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Twenty-six Pioneers were among the 453 student-athletes honored by the CCAA for their academic achievements in 2009-10.

• July 20, 2010

Complete CCAA All-Academic list

After completing its first season competing in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA), Cal State East Bay saw 26 student-athletes collect conference All-Academic honors on Tuesday. Pioneers representing all 12 of CSUEB's CCAA-sponsored sports were among the 453 total student-athletes named All-Academic for the 2009-10 school year.

To be eligible for CCAA All-Academic honors, student-athletes must have earned a varsity letter, have competed in one of the CCAA's 13 sponsored sports and have a grade point average of 3.4 or higher while completing a minimum of 24 semester or 36 quarter units during the current academic year.

Freshman Leta Pickett, sophomore Sukhjit Athwal and juniors Amanda Limeberger and Ariel Ajagu represented Pioneer women's volleyball, while freshmen Ashlee Coronado, Emily Montanez and Sara Holdridge, juniors Nikki Freiberg and Sarah Hasenfus and senior Rachelle Boone were CSUEB's softball representatives. Cross country/track seniors Andrew Welch and Nastassia Hamor and freshmen Erik Rodriguez and Megan McDaniel also collected honors, joining women's basketball freshmen Lauren Lucchesi and Emily Valenziano and junior Marie Colon on the list.

Sophomore Tenaya Davis and freshmen Shianna Falk and Rachel Alvarez represented women's soccer and were joined by their men's counterparts, freshman Dustin Stevens and sophomore Manny Cardenas. Juniors Adam Green and Jared Waters represented men's basketball, while baseball senior Stephen Gatehouse rounded out the group.

In its second year of the transition to NCAA Division II, Cal State East Bay saw many successes in its first season in the CCAA. Women's basketball player Lauren Lucchesi and baseball player Charlie Sharrer each earned conference Freshman of the Year honors in their respective sports, while Claudia Nelson of women's basketball, and Nick McManus and Paul Jinkens of baseball, became the Pioneers' first CCAA Athlete of the Week honorees in program history. Men's basketball head coach Will Biggs notched his first conference victory and 200th career win on the same night and baseball finished the season with its first CCAA series sweep and earned three All-CCAA selections.

UC San Diego led all CCAA schools with 85 All-Academic selections, while Cal State Monterey Bay, Cal Poly Pomona and Sonoma State each collected 40 or more academic awards. Pioneer softball led all CSUEB teams, placing six players on the team. Women's volleyball and cross country/track followed with four selections each.

91短视频 will kick off its second year in the CCAA this fall when men's and women's soccer and women's volleyball all open the conference season at home on Sept. 10. The CSUEB soccer teams will play their first regular season games in the newly renovated Pioneer Stadium against Cal State Dominguez Hills, while volleyball will play host to Sonoma State at Pioneer Gym.