to rack up the academic awards after first landing on the Academic All-District team in November, as announced by College Sports Communicators, formerly CoSIDA. For Sandt, this is the second time she has been named first team from the West Coast Conference, after earning those honors last season. Durfee earns her second honorable mention nod for indoor play, while Joyce scores the award for the first time in her career.
The GPAs and majors of all three Gaels are listed below:
Ella Sandt – 3.96 GPA, Business Administration
Trinity Durfee – 3.79 GPA, History of Art
Makenna Joyce – 3.66 GPA, BS Health Science
The complete 2022 All-Academic First Team from the West Coast Conference can be found below. All players nominated and not chosen on the first team were named honorable mention.
2022 WCC Volleyball All-Academic First Team
Phoebe Awoleye, LMU
Aylen Ayub, San Francisco
Isabella Bareford, LMU
Annie Benbow, San Diego
Noelani Helm, Portland
Kelsey Knudsen, BYU
Erin Livingston, BYU
Whitney Llarneas, BYU
Katie Lukes, San Diego
Aria McComber, BYU
Jacquelyn Moore, LMU
Megan Nishimura, Pacific
Ella Sandt, Saint Mary's
Julia Sangiacomo, Santa Clara
Orsula Staka, San Francisco
Zoe Thiros, Gonzaga
Isabel Zelaya, Pepperdine
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