CHAMPIONSHIP CENTRAL | ALL-WCC TEAM
SAN BRUNO, Calif. - The West Coast Conference is pleased to announce the 2019 West Coast Conference Baseball All-Academic Team.
Two WCC student-athletes on the all-academic squad earn academic honors for the third consecutive season: Gonzaga's
Daniel Fredrickson (Mechanical Engineering) and LMU’s
Brandon Shearer (Entrepreneurship). Pepperdine’s
Matthew Kanfer and San Francisco’s
Riley Ornido both appear on the list for the second straight year.
Three honorees were also selected to the 2019 CoSIDA Google Cloud Academic All-District 8 squad: BYU’s
Jackson Cluff, Fredrickson and San Francisco’s
Jack Winkler.
All told, 10 West Coast Conference baseball student-athletes posted a cumulative GPA of 3.75 or better and a whopping 28 posted a GPA of 3.50 or better. Pacific’s
Nate Verlin owns an unblemished 4.0 GPA in an engineering Master’s program after compiling a 3.75 GPA in engineering as an undergraduate.
At the conclusion of each athletic season, the WCC selects an all-academic squad for each WCC-sponsored sport. To be considered, a student-athlete must maintain at least a 3.20 cumulative grade point average, while also being a significant contributor to his team.
No fewer than 59 WCC student-athletes met the academic criteria for baseball.
Portland led all programs with 12 student-athletes meeting the minimum academic standards for consideration, followed by San Francisco (9), BYU (7) and Pacific (7).
2019 WEST COAST CONFERENCE BASEBALL ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM
| Name |
School |
Class |
GPA |
Major |
| Chris Clements |
Portland |
Grad. |
3.83 |
M.A. Management Communications |
| Jackson Cluff (CoSIDA) |
BYU |
So. |
3.85 |
Pre-Business |
| **Daniel Fredrickson (CoSIDA) |
Gonzaga |
Sr. |
3.85 |
Mechanical Engineering |
| *Matthew Kanfer |
Pepperdine |
Sr. |
3.43 |
Media Production |
| Eric Lex |
Santa Clara |
Grad. |
3.83 |
M.A. Educational Leadership |
| Ryan Novis |
Saint Mary’s |
Jr. |
3.56 |
Accounting |
| *Riley Ornido |
San Francisco |
Jr. |
3.69 |
Economics |
| Ripken Reyes |
San Diego |
Grad. |
3.45 |
Leadership Studies |
| **Brandon Shearer |
LMU |
Sr. |
3.58 |
Entrepreneurship |
| Michael Spellacy |
Gonzaga |
So. |
3.96 |
Psychology & Philosophy |
| Jack Winkler (CoSIDA) |
San Francisco |
So. |
3.85 |
Biology |
| Jordan Wood |
BYU |
Sr. |
3.61 |
Exercise Science |
| Nate Verlin |
Pacific |
Grad. |
4.00 |
Engineering |
*Multi-Year selection
2019 WEST COAST CONFERENCE BASEBALL ALL-ACADEMIC HONORABLE MENTION
BYU: Bo Burrup, Danny Gelalich, Brock Hale, Blake Inouye, Justin Sterner
GONZAGA: Justin Blatner, Austin Pinorini, Trent Schulte
LMU: Giuseppe Benedetti, Ryan Ruley
PACIFIC: Samson Abernathy, Keaton Glover, Alex LeForestier, Henrik Reinertsen, Michael Ricupito, Lucas Sweany
PEPPERDINE: Billy Cook, Aharon Modlin, Michael Mahony, Christian Stoutland
PORTLAND: Cody Hawken, Matt Kelly, Daniel Lopez, Jace McKinney, Hunter Montgomery, Eli Morse, Nate Packard, Christian Peters, Cameron Richman, Gabe Skoro, Chad Stevens
SAINT MARY’S: Austin Chauvin, JC Santini, Conor Thane
SAN DIEGO: Adam Kerner
SAN FRANCISCO: Robert Emery, Thomas McCarthy, Scott Parker, Alex Pham, Riki Urata, Tyler Villaroman, Grant Young
SANTA CLARA: Tony Boetto, Jason Dicochea, Ryan McCarthy, Andre Nnebe