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34 Yellow Jacket Spring Student-Athletes Recognized as Academic All-OAC

34 Yellow Jacket Spring Student-Athletes Recognized as Academic All-OAC

Complete Spring Academic All-OAC Team (.pdf)

BEREA, Ohio -- Baldwin Wallace University had 34 spring sports student-athletes named to the 2016 Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference team. 

In order to be selected as Academic All-OAC a student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average, be in residence at the school for at least a year and maintain varsity status.

The 34 student-athletes included two from baseball, five from men's lacrosse, five from men's tennis, five from men's outdoor track and field, three from softball, two from women's golf, four from women's lacrosse, two from women's tennis and six from women's track and field.

Of the 34 selections, six are three-time Academic All-OAC student-athletes, 12 are repeat selections from 2015 and 12 garner their first selection.

The break down of Yellow Jacket student athletes honored by sport is listed below:

Name Sport Year  Hometown (High School) Major GPA

Spencer Badia

Baseball So. Bellaire
Pre-Physical Therapy  4.00
John Taylor Baseball Sr. Stow (Hudson) Accounting  3.93
Brian Musial Men's Lacrosse Jr. Broadview Heights (Brecksville-Broadview Hts.) Chemistry  3.74
Jarrod Gilliam Men's Lacrosse Jr. Lewis Center (Olentangy Orange)

Physics

 3.74
Alex Binner Men's Lacrosse So. East Amherst, N.Y. (Williamsville North)

Business Administration

 3.64
Jakob Jackson Men's Lacrosse So. Louisville

Sport Management

 3.60
Taylor Sharman Men's Lacrosse  So. Lancaster, N.Y. (Canisius) Pre-Physical Therapy  3.52
Brandon Caynor Men's Tennis
Jr.
Norton Finance  3.84
Kyle Patterson Men's Tennis Sr. Wooster (Triway) Business Administration  3.83
Doug Ganim Men's Tennis Sr. Westerville (Olentangy Orange) Finance  3.78
Nathan Katz Men's Tennis Jr. Upper Arlington (Bexley)

Public Health

 3.96
Jake Liebler Men's Tennis Jr. Medina

Business Administration

 3.59
Ben Beidleman Men's Track and Field Sr. Washington DC (St. Anselm's Abbey)

Accounting

 3.95
Brian Brennan Men's Track and Field
So. Akron (Walsh Jesuit) Accounting  3.91
Michael Beidleman Men's Track and Field Sr. Washington DC (Col. Zadok A. McGruder) Economics  3.81
Alex Fuhrmann Men's Track and Field Sr.  Painesville (Riverside) History  3.59
Justin Swords Men's Track and Field So.  Brunswick Business Administration   3.58
Erica Morgan Softball Jr. Brook Park (Midpark) Biology 3.86
Mackenzie Nelsen Softball  Jr.  Powell (Dublin Scioto) Sport Management 3.75
Nicole Fletterick Softball  So.  Columbia Station (Olmsted Falls) Mathematics 3.63
Laura Vidmar Women's Golf Sr. Willoughby (South) Early Childhood Education 3.85
Kelsey Johnson Women's Golf Jr. Carmel, Ind. (Park Tudor) Early Childhood Education 3.66
Maddie Russell Women's Lacrosse Jr. Lakewood (Rocky River) Chemistry 3.95
Emma Harding Women's Lacrosse Sr.  Akron (Richfield)  Sport Management  3.94
Jenna Turner Women's Lacrosse  Jr.  Carmel, Ind.  Pre-Physical Therapy 3.89
Allyson Helleis Women's Lacrosse Sr. Rocky River Pre-Physical Therapy 3.67
Kayla Eeg Women's Tennis So.  Waterford, Pa. (General McLane) Pre-Physical Therapy 3.91
Claire Watts Women's Tennis  Jr.  Medina (Highland) Biology 3.69
Erin Kasper Women's Track and Field Jr. Amherst (Marion Steele) Exercise Science 4.00
Abby Snow Women's Track and Field Sr. Massillon (Jackson) Psychology 3.99
Rachel Holowecky Women's Track and Field  Jr. Amherst (Firelands) Criminal Justice 3.84
Bailee D'Amore Women's Track and Field  So. McDonald  Public Health  3.76
Lyndsey Armstrong Women's Track and Field Jr. Ashtabula (Geneva) Biology  3.63
Madeline Ziccardi Women's Track and Field So.  Cuyahoga Falls  Health & Physical Education 3.56