25 Pioneers earn D2ADA Academic Achievement Award

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25 Pioneer student-athletes met the standards for the D2ADA Academic Achievement Award.

  • August 30, 2013
  • By Steve Connolly

Twenty-five ÂãÁÄÖ±²¥ student-athletes were announced as recipients of the 2012-13 Academic Achievement Award from the NCAA Division II Athletics Directors Association (D2ADA). CSUEB was one of a record 172 institutions to be recognized this year, including eight from the California Collegiate Athletic Association.

The Academic Achievement Awards is a program that honors the classroom accomplishments of Division II student-athletes across the nation. In order to be eligible, an institution's athletics director must be a current member of the D2ADA. To earn the award, a student-athlete must be an active member of an intercollegiate team during his or her last academic year; have attended a minimum of two years of college level work; and have a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher.

"The D2ADA would like to thank and congratulate the institutions that took part in honoring the record-number of 6,854 student-athletes with 2012-13 Academic Achievement Awards," said the organizaton's president, Anita Barker, director of athletics at Chico State. "We continuously strive to recognize and honor deserving Division 2 student-athletes. This award gives us the platform to showcase these individuals and their efforts in the classroom, as well as on the playing field."

ÂãÁÄÖ±²¥'s 25 honorees for the 2012-13 school year are: Jason Smith, men's basketball; Daniel Damian, men's cross country and track; Chris Herzog, men's golf; Nate Durio, men's soccer; Paul Dewhurst, men's soccer; Scott Dobson, men's soccer; Brianna Terrance, women's basketball; Hege Blikra, women's basketball; Lauren Lucchesi, women's basketball; Meaghan Cichoke, women's basketball; Micah Walker, women's basketball; Arielle Swan-Smith, women's golf; Erica Ballard, women's golf; Alyssa Olow, women's soccer; Jamie Botteon, women's soccer; Anne Dunne, women's soccer; Ari Strickland, women's soccer; Donna Williams, women's soccer; Katie Brawley, women's soccer; Rachel Sloss, women's soccer; Alyssa Tenney, women's swimming; Catia Kineho, women's swimming; Rachel Knowles, women's swimming; Nikki Long, women's volleyball; and Claire Pierce, women's water polo.