34 Wilmington Quakers student-athletes named Academic All-OAC
Hillsboro alumni Gracey Dearmon, left, and Brayden Kisling are Academic All-OAC athletes. (Wilmington College photos)
The Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) announced their spring Academic All-OAC athletes, and Wilmington College had 34 athletes honored.
The team with the most honorees was the Quakers softball team with 12, followed by the baseball team with seven, men’s track & field team with six, women’s track & field team with five, and men’s lacrosse team with four athletes.
The softball athletes being honored for the third time in their careers as Academic All-OAC were seniors Rachel Berry, Makenzie O’Neil and Judaea Wilson. Second time honoree was junior Nina Peak. Being honored for the first time in their Wilmington career were sophomores Belle Baughman, Jocelyn Franz, Ashley Jo Hardesty, Alasandra Spears, Laney Starbuck, Rylee Held, Maddie Starnes and junior Gracey Dearmon (Hillsboro graduate).
Senior Brayden Kisling (Hillsboro graduate) earned the honor for the third time in his career for the Quakers baseball team. Second-time recipients were juniors Kyle Jennings, Trent Mendenhall, and Jay Utterdyke. First time recipients were sophomores JP Donelan, Max Gildea and Eli Hollingsworth.
Seniors Nathen Borgan and Justin Shuga were named Academic All-OAC for the third time in their Quakers careers for men’s track & field. Also earning his third honor is junior Zach McGuirt; however, two of those have come for men’s basketball, and this is his first for men’s track & field. Two-time honorees were junior Mike Soltis and sophomore Jase Edmonson, who earned one for men’s track & field and one for men’s soccer. Sophomore Brendan Bornemann was a first-time honoree for Wilmington.
A pair of two-time honorees from women’s track & field were junior Lucy Trout and graduate student Haley Cook. Another two-time honoree was sophomore Alice Clair, who earned one for women’s swimming and the other for women’s track & field. First-time recipients were junior Faith Duncan and sophomore Chloe Sutton.
From men’s lacrosse, senior Angus Cripe earned his third Academic All-OAC honor. Second time honorees were senior Cody Everly and junior Jayden Kruse. Sophomore Ben Parke earned the first honor of his Quakers career.
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