SAN DIEGO – San Diego State water polo hauled in 20 individual academic honors as well as a team honor from the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) for the just completed school year. The ACWPC announced its 2022 Women's All-Academic Teams from its office in Bridgeport, Pa.
The 20 Aztecs who were recognized are the second most the program has garnered, after the 21 honors it earned last year. The ACWPC recognizes honorees in three categories: Outstanding (GPAs between 3.71-4.00), Superior (3.41-3.70) and Excellent (3.20-3.40). The student-athletes had to have been a member of the team during the 2021-22 school year.
Sophomores Adrina Daniel and Caroline Wilkins and freshmen Amanda Chambers, Rose Kanemy, Brooke Lee, and Natalie Swank are included on the Outstanding Team.
Seniors Delaney Binette, Jessica Leckich, and Spencer Samuel, junior Danni Croteau, sophomore Faith Cerussi and freshmen Sydney Spence and Kelly Villanueva are among the Superior Team.
Seniors Karli Canale, Lucia Carballo, Raquel de Pinho and Katie Ratcliff, sophomores Gwen Gardner and Kendall Houck, and freshman Klara Goldstein earned inclusion as Excellent Team designees.
Carballo has been recognized by the ACWPC for the fifth time in her college career. Binette and Leckich receive the distinction for the fourth time, Samuel is a three-time honoree and Canale, Cerussi, Daniel, Gardner, Houck, and Spence have earned their second awards.
Overall, the 2022 Aztecs had a cumulative GPA of 3.43 and earned team All-Academic honors from the ACWPC. It is the fifth year in a row, and sixth time since 2009, that the Aztecs, as a team, have been honored for their work in the classroom.
Earlier this summer, San Diego State players earned 15 Golden Coast Conference (GCC) All-Academic honors, one shy of the program record which was established last year. Since the program's inaugural season of 1995, only two other San Diego State water polo teams have earned double digit conference academic honors in a single year; the 2021 team and the 2019 squad, which garnered 11 GCC All-Academic awards.
2022 Association of College Water Polo Coaches All-Academic Team
San Diego State honorees
Delaney Binette****
Karli Canale**
Lucia Carballo*****
Faith Cerussi**
Amanda Chambers*
Danni Croteau*
Adrina Daniel**
Raquel de Pinho*
Gwen Gardner**
Klara Goldstein*
Kendall Houck**
Rose Kanemy*
Jessica Leckich****
Brooke Lee*
Katie Ratcliff*
Spencer Samuel***
Sydney Spence**
Natalie Swank*
Kelly Villanueva*
Caroline Wilkins**
*- career ACWPC All-Academic honors