Record Thirty MCCC Student Athletes Named to NJCAA All-Academic Teams

 

A record thirty MCCC student athletes earned NJCAA All-Academic Team honors for the 2024-2025 academic year.  Another record, four Mercer teams also were named NJCAA All-Academic teams for the 2024-2025 academic year.

 

Student athletes who earned a 3.60 or higher GPA and earned 24 or more credits during the 2024-2025 academic year were named to the NJCAA All-Academic team (in the past called Academic All-Americans.)  First Team student athletes had a 4.0 GPA for the academic year, Second Team student athletes had a GPA OF 3.80-3.99 and Third Team had a GPA of 3.60-3.79.

 

All-Academic teams had a team GPA of 3.0 or higher, including the grades of all of their players.  Men’s and women’s soccer and men’s and women’s tennis were Mercer’s four teams named NJCAA All-Academic Teams.

 

Men’s soccer had eleven players named to NJCAA All-Academic Teams.  Women’s soccer had seven players earn All-Academic.  Baseball, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, men’s lacrosse, men’s tennis and women’s tennis each had two players named to NJCAA All-Academic Teams. 

 

Four student athletes were named to the NJCAA All-Academic Team, having a perfect 4.0 for the 2024-2025 academic year while earning 24 or more credits.  These four student athletes were women’s tennis player Ema Budiate, women’s basketball player Carla Cencerrero Gallego, men’s soccer player Nicolas Carmago Silva and women’s soccer player Sarah Kircher.

 

Six student athletes were two-time NJCAA All-Academic Team selections: men’s tennis player Marcin Gniadzik, men’s lacrosse player Nolan Halloran, women’s soccer player Sarah Kircher, women’s soccer player Annika Maringer, men’s soccer player Philip Owczarek and men’s soccer player Francesco Quintavalla.

 

Below is a list of the student athletes who earned individual NJCAA All-Academic Team honors, listed by sport and with what academic team honors earned.

 

Men’s Soccer:

Manuel Alonso (2^nd Team)

Bercel Ban (2^nd Team)

Nicolas Carmago Silva (1^st Team)

Henrique Fronza (3^rd Team)

Takumi Hirose (3^rd Team)

Deniz Karcher (3^rd Team)

Diego Orquiz (3^rd Tam)

Camilio Osorio (3^rd Team)  

Philip Owczarek (2^nd Team)

Francesco Quintavalla (3^rd Team)

Riku Yasuda (2^nd Team)

 

Women’s Soccer

Julia Fillat Ferrer (3^rd Team)

Sarah Kircher (1^st Team)

Fiona Madigan (3^rd Team)

Annika Maringer (3^rd Team)

Sierra Mitchell (3^rd Team)

Linnea Rameil (3^rd Team)

Francesca Wright (3^rd Team)

 

Baseball:

Shaniel Maldonaldo (3^rd Team)

Michael Whitmore (3^rd Team)

 

Women’s Tennis:

Ema Budiate (1^st Team)

Julia Fillat Ferrar (3^rd Team) 

 

Men’s Tennis

Marcin Gniadzik (2^nd Team)

Peyton Miller (2^nd Team) 

 

Men’s Lacrosse:

Mason Cloyd (2^nd Team)

Nolan Halloran (3^rd Team)

  

Women’s Basketball

Ariadna Acosta Camacho (3^rd Team)

Carla Cencerrero Gallego (1^st Team)

Alexandra Garcia Galan (3^rd Team)

 

Men’s Basketball:

Antonio Morris (3^rd Team)

Keith Morris (2^nd Team)

 

Congrats to our student athletes for their success on and off the court and field!

 

For more on the success of Mercer's student athletes visit: https://www.mccc.edu/athletics_home.shtml