Highlanders Shine on Big West Academic All-Conference Team
1/24/2022 12:12:00 PM | Men's Cross Country, Men's Soccer, Women's Cross Country, Women's Soccer, Women's Volleyball
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – 47 Highlander student-athletes were named to the 2021 Big West Fall Academic All-Conference Team, it was announced Monday. Click here for the complete Big West release.Â
The sport-by-sport breakdown was as follows: 10 for Cross Country, 17 for Men's Soccer, 14 for Women's Soccer and six for Volleyball.Â
Men's Soccer's 17 honorees led the Big West, and the program had two repeats from the 2019 team in Issa Badawiya and Carlos Osorio-Castro. Women's Soccer nearly doubled its total from 2019 with Leigh Polson, Akari Shimizu and Alexis Vera earning repeat honors. Haley Cabrera and Suset Maldonado represented as repeats for Cross Country.
Among the 47 were two student-athletes in post-graduate programs: Cross Country's Cabrera (PhD - Evol, Eco & Organis Bio) and Men's Soccer's Leonardo Targia (MBA - Management).Â
All 47 Highlander student-athletes honored are listed below.Â
| Austin Dai | Cross Country | Senior | Creative Writing |
| Harriet Bush | Cross Country | Senior | Business Administration |
| Haley Cabrera | Cross Country | Graduate | PhD - Evol, Eco & Organic Bio |
| Carolinh Calvert | Cross Country | Sophomore | Computer Science |
| Brianna Corvese | Cross Country | Junior | Bioengineering |
| Victoria Ervin    | Cross Country | Junior | Philosophy |
| Delaney Harris | Cross Country | Senior | Spanish |
| Suset Maldonado | Cross Country | Senior | Education |
| Chudney McGehee | Cross Country | Junior | Philosophy |
| Mikaela Truong | Cross Country | Junior | Biology |
| Andrew Alexander | Men's Soccer | Sophomore | Education |
| Diego Arrieta | Men's Soccer | Sophomore | Electrical Engineering |
| Issa Badawiya | Men's Soccer | Senior | Biology |
| Brendan Clark | Men's Soccer | Junior | Public Policy |
| Roberto Garcia-Vargas | Men's Soccer | Senior | Education |
| Carlos Gonzalez | Men'sl Soccer | Junior | Political Science/Admin Studies |
| Caio Guazzelli | Men's Soccer | Junior | Business Economics |
| Agustin Guerrero | Men's Soccer | Sophomore | Psychology |
| Leopoldo Hernandez | Men's Soccer | Senior | Education |
| Guillermo Lopez | Men's Soccer | Sophomore | Political Science |
| Adolfo Magana | Men's Soccer | Senior | Sociology |
| Federico Ucar | Men's Soccer | Senior | Media & Cultural Studies |
| Freymar Omarsson | Men's Soccer | Senior | Business Administration |
| Carlos Osorio-Castro | Men's Soccer | Senior | Business Administration |
| Herminio Padilla | Men's Soccer | Senior | Media & Cultural Studies |
| Jacob Sowder | Men's Soccer | Senior | Economics/Admin Studies |
| Leonardo Targia | Men's Soccer | Graduate | MBA - Management |
| Alyssa Carranza | Women's Soccer | ||
