Tennis team takes academic honor at Cal State

 Cal State San Bernardino's women's tennis team captured the "Cody Coyote Award", which recognizes the Coyotes sports team that earned the highest grade point average for the academic quarter, giving the team a clean sweep of the award all three quarters in 2007-08.

            The team posted a Spring Quarter grade point average of 3.63. The team prevailed in the Winter Quarter with a 3.36 GPA and took the Fall Quarter "Cody" Award with a 3.47 average.

            Women's cross country was the runnerup team each quarter, posting GPA's of 3.07 for  spring, 3.16 for winter and 3.26 for fall.

            The overall grade point average for all 11 NCAA-sponsored sports at CSUSB for the 2007-08 academic year was 2.73.

            Seventy-nine student-athletes earned a grade point average of 3.0 or higher for the Spring Quarter while 40 of them had a grade point average of 3.5 to 4.0.

            LEADER OF THE PACK ACADEMIC AWARDS (3.5-4.0) FOR SPRING QUARTER

            Men's Soccer -- Lorenzo Loson, Helio Navarro.

            Women's Soccer -- Sophie Bruins, Alejandra Flores, Ashley Haagsma, Jacqueline Reyes, Cleary Taylor.

            Women's Cross Country -- Shawna Alavarez, Marlene Malagon, Kristen Torrez.

            Women' s Volleyball -- Alyssa Auck, Meghan Haas.

            Men's Golf -- Dane Bagnell, Bill Clayton, Joshua Segal.

            Men's Basketball -- James Estrada, Joseph Tillman.

            Women's Basketball -- Mindy Baker, Shanae Blake, Jaclyn Rainville.

            Baseball -- Robert Badilla, Tyler Cross, David Martin, Michael Minjares, James O'Neill, Brent Planck, Corey Sandoval, Justin Watson.

            Softball -- Tawni Baker, Tori Beaudette.

            Women's Tennis -- Brittany Choate, Priscilla Cooper, Dottie Elwell, Leslie Horn.

            Women's Water Polo -- Jennifer Goetz, Kaitlin Hartman, Italia Iossif, Sabrina Marquez, Cheryl Salazar, Aimee Salcido.

            COYOTE PUP ACADEMIC AWARDS (3.0-3.49) FOR SPRING QUARTER

            Men's Soccer -- Nick Boyce, Zach Ellis, Ryan Larson, Ryan Myers, James Pusey, Brock Steele, Brent Vander Eyk.

            Women's Soccer -- Lynn Castillo, Jenna Faughnder, Krista Feer, Karissa Kelly, Katie Liby, Megan Monahan, Cathleen Rodriguez.

            Women's Cross Country -- Kari Brandt, Holly DiGerolamo, Kim Miller

            Women's Volleyball -- Michelle Alvarez, Sara Hoffman, Alicia Karver, Ligaya Malones.

            Men's Basketball -- Grants Huff, Ryan Kinney

            Baseball -- Theron Cueva, Billy Haynes, Ronald Leon

            Softball -- Anjelice Foreman, Jocelyn Perry, Maddie Pulido, Rhiannon Treat.

            Women's Tennis -- Xinia Chaves, Kara Jenkins, Ashley Hulett, Christine Macias

            Women's Water Polo -- Freyja Berg, Sara Hastings, Ashley Hays.